About the day » Wednesday May 24, 1944Calender converter

• gerard peter franciscus marie (gerard) peeters, helden-beringe († 1945)
• Alida Irene Boerstoel, Nieuw-Vennep († 2014)
• Christiaan Johannes Opperman, Deventer († 1992)
• Corry Edeling († 2018)
• Douglas Haskell Chad, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Dirkje Leijda Koelewijn, Katwijk († 1978)
• Jacky Kerkhofs († 1963)
• Adrianus Theodorus (Aad) Zeestraten, Hillegom, ZH, Nederland († 2003)
• Diesmer van den Berg, Apeldoorn († 2014)
• Hilda Salomons, Amsterdam, Noord Holland († 2011)

• Aize Ruurds Koopmans (45), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Roos (73)
• * Wilhelmina (Mien) Pijnenburg (43), Vught
• Anna Mulder (47)
• Aikina Alberdina ENGELKENS (79), Nieuw-Buinen (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland
• Allegonda Petronella Maria Driessen (0)
• Antonius Gijsbertus Maria van Schaijk (1), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aikina Alberdina Engelkes (79), Nieuw-Buinen (Borger)
• Johannis Vriens (81), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Hendrika Jansje Van Der Veen (0), Almelo

• 1942 » Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager
• 1942 » Hannu Mikkola, Finnish race car driver
• 1942 » Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs
• 1943 » Gary Burghoff, American actor
• 1944 » Dominique Lavanant, French actress
• 1944 » Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1945 » Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
• 1945 » Richard Ottaway, English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 1945 » Steven Norris, English engineer and politician
• 1945 » Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2012)

• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)

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 4 » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
• February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• July 25 » World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
• September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
• October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
• 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 May 24, 1944 was between 2.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.