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• Doodgeboren kind van de Mortel, Deurne († 1946)
• Harmen Rolfers, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 2022)
• Bonnie Ann Todd ****, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Antje Broekhuizen, Roodeschool
• Johannes Meelker, Een († 2008)
• Ferdinand Visser, Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 2002)
• Hendrik ten Hoove, Apeldoorn († 1946)
• ZWEERS
• Harold Wayne Whisenhunt, Taylor County, Texas († 1997)
• Levenloos van de Mortel, Deurne, Deurne en Liessel († 1946)

• Alijda Wilhelmina Rosalie Beijer (80), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jan van der Verhoef (31), Utrecht
• Anna Margaretha van Groningen (85), Voorst
• Angela Rolfes (72), Barger-Compascuum
• Albert Jan van der Hoef (31), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alphonsus Isidorus Tubbeckx (41), Geel (Antwerpen, BEL)
• Alida Hus (79), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Martina van der Klaauw (60)
• Anna Catharina Bertram (73), Beverwijk
• Albert Kraster (63), Groningen

• 1943 » Andrew Brook, Canadian philosopher, author, and academic
• 1943 » Jeff Banks, Welsh fashion designer
• 1944 » Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 » John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Pattie Boyd, English model, author, and photographer
• 1945 » Michael Hayden, American general, 20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1947 » Dennis Bond, English footballer, midfielder
• 1947 » Yury Chernavsky, Russian-American songwriter and producer
• 1948 » Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1948 » William Gibson, American-Canadian author and screenwriter

• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)

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 19 » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• January 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
• April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
• July 15 » State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
• August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
• October 13 » France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

The temperature on March 17, 1946 was between -5.2 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.