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• Petronella van der Meide(Meijde), Rotterdam († 1948)
• Pierre Wielders, Einighausen, Nederland († 1948)
• Berendina Johanna Leonardi Maathuis, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2010)
• Kobus Kaptijn, Urk († 1948)
• Cornelis Cor Westhuis, Vollenhove († 2018)
• Eveline Berendina van Aller, Putten († 1962)
• Nn Fokkema, Utrecht
• M. Zuijderduijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Geertruida Hendrika Maria Valen, Velp, Nederland († 1983)
• Lian Bertens, Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)

• Antonie Adolf Houtman (20), Zeist
• Bernardus Koumans (67), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Ansems (78), Zevenbergen
• Beertje Reek (69), Monnickendam
• Antonia Duran (62), Santa Ana, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
• Antonia Hendrika Theodora van Geijn (83), Amsterdam
• Arendina Margaretha Deuzing (69), amsterdam, Nederland
• Alexander Jefferson "Elec" FERGUSON (91), Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Arnold Lee Gelder (0), fortasse, somewhere in IA
• Agnes Wilhemina Angelina Vanderbeck (56), Yamhill, Oregon, VS

• 1947 » France Gall, French singer († 2018)
• 1947 » John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
• 1947 » Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
• 1947 » William E. McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge († 2007)
• 1948 » Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
• 1949 » Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2016)
• 1950 » Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1950 » Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer

• 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Robert
10. Peter
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. John
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Petronella
10. Adriana
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Aaltje
15. Linda
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
• May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• June 17 » United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• July 12 » Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
• July 29 » Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
• November 12 » In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
• December 17 » The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

The temperature on October 9, 1948 was between 2.8 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.