About the day » Tuesday January 12, 1943Calender converter

• Joseph Frank Tritico, Houston, Harris County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Francisca Antonia Hoffmans, Halder/St. Michielsgestel († 2019)
• José Erszebet van Duurling († 2003)
• Helena Cornelia Maria Evers, Etten Leur († 1943)
• Marie Louise MINET, Falmagne, Namen, België († 2018)
• Leonard Jozef (Leo) VROMEN, Spekholzerheide/Kerkrade (NL/LI) († 2003)
• Joseph Peter Polman, Ghent, MInnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Joseph Savelkoul († 1958)
• Johanna Elizabeth Mouw, 's Gravenhage († 2016)
• Else Maria (Els) Weening, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands († 2016)

• Ada Gräfin von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (75), Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Alessandro (Alex) GENTILUOMO (57), Englewood Cliffs,Bergen,New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Ruijgt (84), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Langendoen (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Lion (25), Maastricht
• Abraham Postema- (54), Leek, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Verkuijlen (36), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adolf Herbst (63), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Abraham Wolf (67), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Albert van der Winkel (84), Culemborg

• 1940 » Bob Hewitt, Australian-South African tennis player
• 1940 » Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer († 2013)
• 1941 » Chet Jastremski, American swimmer and physician († 2014)
• 1941 » Fiona Caldicott, English psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• 1941 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and voice actor († 2005)
• 1942 » Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and academic
• 1944 » Cynthia Robinson, American R&B trumpet player and singer (d 2015)
• 1944 » Hans Henning Atrott, German author and theorist
• 1944 » Joe Frazier, American boxer († 2011)
• 1945 » Maggie Bell, Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1926 » Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1938 » Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Edward Smith, English lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1898)
• 1940 » Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Lance C. Wade, American commander and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1958 » Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b. 1899)
• 1962 » Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)

• 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 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
• March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
• 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.
• April 26 » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
• July 10 » World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
• August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

The temperature on January 12, 1943 was between 0.7 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east.