About the day » Thursday June 8, 1944Calender converter

• hendrikus theodorus marie (hein) janssen, helden-grashoek († 1989)
• Geertje BLAAK, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1944)
• Lois NEWTON († 1972)
• Ren‚ Zonneveld, Egmond-Binnen († 1945)
• Roger Seykens, Geel († 2011)
• Michael Graham Dickie, Rosemount, Aberdeenshire, Scotland († 1977)
• Mary Lynne Wessels, Nobles County, Minnesota, United States († 2009)
• Jacob Niewenweg, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2003)
• Adriaan Pieter Hofman, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Klaas Gerrit de Leeuw, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1949)

• Arie van Dijk (74), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Bertha Wilhelmina Gerardina van Gool (1), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Agnes Boreel (64), Vorden,Gemeente Bronckhorst,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Albert Alfons Marie de Blieck (25), Oostburg
• Arie van Dijk (75), Willeskop
• Antje Schaap (70), Lemsterland
• Arend Jan Poll (49), Groningen
• Aafke Meindersma (83), Baarn
• Antje Lub (69)
• Anna Maria Van Hees (42), Essen

• 1943 » Colin Baker, English actor
• 1943 » Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
• 1943 » Pierre-André Fournier, Roman Catholic archbishop († 2015)
• 1943 » William Calley, American lieutenant
• 1943 » Willie Davenport, American colonel and hurdler († 2002)
• 1944 » Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
• 1944 » Mark Belanger, American baseball player († 1998)
• 1945 » Derek Underwood, English cricketer
• 1945 » Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet († 2014)

• 1924 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 » George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 » Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)

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. Dirk

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 17 » World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
• June 4 » World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
• September 9 » World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
• September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
• November 7 » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
• November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

The temperature on June 8, 1944 was between 9.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.