About the day » Monday July 24, 1944Calender converter

• Alle Diderik de Jonge, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adams, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1944)
• Peter Brandts († 2005)
• hendrika johanna petronella verlinden, helden
• Marlyn Kay Kuhn, Greenville, Darke, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Sylvia Perez Ramirez, Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, México († 2020)
• Nn de Vries, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Catharina, Maria, Petronella, Johanna Schipperen, Prinsenbeek († 2014)
• Josina Sophia Catharina. Hornman, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 2012)
• Irma Kaarina, dv Eino Kaarina en Anna Lida Saario Salkinoja, Hauho, Finland († 2005)

• Anna Catharina Hubertina Feij (61), Heerlen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Hubertina FEIJ (61), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Leppers (75), Tilburg, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Adrianus Leppers (75), Tilburg
• Andries Broekema (48), Groningen, Diaconessenhuis
• Antonius Josephus Leppers (75), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Catharina Bakx, Bergen op Zoom
• Arie Meyer (Meijer) (86), SPOKANE (Spokane), Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Bertha Augusta Voss ongehuwd (39), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Ann 'Annie' Emma May Staples (77), Ettalong, NSW, AU

• 1942 » Chris Sarandon, American actor
• 1942 » David Miner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 » Heinz, German-English singer-songwriter and bass player († 2000)
• 1944 » Jim Armstrong, Northern Irish guitarist
• 1945 » Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
• 1945 » Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
• 1945 » Frank Close, English physicist and academic
• 1945 » Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
• 1946 » Friedhelm Haebermann, German footballer and manager
• 1946 » Gallagher, American comedian and actor

• 1908 » Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
• 1910 » Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
• 1927 » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
• 1965 » Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 1969 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
• 1974 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

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 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
• March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
• August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
• August 26 » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
• September 4 » World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
• November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

The temperature on July 24, 1944 was between 9.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.