About the day » Thursday July 16, 1942Calender converter

• Sandra Spaeder, Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 1956)
• Cornelia de Boer, Harns, Friesland, Nederland († 1942)
• Mary Evelyn Scarbrough Kittrell <sKsPqUSS>5, Lauderdale County, Mississippi († 2023)
• Machiel Verbrugge, Maassluis († 2022)
• Els Lodewick, Houthem, Nederland († 2004)
• Ria WEIJMAR-SCHULTZ († 2006)
• Henricus Cornelis Wilhelmus Maria Sassen, Breda,Gemeente Breda,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1946)
• Hendricus Cornelis Wilhelmus Maria Sassen, Breda († 1946)
• Pieter Jan (Piet) Swerusz. Swier, Enkhuizen († 2002)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1942)

• August Edwin Bruins (24), Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Benjamin Sternfeld (62), Ausschwitz
• Anthonius Johannes van der Sprong (78), Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• August Alexander Willem Helmich (70), Steenderen, Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberdina van ZANTEN (89), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Blom (59), Laren
• Arnoldus Johannes van Berkom (50), Breda
• Albert Naber (21), Emmen
• Anna Elizabeth Busch (77), St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri
• Anna Catharina van Velzen (62), Rotterdam

• 1939 » William Bell, American singer-songwriter
• 1941 » Dag Solstad, Norwegian author and playwright
• 1941 » Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1941 » Hans Wiegel, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1941 » Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, English banker and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
• 1942 » Margaret Court, Australian tennis player and minister
• 1943 » Jimmy Johnson, American football player and coach
• 1943 » Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American author, poet, and playwright († 1990)
• 1943 » Vernon Bogdanor, English political scientist and academic
• 1944 » Angharad Rees, English-Welsh actress and jewellery designer († 2012)

• 1915 » Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
• 1917 » Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)

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 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
• March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
• August 26 » At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
• December 7 » World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

The temperature on July 16, 1942 was between 8.2 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.