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• Bernhard Arend Sanders, Schalkwijk († 1944)
• Dirk TEEKEN, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Johanna Hendrika de Kolf, Vught († 1943)
• Levenloos Kouwen, Alkmaar († 1943)
• Cornelia Catharina (Corrie) Verhage, Middelburg († 1997)
• Bernard Arend Sanders, Schalkwijk († 1944)
• Arie Willem SEGER, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• John Laurens Gerardus Blansjaar, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Josephus Cornelius Antonius van den Bergh, Diessen († 2005)
• Johanna Hendrika de Haan († 1956)

• Aäron Wolf (54), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abraham Prins (56), Sobibór,vernietigingskamp,Polen
• Aaron de Vries (70), Sobibor, Poland
• Aaron Wolf (54), Sobibor, Polen
• Adriana Piek (60)
• Abraham Koekoek (71), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abraham Schenkkan (11), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Adele Beta HERBORT (73), Bremen, Duitsland
• Abraham Bromet (71), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Aafke Schaafsma (83), Wonseradeel

• 1941 » Kenji Kimihara, Japanese runner
• 1941 » Pat Corrales, American baseball player and manager
• 1943 » Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings († 2015)
• 1943 » Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
• 1943 » Paul Junger Witt, American director and producer († 2018)
• 1944 » Alan Harper, English-Irish archbishop
• 1944 » Camille Cosby, American author, producer, and philanthropist
• 1944 » John Cameron, English composer and conductor
• 1945 » Henry Bartholomay, American soldier and pilot († 2015)
• 1945 » Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author

• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)
• 1940 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian merchant, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)

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.
• February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
• May 13 » World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
• August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
• September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
• September 10 » World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
• November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.

The temperature on March 20, 1943 was between -1.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.