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• Klasina Kommer, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde) († 2015)
• Boukje Pasma († 1951)
• April Lynne CAMPBELL, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 2014)
• Rinske Joustra, Easterein († 2013)
• Huig de Best, Katwijk († 2006)
• Frits Leentvaar, Rotterdam († 2009)
• Hendrikus Antonius van Veen († 1991)
• Antonius Petrus Maria Opstal, Voorburg († 2015)
• Dagmar Fröland, Jönköpings Sofia, Jönköping, Sweden († 2000)
• Johannes LECLAIR, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 2000)

• Bastiaan Kooij (79), 's-Gravendeel
• Bastiaan den Hollander (74), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Pietje Nederlof (61), Sliedrecht
• Aagje van der Schelling (71), Capelle aan den IJssel
• Ananias Jackson Sutton (1919)
• Aloysia 'Alice' Gooley (70), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Cornelia Lenaerts (87), Kapellen, Provincie Antwerpen
• Allegonda Dorothea Michael (77), Rotterdam
• "Joseph" Ferdinand Maria Mauritius Leonhard Balthasar von Lobkowicz (27)
• bastiaan arie den HOLLANDER (74), bolnes(ZH)

• 1944 » Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect
• 1944 » Peter Cresswell, English judge
• 1944 » Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
• 1945 » Doug Clifford, American drummer and songwriter
• 1946 » Doug Christie, Canadian lawyer and activist († 2013)
• 1947 » Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician
• 1947 » João Braz de Aviz, Brazilian cardinal
• 1947 » Josep Borrell, Spanish engineer and politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament
• 1947 » Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
• 1945 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
• 1947 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910)

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 25 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
• February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
• March 28 » Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• May 9 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
• July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• August 8 » First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.

The temperature on April 24, 1946 was between 5.0 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.