Dreyer Tree » Hester Maria Dreyer (1884-1964)
Personal data Hester Maria Dreyer
- She was born on February 3, 1884 in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa.
- She died on October 12, 1964 in Boshoff OFS South Africa, she was 80 years old.
- A child of Christiaan Lourens Dreyer and Magdalena Margaretha "Magrieta" Malan
Household of Hester Maria Dreyer
She is married to John Wiliam Saunders.
They got married
Timeline Hester Maria Dreyer
This functionality is only available in Javascript supporting browsers.
Click on the names for more info.
Symbols used: 
grandparents
parents
brothers/sisters
children
grandparents
parents
brothers/sisters
children
The data shown has no sources.
Historical events
Birthday February 3, 1884
- The temperature on February 3, 1884 was about 5.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
- July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
- October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
- October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
- October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
Day of death October 12, 1964
- The temperature on October 12, 1964 was between 2.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
- January 16 » Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
- March 20 » The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- April 11 » Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress.
- July 27 » Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
- July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- October 22 » An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.
Same birth/death day
- 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
- 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)
- 1889 » Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic († 1977)
- 1889 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter († 1968)
- 1892 » Juan Negrín, Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain († 1956)
- 1893 » Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic († 1978)
- 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
- 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
- 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1967 » Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
- 1969 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)
- 1969 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
About the surname Dreyer
- View the information that Genealogie Online has about the surname Dreyer.
- Check the information Open Archives has about Dreyer.
- Check the Wie (onder)zoekt wie? register to see who is (re)searching Dreyer.
The Dreyer Tree publication was prepared by Hendrik Dreyer.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin:
Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I12800.php : accessed January 28, 2026), "Hester Maria Dreyer (1884-1964)".
Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I12800.php : accessed January 28, 2026), "Hester Maria Dreyer (1884-1964)".