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• Antonia Wilhelmina van Steenbergen, Rotterdam (ZH NL) († 2019)
• Doodgeboren kind Nuijten, Standdaarbuiten († 1942)
• Jitske Pool († 2016)
• Levenloos Habibe, Oranjestad, Aruba († 1942)
• Johannes Tigchelaar, Bolsward,Gemeente Sûdwest Fryslân, Friesland, Nederland († 2021)
• llga Hilga Steiner († 1986)
• Elna Åse Klausen, Bø i Vesterålen, Bø, Nordland, Norway († 2000)
• Gerardus Wilhelmus Antonius Plat, Thij († 2015)
• Johan Antonius Maria ten Velde, Albergen († 1942)
• GEERTJE HILLEGONDA PLANCIUS, Harderwijk († 2023)

• Anna Isabella Wijns (84), Oorderen
• Annie van Alst (0), Gendt
• Abraham van de Velden (73), Barneveld Gld
• Andries Hoek (73), Den Haag
• Aaltje Bijsterbosch (76), Heerde
• Alice Mary Jeffs (71), Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Abraham van den Velden (83), Barneveld
• Anna Wilhelmina Wiersma (53), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schaafsma (78), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alfonsus Joannes Van Mierlo (57), Antwerpen, België

• 1939 » Chet Allen, American child actor († 1984)
• 1939 » Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist († 2018)
• 1942 » Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 » Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction († 1977)
• 1943 » James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator
• 1943 » Milton William Cooper, American theorist and author († 2001)
• 1943 » Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter († 2011)
• 1944 » Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director († 1991)
• 1944 » Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1945 » Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer

• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Robert
12. Adrianus
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
• February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
• August 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• September 3 » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
• October 2 » World War II: Ocean Liner RMSQueen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMSCuracoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
• November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.

The temperature on May 6, 1942 was between 4.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.