About the day » Saturday January 15, 1944Calender converter

• Berend Reinigert, Nisse, gem. Borssele († 2007)
• Bertha Vos, Hilversum († 1983)
• Eleonora Johanna Margaretha Belinfante Abas, Katwijk († 1944)
• Johannes van der Zanden, Helmond († 2018)
• Cornelis Marius Kozijn († 2010)
• Maria Elizabeth Lesterhuis († 2018)
• Hendrikus Harold van Andel, 's Gravenhage († 2007)
• Jan Passenier, Yerseke, Zeeland, Nederland († 2019)
• Antje Taanman († 1993)
• Kempe Leeuwerink, Steenwijk († 2006)

• Arie Stein (62), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Arie Stein (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Agnes Amelia Whitchurch (86)
• Alexander Prins (27), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Annette Catharine Niemeijer (90), Deli
• Abraham Benjamin Sutton (66), Randolph County
• Anna de Vries (30), Auschwitz-Birkenau, Polen
• Adrianus Manschot (92), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Dirk Schimmel (5), Naarden (Gooise Meren)
• Anna Marianne Hammelburg (20), Auschwitz (PO)

• 1943 » George Ambrum, Australian rugby league player († 1986)
• 1943 » Margaret Beckett, English metallurgist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1943 » Mike Marshall, American baseball player
• 1943 » Stuart E. Eizenstat, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the European Union
• 1944 » Jenny Nimmo, English author
• 1945 » David Pleat, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1945 » Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director, and politician († 2015)
• 1945 » Princess Michael of Kent
• 1945 » Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure († 1993)
• 1945 » William R. Higgins, American colonel († 1990)

• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)
• 1951 » Ernest Swinton, British Army officer (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian captain and sailor (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Ned Hanlon, Australian sergeant and politician, 26th Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Yves Tanguy, French-American painter (b. 1900)

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 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
• February 17 » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
• February 20 » World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
• August 20 » World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
• August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
• December 30 » King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.

The temperature on January 15, 1944 was between -0.4 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.