About the day » Sunday October 10, 1943Calender converter

• Euginia Maria ten Berge, Groningen († 1946)
• Petrus (Piet) Kerkhof, Kethel en Spaland († 1943)
• Marijke Anna Govaert, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1946)
• hendrikus louis joseph marie pollaart, helden
• Peter van Schooneveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Emil Ulrigh Koning, Edam / Volendam († 2021)
• Barbara Sue Taylor († 2010)
• Hendrika Christina Wisman, amsterdam, Nederland († 1947)
• David Wigley, Engeland († 2020)
• N.N. Sluiter, Groningen († 1943)

• Adriana Maria Rozendaal (66), Diemen
• Anna Willemina Evegaars (78), , Rotterdam,, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Schinkel (77), Kampen, Nederland
• Annigje de Langen (73), Schoonhoven
• Aart de Jong (69), Ammerstol
• Andreas Maria CLAES (86), Kermt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Albert Theodorus Bonthuis (50), Enschede
• Andries Hamerslag (67), Woerden
• Anna Helena Leupers (7), Münster, Munster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Albert Schmal, Enschede

• 1940 » Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician († 2010)
• 1941 » Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist († 1995)
• 1941 » Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1942 » Janis Hansen, American singer and author († 2017)
• 1942 » Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania († 2013)
• 1943 » Frederick Barthelme, American novelist and short story writer
• 1945 » Christopher Hill, English bishop
• 1945 » Headman Shabalala, South African bass singer († 1991)
• 1945 » Vanburn Holder, Barbadian cricketer
• 1946 » Charles Dance, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1927 » August Kitzberg, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1855)
• 1927 » Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Adolf Engler, German botanist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1935 » Gustave Loiseau, French painter (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1948 » Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand general, lawyer, and judge (b. 1884)
• 1957 » Karl Genzken, German physician (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian-Polish architect (b. 1891)

• 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 10 » World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
• February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
• August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
• August 29 » World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
• October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
• 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".

The temperature on October 10, 1943 was between 6.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.