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• dood geboren Zwaard († 1946)
• Piet Seine, Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• Koelemij, Haarlem († 1946)
• Maria Berendina Aleida Scheffer († 2023)
• Gerry Rovers, Mill, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)
• Hanneke Stuurman, Breda (NBr.) († 1993)
• James Edward Zitnik († 1947)
• John E. Hicks († 1997)
• Jan HOUBEN, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1947)
• Piet Seine, Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)

• Anna Louise Isselhardt (33), Belleville, St Clair, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth Kleine (85), TerApelkanaal
• Aaltje Jans Kloosterman (83), Suameer
• Anne de Carne (62)
• Antonius van Veen (74), Noordwijkerhout, St Bavo
• Adriaan Lodewijk VAN HARPEN KUIJPER (75), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Adriana Ossewaarde (82), Bergen op Zoom
• Constantinus Josephus Maria Franken (64), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Constantius Josephus Maria Franken (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Tiebackx (72), Roosendaal

• 1944 » Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer
• 1944 » Linda Kaye Henning, American actress
• 1946 » Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer († 2019)
• 1946 » Mike Reynolds, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Sonny LeMaire, American country music singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1947 » Dusty Hughes, English director and playwright
• 1948 » Julia Donaldson, English author and playwright
• 1948 » Kenney Jones, English drummer
• 1948 » Ron Blair, American bass player
• 1948 » Rosemary Casals, American tennis player and sportscaster

• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
• 1946 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
• 1955 » Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)

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.
• February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
• 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.
• April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
• April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
• October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
• December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

The temperature on September 16, 1946 was between 5.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.