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• Pieter van der STOEL, Amsterdam († 1971)
• Jaap (Jacob) Meter, Hoogkerk, 9745, Nederland († 2000)
• Gerrit P. Braas († 2005)
• Henriëtte Helena Maria Boeren, Tilburg, Nederland († 1958)
• Wendela Klaske Anita Bronsgeest, Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,South Holland,Netherlands († 1994)
• Geke van Veen, Steenwijk († 2012)
• Wim van Dijk, Weesperkarspel († 2021)
• N.N. Heessels, Udenhout († 1944)
• Akke Dijk, Veenwouden († 2005)
• Jacob Meter, Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland († 2000)

• Adrianus Pietersz de Graaff (57), Hilversum
• Albertus Peter Joseph Aalbers (3), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Hekkelman (22), Verwolde (Laren)
• Antje Schotsman (61), Alkmaar
• Aaldert de Graaf (65), Ubach over Worms, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Bakker de, 's-Hertogenbosch, NB, Nederland
• Albert Hakvoort (55)
• Adriaan Hofland (49), Zeist
• Antje Kruk (6), Amsterdam
• Adriaan Heijstek (84), Kortgene, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1941 » Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2015)
• 1942 » Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player
• 1942 » Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic
• 1943 » Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter
• 1943 » Bobby Keys, American saxophone player († 2014)
• 1943 » Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1944 » Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
• 1945 » Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 » Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement († 1977)
• 1946 » Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks

• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)

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.
• March 5 » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
• March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
• August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
• October 21 » World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMASAustralia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
• November 1 » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
• 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 18, 1944 was between 3.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.