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• Johan HEYNEMAN, Brugge,8000,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1945)
• Kees Vrijhof, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Charles Martin Kuiken, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Jenny Catharina Lucas, Ede († 2005)
• Jan Weerts, Hardenberg († 2020)
• Henk Verbeek, Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 2015)
• Bardina Maria Wouters, Beuningen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)
• Alphons Herman Joseph Masselink, Geesteren († 1945)
• levenloos van Lonkhuijzen, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1945)
• Kelvin Maxwell Douglas Haimes, Gympie, Queensland, Australia († 1993)

• Adriana Cornelia Elisabeth Spanjers (1), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina van Beek (61), Almelo
• Ada Hester (65)
• Dirk Bernard Oonk (72), Haarlem
• Agatha Alida Stiekema (89), Sappemeer
• Alphonsius Joannes Nulens (58), Buchenwald, Duitsland
• Aaltje van Omme (68), Nijkerk
• Aagje Groenenboom (77), Oud-Beijerland
• Agatha Alida Stiekema (89), Sappemeer
• Adriana Louisa Leijs (45), Ravensbruck, Duitsland

• 1942 » Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver
• 1942 » Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 1996)
• 1943 » Álvaro de Soto, Peruvian diplomat
• 1943 » Hans Heyer, German racing driver
• 1943 » Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author
• 1944 » Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and academic
• 1946 » Guesch Patti, French singer
• 1946 » J. Z. Knight, American New Age teacher and author
• 1946 » Mary Kaldor, English economist and academic
• 1946 » Sigmund Groven, Norwegian harmonica player and composer

• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1945 » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1957 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Leon Cadore, American baseball player (b. 1891)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. John
15. Dirk
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Geertruida
14. Irene
15. Mary
16. Helena

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
• February 21 » World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
• March 21 » World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
• April 1 » World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
• April 26 » World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• July 17 » World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
• October 15 » The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason.

The temperature on March 16, 1945 was between 2.2 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.