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• Levenloos Leeninga, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Hermann Heinrich Thole, Lingen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1999)
• Martha Blankvoort, Hattemerbroek († 1991)
• Adriana Marina Kloet († 2007)
• Gerdina Aaltje (Ali) Wilbrink, Apeldoorn († 2013)
• Henry Allen Rooda, Friesland, Netherlands († 2021)
• Martha Johanna Maria Blankvoort, Hattemerbroek († 1991)
• Klaas Sier, Volendam, Nederland († 2013)
• Heleen Shulamit van Amerongen († 1944)
• Georgia Ann Meyeraan, Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota († 2011)

• Casimir Rouwenhorst (21), Zeist,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth(a) Vroemen (77), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia Verholen (58), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna MELIEFSTE (63), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Carel Muijs (36), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Arie Veenman (51), Bergschenhoek
• Adrianus Koch (60), Den Helder
• Anna Hendrika Cornelia Kesseler (87), amsterdam, Nederland
• Albertus Braam (3), Zutphen
• Aartje Brom (95), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1940 » Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
• 1940 » Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach († 2003)
• 1940 » Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist († 2009)
• 1941 » Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
• 1941 » Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
• 1943 » Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1944 » Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 » Paul Monette, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1945 » Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 » Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

• 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 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
• April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
• August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
• 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 31 » World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
• December 2 » World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SSJohn Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.

The temperature on October 16, 1943 was between -0.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.