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• Bram Lievaart († 2013)
• N.N. van de Veerdonk, Oss
• Gerardus Johannes Adrianus de Bruijn, Gilze en Rijen († 1951)
• Lucia van Leur, Haarlem († 1950)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Bakkum, Limmen († 2015)
• N.N. van Hulst, Amersfoort († 1948)
• Louis Botterweg († 2010)
• Henri Leopoldine Vingerhoed, Leopoldsburg († 2015)
• John Thomas Rypstra, Indianapolis, Indiana, VS († 2019)
• Harmen Lievaart, Urk († 2013)

• Arie Naaktgeboren (89), 's-gravendeel (zuid holland)
• Auke Bosma (68), Kollum, NL-FR
• (Bridget) Joanna SCANTLEBURY (71), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Anna Catharina van Hees (84), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antoni BANASZAK (82)
• Andries Claus (56)
• Adriaan Feijtel (77), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Elisabeth Siebert Coster (81), Assen (Drenthe)
• Andrew Jackson Crissman (77)
• Arnoldus Dominikus de Bruin (77), Voorschoten, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1946 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1947 » Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
• 1947 » Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
• 1947 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1997)
• 1947 » Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1948 » Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
• 1948 » Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright
• 1949 » Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer († 2015)
• 1949 » George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 » Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Jacob
16. Gerardus

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.
• February 28 » Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
• 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.
• June 20 » The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later.
• July 31 » USSNevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
• September 12 » Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun.
• October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.

The temperature on October 18, 1948 was between 6.3 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.