About the day » Wednesday October 20, 1943Calender converter

• Alex Antonius Chiffrun († 1995)
• ? Seine, Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1943)
• Hendrika Hennie Denecke, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)
• van den Broek, Dinther († 2006)
• Albert Immanuel de Mooij, Amsterdam († 1975)
• Margareta Brinkmann, Sentrup, Preussen († 1943)
• Dirk Willem Evertse, Krommenie († 2012)
• Jan Frederik Ouwehand, Katwijk († 2000)
• Henri Jean Marie Thérèse Lories, Halle († 2001)
• Hendricus Aloysius Maria Olbertz, Hengelo († 2023)

• Aren BAKELAAR Jzn (79)
• Aron ARONIUS (41), Thanbyuzayat, Birma
• * Antonus Maria van der Zon (23), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Albert Kloezen (79), Amsterdam
• Antonius Joseph Arnoldus Helders (59)
• Anna Lokerman (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Wagemaker (21), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriaan Maas (73), Bladel
• Hornstra (0), Ter Idzard
• Barta Labots (52), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1940 » Kathy Kirby, English singer († 2011)
• 1940 » Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
• 1941 » Anneke Wills, English actress
• 1942 » Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist († 1992)
• 1942 » Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 » Earl Hindman, American actor († 2003)
• 1943 » Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano and actress
• 1944 » David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft († 2016)
• 1944 » Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher
• 1945 » Ric Lee, English drummer (Ten Years After)

• 1926 » Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)

• 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 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
• May 15 » Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
• June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• July 23 » World War II: The British destroyers HMSEclipse and HMSLaforey sink the Italian submarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMSNewfoundland.
• August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
• August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

The temperature on October 20, 1943 was between 8.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.