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• Hendrikje Slijkhuis, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1994)
• Helma Wilfriede Siemer, Schwanewede (Landkrs. Osterholz/Landkrs. Oosterholt, Niedersachsen/Nedersassen/Läichsaksen) († 1945)
• Bastiaan de Wit († 2014)
• Gerardus Stalpers, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Catharina (Tinie) van Loon, Rotterdam († 1991)
• James van Egdom, South Dakota († 2022)
• Angelique Marie Blankenheijm, Brummen († 2003)
• Johannes Baptist Maria LENSINK, Soest († 2018)
• Cornelis Kostelijk († 2008)
• Egbert Kommer, Heerde, Nederland († 2009)

• Albert Menz (62)
• Alberdina Dekker (87), Koedijk
• Carolus Ludovicus Botte (78), Ninove
• Anna Mae Gerst (14), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Adriana Hendrika van den Heuvel (81), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Heijink (67), Albergen
• Anna Rosamunde Schilling (84), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Minjon (45), Utrecht
• Alberdina Arenddr Dekker (88), Koedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Klaasse (18), Middelburg

• 1940 » Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium († 2014)
• 1941 » Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician († 2016)
• 1942 » B. J. Thomas, American singer
• 1942 » Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
• 1942 » Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer and actor († 1995)
• 1942 » Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
• 1942 » Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
• 1943 » Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1943 » Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
• 1943 » Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader

• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)

• 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 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
• February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
• May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
• October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

The temperature on August 7, 1942 was between 10.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.