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• Ger Bertens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2019)
• Daniel C. Schooley († 1998)
• Janna Wilhelmina Schook, Alblasserdam († 2022)
• Lois Ann Freimuth, Usa († 2010)
• Christel MIGGELBRINK, Voorst, Oude IJsselstreek (NL) († 1994)
• Maria Isabella Elisabeth Vootz, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 2001)
• Grietje Maagdelijn († 2019)
• Klaas Weijdema, Steenwijk († 2020)
• Arnoldus Petrus Ceraphinus Wientjens, Sobibor, Lublin, Poland († 1946)
• Klara Tap, Assen († 2008)

• Adele Hortense Marotel (75), Salatiga
• Boelem Laarman (76), Groningen
• Boelem Laarman (76), Groningen (stad), Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Anna de Laat de Kanter (81), Hilversum, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aartje Troost (83), Puttershoek
• Albertina Martha Varossieau (60), Wassenaar
• Annigje van Maanen (81), Achttienhoven, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Annigje van Maanen (81), Achttienhoven, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Clara Maria Waelput (62), Zuiddorpe, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertje Hartman (81), Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland

• 1943 » Ian MacRae, New Zealand rugby player
• 1943 » Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist († 2017)
• 1943 » Roger Cook, New Zealand-English journalist and academic
• 1944 » Felicity Palmer, English operatic soprano
• 1945 » Peter Hill, English journalist
• 1945 » Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade union leader († 2017)
• 1946 » Paul Beresford, New Zealand-English dentist and politician
• 1947 » André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 » John Ratzenberger, American actor and director
• 1947 » Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist

• 1923 » Kabalega, King of Bunyoro (b.1853)
• 1927 » Florence Earle Coates, American poet (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (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 10 » The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
• February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
• May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• December 21 » An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
• December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

The temperature on April 6, 1946 was between 3.5 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.