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• Abraham ( Bram.) Streuper, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1993)
• Hendrikje Ida Jantje* van der Werf, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Aaltje Boon, Broek op L'dijk († 2009)
• Jozef Maria Gerard Welkenhuyzen, Neerharen, Lanaken (B) († 2004)
• Hendrik Rosendal († 2000)
• Henk Poel, Castricum († 2007)
• Johanna Petronella Cornelia Valkenburg, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Henderikus Schuiling, Annen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 2009)
• Jan Victor Constant Peeters, Dessel (België) († 2001)
• Eugène Victor Johannes Gerardus Majella Goossens, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2022)

• de Jong (36), Sobibór, Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
• Abraham Eleazar Frank (31), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abraham Rood (40), Sobibór, Polen
• Abraham SLAGER (22), Sobibor
• Aaltje Grietje van der Heijden (61), Sobibór, Polen
• Abraham Benjamin (Ab) Logger (39), Sobibor, Polen
• Aaltje de Raaij (50), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abraham Leman (44), Sobibor
• Aäron Blitz (31), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abraham Herman FRANKENHUIS (31), Sobibór, Lubelskie, Poland

• 1941 » Dag Solstad, Norwegian author and playwright
• 1941 » Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1941 » Hans Wiegel, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1941 » Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, English banker and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
• 1942 » Margaret Court, Australian tennis player and minister
• 1943 » Jimmy Johnson, American football player and coach
• 1943 » Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American author, poet, and playwright († 1990)
• 1943 » Vernon Bogdanor, English political scientist and academic
• 1944 » Angharad Rees, English-Welsh actress and jewellery designer († 2012)
• 1946 » Louise Fréchette, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

• 1917 » Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)

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 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
• April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
• August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
• August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
• December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
• December 26 » World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

The temperature on July 16, 1943 was between 8.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.