About the day » Monday March 8, 1943Calender converter

• Ginette Céliane LEPERLIER, Saint-Leu,97416,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1967)
• Johannes Clemens Maria Muter, Den Helder († 1997)
• Gayle Lynn Frens, USA († 1988)
• Marianna de Graaf, Anna Paulowna († 2017)
• Gerrit VERBEEK, Ede († 1996)
• Frans Weymans, Bornem († 1991)
• Anna Marie Salome Schwarte, Hellendoorn, Ov, Nederland († 1960)
• Larry Lee Faber, Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa († 2020)
• Gerda BILKES Pdr, Stellendam, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1953)
• Karel Pieter de Best, Rijnsburg († 2000)

• Adriana Broekmans (82), Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Águeda Gorges (39), São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Antje Andries Hoekstra (84), Veenwouden
• Abraham van Ewijk (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abeltje NORDER (76), Exloërmond (Odoorn), Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonij Ulkeman (82), Heino
• Antonius Verbakel (59), Helmond
• Anna Margaretha de Vries (73), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Allegonda Raafs (61), Oeffelt
• Albertina Vereecken (53), Ekeren, Antwerpen, Belgium

• 1941 » Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1942 » Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
• 1942 » Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor
• 1943 » Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer
• 1943 » Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer († 2010)
• 1943 » Michael Grade, English businessman
• 1943 » Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer
• 1944 » Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Jim Chapman, American lawyer and politician
• 1945 » Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor

• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)

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.
• April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
• July 11 » World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
• October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
• December 4 » World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
• December 17 » All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.

The temperature on March 8, 1943 was between -0.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.