About the day » Monday August 16, 1943Calender converter

• Jean-Pierre STEENHAUT, Ixelles, 21009, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 2021)
• Lodevicus Jozef Johannes Gerardus Claassens, Wittem, Limburg, Nederland († 1945)
• Ans Catharina Coumou, Gotheborg, Zweden († 1996)
• Jacoba Johanna Maria Schimmel († 2003)
• Buit, Zwollerkerspel
• Emilia Pereira
• Geertruida Maria Kuipers, Hengelo († 2006)
• Henri Andre Broto, Billère, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France († 2014)
• Marinus BEKS, Vught (NL/NB) († 2015)
• Henrica Albertina Maria van Rooij, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Allice Mae Canter (72), Graves Co, Kentucky
• Catharina Maria Sophia Esser (80), Wassenaar
• Aaltien Goorman (63), Radewijk
• Albertje (Masselink) Maslink (80), Koog, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Cohen (12), Auschwitz
• Adrianus Johannes Theodorus Hogervorst (24), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Gerrit Polak (9), Lage Zwaluwe, Nederland
• Antje de Groot (85), Nieuw Buinen
• Adriana Elisabeth Obreen (75), Baarn
• Kok (0), Coevorden

• 1942 » Barbara George, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1942 » Lesley Turner Bowrey, Australian tennis player
• 1942 » Robert Squirrel Lester, American soul singer († 2010)
• 1943 » Woody Peoples, American football player († 2010)
• 1944 » Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1945 » Bob Balaban, American actor, director, and producer
• 1945 » Gary Loizzo, American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer († 2016)
• 1945 » Nigel Terry, British stage and film actor († 2015)
• 1945 » Russell Brookes, English race car driver
• 1945 » Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina and educator

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)

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 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• February 23 » A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
• March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• August 27 » World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
• December 13 » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
• December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

The temperature on August 16, 1943 was between 9.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.