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• Elisabeth PUYPE, Dinsmore,Battleford Census Division,Saskatchewan,Canada († 2019)
• Johannes Petrus Vervloet, Achthuizen, Holland († 1995)
• Dorthy VENHUIZEN, Rapid City Pennington County South Dakota U.S.A († 2001)
• Maria Theodora ELFRINK, Didam († 1992)
• Lodewijk Wulms, Weert († 2008)
• leon Janssens, Dongen († 2015)
• Hanne Sandberg, Kampen,Gemeente Kampen,Overijssel,Netherlands († 1943)
• Cornelis Adri Gort, Kampen († 1944)
• Laurette Baeyens, Letterhoutem († 2009)
• Sharleen Ann Beerenstrauch, Beatrice, Gage Co., NE († 2012)

• Anthonie Hendrik Willem van der Vegt (81)
• Bernardus Mechiel Burema (76), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Smit (65), Apeldoorn
• Jacobus Johannes van der Veldt (4), Haarlem
• Alberdina visser (60), Assen
• Vermeer (43), Lienden, Gemeente Buren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Benedictus Hubertus Danser (52), Groningen,Gemeente Groningen,Province of Groningen,Netherlands
• Camiel Eduardus Verheeke (81), Waarschoot
• Amy Lavina Minkler (52), Linn Co. Iowa
• Anna Antonia Johanns Hermsen (76), Amsterdam

• 1940 » Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1940 » Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction († 1971)
• 1941 » Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
• 1941 » Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman
• 1942 » Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
• 1943 » Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
• 1943 » Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 1945 » Chris Shays, American politician
• 1945 » Huell Howser, American television host and actor († 2013)
• 1946 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter († 1997)

• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)

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 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• February 7 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• February 9 » World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
• July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
• August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
• September 23 » World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

The temperature on October 18, 1943 was between 7.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.