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• Hoekstra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1943)
• Jacques Jacobus Johannes Havermans, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Edward Gliha, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States († 2022)
• Aapko Geert Sportel, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)
• Brenda Burkhart, Verda, Harlan County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Aapko Sportel, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1996)
• Afke jansen, Oudega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2018)
• Geert Cosaert, Roeselare († 2014)
• Elly van Rijn, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Hendrica Maria Gerarda van Rijn, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2023)

• Abraham Kok (54), Auschwitz, Poland
• Abraham Kok (54), Concentratiekamp Auschwitz, Polen
• Abraham Louis Henri van der Heijden (22), Auschwitz
• Abraham Willing (1), Auschwitz,O≈õwiƒôcim,Powiat o≈õwiƒôcimski,Woiwodschap Klein-Polen,Polen
• Abraham Gans (15), Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Powiat Oświęcimski, Polen (voorheen: NAZI-Duitsland)
• Aäron Bobbe (15), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Aaldert Jan Engberts (50), Groningen
• Abraham Bilderbeek (56), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Hoekstra (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Wurms (3), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland

• 1941 » David Gross, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 » Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, English politician
• 1942 » Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist and emeritus scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology († 2019)
• 1942 » Howard Stringer, Welsh businessman
• 1942 » Paul Krause, American football player and politician
• 1942 » Will Provine, American biologist, historian, and academic († 2015)
• 1943 » Homer Hickam, American author and engineer
• 1943 » Lou Christie, American singer-songwriter
• 1943 » Tim Hunt, English biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate
• 1944 » Les Hinton, English-American journalist and businessman

• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
• 1945 » John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
• 1951 » André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1953 » Richard Rushall, British businessman (b. 1864)
• 1957 » Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (b. 1871)
• 1959 » Willard Miller, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1877)
• 1962 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear (b. 1883)

• 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.
• April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
• July 9 » World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily soon causes the downfall of Mussolini and forces Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
• September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
• 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 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: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

The temperature on February 19, 1943 was between -1.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.