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• Gerardus Johannes Maria Notten, Wijnbergen († 1991)
• Klaas Sier, Volendam, Nederland († 2013)
• Gerrit Kamphuis, Putten († 1943)
• Catharina Degen, Maarssen († 2005)
• Aaltje Anna Dijkstra, Leeuwarden († 1943)
• Jantje de Boer, Coevorden († 2003)
• Levenloos Leeninga, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Martha Johanna Maria Blankvoort, Hattemerbroek († 1991)
• Hermann Heinrich Thole, Lingen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1999)
• Adrianus Gerardus Maria Lambregts, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)

• Anna Jacoba van Dijk (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertus Braam (3), Zutphen, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Franciscus Jacobs (73), Dalfsen, 7720, Nederland
• Berend Snoek (77), Nieuw Scheemda, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth(a) Vroemen (77), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Alphons Kohler- (67), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Antonia Verholen (58), Eindhoven
• Alphons Kohler (67), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antoinette Henriette Maria van Tilburg (10), Breda
• Arie Veenman (51), Bergschenhoek

• 1940 » Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
• 1940 » Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach († 2003)
• 1940 » Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist († 2009)
• 1941 » Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
• 1941 » Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
• 1943 » Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1944 » Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 » Paul Monette, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1945 » Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 » Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

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 19 » World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
• March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
• April 13 » The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
• July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
• November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• December 28 » World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

The temperature on October 16, 1943 was between -0.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.