About the day » Thursday July 13, 1944Calender converter

• Gosse Bakker, Overdinkel, Ov, Nederland († 2005)
• Agusto Perreira, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil († 1973)
• Francien L.P. Koeman († 1993)
• Letta Cornelia Hogeweg, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 2023)
• Jeannine Maria EVERAERTS, Rillaar Vlaams Brabant * († 2020)
• Jaak Swinnen, Lommel († 2000)
• Emma Lee Lambert († 2017)
• Albert Kol († 1969)
• David Dominick SILBERNAGEL († 1999)
• Henderikus Vos, Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland († 1949)

• Bart Bernardus Wiegand (53), Muntok, Bangka, Sumatra (Nederlandsch-Indië)
• Aaltje van den Bosch (81), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Angèle Dezeure (48), Veurne
• Abraham Johannes Eiff (81), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Amalia Elisabeth Adriana Huyssen van Cattendijke (69), Concentratiekamp Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg aan de Havel, Brandenburg
• Amelie Elisabeth Adriana Huyssen van Kattendijke (69), Concentratiekamp Ravensbrück
• Adrianus Grund (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Johannes Eiff (81), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Artje Druten van (70), 's Gravenhage
• Bart Bernardus Wiegand (53), Muntok, Bangka, Sumatra (Nederlands Indië

• 1941 » Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer
• 1942 » Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
• 1942 » Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » Chris Serle, English journalist and actor
• 1944 » Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager († 1991)
• 1944 » Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer
• 1944 » Erno Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube
• 1945 » Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author
• 1946 » Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1946 » Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian

• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1946 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)

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.
• June 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
• June 10 » In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
• July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
• September 8 » World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
• September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
• October 11 » The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.

The temperature on July 13, 1944 was between 10.2 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.