About the day » Saturday July 24, 1943Calender converter

• Frederik Bakker, Urk († 2014)
• Posthuma, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1943)
• Johan Willem Braaksma, Bern († 1996)
• Grada Fens, Oosterhout († 2007)
• Jacoba Maria Hertogh († 2018)
• Geraldine Katherine "Gerry" Doyle ****, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Jantje Nijboer († 2007)
• Antonio Ligabó, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 2002)
• Aaltje Jacoba "Coby" van Vliet, Haarlem
• Janna Wijnholds, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1944)

• Allan James SHEASBY (67), Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Anna Wilhelmina Stolk (52), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van Leeuwen (59), Nieuwe-Wetering
• Corinus Heinsbroek (93), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Wilhelmus Smidt (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerarda Maria Kolen (0), Tilburg
• Cornelis Albertus Groenewegen (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Broshuis (90), Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Aaffien Hamster (70), Varsseveld, Nederland
• Cornelia Hubertine Johanna Dammers (41), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1940 » Dan Hedaya, American actor
• 1941 » John Bond, English banker and businessman
• 1942 » Chris Sarandon, American actor
• 1942 » David Miner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 » Heinz, German-English singer-songwriter and bass player († 2000)
• 1944 » Jim Armstrong, Northern Irish guitarist
• 1945 » Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
• 1945 » Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
• 1945 » Frank Close, English physicist and academic
• 1945 » Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer

• 1908 » Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
• 1910 » Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
• 1927 » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
• 1965 » Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 1969 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
• 1974 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

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.
• February 7 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• June 20 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
• October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
• October 16 » Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
• November 19 » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
• November 28 » World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

The temperature on July 24, 1943 was between 11.2 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.