About the day » Tuesday February 23, 1943Calender converter

• Dorothea Celina Cornelia van Damme, IJzendijke († 2012)
• Marina Dijckhoff, S’gravenhaven, x, X, X, NL († 1997)
• Duane R. Daniels, McConnelsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 2002)
• Boot, Rijsbergen († 1943)
• Franciscus Antonius Thomas Delis, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Margaretha (Griet) Kwakman, Volendam († 1994)
• Bernard Griffioen, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Mary Magdalena Catharina Frerichs, Beverwijk († 1943)
• Colin Thomas BEAUMONT († 2019)
• Jan Zoet, Elburg († 1989)

• Catharina Bottenheft (37), Hilversum, Nederland
• Boot (0), Rijsbergen
• Antoon Gemser (43), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charley Clarance [Buck) Drennan (34), Stonewall, OK
• Aaltje Vos (56), Emmen
• Arthur de Winter (44), Koekelberg (B)
• Cornelia Boon (32), de Prins Hendrik polder (Texel)
• Alida Pieternella Schram (43), Den Haag
• Charles Asa LOVELAND (67)
• Agnes MONTPETIT (87), Montréal (Notre-Dame-de-Montréal)

• 1940 » Jackie Smith, American football player
• 1940 » Peter Fonda, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1941 » Ron Hunt, American baseball player
• 1943 » Bobby Mitchell, American golfer († 2018)
• 1943 » Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
• 1944 » Bernard Cornwell, English author and educator
• 1944 » Florian Fricke, German keyboard player and composer († 2001)
• 1944 » Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2014)
• 1945 » Allan Boesak, South African cleric and politician
• 1946 » Rusty Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)

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.
• March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
• August 15 » World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
• August 27 » World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
• September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
• November 5 » World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
• 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 February 23, 1943 was between 0.9 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.