About the day » Tuesday December 21, 1943Calender converter

• Jan Roggeveen, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Johannes Nuijten, Tilburg († 2009)
• Louis Godfried Gerard Marie Grooten, Holtum († 2021)
• N.N. Marsé, Tilburg († 1943)
• Hiram Michael Wolfe IV († 1969)
• Egbert Kremer († 2017)
• Annie Tijmensen († 1997)
• Hendrik Timmer, Nunspeet († 2008)
• Franciscus Martinus HEININK († 2005)
• CORNELIA VAN ANDEL, SLIEDRECHT († 2000)

• Albertus Johannes Meijers (66), Utrecht, Nederland
• Alice Mary BROWN (59), Canterbury, New Zealand
• Antje Bruinsma (59)
• Albertus Johannes Meijers, Utrecht, Nederland
• Amplus Orbin Chestnut (48)
• Anna Maria Mechtildis Heijnen (89), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Martinus van den Heuvel (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Abraham Groeneveld (37), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij de Ligt (75), Vlaardingen
• Antonia Maria KONIJN (41), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1939 » Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian academic and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1940 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 1993)
• 1942 » Hu Jintao, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Paramount leader of China
• 1943 » Albert Lee, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1943 » Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
• 1944 » Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1944 » Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat († 2007)
• 1945 » Doug Walters, Australian cricketer
• 1946 » Carl Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1998)
• 1946 » Roy Karch, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878)
• 1952 » Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886)

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.
• February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
• June 20 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
• August 1 » World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
• October 16 » Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
• November 6 » The 1st Ukrainian Front, led by general Nikolai Vatutin, liberates Kyiv from fascist occupation.
• December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.

The temperature on December 21, 1943 was between 0.8 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.