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• Catharina Lukassen, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1968)
• Johannes Kuijer, Eemnes († 2018)
• Catharina (Rinie) LUKASSEN († 1968)
• jacobus wilhelmus hubertus tielen, helden-egchel
• Engelina Francisca van Neerbos, Soest († 1945)
• Antonius Maria Cornelis Bongers, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Johanna Adriana de Bijl († 1944)
• Johannes Marinus Quellhorst († 1970)
• Gregorius Joannes Joseph van de Vorst, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Jeanette Hermina Jonker, De Krim († 2012)

• Anna Henriëtta Maria Christiani (82), Amersfoort
• Adrianus Hofkens (66), Merksem, Antwerpen, België
• Annechien Pijning (92), Muntendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Muyshondt (63), Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium
• "Jean" François Marie Joseph Armand (44), Konzentrationslager Bremen-Farge, Farge, Allemagne
• Adriana Henriette Albertine Roukens (45)
• Albert Hulleman (63), Apeldoorn
• Anna Maria Pingen (79), Venlo
• Adriana Schimmel (87), IJsselstein
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Berben (39), Heythuysen

• 1941 » Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
• 1941 » Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1942 » Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
• 1945 » Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
• 1945 » Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
• 1945 » Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 » Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
• 1947 » Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1947 » Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1947 » Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal

• 1941 » Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)

• 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.
• March 19 » World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
• 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 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
• September 17 » World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
• November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
• December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.

The temperature on November 15, 1944 was between -0.2 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.