About the day » Monday August 5, 1946Calender converter

• Dirkje Duijvenvoorde van, Leiden († 2005)
• Leland Mulder († 1996)
• Jansje Hendriks, Driebergen († 2018)
• Beverley Janice Gunn, Glen Innes († 1977)
• Augusta Meekers, Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België († 2023)
• Alexander Schnitzer († 2015)
• Geertje Ellens, Munnekezijl, NL-FR († 1992)
• Geertje Doedes ELLENS, Munnekezijl (Kollumerland c.a.) Friesland Netherlands († 1992)
• Catharina Gruisinga, Sappemeer († 1946)
• Gerrit Jonkers, Hardenberg († 2012)

• Elbert Allen Guest (79), Dunkirk, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Alexandre Herdy Silva (48)
• Clara Fetterman (66)
• Date Rentema (63), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Albert Smit (83), Warffum, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Schenk (75), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Helena van Alphen (73), Goirle
• Eldeara Mable Johnson (43), San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States of America
• Catharina Johanna Wurfbain (79), Zeist, Nederland
• Cora E Reagan (51)

• 1945 » Loni Anderson, American actress
• 1946 » Bob McCarthy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1946 » Bruce Coslet, American football player and coach
• 1946 » Erika Slezak, American actress
• 1946 » Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboard player and songwriter († 2006)
• 1946 » Shirley Ann Jackson, American physicist
• 1946 » Xavier Trias, Spanish pediatrician and politician, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1947 » Angry Anderson, Australian singer & actor
• 1947 » Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
• 1947 » France A. Córdova, American astrophysicist and academic

• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (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.
• April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
• April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
• May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
• September 2 » The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
• December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
• December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

The temperature on August 5, 1946 was between 13.2 °C and 27.8 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.