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• Johannes Albertus Planken, Kedichem (Leerdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Limoli, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil († 1943)
• Engeliena de Boer, Groningen († 2006)
• Marcel Paul Cardeynaels, Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België († 2008)
• Klaas Post, Urk († 2003)
• Hugo Hanzel von Brughan, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa († 2013)
• Emma Helena Antonia van Tuijl, Eindhoven († 2008)
• Doodgeboren zoon Voss, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriana Elizabeth Maria Pronk († 1975)
• Barry John Fearn, Victoria, Australia († 2006)

• Alice Hirschel (47), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Anje van Dijk (66), Zuidwolde ( Bedum )
• Aafje van Duijvenbode (87)
• * Johannes Kweens (60), Lieshout
• Albert Dokter (82), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aloijsius Coone (75), Bergen op Zoom
• Aafke Jans Laman (75), Cicero, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje Kooijman (51), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendricus Marinus Zijlmans (62), Vught
• Adrianus Hendriks (18), Sneek

• 1942 » Charles C. Krulak, American general
• 1942 » David Matthews, American keyboard player and composer
• 1942 » Gloria Gaither, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 » James Gustave Speth, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Lynn Sherr, American journalist and author
• 1942 » Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian-Hungarian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » Aldo Rico, Argentinian commander and politician
• 1943 » Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and actor († 2012)
• 1944 » Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American physicist and academic
• 1944 » Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer († 1999)

• 1938 » George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1944 » Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1944 » Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
• 1944 » René Lefebvre, French businessman (b. 1879)
• 1945 » Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Mark Sandrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1900)

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 23 » A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
• June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• September 12 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
• November 5 » World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
• December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

The temperature on March 4, 1943 was between -0.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.