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• Gudo Vandhuynslager, Wielsbeke († 2014)
• Jan Willem Hendrik Knoppert († 2015)
• Barry Leonard Metcalfe, Surrey Mid Eastern, Surrey, England († 1992)
• Gerrigje Roebers († 2022)
• Henriëtta Maria Wolfs, Elshout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Hans van Stralen, Rotsterhaule, Friesland, Nederland († 1983)
• Clifford Louis Betten († 2010)
• Annelies Laterveer, ´s Gravenhage († 1991)
• Henk Sanders († 2010)
• Aria Leentje Borkent († 2020)

• anna martina pauwels (1925), geertruidenberg
• Anna Maria Mechtildis Huppertz (84), Spekholzerheide (L
• Albert Veldhuis (83), Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Auke Tjeerds van der Kooij (94), ,, Opeinde, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Pauwels (20), Geertruidenberg
• Anna Jenny JUCKEMA VAN BURMANIA (75), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Abram van Es (69), Rotterdam
• Aria van der Sijde (85), Schiedam
• Auke Tjeerds van der Kooy (van der Kooi) (94), Opeinde, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Mechtildis Huppertz (84), Spekholzerheide

• 1940 » Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1941 » Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1941 » Julia McKenzie, English actress, singer, and director
• 1942 » Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party († 1989)
• 1944 » Karl Jenkins, Welsh saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer (Soft Machine)
• 1945 » Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
• 1945 » Zina Bethune, American actress, dancer, and choreographer († 2012)
• 1946 » Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian-American author and academic
• 1948 » José José, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actor († 2019)
• 1948 » Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach († 2012)

• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)

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. Dirk

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 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
• June 9 » World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
• September 11 » World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
• October 15 » World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
• October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
• December 26 » World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

The temperature on February 17, 1944 was between -2.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.