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• Jannetje (Jannie) de Vries, Ermelo († 2020)
• Geertruida Maria Kuipers, Hengelo († 2006)
• Marinus BEKS, Vught (NL/NB) († 2015)
• Hans Karreman, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Henri Andre Broto, Billère, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France († 2014)
• David V. RENKES, Clinton Clinton County Iowa U.S.A († 2019)
• Norman L. Caners, Fisher Branch, Manitoba, Canada († 2016)
• Jean-Pierre STEENHAUT, Ixelles, 21009, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 2021)
• Geertruida Maria Kuipers, Hengelo († 2006)
• Hershel Leo Todd († 2005)

• Arnoldus Adrianus van Veen (69), Zuilen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Arnoldus van Veen (69), Zuilen
• Annechien Kok (82), Nieuw-Buinen (Borger)
• Adrianus Johannes Theodorus Hogervorst (24), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Lendrtsz Koppenol (62), Delft
• Albertje (Masselink) Maslink (80), Koog, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bartje van Soelen (70), Geldermalsen
• Bartje van Soelen (70), Geldermalsen, Nederland
• Anna Thecla - Anna Thekla Knoll (57)
• Arnoldus Adrianus van Veen (69), Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

• 1942 » Barbara George, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1942 » Lesley Turner Bowrey, Australian tennis player
• 1942 » Robert Squirrel Lester, American soul singer († 2010)
• 1943 » Woody Peoples, American football player († 2010)
• 1944 » Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1945 » Bob Balaban, American actor, director, and producer
• 1945 » Gary Loizzo, American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer († 2016)
• 1945 » Nigel Terry, British stage and film actor († 2015)
• 1945 » Russell Brookes, English race car driver
• 1945 » Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina and educator

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)

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. Gerardus
15. Jacob
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.
• February 3 » The SSDorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
• March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
• May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• August 15 » World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
• December 5 » World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
• December 24 » World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.

The temperature on August 16, 1943 was between 9.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.