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• Edward Buurman, Voorburg († 2016)
• Bob te Beek († 1945)
• Fimmigje Harmens Schipper († 2002)
• Kind Knuiman, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)
• Edward Buurman, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2016)
• Anna Christina Kooyman († 2015)
• Gerardus Cornelis van de Krogt, Voorburg († 2001)
• Gerrit Kramer († 1945)
• Johannes Brak, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Bob W. Opdam, Haarlem († 2012)

• Adriaan Pieter Kikkert (24), omgeving van Tiel (Gelderland)
• Alexander Petrovitch, Vorst Wolkonskij (73)
• Alphonsus Leonardus Pijcke (59), Waterlandkerkje
• Alphonse Sonneville (61), Dachau, Bayeren (D)
• Adriana Maria Straathof (75), Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Bonse Martinus Vries, de (78), 's Gravenhage
• Dirk Bruijnes (68), Leiden
• Aafje Mens Majon (37), Enkhuizen, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (1) Jonas Hildesheim (40), Stutthof (concentratiekamp) Polen
• Andries Kuivenhoven (72), Leiden

• 1943 » David Cronenberg, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Lynda La Plante, English actress, screenwriter, and author
• 1943 » Michael Scott-Joynt, English bishop († 2014)
• 1944 » A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician († 2007)
• 1944 » Chi Cheng, Taiwanese runner and politician
• 1944 » Francis Mankiewicz, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1944 » Jacques Doillon, French director and screenwriter
• 1945 » Mark J. Green, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and coach († 2003)
• 1946 » John Dempsey, English born Irish international footballer, centre-back and manager

• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1939 » Luis Barceló, Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
• 1941 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)

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.
• January 5 » The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
• January 28 » World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• February 19 » World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
• May 1 » World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
• June 14 » World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
• July 16 » Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The temperature on March 15, 1945 was between 0.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.