Events in the year 1944 in the Netherlands.
Incumbents Monarch: Wilhelmina Prime Minister: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy
Events
Births
2 January – Willy Dobbe, television presenter and announcer 23 January – Rutger Hauer, actor, writer and environmentalist (d. 2019) 20 February – Willem van Hanegem, football player and coach 16 March – Pieter de Zwart, sailor. 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). 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 16 December – Roeland Nolte, chemist (d. 2024)Former CE&C Professor Roeland Nolte passed away
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
1 February – Piet Mondrian, painter and theoretician (b. 1872) 2 February – Tjapko van Bergen, rower and SS Rottenführer (b. 1903). 8 February – Joop Kolkman, journalist and diplomat (b. 1896) 20 February – Albert Heijnneman, sprinter (b. 1896). 29 February – Abraham Mok, gymnast (b. 1888). 6 March – Eva and Abraham Beem, Jewish siblings and victims of the Holocaust (b. 1932 and 1934) 6 March – Simon Okker, fencer (b. 1881). 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). 11 August – Joop Westerweel, schoolteacher and World War II resistance leader (b. 1899) 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). 6 September – Lion van Minden, fencer (b. 1880). 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). 19 September – Jan van Hoof, resistance member (b. 1922) 4 October – Maurits van Löben Sels, fencer (b. 1876). 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).
See also Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II
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