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• Gerda Schipper, Nijkerk, Gelderland, NL († 1985)
• Henriëtte Petronella Maria Kluytmans, Tilburg, Nederland († 2020)
• Patricia Ann Tipsword, Decatur, Macon, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Adriana Cornelia Geertruida van der Pol, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Doodgeboren kind de Vos, Eindhoven († 1944)
• Bastiaan Rietveld, Zwijdrecht († 2016)
• Colin John Lauf († 2013)
• Berend Knol, Zweeloo, Drenthe (NL) († 1994)
• Hendrik Johannes Maria Wilson, Tilburg († 2016)
• N.N. van der Veen, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1944)

• Antonia Nöring (55), Berge, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Clara Haurwitz (45), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Cornelis Delfgou (77), Zuilen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Clementina Voragen (81), Elsloo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Berend van Essen (74), Epe
• Charles Henry Peterson (77), Roanoke, Lewis, West Virginia, United States
• Catharina Koppen (48), Zaandam
• Agnes Alfonsina Joanna Spiessens (0), Hingene
• Aloijsius Josephus Franken (72), Turnhout (B)
• Arthur Charles REEVE (67), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

• 1942 » Gottfried John, German actor († 2014)
• 1942 » James Glennon, American cinematographer († 2006)
• 1943 » Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer
• 1943 » Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist († 1996)
• 1945 » Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
• 1946 » Bob Beamon, American long jumper
• 1946 » Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus († 2019)
• 1946 » Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic

• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)

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.
• February 17 » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
• April 24 » World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
• June 4 » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
• June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
• November 18 » The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.

The temperature on August 29, 1944 was between 12.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.