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• Heidi Zwakman, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Douwe Ebbing Hermanus Ebbings Kiestra, Veenhuizen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• Johannes Beenen († 1987)
• Justin Lawrence Wells, Logan, Hocking, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Adriaan Wieland, Amsterdam († 1993)
• Hendrik Appel, Hilversum († 1943)
• Bernard Daniels, Soerabaja († 2005)
• Frans van der Kwast († 1992)
• Catharina Geertruida Brouwer († 2014)
• Gretha Hol, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1977)

• Arnolda Maria Cornelia van den Heuvel (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Johannes Buwalda (67), Pingjum (FRL)
• Albert Jurrits Bouma (60), Langezwaag
• Antonetta Johanna Slokker (82), Nieuw-Vossemeer
• Antonius Josephus Geerlings (29), Lutterade (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Theresa McNicholas (57), Wellsville, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Francina Groenendal (66), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Honig (79), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnold Van Der Til (48), Ulrum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Hofman (85), Wijk bij Duurstede

• 1940 » Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
• 1940 » Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer († 2018)
• 1941 » Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
• 1941 » Richard Perle, American political scientist and politician
• 1942 » Bernie Calvert, English bass player and keyboard player
• 1942 » Susan L. Graham, American computer scientist and academic
• 1943 » James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist († 2016)
• 1943 » Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1944 » Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer
• 1944 » Linda Kaye Henning, American actress

• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
• 1946 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)

• 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 28 » World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
• May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
• May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
• August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

The temperature on September 16, 1942 was between 9.8 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.