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• Cornelis (Cees) Goudzwaard († 2021)
• Angela Wilhelmina Scholten, Winterswijk-Meddo († 2020)
• Antonius P.F.M. Vissenberg, Breda († 1988)
• Eldine Ruth Kempema, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2017)
• Ied Vervuurt, Leunen.Li.NL († 1991)
• Adriana Maria Johanna van der Heijden († 1970)
• Cor Willemstein († 2004)
• Eckhard Johann Bode († 2011)
• Evert Sier, Volendam († 2023)
• Adriana Antonia Catharina Maria van den Berg, Tilburg († 2001)

• Alida Wilhelmina Lau (80)
• Alida Vegelin van Claerbergen (63), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Abraham (bram) Zwanenburg (81), Vlaardingen, Nederland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Raats (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Helena Bierings (81), Tilburg, Nederland
• Andrea Margaretha Engels (59), Amsterdam, prov. Noord Holland
• Amelia Franklin (79), London, England
• Adriaan Raats (78), Rotterdam
• Aafke de Vries (31), Veenendaal
• Anna Maria Fleuren (65), Mill

• 1940 » Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
• 1941 » Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer († 2015)
• 1944 » R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor († 2018)
• 1944 » Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1945 » Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1945 » Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
• 1945 » Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
• 1946 » Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman († 2018)
• 1946 » Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter († 2008)
• 1947 » Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach

• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1944 » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 » Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

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 23 » World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
• February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
• July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
• July 28 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
• October 8 » World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
• November 15 » The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

The temperature on March 24, 1943 was between 0.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.