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• Carla Agatha Geertruida de Jager, Utrecht († 1994)
• Antoon Bloemen, Heeten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1975)
• Antoon Bloemen, Heeten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1975)
• Hendrikje Poelarends († 2023)
• Hein Karel Kwast, Den Helder († 2009)
• Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (Willy) Messchendorp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2006)
• Cornelis Christiaan Marie Melkstop, Breda († 2006)
• Florence Colleen Gibson, Starks, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Gerrit Maasland, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Carel Frederick Myburgh († 1986)

• annigje KRUITHOF (78), strijen
• Arnoldus Christianus Verhoeven (51), Neerpelt
• Aaltje Dekker (64), Krimpen aan de IJssel (Krimpenerwaard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Golverdingen (83), Heukelum
• Albert Smits (77), Emmen
• Anna Fox (7), Utrecht
• Anna Hendrikje Berghorst (56), Holland, Michigan (Amerika)
• Antonius Johannes Beekhuizen (48), Nijmegen
• Aaltje van Zwol (73), Hoogeveen nederland
• Antonius Lambertus Joosten (69), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1942 » Ksenia Milicevic, French painter and architect
• 1942 » Lee Dorman, American bass player († 2012)
• 1942 » Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham, English businessman and politician
• 1944 » Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager († 2017)
• 1944 » Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
• 1945 » Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
• 1945 » Hans-Gert Pöttering, German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament
• 1945 » Jessye Norman, American soprano
• 1945 » Ron Shelton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 » Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Steve Brown, American bassist (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. 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.
• January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
• February 17 » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
• June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
• August 23 » Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
• August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
• October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

The temperature on September 15, 1944 was between 11.6 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.