Family tree Lars Werner » Gerritje van den BRUINHORST (1917-2000)

Personal data Gerritje van den BRUINHORST 

  • She was born on April 29, 1917 in Veenendaal (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
  • She died on July 7, 2000 in Veenendaal (Utrecht, The Netherlands), she was 83 years old.
  • This information was last updated on December 23, 2022.

Household of Gerritje van den BRUINHORST

She is married to Gerrit van WAKEREN.

They got married on April 17, 1940 at Ede (Gelderland, The Netherlands), she was 22 years old.


Notes about Gerritje van den BRUINHORST


Ouders Cornelis van den BRUINHORST en Willemijntje van ZOEST (ouders zijn 3 weken voor de geboorte van Gerritje getrouwd)

Begraafplaats: Algemene Begraafplaats De Munnikenhof , Munnikenweg 4, Veenendaal
Graf id-nummer: 1454359
Begraafplaatsnr.: 249
(Plaats)aanduiding: D-549
Gerrit van Wakeren, 25-12-1915 - 26-04-1973
Gerritje van den Bruinhorst, 29-04-1917 - 07-07-2000

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Historical events

Birthday April 29, 1917

  • The temperature on April 29, 1917 was between 7.2 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
    • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
    • June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
    • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
    • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
    • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

Day of death July 7, 2000

  • The temperature on July 7, 2000 was between 10.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
    • February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
    • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
    • August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
    • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
    • November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1917 » Celeste Holm, American actress and singer († 2012)
  • 1917 » Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer († 1961)
  • 1918 » George Allen, American football player and coach († 1990)
  • 1919 » Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
  • 1920 » Edward Blishen, English author and radio host († 1996)

Source: Wikipedia


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