About the day » Tuesday October 17, 1944Calender converter

• Christiaan Sangers († 2020)
• Harm Beerta, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 2010)
• Catherine Lilian Burch, England († 2009)
• Gea Klompstra, Emmen
• Elvia Margarita Layton, Cameron, Texas († 1992)
• Gerda Peetoom, Berkhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Larry Rinnels († 2017)
• Nelly THIEL, Papendrecht († 2006)
• Albert Krijn Visser († 2016)
• Lambertus Stephanus Maria van Daal, Gulpen († 1970)

• Adriana Westerweel (81), kortgene (z)
• Alexander Frederik (Lex) de Savornin Lohman (50), Pekanbaru, Indonesië
• Aleida Koster (57), Pannerden
• Anna Berendina Hendrikson (76), Hilversum. Nederland
• Adrianus van den Bosch (45), Ridderkerk, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Beliën (62), Wijchen
• Alexander Frederik Savornin Lohman, de (50), Pekanbaroe, Ned. Indië
• Alexander Frederik de SAVORNIN LOHMAN (50), interneringskamp Pakan Baroe (Sumatra)
• Andries Christoffel Lauterslager (55), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes de Werd (65), Waalwijk

• 1942 » Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 » Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster († 2017)
• 1943 » Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist († 2015)
• 1944 » Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer († 2010)
• 1946 » Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
• 1946 » Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
• 1946 » Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
• 1946 » Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
• 1946 » Michael Hossack, American drummer († 2012)
• 1946 » Ronni Chasen, American publicist († 2010)

• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1948 » Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
• 1956 » Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
• 1958 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)

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 5 » The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
• June 10 » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
• June 26 » World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
• July 6 » The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
• December 31 » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front begins.

The temperature on October 17, 1944 was between 8.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.