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• Kok Veerman († 2023)
• Antoon Louis Gerard Reintjens, Schaesberg († 1991)
• Aleida Berendina ter Horst, Haart, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1997)
• Jan Belier, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Adrianus Henricus Heemskerk, Hillegom († 2023)
• Charles Earl Hand, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States († 1997)
• Clifford Allen Lockhart, Greenville County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Agatha Cornelia VAN DEN BURG, noordwijkerhout, Nederland († 1981)
• Adrianus Hendricus HEEMSKERK, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2023)
• Franciscus Hubertus Cornelis Deijkers, Gilze en Rijen († 1946)

• Alberdina Rosier (77), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiana Petronella Sparreboom (71), Barendrecht
• Adrianus Verhaar (80), Nieuwveen, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Hubbers (70), Mook en Middelaar
• Adrianus Cornelis Norbertus van DIJK (39), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia Jacquemijns (74), Gorinchem
• Anne Dijkstra (50), Kollumerzwaag, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth Hoefsloot (74), Rotterdam
• Christiana Gray (70), Bedlington, Northumberland, Groot Brittanië
• Catharina Agatha Koning (60), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1944 » Anthony Heald, American actor
• 1944 » Conrad Black, Canadian historian and author
• 1944 » Jacques Demers, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
• 1945 » Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist († 2011)
• 1945 » Hannah Louise Shearer, American screenwriter and producer
• 1946 » Charles Ghigna, American poet and author
• 1946 » Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1946 » Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
• 1947 » Keith Tippett, British jazz pianist and composer
• 1947 » Michael Kaluta, American author and illustrator

• 1925 » Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904)
• 1931 » Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1940 » Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)
• 1942 » Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
• 1945 » John Birch, American soldier and missionary (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)

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 11 » Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
• 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 28 » Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
• December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

The temperature on August 25, 1946 was between 11.9 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.