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• Jaap Stuifbergen († 2005)
• Jacob Pieter Harlaar, Enkhuizen († 2021)
• Carol J Woeste, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Adrianus Leonardus Johannes van der Aalst, Eindhoven († 1986)
• Klaartje Elisabeth (Klarie) Dalm, Dordrecht († 2015)
• Anne VOLLMER, Rothbach,67340,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE († 1946)
• Antonius Gerardus van Vugt, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Leonardus Johannes van der Aalst, Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Jacobus Hans Broekema, Haarlem († 2024)
• Gijs-Jan KOLET, Barendrecht († 2013)

• Adriana Zwanink (82), Kamerik
• Abraham Gillis de Jager (51), Den Haag
• Antonius Gerardus MEGENS (48), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Eelkje Tjeerds van Slooten (80), Holwerd
• Abraham Gilles de Jager (51), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje van Kuilenburg (79), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Eelkje van Slooten (80)
• Arnoldus Loermans (85), Beuningen
• Arie Beier (78), Rotterdam
• Cornelis van Eijk (81), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1944 » Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician († 1998)
• 1945 » Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 » Laila Morse, English actress
• 1946 » Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist († 2006)
• 1946 » Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic
• 1946 » Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 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

• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 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 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)

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.
• January 19 » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• January 25 » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• 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 18 » Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
• September 19 » The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.

The temperature on August 1, 1946 was between 11.6 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.