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• Arlene Georgina Moore, Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada († 1991)
• Geertje van der Velde, Opende, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1947)
• Jan Vellekoop, Naaldwijk († 2012)
• Marguerite Ponse, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Cornelia VAN Ophem († 1988)
• Derkje Johanna Gort, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Cornelis Pieter Hartog, Den Hoorn († 2012)
• Arie de Jager, Scheveningen († 2017)
• David Earl Ray, Smith, Texas († 2016)
• Ludy M. B. Godijn, Alkmaar († 2009)

• Adrianus Joannes Verroen (69), Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernadus Hendrikus Berendsen (80), Silvolde-Wisch (Oude IJsselstreek)
• Adriana van de Klashorst (69), IJsselstein, Nederland
• Odijk (0), Cothen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alfred Ernst ROSENBERG (53), Nürnberg, Bayern, Deutschland
• Charles Corneille Beelaerts van Emmichoven (75), Zwolle
• Aart Andries Atsma (63), Leiden
• Bernardus Henderikus Rolfes (81), Schoonebeek
• Arie Ruitenberg (92), 's-Gravendeel
• Andre Desire VESTERS (86), Alken, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie

• 1944 » Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 » Paul Monette, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1945 » Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 » Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
• 1946 » Geoff Barnett, English footballer
• 1946 » Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
• 1947 » Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Nicholas Day, English actor
• 1947 » Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

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 31 » Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
• April 1 » The 8.6 M_w  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
• June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
• July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
• September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.

The temperature on October 16, 1946 was between 8.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.