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• Cornelis Adriaan Bunk, Barendrecht († 1945)
• Geert Muggen, Ruinen, Echten, Drenthe, Nederland († 1945)
• Henderkien (Hennie) Tissing, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Izaak Spek († 1964)
• Age van der Wijk, Huizum († 1945)
• Eef Zagers († 2023)
• Hendrika Albertha De Man, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Izaak Spek, Ter Aar (Aardam) († 1964)
• (kzn) Goverde, Zevenbergen († 1945)
• H.P. van Megen, Weert († 2021)

• Adriaan Dingeman Timmers (20), Dusseldorf (Duitsland)
• "Erwin" Gottlieb Adalbert Otto Planck (51), Berlin
• Aagje Verhage (50), Ouddorp (Z.H.)
• Adrianus Marinus Koolhaas (89), Aalst, Zaltbommel, Nederland
• Albert Kollen (78), Coevorden
• Jan Reevers (17), Munchen
• Jan Reevers (17), Munchen
• Adrianus van der Heijden (48), Bergeijk
• Adrianus Blansjaar (86), Leiden
• Aaltje Strik (77), Noordhorn, gemeente Zuidhorn

• 1943 » Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman († 2010)
• 1943 » Gary Burton, American vibraphone player and composer
• 1943 » Gil Gerard, American actor and producer
• 1944 » Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer († 2019)
• 1945 » Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario
• 1946 » Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan lawyer and politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1946 » Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician († 2013)
• 1946 » Don Whittington, American race car driver
• 1946 » Zvonko Bušić, Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 († 2013)
• 1947 » Tom Carper, American captain and politician, 71st Governor of Delaware

• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)
• 1939 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
• 1943 » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
• 1956 » Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 1966 » T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician († 1895)

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 14 » World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
• March 10 » World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
• March 17 » The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
• April 7 » World War II: The battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
• September 5 » Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• September 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.

The temperature on January 23, 1945 was between -10.1 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -4.3 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.