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• Jacobus ?Johannes van Klaveren, Berkel en Rodenrijs († 1944)
• Cornelia Agnes Theresia Steenvoorden, Noordwijk († 1991)
• Anne Marinus Johannes PAANS, Raamsdonk, 4125, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2017)
• corrie steenvoorden, Noordwijk, Nederland († 1991)
• Johannes Hendrikus Nadorp, Oldenzaal, 7570, Nederland († 1992)
• June Rose Gilbert, Midlothian, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• David Eric Betz († 1965)
• Freddy Frans Cornelius VRANCKEN, Diest Vlaams Brabant * († 2011)
• Johannes Maria Beemsterboer, Spanbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Danielle Broeckaert, Etterbeek, Brussel († 1945)

• Adolf Frans Van den Berg (25), a/b Ms Tamahoku Maru
• Annigje Vogel (49), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelia de Sá Cavalcanti (84)
• Ann HOY (87)
• Auke Scheltens (37), Malakka
• Anna Margaretha Lentz (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Cornelia Vreeswijk (66), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Geers (93), Bergen op Zoom, Nederland
• Antje Jacobs Gosliga (76), Wijnjeterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Barteld Pruisman (85), Sappemeer

• 1939 » Chuck Robb, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
• 1939 » Zainuddin Maidin, Malaysian politician († 2018)
• 1941 » Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
• 1942 » Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician, Brazilian Minister of Culture
• 1942 » J.J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager
• 1943 » Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
• 1943 » Warren Farrell, American author and educator
• 1944 » Gennady Zyuganov, Russian colonel and politician
• 1946 » Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist († 2013)
• 1949 » Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author († 2015)

• 1938 » Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
• 1938 » James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880)
• 1947 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1949 » Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)

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 19 » World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
• July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
• July 22 » The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
• November 10 » The ammunition ship USSMount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
• November 16 » World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers.
• December 17 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.

The temperature on June 26, 1944 was between 10.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.