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• Maria Gerarda (Ria) van der Knaap († 2020)
• Janke van der Zwaag, Broeksterwoude, Frl († 2007)
• Johannes A. C. M. Voogt, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• van den Born, Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Cornelis Arnoldus Vermoolen, Abcoude († 1947)
• Daantina Tienkamp, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 2017)
• Hendrik Bergshoeff, Alphen aan den Rijn († 2022)
• Johannes (Jan) Coolen, Tilburg († 1945)
• Klaas Bakker, leeuwarden († 2019)
• Anna Johanna Lathrop, Marshalltown, Iowa († 2009)

• Arie Baars (68), Sliedrecht
• Arnold Willem Gerhard Rijnders (64), Batavia
• Arie BAARS (68), Sliedrecht
• Annigje Maria van den Berg (53), Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bedford Augustin Wagner (54), Lincoln County, Oregon, United States of America
• Adrianus van Mierlo (84), Dussen
• Antoon Schipper (78), Huizen
• Ardina van Heeswijk (69), Oss Netherlands
• Bernardus Hendrikus Joseph Vennegoor op Nijhuis (32), Bilthoven
• Anna Joling (48), Sleen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Erm

• 1940 » Sonny Rhodes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 » Martin Cruz Smith, American author and screenwriter
• 1943 » Bert Jansch, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2011)
• 1944 » Jan Boerstoel, Dutch poet and songwriter
• 1945 » Gerd Müller, German footballer and manager
• 1945 » Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 » Nick Simper, English bass guitarist
• 1946 » Reinhard Karl, German mountaineer, photographer, and author († 1982)
• 1946 » Wataru Takeshita, Japanese lawyer and politician
• 1947 » Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician, 9th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii

• 1926 » Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1883)
• 1933 » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1853)
• 1939 » Charles Tournemire, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1949 » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1956 » Jean Metzinger, French artist, (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Paul Willis, American actor and director (b. 1901)

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.
• January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
• February 3 » The SSDorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
• April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
• May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
• 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.

The temperature on November 3, 1943 was between 5.2 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.