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• Gerardus Cornelis Bon, Hillegom († 2014)
• Brian Finley Mc Intire, Gauteng, South Africa († 2011)
• Josephina Westgeest († 2008)
• François Joseph WAMBACQ, Essene, 1790, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique († 2009)
• Antonia Erwin Tallungan Strenski Morehouse, Chicago, Cook, Illinois († 2009)
• Arend Jakobus (Arie) Hoekstra, 's-Gravenmoer, Nederland († 2021)
• Hermannus Bril († 1987)
• Derk Meijer, Radewijk († 2022)
• Frans Sterckx, Geel (B), België († 2012)
• Arend Jakobus Hoekstra, 's-Gravenmoer († 2021)

• Adriana Johanna van de Wetering (16), Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Penders (58), sittard, Nederland
• Bernardus Cornelis KLAUI (80), 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Antonius Maas (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Penders (58), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Adam Borradale Bell (Capt.) (66), Weymouth, Dorset, England (UK)
• Anna Bosma (76), Bedum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonius Petrus Franciscus Joseph Otten (71), Breda
• Aagje van 't Wout (79), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gerritsen (48), Duiven, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1942 » Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer
• 1942 » Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director († 1975)
• 1942 » Jack Roush, American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
• 1942 » Maarten van den Bergh, American-Dutch businessman
• 1943 » Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
• 1943 » Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician († 2014)
• 1944 » Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter († 2016)
• 1944 » James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 » Keith Erickson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1946 » Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist, author, and activist († 2006)

• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)

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.
• 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 25 » World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
• September 5 » Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• September 9 » World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
• October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
• December 28 » Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

The temperature on April 19, 1944 was between 0.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.