About the day » Saturday August 1, 1942Calender converter

• Bruno Maria STEUR, Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Allard Jan Sportel, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 2007)
• Anja (Agatha) Schilder, Volendam († 2023)
• Grietje Post, Voorthuizen (Barneveld), Gld. Nederland († 1945)
• Gary Richard Groen, George, Lyon County, Iowa († 2002)
• Gerke Jans VAN DER PLOEG, Pieterzijl (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands († 2000)
• Ank Geerlings († 1998)
• Hilligien Ambergen, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland († 2013)
• Antje Hendrika Noordijk († 1942)
• Helena Johanna Wendels c.q. Smellink, Hengelo († 1996)

• Bernardus Henricus van der Veen (14), Haarlem
• Alphonse de Piatti (19)
• Anna van Nijkerk (74), Tiel
• Abraham Vaders (21), Velserbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfons Manfred Eduard Octave Anton Maria Graaf van Piatti (19), Vermist, Rusland
• Abraham Stephanus van der Waals (82), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Waisvisz (39), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Aaltje Venema (63), Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland
• Boudewijn Monshouwer
• Ada Mariah Robbins (45), Lincoln, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten

• 1939 » Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician († 2015)
• 1939 » Terry Kiser, American actor
• 1940 » Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded Cendant
• 1940 » Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer and actor
• 1940 » Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
• 1941 » Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1941 » Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce († 1996)
• 1942 » Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1995)
• 1944 » Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician († 1998)

• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1921 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)

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. Annie

• 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.
• February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
• May 22 » Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
• May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
• June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• September 20 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
• November 15 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

The temperature on August 1, 1942 was between 10.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.