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• Johannes Jacobus Baars, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1954)
• George A. Sowers, Needmore, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 2005)
• Elisabet Anna Tange, Souburg († 2005)
• Jantina Veenstra, Stynsgea († 2016)
• Godfried Leonard Olaf baron van Boetzelaer, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2018)
• Jaap Berlijn, Wassenaar († 2009)
• Britta Andkjar Lindell, Lissabon, Lisboa, Portugal
• Magdalena Carolina Maria Brouwer, Venlo († 1943)
• Eduard M.A.M. van der Ouderaa, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Hendrik van der Graaf († 2004)

• Amelia Philomena (Emily) Defever (66), Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Merkx (87), Goirle
• Arend Jans Reyers (75), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Meegen (82), Hasselt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Arend Jan Reyers (75), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Barend Heistek (79), Zaandam
• Aagje Visser (64), Oosthuizen
• Anna Maria Ubachs** (21), Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Uittenbroek (46), Boskoop
• Adriana WOLTERS (67), Dordrecht

• 1939 » Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Victor Davies, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1939 » Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch model († 1980)
• 1943 » Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 2014)
• 1943 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician († 2004)
• 1945 » Carson Whitsett, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2007)
• 1945 » Rita Coolidge, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 » Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author, and activist
• 1946 » John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist († 2015)

• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1953 » Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (b. 1876)
• 1956 » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• 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 9.1 million citizens.
• January 29 » World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USSChicago(CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
• September 5 » World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
• October 6 » World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.
• December 26 » World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

The temperature on May 1, 1943 was between 9.2 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.