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• George Daniel Hitchcock († 2010)
• van der Windt, Schipluiden
• Alida maria (Alie) Bank († 2013)
• Johannes Cornelis Antonius Cornelisse († 1945)
• Jacob van Oorschot († 2008)
• Elisabeth Johanna Ploeger, 's-Gravenhage († 1966)
• Joseph Ernst, Heerlen († 2008)
• Arlene louise FanderClai, Fulton, Whiteside Ill, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Jantje Jans, Velp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Jo Hermans, Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland († 2013)

• Albert Buijs (70), Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Koster (79), Haarlem
• Anna Gertruda Weijers (Jennen) (68), Venlo
• Adriana Leeijen (77), Heesch
• Anna Gertruda WEIJERS (JENNEN) (68), Venlo
• Adolf Grinbaum (47), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Alfred Harlam (64), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Adriaan Ripzaat (77), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adelheide Sophie Mariane Mensonides (83), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Adelheid Rosenstrauch (27), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland

• 1941 » David Satcher, American admiral and physician, 16th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1941 » John Cornell, Australian actor, director, and producer
• 1942 » Claude Larose, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1942 » Derek Woodley, English footballer († 2002)
• 1942 » John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter
• 1942 » Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor († 2013)
• 1942 » Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian architect and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Iran
• 1943 » George Layton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Peter Straub, American author and poet
• 1943 » Robert Williams, American painter and cartoonist

• 1938 » Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (b.1867)
• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
• 1949 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b. 1879)
• 1953 » James Lightbody, American runner (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.
• 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.
• April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
• July 19 » World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
• August 17 » World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
• September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
• November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The temperature on March 2, 1943 was between 4.3 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.