Family tree van Es » Gerrit Star (1914-1985)
Personal data Gerrit Star
- He was born on May 20, 1914 in Rijnsburg.
- He died on December 26, 1985 in Leiden, he was 71 years old.
- A child of Bastiaan Star and Jannetje Van Der Meij
Household of Gerrit Star
He is married to Barbara Wassing.
They got married.
Child(ren):
- Engelina Star 1942-2012
- Gerrit Star 1956-2011
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Birthday May 20, 1914
- The temperature on May 20, 1914 was between 8.5 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
- April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
- April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
- August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
- September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
Day of death December 26, 1985
- The temperature on December 26, 1985 was between 0.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 35.9 mm of rain during 16.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
- May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
- September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
- September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
- November 9 » Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
- November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
Same birth/death day
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- 1915 » Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1981)
- 1915 » Peter Copley, English actor († 2008)
- 1916 » Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic († 2015)
- 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
- 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
- 1986 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1987 » Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)
- 1988 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
- 1988 » Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
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Ton Van Es, "Family tree van Es", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/van-es-stamboom/I7098.php : accessed February 21, 2026), "Gerrit Star (1914-1985)".