About the day » Wednesday May 5, 1943Calender converter

• Johanna Catharina (Hannie) Suiker, Warmenhuizen († 2006)
• James Harvey Springstroh, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Jasper TRAVAILLE, Boxum(Friesland) († 1995)
• Jeanne Alsemgeest, Honselersdijk († 2018)
• Janna Hendrika Hulst († 2010)
• Edith Hanita Keene, Ashland, Aroostook, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Jasper Travaille, Boksum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1995)
• Jan Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna Elisabeth Helena Maria Graafmans, Vlissingen († 1943)
• Allen Jay van der Spoel, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa († 1982)

• Anne Hepkes Taekema (74), Ureterp, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Ham (92), Groningen
• Anne Taekema (74), Ureterp
• Catharina Wilhelmina van Bemmelen (78), Renkum
• Auke van der Molen (69), Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland
• catharina antonia luijten (28), meijel
• Antje Bootsman (80), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ailke Van Musch (65), Martenshoek (Gem. Hoogezand)
• Anna Wilhelmina Ballering (91), Reeuwijk, Nederland
• Aagtje Eissiena Reerds (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1941 » Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player († 2004)
• 1942 » Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, English politician († 2015)
• 1942 » István Bujtor, Hungarian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1942 » Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1998)
• 1943 » Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author
• 1943 » Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
• 1944 » Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1944 » John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter
• 1944 » Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director († 2015)

• 1921 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1924 » A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (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.
• March 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
• August 27 » World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
• 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".
• December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
• December 28 » Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.
• December 28 » World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

The temperature on May 5, 1943 was between 6.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.