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• Ineke van Rijswijk-, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 2016)
• N.N. Cozijnsen, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1948)
• Geertje Froonhoff, Amsterdam († 1948)
• Brice Richards Bonner III [PPt], Dallas, Dallas County, Texas († 2008)
• Tine Jolanda KLOPPENBURG, Grijpskerk († 1953)
• Paul Wesseling, Zaandam († 1996)
• Noël Vanroose, Langemark († 1948)
• Carla Wilhelmina van Woerkom, amsterdam
• Hans van den Bos, Haarlem († 1987)
• Cecilia Jacoba Maria Warmerdam, Vogelenzang († 2014)

• Andrew Nordstrom (89), Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Barend Prins (62), den Helder, prov. Noord Holland
• Aafje Blokland (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Christina Lea Maria WULVING (59), Baarn,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Petronella Brocatus (80), Steenbergen
• Catharina Keizer (82), Amsterdam
• Cornelia Adriaans (81), Oirschot
• Aagtje Idema (90), Ruischerbrug, Noorddijk,, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pullens (77), Waalwijk
• Annechien Pomp (72)

• 1946 » Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist († 2006)
• 1946 » Rick Coonce, American drummer († 2011)
• 1947 » Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist
• 1947 » Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
• 1948 » Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
• 1948 » Cliff Branch, American football player
• 1948 » David Gemmell, English journalist and author († 2006)
• 1949 » Jim Carroll, American poet, author, and musician († 2009)
• 1949 » Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1949 » Ray Nettles, American football player († 2009)

• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)

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. Gerardus
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.
• January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
• May 12 » Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
• 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 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• July 26 » U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.

The temperature on August 1, 1948 was between 13.4 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 16.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.