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• Kersten, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• John C. Stapleford, Goodman, Marinette, Wisconsin († 1944)
• Hanneke Sandberg, Kampen († 1943)
• Cornelis Adri Gort, Kampen († 1944)
• Frans van der Vinne, Dalen († 2021)
• Carel Ludwig Bernardus Echtermeijer, Almelo († 2020)
• Lisa-Renate NIEBERGALL, Pori Finland († 2013)
• Johannes Antonius Maria Gehring, Deventer († 1946)
• Dorthy VENHUIZEN, Rapid City Pennington County South Dakota U.S.A († 2001)
• Aaltje Berendina Veen, Westerlee, Groningen, Nederland († 1944)

• Alida van Ee (30), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Gerdina van Leeuwen (68), Waardenburg
• Adriana Willemina van Schenkhof (78), Den Haag, Nederland
• Alberdina visser (60), Assen
• Vermeer (43), Lienden, Gemeente Buren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonetta Clasina Hogerbrug (42), Tilburg
• Albert Reitsma (44), Leeuwarden
• Arnold Gerhard Stenvers (41), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertus Kaljee (66), Assendelft
• Arie LEGUIJT (66), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1940 » Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1940 » Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction († 1971)
• 1941 » Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
• 1941 » Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman
• 1942 » Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
• 1943 » Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
• 1943 » Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 1945 » Chris Shays, American politician
• 1945 » Huell Howser, American television host and actor († 2013)
• 1946 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter († 1997)

• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)

• 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 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
• August 1 » World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
• September 10 » World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
• October 17 » Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
• November 16 » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
• November 19 » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

The temperature on October 18, 1943 was between 7.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.