Family tree Kim de Wildt » Dirk de Kreek (1881-1945)
Personal data Dirk de Kreek
- He was born on April 21, 1881 in Strijen, Nederland.
- He died on April 5, 1945 in Klaaswaal, Nederland, he was 63 years old.
- A child of Jan de Kreek and Maria Vogelaar
Household of Dirk de Kreek
He is married to Maaike Bestebreur.
They got married on October 3, 1901 at Strijen, Nederland, he was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
- Maria Anna de Kreek 1902-1902
- Jacob de Kreek 1906-1968
- Maria Anna de Kreek 1910-1910
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Historical events
Birthday April 21, 1881
- The temperature on April 21, 1881 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
- July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
Day of marriage October 3, 1901
- The temperature on October 3, 1901 was between 11.9 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. 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 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Day of death April 5, 1945
- The temperature on April 5, 1945 was between 6.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. 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 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).
- In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
- January 17 » Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
- January 19 » World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- January 26 » World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor.
- February 3 » World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
- May 2 » World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
- July 26 » The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
Same birth/death day
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- 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
- 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
- 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
- 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
- 1945 » Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (b. 1912)
- 1945 » Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897)
- 1946 » Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)
- 1947 » Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (b. 1872)
- 1947 » Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (b. 1870)
- 1948 » Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)
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The Family tree Kim de Wildt publication was prepared by René de Wildt.
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René de Wildt, "Family tree Kim de Wildt", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kims-stamboom/I174.php : accessed February 5, 2026), "Dirk de Kreek (1881-1945)".
René de Wildt, "Family tree Kim de Wildt", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kims-stamboom/I174.php : accessed February 5, 2026), "Dirk de Kreek (1881-1945)".