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• Galen Jay ALLRED, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 2021)
• Maria Josephina Leonarda SPRONCK, Maastricht († 2019)
• Idelfonso "Foncho" Croes, Aruba († 2013)
• Albert Bos, Avereest († 1947)
• Maria Theresia Carolina Elisabeth Stockmann, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1984)
• Renato Cerqueira de Oliveira Rosa, Jaú, SP-BRasil († 1947)
• Marie-Anne Sassen, Merksem België
• Johannes Machiel Strijland, Utrecht, Nederland († 2004)
• Leendert Slegt, Rotterdam († 2017)
• Cornelis Antonius Maria Kuijpers, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)

• Antonius Jacobus Christianus IJsseling (48), Delft
• Anthonius Elsendoorn (86), Utrecht
• Anne Westra (85), Groningen
• Adriana Catharina Steenhuijsen (61), Tilburg
• Celia van der Neut (72)
• Anna Maria Philomena Gertrudis Franck (67), Wittem,, Limburg, Nederland
• Charles Kirby Davis (69), Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee
• Benjamin Henry Bennie Gross (45), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Anke PRONKER (85), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Albin Quist (68), Ramsey County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1944 » Bertie Higgins, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 » George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1945 » John Banville, Irish novelist and screenwriter
• 1946 » Chava Alberstein, Polish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » John Rubinstein, American actor, director, and composer
• 1947 » Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor († 2009)
• 1947 » Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)
• 1947 » Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet († 2011)
• 1947 » Margaret Geller, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1947 » Thomas Cech, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)
• 1937 » Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
• 1940 » George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Albert Kahn, American architect, Fisher Building, Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Charles Lightoller, English sailor (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Claude Cahun, French artist, photographer, and writer (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1954 » Joseph B. Keenan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)

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.
• March 29 » Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
• May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
• July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
• July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

The temperature on December 8, 1946 was between 2.3 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east.