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• Hendrika Bethlehem, Den Helder († 2017)
• Christiaan Johannes Opperman, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Hendrik Ravensbergen, Rijnsburg († 1994)
• Annemie de Wijs, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Diesmer van den Berg, Apeldoorn († 2014)
• Anna Maria Catharina (Anneke) Mathot, Boskoop († 1988)
• Douglas Haskell Chad, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Jacky Kerkhofs († 1963)
• ANgoon Samutnoi
• Helen Rain Redbear, Rocky Mountain House, Clearwater, Alberta, Canada († 2001)

• Adrianus Gerardus Hendriks (60), Bemmel
• Aaltje Elisabeth van der Haven (18), Hazerswoude
• Adrianus Johannes van Oort (20)
• Jacques Louis Brinkerink, Beilen
• Aaltje Telder (36), Beilen
• Anna Lopes Suasso (77), Theresienstadt (Bohemen)
• Albertje Scholten (46), Giethoorn
• Anna Antonia Pieterse (52), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Belet (89), Breda
• Anna Roos (73)

• 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)

• 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.
• April 13 » Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
• April 28 » World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• June 13 » World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
• June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
• 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.
• December 3 » Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

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.