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• André Alphonse Marie Breesch, Sint-Truiden, België († 2007)
• Heintje Hendrika Hogenbirk, Zuilen (Utrecht) († 1995)
• François Biesemans, Merchtem († 1999)
• Cornelis Jacobus de Fouw († 2016)
• Johannes Rozenbroek, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Desmond Cohen († 2008)
• Folkert Marinus Post, Groningen († 2020)
• Albertus Wilhelmus Stephanus Spoler, Borne, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• Dirk Jan Woudenberg, Beekbergen († 1947)
• Dirk Bussching, Rotterdam († 2019)

• Albert Pirmez (63)
• Allegonda Zweegers (76), Geldrop
• Adriana Maria van Baalen (59), Tiel
• Arie Meeuse (8), Leiden
• Adriana Maria Kerstens (78), Brasschaat, Vlaams Gewest, België
• Adriaan van de Velde (73), Biezelinge, ZL, NL
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Joseph Schoots (51), Rotterdam
• Adolf Ufkes (14)
• Adriana Maria van Baalen (59), Tiel
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Joseph Schoots (51), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1944 » William Ayers, American academic and activist
• 1945 » John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wanted
• 1946 » Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic
• 1947 » Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
• 1947 » James T. Conway, American general
• 1947 » Jean Echenoz, French author
• 1947 » Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player
• 1947 » Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic
• 1948 » Candy Crowley, American journalist

• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 » Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Otto Gille, German general (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)

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.
• March 11 » Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
• April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
• May 5 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• December 11 » The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.

The temperature on December 26, 1946 was between 1.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.