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Personal data Gerrit Jan "Gerrit-Jan" Witte 

  • Nickname is Gerrit-Jan.
  • He was born on September 29, 1914 in Den Burg (Texel, NH).
    Hij is geboren in perceel wijk B nr. 167 om 10.00u; aangifte geb op 30 sep 1914 door de vader; getuigen bij de aangifte: Cornelis Witte, 77 jaar, winkelier en Jakob Witte, 44 jaar, schoenmaker; beiden wonende op Texel
  • He was christened on September 29, 1914 in Den Burg (Texel, NH).
  • Profession: metselaar; aannemer.
  • Property: grafzerk.
  • Religion: Rooms Katholiek.
  • He died on May 3, 1996 in Den Burg (Texel, NH), he was 81 years old.
  • He is buried in de rk begraafplaats, Keesomlaan, den Burg (Texel).
  • A child of Petrus Theodorus Witte and Adriana Johanna Schoenmaker
  • This information was last updated on December 24, 2018.

Household of Gerrit Jan "Gerrit-Jan" Witte

He is married to Agatha Cornelia Bakker.

Their notice of marriage was on November 8, 1947 in Den Burg (Texel, NH).

They got married on December 31, 1947 at Den Burg (Texel, NH), he was 33 years old.

They were married in church on December 31, 1947 at de St. Johannes de Doper kerk in den Burg, he was 33 years old.

Het huwelijk vond plaats om 09.30u

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Notes about Gerrit Jan "Gerrit-Jan" Witte

Hij is op 4 juli 1918 vertrokken naar Baarn.

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Birthday September 29, 1914

  • The temperature on September 29, 1914 was between 7.8 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
    • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
    • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
    • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
    • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Day of marriage December 31, 1947

  • The temperature on December 31, 1947 was between -6.0 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
    • February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
    • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
    • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
    • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
    • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death May 3, 1996

  • The temperature on May 3, 1996 was between 7.0 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
    • February 6 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
    • February 9 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
    • April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
    • May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
    • July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
    • October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.


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