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• Geertrui Hobo († 2021)
• Adrianus Jacobus Vermeeren, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Lucia Johanna Maria van Rossum († 1996)
• Maria GELEIJNSE († 2021)
• Antoinetta Helena Maria Johanna Antoinette van Delft, 's Hertogenbosch († 2016)
• Geesje Borger, Zwolle († 2002)
• arnoldus jacobus marie (nol) neessen, helden-grashoek († 2001)
• Arend Slagter, Avereest († 2019)
• Gerrit Jan ten Vaanholt, Hengelo († 2013)
• Gerardus Johannes Uijting, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1993)

• Roger Theophiel Leon Michiels (15), Brugge
• Ada Emily PRICE (56), Manly, New South Wales, Australia
• Carl Christian Olaveson (57), Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho
• Bram Gargoski (45), Rheden, Nederland
• Aaldert de Jonge (73), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonetta Simons (88), Deventer
• Bernard Antoon Karel baron van Lijnden tot Oldenaller (68), Zellik,Provincie Vlaams-Brabant,Flanders,Belgique
• Bram Gargoski (45), Rheden
• Aaldert Martens de Jonge (73), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Meershoek (63), Oestgeest

• 1940 » Galen Rowell, American mountaineer and photographer († 2002)
• 1940 » Richard Sanders, American actor and screenwriter
• 1941 » Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, British philosopher, academic, and politician
• 1942 » Nancy Richey, American tennis player
• 1943 » Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, English businessman and politician
• 1943 » Nelson DeMille, American lieutenant and author
• 1943 » Peter Lilley, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1943 » Pino Presti, Italian bass player, composer, conductor, and producer
• 1944 » Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican-American physician and admiral, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1945 » Rayfield Wright, American football player and coach

• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)

• 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 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
• March 3 » World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
• June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
• July 12 » German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
• December 4 » World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

The temperature on August 23, 1943 was between 10.2 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.