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• Maria Petronella Cornelia Opdam, Leiderdorp († 2015)
• Dennis E. Hofer, Bon Homme Co., SD († 1946)
• Dolf MEIJER († 2018)
• Guusje de Wit, Badhoevedorp († 2015)
• Geertruida Swaan († 1995)
• Martha Maria Markram, Thabazimbi, R.S.A. († 2020)
• johanna gerarda marie joosten, maasbree
• Jan Willem Wennekes, Wageningen († 1974)
• Kros, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• Johannes van der Stege, Zwollerkerspel († 2009)

• Adrianus Franciscus Jansen (67), Turnhout
• Aaltje Franken (81), Nunspeet (Ermelo)
• Adrianus van Hest (69), Tilburg (Noord-Brabant)
• Antje Rottiné (44), Heerenveen, Nederland
• Angelina Schmitz (0), Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Adrianus Hest van (69)
• Adrianus Franciscus Jansen (67), Turnhout, 2300, Antwerpen (B)
• (Stillborn) Vedder (Vedders,Fedder,Veder,Verders,Feders,Ferder) (0), Zutphen, Nederland
• Andries van Pelt (76), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Antonia Cornelia van der Lubbe (55), Den haag

• 1943 » Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction († 1977)
• 1943 » Milton William Cooper, American theorist and author († 2001)
• 1944 » Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director († 1991)
• 1944 » Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1945 » Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer
• 1947 » Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
• 1947 » Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido († 2013)
• 1947 » Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author
• 1948 » Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player († 2013)

• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

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.
• 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.
• February 24 » Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
• April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
• September 8 » The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
• December 12 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam to United Nations is adopted.

The temperature on May 6, 1946 was between 2.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.