About the day » Tuesday April 9, 1946Calender converter

• Hendrika Pieters Bethlehem, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Jacob Nicolaas Stiemer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1946)
• Henk Sietses, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Maria Josephina Walstock, Maastricht († 1947)
• Hendrika Nicolasina Kessen, Maastricht († 1982)
• Klaas Bertus Groen, Velsen († 2002)
• Hendrika Nicolasina Kessen, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 1982)
• James Lionel Malcolm Thorne, Kaipara, Northland, New Zealand († 1978)
• George Hulshout, Vogelwaarde,, Zeeland, Nederland († 2019)

• Adelaïde Louisa Cocheret (47), Malang (Nederlandsch-Indië) (ID)
• Aartje Kamerling (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelaïde Louisa Cocheret (47), Malang (Indonesië)
• Adrianus Johannes KNOOP (43), Beuningen
• Anna Geertruida van Uden (1), Amsterdam
• Antonie Frederik Diederik Hueck (84), Rotterdam
• Anton Anthon Affourtit (63), Hillegom, ZH, Nederland
• den Hartog (0), Culemborg (GL)
• VAN BEUNINGEN, Nijmegen
• Ane Wybes Nauta (63), Leeuwarden, FR, Nederland

• 1944 » Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg, German shot putter
• 1944 » Joe Brinkman, American baseball player and umpire
• 1945 » Steve Gadd, American drummer and percussionist
• 1946 » Alan Knott, English cricketer
• 1946 » David Webb, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1946 » Nate Colbert, American baseball player
• 1946 » Sara Parkin, Scottish activist and politician
• 1947 » Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Italian economist and academic
• 1948 » Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress and politician
• 1948 » Michel Parizeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1944 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Hans Oster, German general (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Hans von Dohnányi, Austrian-German lawyer and jurist (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Johann Georg Elser, German carpenter (b. 1903)
• 1945 » Karl Sack, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1896)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)
• 1948 » George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
• 1948 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Colombian Minister of National Education (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1862)

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.
• May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
• July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
• 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.
• September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
• December 9 » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

The temperature on April 9, 1946 was between 2.5 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.