1944 in the Netherlands

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See also:	Other events of 1944 History of the Netherlands

Events in the year 1944 in the Netherlands.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Wilhelmina
• Prime Minister: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

Events[]

• 17 to 20 September – Battle of Nijmegen
• 17 to 26 September – Battle of Arnhem
• 30 September to 18 October – Battle of Overloon
• 3 October to 8 November – Battle of the Scheldt
• 27 to 30 November – Battle of Broekhuizen
• Dutch famine of 1944–45

Births[]

Willeke van Ammelrooy

Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg

• 2 January – Willy Dobbe, television presenter and announcer
• 23 January – Rutger Hauer, actor, writer and environmentalist (d. 2019)
• 16 March – Pieter de Zwart, sailor.^[1]
• 1 April – Theo Hiddema, lawyer, media personality and politician
• 5 April – Willeke van Ammelrooy, actress and director
• 26 April – Huib Ruijgrok, footballer
• 20 May – Boudewijn de Groot, singer-songwriter
• 24 May – Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, ancient historian (d. 2000)
• 10 June – Eegje Schoo, politician and diplomat
• 15 July – Klaas de Vries, composer
• 27 July – Philip Freriks, journalist, columnist and television presenter
• 3 August – Willem H. Vanderburg, engineer
• 11 August – Bean van Limbeek, sport shooter (d. 2014).^[2]
• 30 August – Freek de Jonge, cabaret performer and writer
• 13 September – Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau, biomechanist (d. 1998)
• 23 September – Jan Dijkema, politician, sociologist and sports director
• 15 October – Vilma Henkelman, sculptor, ceramist, and photographer
• 29 October – Robbie van Leeuwen, musician
• 5 December – Jeroen Krabbé, actor and film director

Full date missing[]

• Max Bolleman, jazz drummer, audio engineer and record producer
• Kommer Damen, businessman
• Tim Griek, musician and producer (d. 1988)
• Sytse Strijbos, academic
• Tjebbe van Tijen, sculptor, performance artist, curator, net artist, archivist, and media theorist

Deaths[]

Piet Mondrian

• 1 February – Piet Mondrian, painter and theoretician (b. 1872)
• 2 February – Tjapko van Bergen, rower and SS Rottenführer (b. 1903).^[3]
• 8 February – Joop Kolkman, journalist and diplomat (b. 1896)
• 20 February – Albert Heijnneman, sprinter (b. 1896).^[4]
• 29 February – Abraham Mok, gymnast (b. 1888).^[5]
• 6 March – Eva and Abraham Beem, Jewish siblings and victims of the Holocaust (b. 1932 and 1934)
• 6 March – Simon Okker, fencer (b. 1881).^[6]
• 9 March – Casper ten Boom, helped many Jews and resisters escape the Nazis during the Holocaust of World War II (b. 1859)
• 6 April – W. F. Gisolf, geologist (b. 1884)
• 13 April – Friedrich Gutmann, banker and art collector (b. 1886)
• 30 May – Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Younger, painter (b. 1873)
• 10 June – Willem Jacob van Stockum, mathematician (b. 1910)
• 10 June – Gerrit van der Veen, sculptor (b. 1902)
• 18 July – Wim Anderiesen, footballer (b. 1903)
• 31 July – Settela Steinbach, holocaust victim (b. 1934)
• 4 August – Hans Mossel, clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1905)
• 7 August – Johannes Scheuter, sport shooter (b. 1880).^[7]
• 11 August – Joop Westerweel, schoolteacher and World War II resistance leader (b. 1899)
• 18 August – Dirk Boonstra, resistance membe (b. 1920)
• 2 September – Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, explorer and diplomat (b. 1871)
• 3 September – Ernst de Jonge, lawyer, Olympic rower and member of the Dutch resistance (b. 1914).^[8]
• 6 September – Lion van Minden, fencer (b. 1880).^[9]
• 8 September – Jan van Gilse, composer and conductor (b. 1881)
• 9 September – Dirk Boonstra, police commander (b. 1893)
• 15 September – Walter Middelberg, rower (b. 1875).^[10]
• 19 September – Jan van Hoof, resistance member (b. 1922)
• 4 October – Maurits van Löben Sels, fencer (b. 1876).^[11]
• 7 October – Jacobus Kann, banker (b. 1872)
• 18 October – Juda Lion Palache, linguist (b. 1886)
• 21 October – Adri Bleuland van Oordt, artist and draftswoman (b. 1862)
• 5 November – Willy Dols, linguist (b. 1911)
• 6 December – Boy Ecury, resistance member (b. 1922)
• 16 December – Betsie ten Boom, resistance member (b. 1885)
• 18 December – M. H. J. Schoenmaekers, mathematician (b. 1875)
• 28 December – Tjeerd Pasma, modern pentathlete (b. 1904).^[12]

See also[]

• Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II

References[]