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• Aaltje Boelen, Emmen
• Hans Schouten, Amersfoort, Nederland († 1992)
• Greetje Minnen, Ede († 1944)
• Grietje Nicolai, Droegeham, Fryslân, Nederlân († 2022)
• A.H.M (Albert) Hoekstra († 2022)
• Benjamin Arch Goodwin, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Enrico Locca, Bergamo (Italië) († 2010)
• Gijs Bijl, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1944)
• Larry Randall Brashears, Monroe, Monroe County, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Christoph Rinze Unkel, Rotterdam († 2022)

• (3) Antje van Velzen (68), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antje Mienis (86), Sint Pancras, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Tenhaef (32)
• Alicia Bertha Depuydt (61), Pissy
• Berendina Geertman (75), Raalte
• Berendina Halfwerk (1), Hattem
• Antonius Cornelis Broeders (32), Breda
• baby boy SHOTTS (0)
• Antoon Gerhardus Knijff (47), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Bernardus Evers (70), Wageningen

• 1942 » Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
• 1942 » Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer and actor († 1995)
• 1942 » Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
• 1943 » Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1943 » Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
• 1943 » Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
• 1944 » John Glover, American actor
• 1944 » Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1945 » Alan Page, American football player and jurist
• 1945 » Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director († 2014)

• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)

• 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 17 » Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
• April 29 » World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
• June 25 » World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
• 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.
• October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
• October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.

The temperature on August 7, 1944 was between 13.0 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.