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

• 2 January – Willy Dobbe, television presenter and announcer
• 23 January – Rutger Hauer, actor, writer and environmentalist
• 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

  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
• 18 August – Dirk Boonstra, resistance membe
• 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.