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• Arend Slagter, Avereest († 2019)
• Geertrui Hobo († 2021)
• NN Massaar, Leiden ZH, Nederland († 1943)
• Lois A. Miller, of Pennsylvania, United States († 2012)
• Cor Tervoort, Heiloo († 2000)
• N.N. Peterse, Rotterdam
• Maria Johanna Gezina Elisabeth Borghuis, Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2007)
• Kees Maas, Gemonde, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Anton Heskens, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Anne Sake Heeroma († 1943)

• Bernardus Johannes REUVERS (49), Barger,Oosterveld
• Christina Clazina Margaretha Vos (33)
• Arie Lambertus Valken (6), Rotterdam
• Ada Elisabeth de Bink (89), Baarn
• Catharina Meershoek (63), Oestgeest
• Aris Thijsse Diepeveen (87), Veenendaal, Nederland
• Cornelia Rijvers (84), Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aris Diepeveen (87), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albert Romkes van der Weerd (76), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertie Stanley Connor (26)

• 1940 » Galen Rowell, American mountaineer and photographer († 2002)
• 1940 » Richard Sanders, American actor and screenwriter
• 1941 » Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, British philosopher, academic, and politician
• 1942 » Nancy Richey, American tennis player
• 1943 » Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, English businessman and politician
• 1943 » Nelson DeMille, American lieutenant and author
• 1943 » Peter Lilley, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1943 » Pino Presti, Italian bass player, composer, conductor, and producer
• 1944 » Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican-American physician and admiral, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1945 » Rayfield Wright, American football player and coach

• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)

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.
• March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
• March 13 » German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
• October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
• November 16 » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
• December 8 » World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.

The temperature on August 23, 1943 was between 10.2 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.