About the day » Monday September 2, 1946Calender converter

• Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States († 1946)
• Danny Gale Jenkins, Lincoln County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Donnie Edwin Kittrell [[K FgcFrfldCCMSBu]]5, Greene County, Mississippi ql († 1971)
• Eert Wietze de Boer († 1946)
• van der Horst, Rotterdam († 1946)
• Molly van der Weij, Amsterdam († 2017)
• Jan Steunenberg, Emst († 1976)
• Jan Steunenberg, Emst (Gem. Epe) († 1976)
• Sonia Betty Frida BIELEN, 3500 Hasselt,Limburg,Belgium († 2015)
• Margaretha Emma Maria Broersen, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland

• Cornelia Stechmann (37), Naarden
• Dina Stechman (33), Muiden
• Adriana Brugmans (71), Poederoijen
• Cornelia Stechman (37), Muiden
• Annetje Callenbach (37), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Hagen (58), Vught
• Cornelis Gerardus Mulder (61), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Daudt (56), gouda
• Anna Maria Dekkers (68), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clarkson Pottenger [KsBu] "Clark" (85), Atkins, Pope County, Arkansas

• 1944 » Janet Simpson, English sprinter († 2010)
• 1946 » Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor († 2006)
• 1946 » Dan White, American assassin and politician († 1985)
• 1946 » Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American actor († 2014)
• 1946 » Marty Grebb, American keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, and music producer/arranger († 2020)
• 1946 » Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie, English humanitarian and politician
• 1946 » Walt Simonson, American author and illustrator
• 1947 » Jim Richards, New Zealand race car driver
• 1947 » Louis Michel, Belgian educator and politician, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1948 » Nate Archibald, American basketball player and coach

• 1937 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1942 » James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
• 1945 » Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
• 1953 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)

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.
• March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
• April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
• April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• May 1 » The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
• December 9 » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
• 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 2, 1946 was between 9.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.