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• Jacobus Albertus van der Meij, Katwijk († 2000)
• Gerardus Cornelis van Tienhoven, amsterdam († 1972)
• Hendrik Wakker († 1998)
• Dirk van Rijswijk, Maurik (gd)
• Cornelis│Cock Rhijnsburger, Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Chretien Maria Wilhelmus Schumans, Sittard (NL)
• Jilt Heidstra († 2020)
• Cornelis Rhijnsburger, Valkenburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• David J. Haney, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania († 2007)
• Jacobus Maria Holterman, Dalfsen († 2002)

• Alexander Dekro (54), Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Auschwitz, Upper Silesia, Poland
• Aleida Scheers (22), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Timmers (72), Uden
• Alida Zegers (83), Terneuzen
• Aaltje van den Brink (45), Renkum zie Gelderland-Renkum
• Antje Jans de Vries (66), Vrouwenparochie
• Antje de Vries (66), Het Bildt
• Adriana Antonia van Riel (39), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Vink (77), Stedum
• Agnès Paternotte (3), Soignies

• 1942 » Bill Nelson, American captain and politician
• 1942 » Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
• 1942 » Ian McShane, English actor
• 1942 » Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer
• 1942 » Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer († 1999)
• 1943 » Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Wolfgang Overath, German footballer
• 1944 » Mike Post, American composer and producer
• 1945 » Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer and poet
• 1945 » Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian shot putter

• 1925 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
• 1927 » Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
• 1927 » Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1928 » John Devoy, Irish-American Fenian rebel leader (b. 1842)
• 1930 » Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1844)
• 1937 » Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1937 » Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
• 1951 » Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 » John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1899)

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.
• March 19 » World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
• August 23 » World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
• October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
• December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
• December 30 » King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.

The temperature on September 29, 1944 was between 8.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.