About the day » Wednesday June 28, 1944Calender converter

• Barry Gauke, Sydney (New South Wales, Australie († 2010)
• Laura Lúcia Lott de Moraes Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1951)
• Maria Cox, Vliermaal, België († 2018)
• Anselmo Selhorst, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1945)
• Henk Bruiniers, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2001)
• Igor Frédéric van Loo, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Arie Antonie Lemckert, Den Haag († 1998)
• Bernardus Gerardus van der Stoop, Haarlem († 1999)
• Linda June Bishop, Plymouth, Devon, England († 2004)
• Alida Cornelia Schuuring, Gemeente Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands († 1944)

• Aartje van de Beek (46), 's Gravenhage
• Antonetta van den Bosch (54), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Ridders (87), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Reuvekamp (64), Zwollerkerspel
• Albert de Man (78), Amsterdam
• Alida Maria Vitali (75), Amsterdam
• Adrianus van Ballegooijen (77), Aalst
• Anna Amelia Faulkner Rainey (62)
• Antje Zwarthoed (84), Volendam, Edam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus Hermanus Rouhof (59), Markelo, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1942 » Chris Hani, South African politician († 1993)
• 1942 » Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and author
• 1942 » Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete († 2013)
• 1943 » Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
• 1943 » Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
• 1943 » Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 » David Knights, English bass player and producer
• 1945 » Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer
• 1945 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 1989)
• 1945 » Türkan Şoray, Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1929 » Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1936 » Alexander Berkman, American author and activist († 1870)
• 1939 » Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician (b. 1896)
• 1944 » Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)

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 13 » Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
• April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• July 21 » World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
• November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
• December 3 » Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

The temperature on June 28, 1944 was between 9.6 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.