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• Nicolaas Vogelaar, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Marilyn A. Zukauskas, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• A. A. Tiehuis, Borne († 2017)
• Cornelia Jacoba Theodora Pijpers († 2004)
• Lieve Menten († 2024)
• Doodgeboren Kind Seelen, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1945)
• Harm Antoon Drewel, Appingedam († 2023)
• N.N. van Engeland, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Louis Christiaan Lagaaij, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Ingetje Maggeltje Edel († 1994)

• Anje Smit (85), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnolda van Lieshout (61), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Jan (Arjan) Pannekeet (21), Zijpe
• Arie Admiraal (61), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Kastelijn (22), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Arends (35), De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agneta Jacomina Elisabeth Surie (39), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Stilting (70), Utrecht
• Ann Dargie Mackie ** (73), Longmanhill, Banffshire, Scotland
• Annie Margaret HUTLEY (60), Margate, Thanet, Kent

• 1942 » Anna Eshoo, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1943 » Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball and basketball player
• 1943 » Marti Webb, British actress and singer
• 1944 » Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor
• 1945 » Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist († 2020)
• 1948 » Brian Wilson, Scottish journalist and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
• 1948 » Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 » Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter († 1970)
• 1948 » Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1942 » Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
• 1954 » John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)

• 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.
• February 21 » World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
• March 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
• March 22 » The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• May 7 » World War II: Last German U boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
• May 29 » First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• September 7 » World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

The temperature on December 13, 1945 was between 1.5 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.