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• Ali Beekhuizen, Renkum (Gelderland) († 1945)
• Ali Beekhuizen († 1945)
• Anne Jacqueline Maria Caminada, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gerardus van Buul, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Jester Durwood Phinazee, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia
• Gerardus Hermanus Maria (Gerard) Baars
• Albert K. Sirks († 2018)
• Aart Pietersz Kraaijeveld, Zwijndrecht († 2007)
• Ingrid Marridell Conolly, Creek, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands († 2023)
• Franciscus Johannes Wolff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1945)

• Berend Arents (40), Oldenzaal
• Bernardus Theodorus Kraaijvanger (75), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Seepma (52), Aalsum, Netherlands
• Bernardus Theodorus Kraaijvanger (75), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Arthur Dom (71), Kamp Karees
• Anna Maria Knippenberg (42), Oler, Limburg, Netherlands
• Braakhekke (0), Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina van Land (63), Warffum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cobb (86), Clarida, Iowa
• Anna Elisabeth de Bos (81), Amsterdam, NH Netherlands

• 1943 » Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach († 2007)
• 1943 » Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
• 1943 » Catherine E. Coulson, American actress († 2015)
• 1943 » Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1943 » Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar
• 1945 » Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates († 2012)
• 1945 » Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Michael Stoute, Barbadian-English horse trainer
• 1945 » Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
• 1945 » Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show host

• 1928 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1935 » Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (b. 1847)
• 1941 » Guy Môquet, French militant (b. 1924)
• 1952 » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1956 » Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1891)

• 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 3 » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
• June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• June 26 » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• August 23 » World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
• September 5 » Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• October 12 » World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.

The temperature on October 22, 1944 was between 5.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.