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• Elisabeth Catharina Granneman, Haarlemmermeer († 1943)
• Jan Klok, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1943)
• Francisca Josina Tanghe, Harderwijk († 1990)
• Anna M. Rupke, Snohomish (Snohomish County) (Washington) († 1995)
• Bernardus van Drie, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Anna Maria Eck, van, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Alain Victor Jean BOUGARAN, Lanildult, 29112, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 2000)
• Helen Marie Mahlum, Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Obdam, Obdam († 1947)
• Gregory Pottner, Menasha, Winnebago, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2006)

• Catharina HANSSEN (78), Meerssen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Josef Janssen (35), Ogurtsova, Donetska, Ukraine
• "Anne" Flavie Robertine Bergier de Beauregard (85), Blaisy-Bas, Côte-d'Or, France
• Cornelis Albertus Roos ✓ (77), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Aaltje Harms Woltman (63), Wanneperveen, Nederland
• Aaron 'Abraham' van Beetz (64), Loenen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus BAKKER (55), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Janssen (35), Ogûrewo Am Donez, Oekraïne
• Antonia Langeslag (72)
• Alwine Emma Müller (65), Spandau, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• 1942 » B. J. Thomas, American singer
• 1942 » Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
• 1942 » Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer and actor († 1995)
• 1942 » Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
• 1942 » Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
• 1943 » Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1943 » Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
• 1943 » Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
• 1944 » John Glover, American actor
• 1944 » Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)

• 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 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 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.
• May 22 » Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
• July 19 » World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
• September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
• October 22 » World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.

The temperature on August 7, 1943 was between 13.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.