About the day » Saturday March 13, 1943Calender converter

• Matthijs Nicolaas Gerardus (Theo) Baten, Steenbergen († 2008)
• Everardus Johannes Hendrikus Ariëns, Arnhem, Gld, Nederland († 2013)
• Jan Steven Assink, Hengelo († 2013)
• Joke Johanna Maria Clotilda Horevoorts, Alphen en Riel († 2005)
• Catharina Cornelia Groen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Herman Vonderman, Heino († 2022)
• Versteegen, Neer († 1943)
• Marcel Emiel Everaert, Laarne († 1997)
• Elizabeth Broekema, Noordbroek († 2024)
• N. N. Vierkens, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Adam Verkooijen (88), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Aaltje van Kolm (62), Sobibór,vernietigingskamp,Polen
• Abraham Pool (42), Sobibor, Poland
• Abraham de Raaij (77)
• Abraham Sjouwerman (66), Sobibor
• Abraham Meiboom Bouwman (61), Sobibor
• Aaltje Vorst (77), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Aaltje Polak (86), Sobibor, Lublin, Poland
• Anthonius Wilhelmus Mari van der Horst (61), !Rotterdam
• Abraham Halberstad (64), Sobibor (PL)

• 1939 » Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1941 » Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic († 2001)
• 1942 » Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1942 » Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author († 2008)
• 1944 » Terence Burns, Baron Burns, English economist and academic
• 1945 » Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1946 » Yonatan Netanyahu, American-Israeli colonel († 1976)
• 1947 » Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist († 2018)
• 1947 » Lesley Collier, English ballerina and educator
• 1947 » Lyn St. James, American race car driver

• 1921 » Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)
• 1936 » Francis Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
• 1938 » Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author (b. 1857)
• 1943 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1882)
• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)

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 29 » World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USSChicago(CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• March 14 » The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
• April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
• July 4 » World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
• July 22 » World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
• August 29 » World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

The temperature on March 13, 1943 was between -0.6 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.