List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Piet de Jong

Petrus Jozef Sietze de Jong
First Name Piet
Last Name Jong
Born on April 3, 1915
Died on July 27, 2016 (aged 101)

Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 5 April 1967 to 6 July 1971.

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Mies Bouwman

First Name Mies
Last Name Bouwman
Born on December 31, 1929
Died on February 26, 2018 (aged 88)

Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman was a Dutch television presenter.

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Willem Sassen

First Name Willem
Last Name Sassen
Born on April 16, 1918
Died on November 30, 2001 (aged 83)

Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became widely known around 1960 as the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann.

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Louis van Dijk

Arnold Ludwig van Dijk
First Name Louis
Last Name Dijk
Born on November 27, 1941
Died on April 12, 2020 (aged 78)

Louis van Dijk, also spelled Louis van Dyke, was a Dutch pianist.

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Jan Matthys

First Name Jan
Last Name Matthys
Born on January 1, 1500
Died on April 5, 1534 (aged 34)

Jan Matthys was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.

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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

First Name Johan
Died on May 13, 1619

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613) was a Dutch statesman who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain.

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Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

First Name Gustav
Born on August 7, 1870
Died on January 16, 1950 (aged 79)

Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He and his son Alfried would lead the company through two world wars, producing almost everything for the German war machine from U-boats, battleships, howitzers, trains, railway guns, machine guns, cars, tanks, and much more. Krupp produced the Tiger I tank, Big Bertha, the Paris Gun, among other inventions under Gustav. Following the war, plans to prosecute Gustav Krupp as a war criminal at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials were dropped because by then he was bedridden and senile.

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Lotte Verbeek

First Name Lotte
Born on June 24, 1982 (age 43)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Lotte Verbeek is a Dutch actress, dancer and model. She is best known for her role as Giulia Farnese in The Borgias television series created by Neil Jordan, and as Geillis Duncan in the Starz series Outlander.

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Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker
Died on February 19, 1887

Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.

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Erwin Koeman

Erwin Koeman is a Dutch retired professional football player and football manager who was last head coach of Oman.

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