* 1886 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician and centenarian ( d. 1988 )

* May 14 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1958 ( b. 1886 )

* July 5 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, prime minister, and centenarian ( d. 1988 )

Between 1948 and 1952 the VVD took part in the broad cabinets led by the Labour Party Prime Minister Willem Drees.

Willem Drees, founder and party leader from 1946 until 1958

Since 1948, these cabinets were led by PvdA Prime Minister Willem Drees.

In response to the growing power of the New Left group, a group of older, centrist party members, led by Willem Drees ' son, Willem Drees Junior founded the New Right.

Besides that, De Jong is the overall second oldest Prime Minister of the Netherlands, after Willem Drees who lived to.

Willem Drees () ( July 5, 1886 – May 14, 1988 ) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party ( PvdA ).

Willem Drees died on May 14, 1988 at the age of, and is one of the few longest lived state leaders who became a centenarian.

Willem Drees was born in Amsterdam on July 5, 1886.

Willem Drees in 1908.

Both his sons Jan Drees and Willem Drees Jr. were active members of the Dutch Labour Party, but left the party around 1970 to join the Democratic Socialists ' 70.

Willem Drees died on May 14, 1988 in The Hague, two months before his 102nd birthday.

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He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from May 19, 1998 until March 24, 2000 when he became State Secretary for Finance in the Cabinet Kok II following the resignation of Willem Vermeend who became Minister of Social Affairs and Employment.

Willem van Ravesteyn and David Wijnkoop founded De Tribune ( The Tribune ), a magazine in which they criticized the leadership of the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( SDAP ) of which they were members.

* Social affairs: Willem Drees ( SDAP / PvdA )

* 3 September – A Limpet mine placed by Mohammed Iqbal Shaik explodes at 16h07 at the Department of Internal Affairs in Johannesburg ; Pieter Willem Botha becomes the 6th State President of South Africa

* 30 April – The Prime Minister of South Africa, Pieter Willem Botha meets with Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs to discusses the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

The Conference was chaired by Willem Schurmann, the Dutch Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Oscar Schachter, a leading figure in international law who later taught at Columbia Law School and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and served as the President of the American Society of International Law.

Colonial soldiers standing guard next to the statue of King Willem III of the Netherlands, representing Dutch empire | Dutch dominance on Banda.

* Willem Baarda, 1917-2005, ( Netherlands )

* 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

In 1853 Pope Pius IX received guarantees of religious freedom from the Dutch King Willem II and established a Catholic hierarchy, loyal to the pope, in the Netherlands.

* 1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

* The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands sent a delegation of six ( including two delegates from the province of Holland ( Adriaan Pauw ) and Willem Ripperda from one of the other provinces ; two provinces were not present ).

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, a village close to Breda in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, a predominantly Catholic area.

* Willem Blaeu of the Netherlands ( 1571 – 1638 ), cartographer and publisher

* January 24 – Dutch captain Willem Schouten rounds the southern tip of South America and names it Kaap Hoorn, after his birthplace in the Netherlands.

* March 14 – King Willem II of the Netherlands ( b. 1792 )

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau ( 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ), was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

* Willem Frederik George Lodewijk ( b. The Hague, 6 December 1792 – d. Tilburg, 17 March 1849 ) later King William II of the Netherlands from 1840.

Statue of Willem I of the Netherlands by Pieter Puype ( 1913 ) in Apeldoorn

This war also proceeded disastrously for the Stadtholder's forces, and in the severe winter of 1794 / 95 a French army under general Charles Pichegru, with a Dutch contingent under general Herman Willem Daendels, crossed the great frozen rivers that traditionally protected the Netherlands from invasion.

Dr. Willem Kolff, a Dutch physician, constructed the first working dialyzer in 1943 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Willem V of Orange and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange | Wilhelmina of Prussia with their children from left to right: the future King William I of the Netherlands, Frederick, and Frederica Louise Wilhelmina, later Princess of Brunswick-Luneburg.

An initial breakthrough came when Willem Einthoven, working in Leiden, the Netherlands, used the string galvanometer he invented in 1901.

Barend Willem Biesheuvel was born on April 5, 1920 in Haarlemmerliede in the Netherlands Province of North Holland.

* Netherlands: Charles Eyck, Willem Hofhuizen, Jaap Min, Jan Sluyters, Vincent van Gogh, Jan Wiegers and Hendrik Werkman

* Albert van Helden, Willem Hendrik Keesom 1876 – 1956, In: K. van Berkel, A. van Helden and L. Palm ed., A History of Science in the Netherlands.

* Scientists of the Dutch School: Willem Hendrik Keesom @ Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.