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• Shimon Socher, Israel († 1971)
• Gerda Carolina Rietveld, giessen-nieuwkerk (zuid holland) († 2012)
• Antonius Celenus Rondeltap, Rotterdam († 1994)
• Henk Gerritsen († 2008)
• Emmy Geertruida de Ruijter, Heemskerk († 2000)
• Ineke Posthumus, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Geertruida Anna Moolenaar, Amsteldam († 2015)
• Rob JANSEN († 2017)
• N.N. Verhoeven, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1948)
• Randy William Hillman, Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2010)

• Albert de Winkel (86), Brummen, Nederland
• Adriana Joanna Aldegonda Maria Simons (62), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Bertha Maria De Walsche (46), Sleidinge, 9940, Evergem, Oost Vlaanderen
• Albert Klomp (74)
• Anne Jane Kerby (66), Stirling, Hastings, Ontario, Canada
• Andries Faber (56), Zutphen (Gd)
• Adriana Joanna Aldegonda Simons (62), Tilburg
• Aren van Splunter (64), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Albertus Middelkoop (60), Breukelen
• Albert Klomp (74), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1945 » Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
• 1947 » Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
• 1948 » Dušan Bajević, Bosnian-Greek footballer and manager
• 1948 » Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor († 2013)
• 1948 » Jessica Cleaves, American singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 1949 » David Perdue, American politician
• 1949 » Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English journalist and author
• 1950 » John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician, senior senator of Arkansas
• 1950 » Simon Owen, New Zealand golfer
• 1951 » Johnny Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1939 » John Grieb, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1944 » John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922)
• 1945 » Theodor Dannecker, German captain (b. 1913)
• 1946 » Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer (b. 1884)
• 1946 » Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887)
• 1948 » Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)
• 1951 » Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891)

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.
• April 9 » Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
• June 24 » Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
• June 28 » Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
• July 16 » The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
• August 3 » Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 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.

The temperature on December 10, 1948 was between 3.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.