About the day » Wednesday May 24, 1944Calender converter

• Bernardus Hendricus Leonardus Jacobus Brammer, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Diesmer van den Berg, Apeldoorn († 2014)
• Ernest Peter Stoffels, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1944)
• Friedrich Heinrich August Koehler, amsterdam, Nederland († 1944)
• Adriana Hendrika Maria Kouwenberg, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2019)
• Helen Rain Redbear, Rocky Mountain House, AB, Canada († 2001)
• Henricus Gerardus Timmers, Handel († 1945)
• Emilie Elizabeth Scheltema, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1960)
• Angela Johanna Hermus, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Helen Rain Redbear, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta (Can.) († 2001)

• Arendje Toorn (82), Zwollerkerspel
• Aren van den Heuvel (4), Rotterdam
• Anna Mulder (47)
• Adriana Susanna Symington (78), Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
• Anna Beverdam (78), almelo
• Hendrika Jansje Van Der Veen (0), Almelo
• Anna Catharina Belet (89), Breda
• Aikina Alberdina ENGELKENS (79), Nieuw-Buinen (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Hendriks (60), Bemmel
• Aloysius Johannes Cornelis Hekhuizen (20), Kudrukäla (Estland)

• 1942 » Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager
• 1942 » Hannu Mikkola, Finnish race car driver
• 1942 » Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs
• 1943 » Gary Burghoff, American actor
• 1944 » Dominique Lavanant, French actress
• 1944 » Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1945 » Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
• 1945 » Richard Ottaway, English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 1945 » Steven Norris, English engineer and politician
• 1945 » Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2012)

• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)

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.
• February 29 » World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
• April 17 » Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
• September 14 » World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
• October 6 » World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
• October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
• October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

The temperature on May 24, 1944 was between 2.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.