 1966 December 2: dies in Blaricum, The Netherlands, 85 years old, when he is hit by a car in front of his house. His library and archives are dispersed. Beginning in the 1970s,  Walter van Stigt and Dirk van Dalen reconstitute the archives as much as possible; the Brouwer Papers are now kept at the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem.