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• Gertrude Jeanette Amelie Hagers, Voorburg († 2004)
• Nn Willems, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Aart Brandwijk († 2019)
• Alfred Herbert Bramwell Posthuma, 's Gravenhage († 1962)
• Gregory L Finley, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2009)
• Alfred Herbert Bramwel Posthuma, Den Haag,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1962)
• Rein van de Berg, IJmuiden († 1991)
• Roland Philip van Loon, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1944)
• Johannes Harm Tommy Botter, Heerlen († 2012)
• Donald Ronald Wilson, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2014)

• Agnes Hermans (47), Kerkrade (L
• Anna Luteijn (63), Waarde, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andrew Oliver Delaney (75), Leona, Doniphan, Kansas, United States
• Adrianus cornelis van Osta (37), Marum (groningen)
• Alida Hendrika Moreau (88), Ermelo
• ANTONIE WILLEM MOERMAN (23), KASSEL (DUITSLAND)
• Anna Maria Beerens (74), Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Blom Blommekoper (41), Auschwitz
• Alexander Eduard Cohen (61), Oranienburg DL
• Anna Joanna Somers (65), Reet

• 1942 » Dave Clark, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1942 » Kathleen Blanco, American educator and politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana († 2019)
• 1943 » Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
• 1944 » Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist († 1988)
• 1944 » Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 » Heather Booth, American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist
• 1945 » Ivor Crewe, English political scientist and academic
• 1946 » Art Howe, American baseball player and manager
• 1946 » Carmine Appice, American drummer and songwriter
• 1946 » Genny Lim, American writer

• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)

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.
• June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• June 16 » In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
• June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
• July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
• November 18 » The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
• December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

The temperature on December 15, 1944 was between -1.3 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.