About the day » Wednesday April 7, 1943Calender converter

• Anthony Hugh Gould († 1996)
• Klaas Bakker († 2021)
• Anita Helga Sterrenberg († 1944)
• Achiel Corneel Jacobs, Essen, België († 1943)
• Jantje Jongsma, Bakkeveen, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2011)
• Hendrik SIKKEMA, Oldekerk Groningen Netherlands († 1943)
• Fokke van der Meulen, Heerlen († 1972)
• Afra Maria Hyacinta Smit († 2023)
• Henricus Cornelis Antonius Cools († 2019)
• Aart Cornelis Middelkoop, Culemborg (GL) († 1991)

• Belia Cohen (10)
• Auke JAGER (68), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Gertruid SLOTS (74), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Gertruda Slots (74), Helden, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius de Vries (81), Apeldoorn
• Andries Rooijackers (74), Gemert,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Aaltje Olij (27), Beemster, Nederland
• Adriaan Bostelaar (80), Ellewoutsdijk, Zuid-Beveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Martina Boers (60), Rotterdam
• Belia Cohen (10), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland

• 1941 » James Di Pasquale, American composer
• 1942 » Jeetendra, Indian actor, TV and film producer
• 1943 » Dennis Amiss, English cricketer and manager
• 1943 » Mick Abrahams, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 » Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
• 1944 » Julia Phillips, American film producer and author († 2002)
• 1944 » Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
• 1944 » Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
• 1944 » Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster († 2012)

• 1932 » Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Suzanne Valadon, French painter (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jovan Dučić, Serbian-American poet and diplomat (b. 1871)
• 1947 » Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
• 1949 » John Gourlay, Canadian soccer player (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Theda Bara, American actress (b. 1885)
• 1956 » Fred Appleby, English runner (b. 1879)

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 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• April 7 » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• April 8 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
• July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
• September 3 » World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMSNelson off Malta.
• 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.

The temperature on April 7, 1943 was between 0.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.