About the day » Thursday September 24, 1942Calender converter

• OG de Bruin, Bussum, Gooise Meren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Aaltje Margje van der Leest († 1998)
• Judith Jill Buckman, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States († 2013)
• Adriana Johanna Zondag, Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 2024)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Maria Groen in 't Woud, Aarlanderveen († 2002)
• Matthijssen, Terheijden
• Maria Anna Hendriks († 1992)
• Ernst Stolk († 2012)
• Jean Pierre Mommen, Gelinden, België († 1942)
• Michael, Clemens, Maria Jacobs, 's-Hertogenbosch

• Alexander Cohen (19), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Abraham van Amerongen (58), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• * Hannie Broekhuizen (34), Apeldoorn
• Alida Sluijs (30), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Afra Maria Krammer (57), Etten Leur
• Aaldert VAN STUIJVENBERG (73), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Aaron SMIT (57), Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland
• Alida Frieser (Friezer) (56), Oświęcim, Małopolskie, Polska
• Aartje Vastenburg (84), Nijkerk
• Alexander Juda Ephraim (11), Auschwitz, Polen

• 1939 » Jacques Vallée, French ufologist
• 1939 » Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist († 2015)
• 1939 » Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer († 2014)
• 1940 » Yves Navarre, French author († 1994)
• 1941 » John Mackey, American football player († 2011)
• 1941 » Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist († 1998)
• 1942 » Gerry Marsden, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Eavan Boland, Irish poet and academic
• 1944 » Sven-Ole Thorsen, Danish bodybuilder and stuntman
• 1944 » Victoria Vetri, Playboy's 1967 Miss September & 1968 Playmate of the Year.

• 1933 » Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
• 1933 » Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (b. 1878)
• 1936 » József Klekl, Slovene priest and journalist (b. 1879)
• 1938 » Lev Schnirelmann, Belarusian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
• 1939 » Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1950 » Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
11. Adrianus
12. Robert
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
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 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
• February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
• March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
• March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
• October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

The temperature on September 24, 1942 was between 8.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.