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• Leopold Pieter Maria De Wilde, Bornem († 2020)
• Allardus Fledderus († 1945)
• Warren Shaver Eadie, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
• Renilda Lucia Alfons Cuyvers († 1973)
• Burdell Kruse, Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa († 2017)
• Joan L Scott, Ireby, Cumberland († 2017)
• NN Niesten, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Jacobus Gerardus Jong, Zwaag († 1944)
• Lamberta Maria Cornelia Catharina van de Wijdeven, Casteren († 1945)
• Sybil NOLF, Brugge, 31005, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2006)

• Albertje Keetlapper (71), Drachtstercompagnie
• Adriaantje Groenenboom (57), Rotterdam
• Aaltje van Klingeren (58), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertje Moesker (71), Groningen
• Albertje Harmkes Keetlapper (71), Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertje Harmkes Ketellapper (71), Drachstercompagnie
• Adriana van der Linden (62), ,, den Bommel, Nederland
• Anna Frieda Knier (3), Harlingen
• Anna Catharina van Thiel (78), Oegstgeest
• Adam Johan George de Vries (66), Haarlem

• 1940 » Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic († 2005)
• 1941 » John Davidson, American actor and game show host
• 1942 » Anna Eshoo, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1943 » Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball and basketball player
• 1943 » Marti Webb, British actress and singer
• 1944 » Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor
• 1945 » Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist († 2020)
• 1948 » Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 » Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter († 1970)

• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)

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 18 » Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
• September 18 » World War II:Battle of Arracourt begins
• October 5 » The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
• October 7 » World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
• November 16 » World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers.
• November 24 » World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

The temperature on December 13, 1944 was between -0.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.