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• Johanna Maria Wouters, Hapert († 2019)
• Cornelia Maria van Loon, Gilze en Rijen († 1994)
• Paul Maria Robertus Hendrikus (Paul) Dolné, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)
• Dennis Louis Joyce, Highflats, Ixopo District, Natal, South Africa († 2011)
• Hendrikus Franciscus Liebrand, Bergh Gld († 2001)
• Gerrit Jan Vos, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1965)
• Rudolf Hans Delfgaauw, 's Gravenhage († 2018)
• Hendrik Jan Boon, het Noodziekenhuis in den Burg (Texel) († 2022)
• catharina albertina wilhelmina (co) hermans, helden
• Charles C. Arabia, Philadelphia (USA) († 1989)

• Arthur Anson (61), Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Leonardus Tollenaar (77), Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland
• "Heinrich" Maria Adam Anton Pius Philipp von Aretin (68)
• Antoni Jan Hovy (63), Utrecht, Pays-Bas
• Anthonie Cornelis Marinus Deurloo (68), Detroit, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Cornelis Marinis Deurloo (68), Detroit, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Auke (Oscar) Sipma (84), Stutsman County, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriejetta Christina Hensen (21), Ede
• Auke Sjoerds Sipma (85), Boyden, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Petronella Dietz (74), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1941 » Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
• 1942 » Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1942 » Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
• 1942 » Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
• 1943 » Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer († 2018)
• 1944 » A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician († 2005)
• 1944 » David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 » Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
• 1944 » Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
• 1945 » Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer († 2015)

• 1930 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
• 1948 » Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)

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. Jacob
15. Gerardus
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.
• January 18 » Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
• July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• 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.
• September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
• October 14 » World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.

The temperature on October 15, 1943 was between 1.7 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.