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• Spijkers, Tilburg († 1946)
• Harm Feijen, Smilde {DR} († 1947)
• Johannes Hermann Meister, Herbrum († 2014)
• Mark Edwin Joldersma († 2015)
• Bokje de Vries († 2023)
• Jan Baakman († 1996)
• Petrus Nicolaas Spaans († 1966)
• Peter Gerardus Adam, Breda († 1999)
• Egberdina Hagedoorn, Elburg, Gld, The Netherlands († 1946)
• Deliana Johanna Stijntje Fallaux, Leiden († 2005)

• Arnoldus Johannes DRIFT,VAN DER (65), Monster,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Johannes van der Drift (65), Monster
• Ariaantje Versteeg (88), De Lier, Nederland
• Albertus Prins (43)
• Anna Maria Ruwiel (74), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexandre Carpentier (88)
• Aafje Koeman (50)
• Anthonius Hendrikus Slof (21), Utrecht
• Arie Slotboom (23), Serpong (Java)
• Anna Theodora Maria Verstegen (62)

• 1944 » George Armstrong, English footballer († 2000)
• 1945 » Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater and sportscaster († 2012)
• 1945 » Barbara Delinsky, American author
• 1945 » Posy Simmonds, English author and illustrator
• 1945 » Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player († 2004)
• 1946 » Jim Kiick, American football player
• 1946 » Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock bass player
• 1947 » Barbara Mason, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
• 1947 » John Varley, American author
• 1947 » Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1948 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874)
• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

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. Gerardus
16. John

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 17 » The UN Security Council holds its first session.
• April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• April 8 » Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
• April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• 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.
• July 22 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.

The temperature on August 9, 1946 was between 11.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.