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• Adrianus Gerardus Arnoldus Maria Tuijtelaars, Breda († 1970)
• Magdalena Hendrika van Maaren, Herwijnen († 1944)
• Dini Nijboer, Beerze († 2023)
• Johannes Bernardus Theodorus Baakman, Nieuwdijk (Didam), Montferland, Gelderland (NL.) († 1997)
• Geertje Jacobs Koehoorn († 2001)
• Gerarda Martha Wilhelmina Dorresteijn, Baarn († 1944)
• Frederik Hendrik Deen, Exloerkijl, Odoorn († 1944)
• Klaas Eriks, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Jongepier, Middelburg († 1944)
• Levensloos Daniels, Alken, België († 1944)

• Adriana Maria Nelen (74), Zeist
• Anna Louisse (88), Almelo
• Akke Lourens (55), Wolvega, Friesland, Netherlands
• Jongepier (0), Middelburg
• Alter David Tzvi Deutsch (58), Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland
• Adrianus Brekelmans (70), Udenhout
• Achille Petrus Jacobus Croes (81), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Maria de Wagemaker (82), Delft
• Achille Pierre Jacques Croes (81), Antwerpen (B)
• Anna Francisca Alphonsa Maria Daniels (61), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1943 » Terry Crisp, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1944 » Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 » Faith Brown, English actress and singer
• 1944 » Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter († 2003)
• 1944 » Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1944 » Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress († 2013)
• 1944 » Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City
• 1945 » John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1945 » John N. Bambacus, American military veteran (USMC) and politician
• 1945 » Patch Adams, American physician and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute

• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1946 » Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1858)
• 1947 » August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (b. 1907)
• 1952 » Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Tatsuo Hori, Japanese author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1964 » Terry Dillon, American football player (b. 1941)
• 1968 » Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Antonius
16. Peter

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Grietje
16. Aaltje

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
• February 14 » World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
• June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
• August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
• August 16 » First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
• August 19 » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
• September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

The temperature on May 28, 1944 was between 11.7 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.