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• gertruda petronella bernardina (ger) wilms, helden-dorp
• Gerrit Elverdink, Nijega (Small.) († 2015)
• Arend van der Heide, Eibergen († 1997)
• Martinus Joseph Maria Cools, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 2014)
• Helena Adriana van Rennes, Heteren, Ned
• Agnes Josephina Maria Koopman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Eveline Marie Josephine - Evie Retel Helmrich, Bandung, Indonesië († 2022)
• NN Braakman, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• NN Topelen, Groningen
• Olga van Wensveen, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)

• Adrianus Klaver (76), Opmeer
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Laan (57), Vinkeveen
• Aldo Leopold (61)
• Adriana Fora Duijnhouwer (70), Scherpenisse
• Arie Pieter Dik (77), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geesje Benjamins (15), Hoogeveen
• Annegje Dragtsma (76)
• Adriaan van der Stoep (41), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Bastiana van der KROON Gdr (69), Rotterdam, NL-ZH
• Adriana Maria Maris (69), Fijnaart en Heijningen

• 1945 » Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Indian cricketer and umpire
• 1947 » Al Bumbry, American baseball player
• 1947 » Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1947 » John Weider, English bass player
• 1948 » Dieter Fromm, German runner
• 1948 » Gary Condit, American businessman and politician
• 1948 » Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist
• 1948 » Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2008)
• 1949 » Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
• 1950 » Shivaji Satam, Indian actor

• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
• 1956 » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
• May 3 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
• May 28 » Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
• September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
• September 22 » Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
• September 24 » The Honda Motor Company is founded.

The temperature on April 21, 1948 was between 8.7 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.