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• Elske Regina Hettinga, Klooster lidlum († 2018)
• Catharina Martina Wilhelmina van Gogh, Waalre († 1945)
• Cornelis Maria van Ballegoij, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1993)
• Benoît William Agnès Marie Ghislain DEL MARMOL, Liège Liège Belgium († 2013)
• Antoinetta Benjamina Gerardina Nederhand, Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland († 2008)
• Henricus Petrus Theresia Eerden, Zuidwolde, De Wolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1999)
• Greet Bos, Drachten († 2009)
• Albertus Hendrikus Voorn, Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Barend Ernsten, Putten († 1946)
• Jacobus Johannes Karel Boomsma, Sondel († 2003)

• Agatha Parlevliet (78), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Vader (69), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Grobfeld (46), Ebensee, Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria
• Adriana Trap (70), Maastricht
• Alberdina Margaretha Harmina Smeenge (64), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alphonsus Cornelis van Gorp (63), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Schuil (65), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Leonhard Perrenet (70)
• A B Todd ?****, Norway
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Trouwborst (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1940 » Arthur Alexander, American country-soul singer-songwriter († 1993)
• 1940 » Wayne Dyer, American author and educator († 2015)
• 1942 » Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and coach
• 1944 » Jim Abrahams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 » Marie-France Pisier, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1946 » Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1946 » Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1947 » Caroline B. Cooney, American author
• 1949 » Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer

• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. John
15. Dirk
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Geertruida
14. Irene
15. Mary
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
• January 1 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
• January 3 » World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
• January 16 » Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
• February 9 » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMSVenturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
• September 2 » World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USSMissouri in Tokyo Bay.
• October 18 » The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The temperature on May 10, 1945 was between 12.8 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.