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• Gerrit Klement († 2004)
• Agaath Betlem, Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Jean JANSSEUNE, Brugge, 31005, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1946)
• Carla Leker († 1946)
• Jacob Heinen, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1946)
• James Frank White III, Falls, Texas († 1952)
• Gerald Juffer, Sioux, Iowa (USA) († 2022)
• Cornelis Hendrikus Calis, Laren († 1976)
• Arnoldina van Eik, Surhuisterveen († 1963)
• Marcella Robben, Turnhout († 2016)

• Age Roelofs SMIDS (77), Achtkarspelen Friesland Netherlands
• Agnes Godelieve Maria Beatrix Kentie (0), 's-Gravenhage, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Theodorus J R Van Dinten (0), Cuijk
• Albert Schimmel (87), Scherpenzeel,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Holtkamp (76), Enschede
• ALBERT SCHIMMEL (87), Scherpenzeel
• Abraham Nieuwland (83), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Weerman (71), Meppel
• Anthonia Bermina Leeuwenburg (71), Dinteloord
• Abraham Jongerling (82)

• 1941 » Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
• 1944 » Mick Avory, English drummer
• 1945 » Douglas Hofstadter, American author and academic
• 1945 » Jack Dann, American-Australian author and poet
• 1945 » John Helliwell, English saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1946 » Clare Short, English civil servant and politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1947 » John Adams, American composer
• 1947 » Marisa Berenson, American model and actress
• 1948 » Art Spiegelman, Swedish-American cartoonist and critic
• 1949 » Ken Anderson, American football quarterback and coach

• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Jacobus
9. Robert
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. Aaltje

• 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 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
• January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
• February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
• April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• June 18 » Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
• October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

The temperature on February 15, 1946 was between 5.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.