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• Gerrit Jan Jochems, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Leeuwenstein, Schiedam, Nederland († 2008)
• Maurits Cornelis van Eeghen, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Peuscher, Hengelo, 7550, Nederland († 1943)
• Anita Appelmans († 2011)
• Leentje Harrewina Keijzerwaard, Oudenhoorn(ZH) († 2006)
• Frances Jane Elgersma, Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa († 1992)
• Maria Ludovica Juliana Mathilda Dillen, Geel, België († 1944)
• Adriana Nuijten
• Leo Leisten, Herzogenrath (D) († 2006)

• Anna Petronella Thelen (73), Kerkrade (L
• Antje Gerbens van der Heide (69), Saaksum
• Anna Maria Simons (73), Breda
• Abraham Feitsma (41), Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Powiat oswiecimski, Lesser Poland, Poland
• Annie Jane Scholes (19), Idianapolis Marion County Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Annigje Hoogendoorn (79), Breukelen,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aarnout Abraham Zonnevijlle (59), Sluis, Zeeland, NL
• Aaltje 2 Veldhuizen (75), Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Haperen (65), Zevenbergen
• Peuscher (0), Hengelo, 7550, Nederland

• 1942 » Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop († 2017)
• 1942 » Kenneth Lay, American businessman († 2006)
• 1942 » Tim Lankester, English economist and academic
• 1942 » Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach († 2011)
• 1943 » Hugh Thompson, Jr., American soldier and pilot († 2006)
• 1943 » Pınar Kür, Turkish author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 » Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater, English politician
• 1944 » Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1944 » Dzhokhar Dudayev, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria († 1996)

• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 » Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1962 » Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)

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.
• January 24 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
• February 16 » World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
• April 7 » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
• September 5 » World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
• October 8 » World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.

The temperature on April 15, 1943 was between 8.7 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.