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• Gustaaf Scholten, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Johan Thijs Theodoor Vermeer, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Ferdinand Alouijsius Maria van LIESHOUT, Montfoort
• Geert Hetterscheid, Nieuw-Wehl († 2018)
• Henk Stoffers († 1946)
• George Edward Boerwinkle, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, United States of America († 2002)
• Johanna Catharina Kop, Houten († 1968)
• Jan Slagt, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Frits Souverein, 's-Gravenhage († 1996)
• Jannetje (Jannie) Bakker, Leiden, Nederland († 2008)

• Anna Dijkema (78), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aäron Baune (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Vreeman (75), Boyden, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Johannes van Alem (79), Venlo (Limburg Nederland)
• Aagje Stoop (70), Harenkarspel, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes van Alem (79), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Watses Schaafsma (74), Schiermonnikoog
• Bartel Jacobsz Porsius (93), Amsterdam
• Artur Strauss (44), Auschwitz, Duitsland
• Bernard Luza (39), 's-Gravenhage-Scheveningen

• 1940 » İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs († 2007)
• 1940 » Hamzah Haz, Indonesian journalist and politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
• 1940 » John Hadl, American football player and coach
• 1940 » Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright († 2008)
• 1941 » Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
• 1941 » Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
• 1944 » Mick Avory, English drummer
• 1945 » Douglas Hofstadter, American author and academic
• 1945 » Jack Dann, American-Australian author and poet
• 1945 » John Helliwell, English saxophonist and keyboard player

• 1924 » Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)

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. Jacob
15. Gerardus
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 11 » The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
• February 14 » World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
• April 8 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
• July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• November 15 » The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
• November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The temperature on February 15, 1943 was between 5.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.