About the day » Thursday December 28, 1944Calender converter

• Tiny Henzen († 2010)
• Hugo van Dorp, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Jean DUBUISSON
• N.N. Janssen, Nijmegen
• Nelson G Canter, Glasgow, Scotland († 2011)
• Jan Hendrik van Ginkel († 1945)
• Catharina Pieternella SPRONK, Den Haag († 1993)
• Joop Berendsen, Westervoort († 2018)
• Cornelis Jan Hasenoot, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Margaretha Dirkje den Toom, Rotterdam († 1995)

• Adrianus van Baren (71), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Aartje van Herwaarden (69), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Albert Valize (48), Wuppertal-Barmen (D)
• Anna De La Haye, Aachen, Regierungsbezirk K√∂ln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duitsland
• Anna Schot (83), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida de Munnik (85), Beverwijk
• Albert Polzine (49), Murray, Murray County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Johannes Roovers (54), Hamburg-Neuergamme, Duitsland
• Silah (67), Semarang, Jawa Tengah (Djawa Tengah), Indonesië
• Anna Admiraal (80), Delft

• 1942 » Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist
• 1943 » David Peterson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Ontario
• 1943 » Joan Ruddock, Welsh politician
• 1943 » Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal
• 1944 » Gordon Taylor, English footballer
• 1944 » Johnny Isakson, American sergeant and politician
• 1944 » Kary Mullis, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1944 » Sandra Faber, American astronomer and academic
• 1945 » Birendra, King of Nepal († 2001)
• 1945 » Max Hastings, English journalist, historian, and author

• 1932 » Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Clarence Day, American author and illustrator (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (b. 1886)
• 1942 » Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (b. 1910)

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 29 » World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
• 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.
• April 13 » Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
• June 22 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• September 17 » World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
• September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.

The temperature on December 28, 1944 was between -2.4 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.