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• Jan Habraken, Veldhoven († 2012)
• Gilbert royakkers, Lommel († 1988)
• Doodgeboren kind van der Schee, Schiedam († 1944)
• Eileen Hess, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado († 2012)
• Johannes Adrianus Adriana Duijndam, Noordwijkerhout († 2007)
• Frans Scheelen († 1979)
• ? Huver, Terband, 8449, Nederland († 1944)
• Hendricus Peter Cornelis de Bruijn, Abcoude († 2017)
• Johannes de Vries († 1948)
• Bettina von Pfretschner, Wien, Österreich († 1989)

• Aletta Agatha Schwering (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Maatje Overbeeke (58), Rotterdam
• Aaltje van der Hoeden (34), Auschwitz
• (2) Marianne van Raap (61), Auschwitz (Concentratiekam) Polen
• 144 LL Debidatt Partabi (54), Nickerie, Nickerie, Suriname, South America
• Aike HENSUMS (68)
• Aeilko Raske (82), Bellingwolde (Groningen)
• Aaltje Altes Oosten (93), ,,, Emmons County, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Hendrikus Hasselt (63), Utrecht, Netherlands
• Abram van Dam (47), Auschwitz, Krakow, Poland

• 1940 » Mick Staton, American soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1941 » Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer
• 1942 » Otis Clay, American singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1943 » Alan Rubin, American trumpet player († 2011)
• 1943 » Joselito, Spanish singer and actor
• 1944 » Joy Williams, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
• 1944 » Mike Oxley, American lawyer and politician († 2016)
• 1946 » Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer and manager († 2007)
• 1947 » Derek Shulman, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 » Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese engineer and politician and Prime Minister of Japan

• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• 1963 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1932)

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 7 » World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
• June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
• August 2 » ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
• September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
• October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
• November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

The temperature on February 11, 1944 was between 0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.