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• Dirk WESSELS, Rijssen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 2017)
• Lisbeth Rita Staab, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Corrie Verschure, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Arendje Neeltje de Vos, Stad aan het Haringvliet, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Elisabeth Adriana Francina Tillemans, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Henny Berends († 2010)
• Lieuwe Dijk, Veenwouden († 1948)
• Bastiaan Bolluijt, Roosendaal († 2015)
• Lijsje Berendina Smit, Blokzijl († 1999)
• Hedda Butin Bik, Bondowoso, Besoeki, East Java, Indonesia († 2000)

• Adrianus Bernardus Bosman (90), Holland, Ottawa county, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Allegonda Lenssen (65), Druten
• Anna Catharina Nooyens (54), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Coenraad Frederik Peiffer (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bernadus (Adrian B.) Bosman (90), Holland, Ottawa county, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Petronella van den Bosch (43)
• Alonzo Daly (53), Mill City, Linn County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Jansen (62), Arnhem
• Antje Hofstede (79), Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Berend Meijer (77), Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland

• 1945 » Anne Waldman, American poet
• 1945 » Don Sutton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1945 » Guy Fréquelin, French race car driver
• 1945 » Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Linda Hunt, American actress
• 1945 » Reggie Smith, American baseball player and coach
• 1946 » David Heyes, English politician
• 1946 » Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter († 1997)
• 1946 » Richard Collinge, New Zealand cricketer
• 1946 » Sue Townsend, English author and playwright († 2014)

• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)

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 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
• February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
• April 1 » The 8.6 M_w  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
• 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 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
• October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.

The temperature on April 2, 1946 was between 2.0 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.