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• Frances Jo Kosier, Lansing, Ingham Co., MI († 1969)
• Alice Carolyn LaGasse, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Herman Hermanus Brood, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• Ferdinand Adolf Gerardus Wilhelmus Berns, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1947)
• Foort de Raad, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Arie Mathijs Heijstek, Makassar († 2015)
• Geert Stevens, Monnikendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Ad van Eekelen, Roozendaal († 2009)
• Bob Lanting, Hoorn († 1946)
• Janna (Janet) DIJKSTRA, Zwolle Overijssel Netherlands († 2000)

• Arend SMIT (75), Alteveer (Hoogeveen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus van Vinkel (80), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna VERMEULEN (79), Antwerpen
• Carmen Rosa Gutierrez Builes (70)
• Berend Horst (71), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bessie M Kerns (58)
• Berend Horst (71), Heerde, Nederland
• Adriaan Hooftman ongehuwd (46), Bodegraven, ZH, Nederland
• Catharina Hubertina Heger (80), Venlo
• Bernardus Alders (72), Vierlingsbeek

• 1945 » Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
• 1945 » Peter Pace, American general
• 1945 » Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
• 1946 » Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1973)
• 1946 » Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter († 2013)
• 1947 » Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Quint Davis, American director and producer
• 1947 » Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneon player († 2010)
• 1948 » Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
• 1948 » Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1938 » Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (b. 1851)
• 1939 » Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)
• 1942 » George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (b. 1878)
• 1944 » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (b. 1863)
• 1951 » Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
• 1955 » Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
• 1956 » Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (b. 1909)

• 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 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
• 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.
• July 15 » State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
• December 9 » The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
• December 19 » Start of the First Indochina War.

The temperature on November 5, 1946 was between 2.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.