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• Antonius Johannes Josephus van Bekhoven, Oosterhout († 2021)
• Gerrit Kortman († 1944)
• Lijda de Bree, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Heidemarie Kühne, Wernigerode (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt/Sassen-Anholt) († 1945)
• Huijbrecht Albert Hittjo Minderhoud, Groningen († 1944)
• Piet Donders († 1992)
• Cornelia de Jong, Katwijk († 2015)
• Levenloos kind van Norden, Harderwijk († 1944)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Antonius Broekhof, Noordwijkerhout († 1957)
• Gustaaf Peeters, Berlaar, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2004)

• Abraham Andreas Josephus van Santen (78), Delft
• Anna Bolt (58), Cannon Township, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria van der Rijdt (74), Gemert
• Antonie Willem Wilten (68), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alexander Willem Frederik HUIJSING (50), Tjimahi, Ned Indie
• Adam van Oudgaarden (60), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertje van Dijk (64), Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Klinkert (76), Langedijk
• Adrianus Fens (80), Raamsdonk
• Alida Cornelisdr Klinkert (76), Oudkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1942 » Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor
• 1942 » Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
• 1942 » Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate
• 1942 » Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic († 2014)
• 1943 » Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1943 » Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
• 1944 » Richard Bradshaw, English conductor († 2007)
• 1945 » Dick Johnson, Australian racing driver
• 1945 » Howard Davies, English director and producer († 2016)
• 1945 » Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician

• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
• 1950 » George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)

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.
• June 7 » World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
• June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
• June 20 » Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
• August 5 » World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
• October 15 » World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
• October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

The temperature on April 26, 1944 was between 2.7 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.