About the day » Wednesday August 28, 1946Calender converter

• A.M.A. ( Fien) Wachters († 2021)
• Danny Lee Kittrell [?K?Ob], Kentucky († 1991)
• Johannes Cornelius van den Heever († 2010)
• Carolina Maria Blom, Den Haag († 1992)
• Charlotte Jane Howes, St Ignace, Mackinac, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Karen Ann Myers, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Antonius Ids Jozef Postma († 2012)
• Jan van Duyvenbode*, Katwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Dennis Michael Weix († 2018)
• Louwrens Jansen, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 2012)

• Adriana Margaretha Pierson (80), Ermelo
• Arien Roos (76), Wijdenes, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes van Ham (66), Winsum
• Alberdina Rosier (77), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carlos Isaac Lobo y Senior (72), Manhattan, New Yor, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Heesbeen (71), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie ENGELS (82), Strijen
• Clara Maria Dekkers (56), Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van der Wardt, Laren N.H
• Adriana Margaretha (Etha) Pierson, Ermelo, Netherlands

• 1943 » Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1944 » Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
• 1945 » Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1947 » Emlyn Hughes, English footballer († 2004)
• 1947 » Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1948 » Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
• 1948 » Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
• 1948 » Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
• 1948 » Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
• 1948 » Vonda N. McIntyre, American author

• 1934 » Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
• 1937 » George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)
• 1943 » Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)
• 1959 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)

• 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.
• May 5 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 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.
• December 9 » The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
• December 12 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam to United Nations is adopted.

The temperature on August 28, 1946 was between 7.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.