1944 in the Netherlands

Events in the year 1944 in the Netherlands.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Wilhelmina
 * Prime Minister: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

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)

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)
 * 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).
 * 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).