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• Hendrik Gunther Schippers, Doetinchem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2003)
• Dian Prince († 1999)
• André Boone, Duffel, Provincie Antwerpen († 1985)
• Elisabeth Johanna (Ellen) Steffers († 2009)
• Johannes Cornelis van Westerlaak, Hoogland († 1944)
• Margje Kraal, Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland († 1944)
• Eleonora Antonia Johanna Mathiesen, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2004)
• Joseph Ignatius Maria Moeleker, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1944)
• Beatriz Motta Pires, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 2009)
• Jan Timmerman, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2014)

• Adrianus Willebrordus van de Wouw (85), Loon op Zand
• Aaltje Veenstra (57), Okkebroek, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Goedkoop (92), Naarden
• Anna Maria Magdalena Burhenne (67), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vonder (77), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Neele (38), Bergen op Zoom
• Aaltje van der Lek (48), Gouda
• Arendje van Beelen (72), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Cuijpers (83), Swalmen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje van Schaik (74), Heteren

• 1941 » Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
• 1942 » Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player († 2020)
• 1943 » Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
• 1944 » Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player († 2018)
• 1945 » Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant
• 1946 » Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director
• 1946 » Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
• 1946 » Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
• 1947 » Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
• 1947 » Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician

• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)

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 3 » World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
• January 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
• June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
• August 22 » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
• August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
• December 26 » World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

The temperature on March 12, 1944 was between 3.9 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.