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• Karel Leon SEGHERS, Willebroek,2830,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2012)
• John Boyce Hellenga, Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan († 2021)
• Kind, Alkmaar
• Catharina (Rinie) LUKASSEN († 1968)
• jacobus wilhelmus hubertus tielen, helden-egchel
• Antonius Maria Cornelis Bongers, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Johanna Adriana de Bijl († 1944)
• Johannes Kuijer, Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland († 2018)
• Drees Hoek, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Drees Hoek, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)

• Anna Henrietta Maria Christiani (82), Amersfoort
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Berben (39), Heythuysen
• Alida de Wit (90), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Soeterboek (77), Loon op Zand
• Anna Catharina Soeterboek (77), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida den Haas (81), Katwijk
• Anna Agnes Maria van Hest (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Henriëtta Maria Christiani (82), Amersfoort
• Anna Maria Louisa van der Linden (78), Heemstede
• Alphons Frederik Marie Hubert Haffmans (69), Kessel

• 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)

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.
• March 3 » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
• April 17 » Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
• April 25 » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
• June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
• September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
• November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

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.