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• Gertruda TIELENS, Eindhoven († 2010)
• Gerritje van de Vlag, Apeldoorn († 2000)
• Aaltje Schonewille, Nieuwlande, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Henri Norbert LOOSE, Eernegem († 1999)
• Christina Heeren († 2009)
• Elsina Sophia Snijder, Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1944)
• Hermina Klazina Hamberg († 2005)
• Hendrik van Weelden, Rotterdam († 2010)
• Cornelis Johannes van Verseveld, Lienden († 1980)
• Gerrit van Ginkel († 2018)

• Annie Cornelia Glasbergen (28), Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Everdines Sitsen (67), Laren
• Arie Willem van Genderen (80), gorinchem (zuid holland)
• Abram Hendricus Fritschij (18), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia Elisabeth Zuiderhoek (71), Voorburg
• anna jacoba dolman (81), amsterdam
• Algernon Franklin 1870 Cain (69), Hollow, Bladen, North Carolina
• Agatha de Wit (77), Beverwijk
• Adrianus Mooijekind (89), Noordwijk
• Andreas Joannes Den Buijser (70), Poortugaal

• 1943 » Antonio Sabàto, Sr., Italian actor
• 1943 » Caterina Bueno, Italian singer († 2007)
• 1943 » Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist († 2017)
• 1943 » Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, South African-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• 1944 » Bill Malinchak, American football player
• 1945 » Don Sutton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1945 » Guy Fréquelin, French race car driver
• 1945 » Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Linda Hunt, American actress
• 1945 » Reggie Smith, American baseball player and coach

• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)

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.
• March 4 » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
• August 10 » World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
• September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
• September 17 » World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
• 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 April 2, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.