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• Cornelis Jan Woort, Den Helder († 2005)
• Arthur Johan Guljé, Batavia (Ned. Ind.) († 2014)
• Franciscus GEERTS, Wortel (BE) († 2000)
• Jilles-Leendert Robbemont, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Tienesen, Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Peter Renes, Arnhem († 1999)
• Joseph Henricus Hubertus Maria Jurgens, Hoensbroek († 1948)
• Jerry Alan Howell, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, VS († 1978)
• Magda Van de Heyning, Weelde, RaWEPoEel († 2019)
• Larry Delmer Ferguson, McCook, Red Willow, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Anna Cornelia Philipsen (74), Tilburg
• Anna Johanna Willemina Warner (56), Deventer
• Arnoldina Jansen (81), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfred Buriez (42), Hersin-Coupigny, Pas-De-Calais, France
• Anna Cornelia Plilipsen (74), Tilburg
• Camille Louis Dombrecht (71), Oostende, West Vlaanderen, Belgie. akte
• Adriana Schrauwen (80), Bergen op Zoom
• Cecilia Wilhelmina Bakker (66), Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Johanna Willemina Warner (56), Deventer
• Johannes Althof (65), Harmelen

• 1946 » Geoff Barnett, English footballer
• 1946 » Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
• 1947 » Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Nicholas Day, English actor
• 1947 » Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach
• 1948 » Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
• 1948 » Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
• 1948 » Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
• 1948 » Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

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. Petronella
9. Hendrika
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.
• January 17 » The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
• May 15 » Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
• September 5 » In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• December 28 » The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

The temperature on October 16, 1948 was between 7.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.