About the day » Tuesday December 14, 1943Calender converter

• Olivier Leon Rozalie Julien (Olivier) BECX, Hasselt (B) († 2017)
• Jantina (Janny) Tuinema, Groningen († 2021)
• Frans Marinus Jansma († 2012)
• George (Sonny) Bump, Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Barbara Jean Randall, Des Moines, Polk Co.,IA († 2009)
• Johannes Hendrikus Scherpen († 1984)
• Peter Cornelis Marius de Jong, Den Haag Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Hendrik Vreekamp, Hoevelaken († 2016)
• Egon THIJSSENS, Margraten (NL/LI) († 2012)
• N.N. Durivou, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Anna Maria van Ginneken (80), Etten-Leur
• Aafje Kroon (33), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Lutke Schipholt (68), Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Anthonie Hofmans (82), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina TOBBEN (79), Neer, Gemeente Leudal, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pouw (71)
• Adrianus van den Brand (26), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aletta Maria Vermeulen (65), Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ginneken van (80), Etten Leur
• Anthoni HORSMAN (83), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1940 » Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and civil servant
• 1941 » Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic, and academic († 2006)
• 1941 » Karan Armstrong, American soprano and actress
• 1942 » Chris Harris, English actor and director († 2014)
• 1942 » Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2014)
• 1943 » Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
• 1943 » Tommy McAvoy, Scottish politician
• 1944 » Denis Thwaites, English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died 2015)
• 1944 » Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, English businessman, founded DFS
• 1946 » Antony Beevor, English historian and author

• 1929 » Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (b. 1855)
• 1935 » Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
• 1943 » John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
• 1947 » Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
• 1947 » Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)

• 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.
• May 22 » Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
• August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
• August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
• November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
• December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

The temperature on December 14, 1943 was between -4.5 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.