page_title: 1944 in the Netherlands
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 in the Netherlands / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Anoniem. nl:Piet Mondriaan. nl:1899. nl:Den Haag, nl:Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
context_page_description: Events in the year 1944 in the Netherlands.
context_section_description: 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).
caption: Piet Mondrian
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