About the day » Thursday August 17, 1944Calender converter

• Cynthia Mildred Kemp, San Bernardino, California, United States († 1964)
• Maria Elisabeth (Mia) den Os, Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1951)
• Arnold Henry Cornelius, New Hartford, Butler County, Iowa († 2019)
• Dick Leonard Godijn, Zeist († 1993)
• Eibert Kuijt, Renkum († 1977)
• Gijsbertus Pieter Radsma, Franeker († 2004)
• Jacob Anne Bellis, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• James Allen Groen, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2011)
• Divera Anthonia (Doke) Versteege, Haarlem, NH, Nederland († 2017)
• Maria Kroon, Nieuw Vennep, gem. Haarlemmermeer, NL († 1945)

• Albertha Maria van den Berg (3), Hellendoorn,, Overijssel, Nederland
• August Louis van Domburg Scipio (51), Soerabaja, Ned. Indie
• Herder (64), Donkerbroek (Ooststellingwerf) Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Theunis Herder (64), Donkerbroek, Netherlands
• Albertus de Haas (76), Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands
• Albertus Gerardus Zehenpfenning (46), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• August Louis van Domburg Scipio (51), Soerabaja, Java, Indonesia
• Aaltjen Theunis Aaltje Herder (64), Donkerbroek, Gem. Ooststellingwerf
• Arendje Meijvogel (77), Sassenheim, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Regina ELSBROEK (35)

• 1942 » Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2002)
• 1943 » Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author
• 1943 » John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author
• 1943 » Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer
• 1944 » Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor
• 1944 » Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation
• 1945 » Rachel Pollack, American author, poet, and educator
• 1946 » Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer
• 1946 » Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
• 1936 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
• 1949 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1958 » Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)

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.
• April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
• May 18 » Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
• July 17 » World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
• September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
• October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

The temperature on August 17, 1944 was between 15.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.