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• Eduard Alex Brenninkmeijer, Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland († 2020)
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Paulina (Elly) NOLLET, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Henrica Adriana Theodora de Gooijer, Helmond († 1946)
• Johanna Magdalena Klaasen Bos († 1980)
• Hendrikje Oranje, Hilversum, Utrecht, Nederland († 1967)
• Henk van der Zanten, Tilburg († 2013)
• Johannes Franciscus Laurentius van Gansewinkel, Weert, Limburg, Nederland († 1993)
• Arlette Maria Delaey, Roeselare († 2017)
• Hendrikje Oranje, Hilversum († 1967)
• Freddy Hendrikus Cornelis Vega, Amsterdam († 1997)

• Clasina Willemina Arnoldus (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Schaafsma (30), Leeuwarden
• Cornelis Pauwe (74)
• Cornelis Hille (83), Soest
• (kind) Dijkstra (0), Enschede, Nederland
• Adriana durieux (74), den haag
• Anna Wanda Sara Eleonore Henckel van Donnersmarck (51), Berlijn
• Edith Kinny (76), Macksville, NSW
• Bert van der Hout (85), Utrecht
• Anna Maria Jacomina Portegies (79), Alkmaar

• 1944 » Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1944 » Chris Dodd, American lawyer and politician
• 1944 » Ingrid Roscoe, English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
• 1945 » Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer († 1978)
• 1946 » Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer († 2005)
• 1947 » Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach
• 1947 » Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1947 » Peter DeFazio, American politician
• 1947 » Riivo Sinijärv, Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)
• 1943 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888)
• 1947 » Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
• 1953 » Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1868)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Robert
9. Jacobus
10. Peter
11. Jacob
12. Petrus
13. Adrianus
14. Wilhelmus
15. John
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Helena
15. Yvonne
16. Marianne

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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).
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
• February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
• March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
• April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
• May 5 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
• June 23 » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The temperature on May 27, 1946 was between 11.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.