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• João Bento de Arimatéia, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 2016)
• Gehardus Johannes Albertus Rakers, Losser († 2008)
• Ineke Teesink, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2011)
• Ray Warren Radford († 2009)
• Jan Bernard Dam, Lemmer († 2022)
• Adriaan Peene, Domburg, Walcheren, NL († 1998)
• Gerardus Johannes Knetsch, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Albertus Hermanus Antonius Leon Kuijken, Amsterdam († 1952)
• Egbert Hutten, Ane († 2011)
• Anton Herman Waard, Ugchelen, Apeldoorn, NL († 2022)

• Barteld Keizer (70), Nijeveen
• Aaltje de Kroon (77), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Wilhelmus Mulders (54), Steenbergen
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• Ad‡ele Boas (36), Auschwitz
• Alphonsus Jacobus Hoefmans (26), Baarle-Nassau
• Aafje Stoop (63), Alkmaar
• Adrianus Martinus de Brouwer (56), Tilburg
• Adriana van den Ende (68), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Nederland
• Adriaan Antes (57), Oud Gastel

• 1941 » Dan Alderson, American scientist and academic († 1989)
• 1942 » David Ogden Stiers, American actor († 2018)
• 1943 » Aristotelis Pavlidis, Greek politician, 13th Greek Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy
• 1943 » Brian Piccolo, American football player († 1970)
• 1943 » Elliott Forbes-Robinson, American race car driver
• 1943 » Paul Frampton, English-American physicist and academic
• 1945 » Barrie Keeffe, English playwright, screenwriter, and producer († 2019)
• 1945 » Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor and comedian
• 1945 » Russ Ballard, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » Stephen Rea, Irish actor

• 1925 » Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1926 » Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
• 1929 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (b. 1877)
• 1931 » Octave Uzanne, French journalist and author (b. 1851)
• 1939 » Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist, author, and educator (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Chit Hlaing, Burmese lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1960 » H. L. Davis, American author and poet (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Antonius
16. Peter

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Grietje
16. Aaltje

• 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 15 » World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
• March 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
• April 29 » World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
• July 6 » The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• September 4 » World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
• November 19 » World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.

The temperature on October 31, 1944 was between 6.0 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.