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• Arie van Spronsen, Monster († 1983)
• Adriana Jacoba Maria Leijtens, Waalwijk (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1948)
• Henk Verhooren, Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland († 2003)
• Charles Gerrit Vosveld, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• NN van der Lee, Delft,- († 1948)
• René Mebis, Genk, België († 2004)
• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1948)
• Willy Covemaeker, Veurne († 1993)
• Sary den Hartog, Beesd West Betuwe (GL) († 2004)
• Kant, Alkmaar († 1948)

• Achilles Benoit (67), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• Anna Catharina van Sleenderen (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Ferrier (81), Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland
• Adriaan Soeters (31), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Stam (75), Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland)
• Arnold van Hoven (7), Wellerlooi (L)
• Anna Catharina van Steenderen (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Lobs (86), Rotterdam
• A DEWINTER (58)
• Aaltje Schuttert (76), Ommen

• 1946 » Jean Rondeau, French race car driver and constructor († 1985)
• 1946 » Marv Wolfman, American author
• 1946 » Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author († 2017)
• 1947 » Charles Baxter, American novelist, essayist, and poet
• 1947 » Edgar Burcksen, Dutch-American film editor
• 1948 » Dean Meminger, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1948 » Sheila Jeffreys, English-Australian political scientist, author, and academic
• 1949 » Jane Glover, English conductor and scholar
• 1949 » Philip Kruse, Norwegian trumpeter and orchestra leader
• 1949 » Zoë Wanamaker, American-British actress

• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893)

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.
• May 15 » Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• June 9 » Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
• August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
• August 15 » The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established south of the 38th parallel north.
• December 9 » The Genocide Convention is adopted.
• December 11 » Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.

The temperature on May 13, 1948 was between 5.9 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.