About the day » Monday August 24, 1942Calender converter

• Maaike Wentink († 2016)
• Martinus Hermannus (Martin) Knegt, klazienaveen († 1963)
• Odilia Geertruida Maria Ganzevles, Hilversum († 2015)
• Emma Joan Burk, Randolph County († 1943)
• Maria Philomena MERTENS, Mol († 2006)
• Leendert van der ZIJDEN, Ameide († 2014)
• Lia Wiersema, Lobith, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Lambertus Vos, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1995)
• Adrianus Gerardus Ciliacus, tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Herman Jan Damman, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)

• Cornelia Quispel (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend STEENBERGEN (63), Ten Post, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Gerardus van Willigen (72), Gouda
• Adriana Geertruij VAN KLEEFF (86), Gouda
• Alonzo Eldrid Ellie Mitchell (56), Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana, United States
• Arie Verheul (81), Woerden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Willemina Jacoba Bos (82), Zwolle
• Alexander Cleffken (59), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Johannes Verschoor (1), Delft (ZH-NLD)
• Cornelis van Doorn (54), Rhenen

• 1940 » Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician († 2014)
• 1940 » Keith Savage, English rugby player
• 1940 » Madsen Pirie, British academic, President and co-founder of the Adam Smith Institute
• 1941 » Alan M. Roberts, Professor of Zoology at the University of Bristol
• 1942 » Jimmy Soul, American pop-soul singer († 1988)
• 1942 » Max Cleland, American captain and politician
• 1942 » Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington, English businessman
• 1943 » John Cipollina, American rock guitarist († 1989)
• 1944 » Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 1996)
• 1944 » Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician († 2013)

• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)

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.
• March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• April 8 » World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
• July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
• August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
• September 13 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
• December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.

The temperature on August 24, 1942 was between 9.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.