What happened on 16 March 1943?

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Discover what happened on 16 March 1943 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!

Deaths

  • Ivan Alekseyevich Tankopiy (Hero of the Soviet Union)
  • Dorothea Starke (German applied mathematician)
  • Sidney Gerald Burrard (Surveyor General of India)
  • James H. Jensen (Wisconsin State Assemblyman)
  • Dāvids Golts (Latvian businessperson)
  • Carlo Pesce
  • Mária Molnár (Hungarian missionary (1886-1943))
  • Richard Hamilton (Australian mining manager)
  • Michael Wills ((born 1915))
  • Frederick Hugh Lacy ((died 1943))
  • Phyllis Marjory Deck ((1884-1943))
  • Franz Plotnarek
  • Desy Pollitz (Holocaust victim (born 1872))
  • Josef Nemasta
  • Jaroslav Sadílek
  • Klothilde Amram (Holocaust victim (born 1859))
  • Anna Basch (holocaust victim, b. 1868-05-07)
  • Samuel Bauer (holocaust victim, b. 1874-07-14)
  • Hildegarda Bäumlová (Holocaust victim (born 1889))
  • Julius Berdach (Holocaust victim (born 1864))
  • Paula Bloch (Holocaust victim (born 1865))
  • Charlotte Blum (holocaust victim, b. 1875-09-20)
  • Ruth Bondyová (holocaust victim, b. 1943-02-11)
  • Friede Bohnen (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
  • Clara Johanna Deutsch (holocaust victim, b. 1867-12-20)
  • Adéla Brumliková (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Emilie Budlovská (holocaust victim, b. 1874-04-06)
  • Friedericke Dalberg (Holocaust victim (born 1870))
  • Hanni Deutsch (Holocaust victim (born 1870))
  • Emil Dub (holocaust victim, b. 1878-04-02)
  • Isaak Flehinger (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Fanni Frank (holocaust victim, b. 1876-12-31)
  • Anna Wilhelmine Epstein (Holocaust victim (born 1877))
  • Ida Eschborn (Holocaust victim (born 1872))
  • Otto Giesener (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Anna Gottliebová (holocaust victim, b. 1874-02-07)
  • Emma Hallheimer (Holocaust victim (born 1871))
  • Alfred Herzfeld (Holocaust victim (born 1873))
  • Helene Hess (holocaust victim, b. 1866-04-06)
  • Sigmund Hermann (Holocaust victim (born 1865))
  • Hanni Kahn (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Alois Horetzky (Holocaust victim (born 1872))
  • Karpel Jakobowitz (Holocaust victim (born 1870))
  • Hedwig Kahnstein (Holocaust victim)
  • Bertha Kleimenhagen (Holocaust victim (born 1864))
  • Hermann Levin (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
  • Berta Lewin (holocaust victim, b. 1873-04-21)
  • Abraham Lippmann (holocaust victim, b. 1864-01-04)
  • Emma Mendel (holocaust victim, b. 1863-08-22)
  • Gitella Meyer (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Olga Naphtali (Holocaust victim (born 1873))
  • Rosa Natt (holocaust victim, b. 1881-11-09)
  • Gertrud Rosenbach (holocaust victim, b. 1875-06-29)
  • Rudolf Rosenkranz (Holocaust victim (born 1877))
  • Siegmund Rosenstein (Holocaust victim (born 1870))
  • Selma Rothschild (holocaust victim, b. 1875-08-02)
  • Johanna Schmul (holocaust victim, b. 1856-02-23)
  • Cölestine Silberstein (Holocaust victim (born 1876))
  • Helene Simon (holocaust victim, b. 1866-12-21)
  • Klotilde Neuburger (Holocaust victim (born 1868))
  • Daniel Oppenheim (Holocaust victim (born 1865))
  • Frieda Popper (holocaust victim, b. 1859-10-31)
  • Flora Strauss (holocaust victim, b. 1879-06-21)
  • Sophie Marcus (holocaust victim, b. 1879-09-15)
  • Helene Michaelis (holocaust victim, b. 1867-03-04)
  • Ida Zacharias (holocaust victim, b. 1869-05-08)
  • Henriette Zirker (holocaust victim, b. 1870-03-14)
  • Gertrud Sperling (Holocaust victim (born 1880))
  • Käthe Pniower (Holocaust victim (born 1869))
  • Martha Lewy (holocaust victim, b. 1879-03-28)
  • Paula Kurz (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
  • Berta Löw (holocaust victim, b. 1873-01-12)
  • Ludwig Pollaczek (Holocaust victim (born 1863))
  • Bela Albert Mandl (Holocaust victim (born 1871))
  • Sophie Marcus (holocaust victim, birth date unknown)
  • Helene Michaelis (holocaust victim, birth date unknown)
  • Julius Schick (holocaust victim, birth date unknown)
  • Binder Szipe Spieler (Holocaust victim)
  • Samuel Stefansky (holocaust victim, birth date unknown)
  • Ferdinand Kleinmann (Holocaust victim (born 1917))
  • Julie Kohnová (holocaust victim, b. 1877-09-04)
  • Antonie Skučová (Holocaust victim (born 1853))
  • Josef Taussig (holocaust victim, b. 1879-06-09)
  • Ida Wolfová (holocaust victim, b. 1862-07-05)
  • Zikmund Wolf (holocaust victim, b. 1871-07-06)
  • Jakob Stein (holocaust victim, b. 1887-06-01)
  • Paul-Eugène Milliet (French soldier)
  • Martha Freimann (Holocaust victim (born 1863))
  • Clara Bouhon (Holocaust victim (born 1875))
  • Cäcilie Heller (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
  • Alfred Hirschfeld (prisoner in Theresienstadt Ghetto, b. 1870-06-15)
  • Gertrude Cohn (Holocaust victim, b. 1875-05-08)
  • Otto Beneš (Holocaust victim, b. 1914-10-30)
  • Nikolay Sagarda (Russian theologian)
  • Hermann Joseph Sträter (German bishop (1866-1943))
  • Max Popp (German chemist (1878–1943))
  • Gabriele Schwarz-Eckart (German Holocaust victim (1937–1943))
  • Leopold Lichtwitz (German physician and internist (1876-1943))
  • Joël Vredenburg (Rabbi in Amsterdam, Holland)
  • Nikolay Irikov
  • Georges Giraud (French mathematician (1889-1943))
  • Ge Jianhao (Chinese activist, born 1865)
  • Stepan Zharko (Kuban Ukrainian kobzar, bandurist, and folk musician (1877–1943))
  • Peeter Jänes (Estonian lawyer)
  • Otto Gümbel (German judge (1876-1943))
  • Paul Bunker (College football All-American and recipient of Distinguished Service Medal for service at Battle of Corregidor (1881-1943))
  • Jānis Volonts
  • Tracy Elliot Hazen (American botanist and botanical collector (1874-1943))