About the day » Thursday May 2, 1946Calender converter

• MARC FRANS OCTAAF DE BILDE, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1997)
• Jan De Lange, Eindhoven († 2002)
• Lies SEGERS, Rekem,3621,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2017)
• George Richard Kellen († 2015)
• Elizabeth Johanna Bentem, Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands († 2019)
• levenloos geboren kind, Nijverdal († 1946)
• Maria Lamberta van der Geer († 1997)
• Manfred Otto van der Meulen († 2004)
• David Arthur HADLEY, Plainfield Hendricks County Indiana U.S.A († 2004)
• Cornelus Johannes Schipperen († 1992)

• Aleida Elizabeth Elfrink (47), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• van Luxemborg (0), Eersel
• Anna Berendina Ingerman (83), Heemstede
• Antonia Maria Keevel (53), Amsterdam
• Angenithus Ophof (71), Ridderkerk
• Aagje Kaai (72), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Dominicus Temming (56), Westermeer
• Arie Cornelis Bruggink (1), Utrecht
• Antonius Jozef Petrus Marie Donnars (50), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna van der Plas (64)

• 1945 » Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist
• 1945 » Goldy McJohn, Canadian keyboard player († 2017)
• 1945 » Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter († 1998)
• 1945 » Randy Cain, American soul singer († 2009)
• 1946 » David Suchet, English actor
• 1946 » Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1946 » Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic († 2011)
• 1947 » James Dyson, English businessman, founded the Dyson Company
• 1947 » Lynda Myles, English screenwriter and producer
• 1947 » Philippe Herreweghe, Belgian conductor

• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
• January 25 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
• January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
• February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
• July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
• August 23 » Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
• December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

The temperature on May 2, 1946 was between 7.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.