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• Atze van der Veen, Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1946)
• Cornelis (Kees) De Kruijf († 2003)
• Gradus Gelmers, Meppel († 1946)
• Anna Maria Kuipers
• levenloos Eijbergen, Hoogland († 1945)
• Antoon August Lodewijk Tallon, Leuven († 1998)
• Arendina Johanna Pezij, Almelo, Nederland († 2021)
• Geertuida Bakker († 1986)
• Hermannes Gritter, Hoogeveen († 1945)
• Gerarda Maria Claes, Alken, België († 2016)

• Anna Elisabeth Heeres (77), Alkmaar
• Adrianus Cornelius van den Noort (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Ribot (71), Lisse
• Adrianus Lambertus Petrus Bijl (3), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Velthuis (69), Oldenzaal
• Ariaantje Pastoor (56), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Janse (54), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Hyacinthius Droog (0), Limmen, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Willemina Sleeking (22), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Berend van der Laan (76), Wildervank

• 1943 » Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
• 1944 » Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter
• 1944 » Michael Hagee, American general
• 1944 » Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
• 1945 » Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
• 1946 » Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1946 » Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
• 1946 » Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author
• 1947 » Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor († 2009)

• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
• 1947 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1964 » J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
• January 17 » The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
• February 16 » World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
• February 21 » World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USSBismarck Sea and damage the USSSaratoga.
• April 4 » World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
• July 23 » The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
• July 26 » World War II: The USSIndianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.

The temperature on December 1, 1945 was between -0.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.