About the day » Thursday December 9, 1943Calender converter

• Joséphine Evelyne Baudry, Swanscombe, Dartford, ENGLAND († 2007)
• Anthonie Adrianus van der Koppel, Meteren (Geldermalsen) (GL) († 2018)
• Arthur Alfons Vandesande, Blankenberge († 2009)
• Catharina Theodora Maria Oostveen, Jutphaas (UT, NLD) († 1943)
• Charles Alfred Nelson, Tarrant County, Texas († 1998)
• Johanna Wilhelmina Maria Mallens, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Simonne Vanmeerhaeghe, Ronse († 2015)
• Eline A. M. Velder, Curacao († 1995)
• Bernadette Lorene Todd, Poplar, Roosevelt, Montana, United States († 1945)
• Antonius Franciscus van den Hurk († 2011)

• Alfred Jean DUCHESNE (34), Beaconsfield GB
• ABRAHAM HENDRIK MOERMAN (57), ROTTERDAM
• Amerentia Knotter (74), Leiden
• Albert Francis Bryant (59)
• Anna Petronella Breuer (77)
• Andries Dirk Hooijkaas (69), Zeist
• Adriana Cornelia de Min (78), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Anna Schipper (76), Zutphen
• AARTJE MOOLHUIJZEN (59), MUIDEN
• ADRIANA POOT (65), 'S-GRAVENHAGE

• 1942 » Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager († 1997)
• 1942 » Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1942 » Fred Jones, Australian rugby league player
• 1942 » Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2014)
• 1942 » Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author († 2014)
• 1942 » William Turnage, American conservationist († 2017)
• 1943 » Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright, and director
• 1943 » Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer
• 1943 » Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1944 » Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter († 2019)

• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)

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.
• January 31 » World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
• February 14 » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
• March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
• August 27 » World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
• September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.

The temperature on December 9, 1943 was between 0.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.