About the day » Thursday August 5, 1943Calender converter

• Calvin James ANDERSON († 1948)
• Klaas Anjo Van Dijken, Bedum († 2012)
• Cornelis van Helden, rotterdam (zuid holland) († 2013)
• Gerard Hartelo, Nijmegen, Nederland († 2016)
• Carel de Rooij, Vaassen († 1995)
• Adriaan Gerhardus de Jong, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Emilie Johanna Veening, Oostwold (Leek), Groningen, Nederland († 1990)
• (Stillborn) STAAL († 1943)
• Everard Johannes den Hartog, Est (GL) († 2024)
• Johanna Westra, Rotterdam,Zuid Holland,Netherlands († 1944)

• Andries Heite (71), Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje van der Vaart (85), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Schut (45), Porz (Dld)
• Abraham Speelman (39), Midden Europa,MID
• Antonie de Jong (78), Tilburg (Brabant)
• Arjen Lettenga (66), jelsum
• Anna Jelinek (58), Eygelshoven, Limburg, Netherlands
• Abraham Speelman (39), Concentration camp
• Bettie Sanders (54), Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
• Berend Bennink (72), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1940 » Bobby Braddock, American country music songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1940 » Roman Gabriel, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1941 » Airto Moreira, Brazilian-American drummer and composer
• 1941 » Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1941 » Leonid Kizim, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut († 2010)
• 1942 » Joe Boyd, American record producer, founded Hannibal Records
• 1943 » Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2005)
• 1943 » Sammi Smith, American country music singer-songwriter († 2005)
• 1944 » Christopher Gunning, English composer
• 1945 » Loni Anderson, American actress

• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

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. Gerardus
15. Jacob
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 » The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
• January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
• January 18 » Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• August 17 » World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
• November 3 » World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
• 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 August 5, 1943 was between 10.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.