About the day » Wednesday September 9, 1942Calender converter

• Aloha Lei Schussler, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois († 2018)
• David RICHES († 1989)
• Jacobus Augustinusd Maria Roosen, Vorden († 2000)
• Claudine,Armandine DELAVOIS, La Chevalerie(17)ile d'oléron († 2018)
• Harmen 't Lam, Meerkerk († 1987)
• Bernardus Adrianus Petrus Zwirs, Monster († 1943)
• Johanna Pronk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• Hugo SEGERS, Denderleeuw,9470,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2003)
• Franz Niehaus († 2022)
• Afra Tecla Alida Maria Slaman, Onderdijk (bij Wervershoof, gem. Medemblik, NH) († 1962)

• Alice Maria Wanneyn (33), Brugge
• Catharina van Gompel (70), Vessem, Nederland
• Count Heinrich of Pückler (30), Simferopol
• Christina Johanna Margaretha van de Vooren (83), De Bilt
• Anna Maria Hubertina Godding (77), Venlo
• "François" Alphonse de Weck (80), Fribourg, Suisse
• Adrianus Nicolaas Theeuwes (73), Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbert Cornelis Rietveld (56), utrecht (utrecht)
• Calixte Basile Florent Tibo (0), Borgloon, België
• Arendje Zwiers (77), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1939 » Ron McDole, American football player
• 1940 » Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman
• 1940 » Joe Negroni, American doo-wop singer († 1978)
• 1941 » Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language († 2011)
• 1941 » Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer († 1967)
• 1941 » Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer
• 1942 » Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist
• 1942 » Inez Foxx, American singer
• 1943 » Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and chairman
• 1945 » Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer († 2008)

• 1934 » Roger Fry, English painter and critic (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888)
• 1943 » Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872)
• 1958 » Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
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.
• April 5 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMSCornwall and HMSDorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
• June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• October 2 » World War II: Ocean Liner RMSQueen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMSCuracoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
• October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
• November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.

The temperature on September 9, 1942 was between 11.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.