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• Jean Paul Boegem, Hilversum († 2020)
• Karel van Santen, Rheden, Nederland († 2006)
• Agatha Hilje Perdok, Usquert († 1949)
• Jaap Weggeman, Amersfoort († 1985)
• Harm Meertens, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Antonia Wilhelmina van den Hoff, Nijmegen († 2008)
• Gerrit-Jan Schimmel, Doetinchem († 2020)
• Antonia Catharina Griethuysen, 's-Gravenhage († 2008)
• Irma Lameir, Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Fennechienus Mink, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)

• Charles Melvin Warr (51), Minidoka, Minidoka County, VS
• Catharina Elisabeth Leenen (64), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Anna der Kinderen (56), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Henrica Konings (43), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Lodeweges (81), Holten, Rijssen-Holten, OVl
• Aaltjen Ordelman (35), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus Breij (66), Haarlem
• Berend Tonnis (80), Lutten a d Dedemsvaart
• Aalbert Jan van Eldik (51), Kesteren
• Oemboek (alias Helena) (77), Klaten

• 1944 » David Kelly, Welsh scientist († 2003)
• 1944 » Gene Cornish, Canadian-American guitarist
• 1944 » George Lucas, American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm
• 1945 » Francesca Annis, English actress
• 1945 » George Nicholls, English rugby player
• 1945 » Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer
• 1946 » Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, English economist and journalist
• 1947 » Al Ciner, American pop-rock guitarist
• 1947 » Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)
• 1948 » Timothy Stevenson, English lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

• 1936 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1945 » Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1852)
• 1945 » Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (b. 1913)
• 1953 » Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter and photographer (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (b. 1888)
• 1956 » Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)

• 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.
• March 6 » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
• April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
• October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
• November 19 » Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

The temperature on May 14, 1946 was between 2.1 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.