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• Albertus Erhart Johannes RAVESLOOT, Amersfoort († 1944)
• Geertruida Jacoba (Truus) Heite, Wanneperveen († 2018)
• Gerrit Jan van de Sluis, Wageningen († 1945)
• Hans van der Ende, Amsterdam, 1000, Nederland († 1970)
• Hendrikus Franciscus van Wamel, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1991)
• Cornelia Maartje Louise Ouwehand, Meppel,, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)
• Georgeanne Dannielle Brun, San Francisco, Californië, Verenigde Staten
• Fransisco Lampe († 1998)
• Jochem Ernst Willem van Eeghen, Haren
• Charles Leray Dewrell, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Verenigde Staten

• Albert Middel (1), Emmen
• Albertus Van Den Bruele (58), Terneuzen (NL)
• Bridget Murray (80), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
• Abraham Dekker (71), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Moes (57), Roswinkel Emmen
• Alberta Arnolda Peters (31), Veghel, Nederland
• Alida Willemijntj KuiJvenhoven (8), Oegstgeest
• Albert Van den Bruele (58), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Klaver (37), Sainghin-en-Weppes, France
• Alberta Arnolda Peters (31), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1942 » Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 » Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1942 » Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1942 » Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot († 1967)
• 1943 » Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1943 » H. Rap Brown, American activist
• 1943 » Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
• 1943 » Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee († 2012)
• 1943 » Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player
• 1944 » Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic

• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)

• 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 15 » The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
• February 18 » World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
• August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
• September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
• November 22 » World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

The temperature on October 4, 1943 was between 5.6 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.