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• Rooijendijk, Wanroij († 2006)
• ANDRE ISIDOOR VAN DEN BRANDEN, WAASMUNSTER,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 2014)
• Jan Nan de Wit, Harlingen († 1945)
• Jos Verleijsen († 2019)
• Ludovicus Christianus van Wijhe, Maastricht († 1944)
• John Pinkney Kelley, Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America († 2018)
• Catharina de Zanger, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Gerritje van de Vlag, Apeldoorn († 2000)
• Maria Charlotte Hage († 1956)
• David Allen Eccleshall AECC01.DAV01, Shipley, St Paul, Yorkshire, England († 2007)

• Annigje Advocaat (92), Rockanje
• Albertus Johannes Klein Obbink (87), Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Mooijekind (89), Noordwijk
• Adrianus Mooijekind (89), Noordwijk
• Alfred Leslie Smith (67), Compton, Los Angeles County, California
• Arina Van 't ZELFDE (78), Dordrecht
• Abram Hendricus Fritschij (18), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Vermeulen (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Cornelia Elizabet Zuiderhoek (81), Valburg
• Albertine Constance Wilhelmina Swaving (79), Bandung, Indonesië

• 1943 » Antonio Sabàto, Sr., Italian actor
• 1943 » Caterina Bueno, Italian singer († 2007)
• 1943 » Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist († 2017)
• 1943 » Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, South African-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• 1944 » Bill Malinchak, American football player
• 1945 » Don Sutton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1945 » Guy Fréquelin, French race car driver
• 1945 » Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Linda Hunt, American actress
• 1945 » Reggie Smith, American baseball player and coach

• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)

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.
• January 29 » World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
• January 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
• June 4 » World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
• July 9 » World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
• August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
• September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

The temperature on April 2, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.