About the day » Wednesday October 6, 1943Calender converter

• Kind Slingerland, Schiedam († 1943)
• Cees Veerman, Volendam († 2014)
• Frederika Mathilda REUDERINK, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2018)
• Larry Earl Fowler, Horry County, South Carolina († 1991)
• Johanna Irma Agnes Emmanuel Vanneste, Kortrijk West-Vlaanderen († 2002)
• Madeleine Vandormael, Sint-Truiden, België († 2016)
• Esther Margaretha Swart, Camp Westerbork († 1944)
• Benedita Camargo Pacheco, Lapa, Paraná, Brasil († 2003)
• Godfried Ruysseveldt, Denderleeuw († 2010)
• Godfried Ruysseveldt, Denderleeuw († 2009)

• Albert Kamping (69), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Katoen (85), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amanda Elvera Byrum ***** (87), Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Alberta van Putten (73), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Bakkum (62), Hem, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Aalbert Ernsten (37), Ermelo, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Dieleman (79), Axel (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus van den Dobbelsteen (77), Beuningen
• Alois Maas (33), Gomel, Weißrußland (Belarus)
• Albert Kamping (69), Enschede

• 1942 » Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
• 1942 » Dan Christensen, American painter († 2007)
• 1942 » Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor († 2009)
• 1943 » Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
• 1943 » Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2014)
• 1943 » Peter Dowding, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia
• 1943 » Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1944 » Boris Mikhailov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1944 » Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter
• 1944 » Patrick Cordingley, English general

• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

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. Gerardus
15. Jacob
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.
• March 2 » World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
• April 7 » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• April 30 » World War II: The British submarine HMSSeraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
• May 13 » World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
• June 3 » In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
• July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.

The temperature on October 6, 1943 was between 7.9 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.