About the day » Friday May 28, 1943Calender converter

• Harm Baas, Dwingelo († 1968)
• Leendert Naaktgeboren, Dubbeldam
• Kenneth Hartema, Waverly/Iowa († 1978)
• Anna Emsbroek († 2013)
• Douwe de Valk († 1975)
• James Lewis Harrison, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin († 2003)
• Donald Arthur Corey, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado, United States († 2018)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1943)
• Arie Cornelis van der Ende, 's-Gravenzande († 2006)
• Johannes Hubertus Catharina Maria van Winkel, Budel († 1944)

• Abigaël Buitenkant (68), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Aaltje Velleman (23), Sobibor
• Abraham Kok Finsi (47), Sobibor
• Aaltje Meijer (46), Sobibór,vernietigingskamp,Polen
• Aaltje van der Stam (50), Sobibor (vernietigingskamp), Lublin, Polen
• Abraham de Hond (44), Sobibór, Lubelskie, Poland
• Abraham Joachimsthal (70), Sobibor, Biala Podleska, Poland
• Abraham Brander (10), Sobibor, Polen
• Abigael Visser (24), Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Poland
• Abigeal Verduin (20), Sobibor (Polen)

• 1941 » Beth Howland, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1942 » Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Terry Crisp, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1944 » Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 » Faith Brown, English actress and singer
• 1944 » Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter († 2003)
• 1944 » Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1944 » Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress († 2013)
• 1944 » Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City
• 1945 » Patch Adams, American physician and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute

• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1946 » Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1858)
• 1947 » August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (b. 1907)
• 1952 » Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Tatsuo Hori, Japanese author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1964 » Terry Dillon, American football player (b. 1941)
• 1968 » Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)

• 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 13 » The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
• May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
• July 19 » World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
• July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• August 27 » World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
• November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The temperature on May 28, 1943 was between 7.7 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.