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• Hans Robert Heethuis († 2003)
• Alie Deugd, Wognum († 1990)
• Lodewijk Hubert Duister, Nieuwenhagen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1959)
• dood geboren Zwaard († 1946)
• James Edward Zitnik († 1947)
• Bartholomeus Minnee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Piet Seine, Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• James Mark McCoy, Great Bend, Barton, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Jan Hendrik Schutte († 1982)
• Barbara Elaine Mann ****, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada († 2019)

• Arend Jan Zwierink (79), Hengelo
• Anna Louise Isselhardt (33), Belleville, St Clair, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius van Veen (74), Noordwijkerhout, St Bavo
• Cornelia Meeuws (86), Someren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Overzet (74), Schouwerzijl
• Dirk van Elst (65), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirk Ruijsch (60), Wageningen
• Arend Jan Zwierink (79), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bruce Monroe Lindsey (57), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
• Adriana Ossewaarde (82), Bergen op Zoom

• 1944 » Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer
• 1944 » Linda Kaye Henning, American actress
• 1946 » Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer († 2019)
• 1946 » Mike Reynolds, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Sonny LeMaire, American country music singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1947 » Dusty Hughes, English director and playwright
• 1948 » Julia Donaldson, English author and playwright
• 1948 » Kenney Jones, English drummer
• 1948 » Ron Blair, American bass player
• 1948 » Rosemary Casals, American tennis player and sportscaster

• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
• 1946 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
• 1955 » Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)

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. Gerardus
16. John

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 14 » The Bank of England is nationalized.
• February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
• March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
• July 15 » State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
• December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

The temperature on September 16, 1946 was between 5.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.