1944 in the Netherlands

Events in the year 1944 in the Netherlands.

Incumbents

Births

2 January – Willy Dobbe, television presenter and announcer
23 January – Rutger Hauer, actor, writer and environmentalist
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
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.
30 August – Freek de Jonge, cabaret performer and writer
13 September – Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau, biomechanist
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

Full date missing

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

Deaths

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