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• Arie van den Boogert, vlaardingen († 2019)
• Elisabeth Dorothea Maria VAN DER HEIDE, Harlingen(Friesland) († 2021)
• Ivonne Anna Joannes Lambregts, Kalmthout, Provincie Antwerpen († 2021)
• Hendrika Gesiena Johanna LENSINK, Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, NEDERLAND († 2011)
• Johanna Jekel, Amersfoort († 1944)
• Gerrit Samuel Köhler († 2009)
• Johannes Petrus Maria Overbeek, Hoorn, Nederland († 2023)
• Antje Geeske te Kiefte, Ommen († 2010)
• Levensloos Streutjens, Hunsel († 1944)
• Gepke Reina Schoolderman, Hengelo († 2012)

• Alex Lodewijk de Pruyssenaere de la Woestijne (27)
• de Vrueh (40), 's-Gravenhage
• Antoine Pierre Marie Joseph Gabriel Théodule de Grammont (82), Villersexel, Franche-Comté, France
• Aaltinus Masselink (15), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Santink (82), Assen
• Aaltinus Masselink (15), Emmen
• Alida Pater (53), Hoorn, Friesland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Adelheid Alexandrine Christine van Dohna-Schlodien (64), Wroclaw (Breslau), Neder-Silezië, Polen
• Aaltje van der Wel (77), Amsterdam
• Antonia Johanna Maria van der Zalm (2), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1942 » Arthur Brown, English rock singer-songwriter
• 1942 » Michele Lee, American actress and singer
• 1943 » Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic († 2004)
• 1944 » Chris Wood, English saxophonist († 1983)
• 1944 » Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1944 » Kathryn Lasky, American author
• 1945 » Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
• 1945 » Colin Blunstone, English singer-songwriter
• 1945 » George Pataki, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York
• 1945 » Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1922 » Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1867)
• 1931 » Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (b. 1870)
• 1946 » Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
• 1962 » Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1892)
• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)

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.
• April 16 » World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
• July 17 » World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
• August 5 » World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
• August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
• October 8 » World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
• 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 June 24, 1944 was between 6.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.