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• Alex van der Graaf, Renkum († 2012)
• Johannes Lambertus Antonius Maria Moonen, Delft († 1967)
• Doodgeboren Kind Van Tuil, Renswoude († 1948)
• Lens ter Wee, Leiden († 1997)
• J.L.A.M. Hans Moonen, Delft († 1967)
• Adrianus Martinus Maria Strik, Den Dungen († 1959)
• Erik Johan de Gooijer († 1968)
• Hendrik Jan (Henk) Emmelot, amsterdam, Nederland († 2011)
• CHRISTIAN MARIE ANDRE MARTIN POLET, LIEGE († 2010)
• Antoinette Josepha (Annette) Koster, Zeist

• (Levenloos) van Sikkelerus (0), Hontenisse, zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vietor (73), Leiden
• Adrianus Gerrit GROOT (53), Hoorn(Nh)
• Anna Bergsma (86), Steenwijk
• Aaltje Gils (84), Assen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Seeters (48), Rotterdam
• Adriana Romijn (82), Eethen, Genderen en Heesbeen
• Adriana Maria Egberts (70), Leiden
• Abraham van Vliet (70), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• aaltje dol (63), wervershoof

• 1945 » Jophery Brown, American baseball player, actor, and stuntman († 2014)
• 1946 » Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager († 2010)
• 1946 » Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1947 » Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
• 1948 » Gilbert Levine, American conductor and academic
• 1949 » J.P. Pennington, American country-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Mike Caldwell, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 » Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1950 » Frank Schade, American basketball player and coach
• 1950 » Paul Bew, Northern Irish historian and academic

• 1930 » Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 » William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1950 » Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 » Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (b. 1905)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Robert
10. Peter
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. John
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Petronella
10. Adriana
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Aaltje
15. Linda
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
• January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
• February 4 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
• May 14 » Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• June 9 » Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• July 16 » Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

The temperature on January 22, 1948 was between -0.2 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.