About the day » Thursday May 13, 1943Calender converter

• Kenneth Wiersema, Cook County (Illinois) († 2009)
• Boukje Doorn, ,,, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1995)
• Catharina Petronella Maria van der Voort, Den Haag († 1991)
• Josef Joos Joep Meens, Nuth († 2013)
• Jacobus Emile Theuns, Hooge Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant (Nederland) († 1969)
• Hermanna van der Mije, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Lies Elizabeth Wilhelmina Marie Daemen, Maasbree († 1996)
• Henny de Wit, Landsmeer († 1996)
• Lamberta Ida Maria de Bijl, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1943)
• Johannes Hendricus Ignatius Maria Mesker, Amsterdam († 1945)

• Alette Rozette Meijers (58), Sobibor
• Anthonie Kraak (58), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anthonia van Toggenburg-Sargans (81), Bolzano (Bosen), Trentino-Zuidtirol
• Adriaantje Kamp (80), Papendrecht, Zuid Holland
• Anna Maria van den Bosch (80), Steenbergen, N-Br, NL
• Aaltje Tuinstra (14), Houtigehage Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Hoftijzer (76)
• Alice Gertrude BADCOCK (62), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Anthonie Kraak (58), Amersfoort
• (Hans) Helmut Himpel (34), Berlin-Plötzensee

• 1941 » Senta Berger, Austrian actress
• 1942 » Leighton Gage, American author († 2013)
• 1942 » Roger Young, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, English lawyer and judge
• 1943 » Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor († 2013)
• 1943 » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1944 » Armistead Maupin, American author, screenwriter, and actor
• 1944 » Carolyn Franklin, American R&B singer-songwriter († 1988)
• 1944 » Robert L. Crawford Jr., American actor
• 1944 » Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, Scottish explorer, lawyer, and judge

• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (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.
• January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
• February 14 » World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
• March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
• March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
• September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
• November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

The temperature on May 13, 1943 was between 10.9 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.