About the day » Thursday July 29, 1943Calender converter

• Jeanine Hilberts, Meppel († 2009)
• Georges Corneel Van Oplynes, Ieper West-Vlaanderen België († 2021)
• Frans Adrianus Hoeymans, Hilversum († 2011)
• Frederik August Maximiliaan ("Frits") Textor
• Jan Boone, Goorle († 2009)
• Franciscus Xaverius (Frans) Kuijper, Heiloo († 1992)
• Antoine De Coninck, Nazareth († 1943)
• Franciscus Xaverius Kuijper, Heiloo († 1992)
• Johannes Christianus Petrus VOS, Wageningen († 2003)
• George, Christopher Belzer († 1993)

• Abraham(Bob) Wijnberg (29), Leusden (Kamp Amersfoort)
• Anna Magdalena van Son (88), Nunspeet
• August Louis Karel Faes (69), Kessel
• Antoinetta Barbara Cornelia Ernest (2), Bergen op Zoom
• Arendina van der Kolk (59), Wierden
• Anje Hummel (68), Winsum
• Aaltje Jansen (67), Deventer
• Abraham WIJNBERG (29), Leusden
• Albert ter Steege (76), Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Kant (81)

• 1940 » Betty Harris, American chemist
• 1940 » Winnie Monsod, Filipina economist and political commentator
• 1941 » David Warner, English actor
• 1941 » Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet and playwright
• 1941 » Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician († 2007)
• 1942 » Doug Ashdown, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1943 » David Taylor, English snooker player and sportscaster
• 1944 » Jim Bridwell, American rock climber and mountaineer
• 1945 » Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1945 » Sharon Creech, American author and educator

• 1924 » Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
• 1934 » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 » Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
• 1954 » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1960 » Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)

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.
• March 2 » World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
• April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
• June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
• August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
• November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
• December 4 » World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

The temperature on July 29, 1943 was between 11.2 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.