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• Gerrit van den Enk, Apeldoorn († 2008)
• Aleida Allegonda Wilhelmina van Zwolgen, Afferden († 1982)
• Albertus Maria Alferink, Enschede († 1943)
• Arthur Hanselaar, 's-Gravenhage († 1998)
• Jakob Horneman, Kornhorn, NL-GR († 2024)
• Frances Rosemary Gage, Los Angeles, California († 2010)
• Hendrik Doppenberg, Putten († 1943)
• Emanuel Abraham Snatager, Sobibor († 1943)
• Jerrold Lowell BAHNEMAN, Washington Co., MN († 1996)
• Engelbertus Johannes van Leeuwen, Amsterdam († 1943)

• Adriana van Dalen (63), 's Gravenmoer
• Anne Marie de Graaf (40), Oegstgeest
• Agnita Stichter (70), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Drijver (78), Schiedan, Netherlands
• Arend Mulder (81), Hoornsterzwaag
• Adriaan Venes (57), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Emmigje Groeneveld (73), Dordrecht
• Raats, Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Aagje Kloek (76), Doorn
• Adriana Hendrika den Dekker (8), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1941 » Danny Rapp, American musician († 1983)
• 1941 » Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter
• 1942 » John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
• 1942 » Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » Anders Isaksson, Swedish historian and journalist († 2009)
• 1943 » Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic († 2014)
• 1943 » Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1944 » Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author († 2015)
• 1945 » Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager

• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 » Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (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. 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 11 » The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
• 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.
• June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
• October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• 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 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

The temperature on May 9, 1943 was between 3.4 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.