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• Gilbert Edward Garrow, Cadyville, Clinton Co., New York, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• jaantje wagtmans, roosendaal († 2017)
• Harry Dean Cook, Pendleton, Madison Co., IN († 1996)
• Linda SImon, Winona, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Hester Gerda KARELS, Rotterdam († 2001)
• Clara (Clairy) Wilhelmina Venhorst, Megchelen († 1998)
• anna margaretha jacoba (margriet) korsten, helden-panningen
• Gene Arlo Rindels, Fillmore County (Minnesota) († 1995)
• Michael William Henshaw, Blackburn, UK († 1983)
• Andries de Ridder, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 2014)

• Aaltje Schothorst (62), Noordbroek
• Alida Maria Verhooren (55), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Kollau (73), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aaltje Reijntjes (73), Nieuw Roden
• Adrianus Sebregts (73), Tilburg
• Aline Burgemeestre (91), Bersiapkamp Sumobito
• Pieter Zwerwer (95), Zwolle
• Alice Bulthuis (70), Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Roelofs (78), St Jansteen
• Aloisia Neuper (32), Hartberg,Fürstenfeld,Steiermark,Österreich,A

• 1941 » Nick Nolte, American actor and producer
• 1941 » Tom Rush, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 » Robert Klein, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1942 » Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2004)
• 1944 » Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor († 2014)
• 1944 » Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer and journalist
• 1947 » J. Richard Gott, American astronomer and academic
• 1948 » Dan Seals, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2009)
• 1949 » Brooke Adams, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 » Niels Arestrup, French actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
• 1957 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1959 » William J. Donovan, American head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1960 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)

• 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 8 » The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North, establishing the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
• 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.
• June 1 » Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
• June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
• June 23 » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
• July 4 » After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.

The temperature on February 8, 1946 was between 6.4 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 53.9 mm of rain during 22.3 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.