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• Marc Vandendriessche († 1949)
• Hubrecht Cornelis van de Zande, Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland († 2016)
• Carolus Louis Martinus Sonnenberg, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Aukes, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1948)
• Gerald Douglas Sheaves, Dartmouth, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada († 1998)
• Antoinetta Geertruida Hendrika Maria Derksen, Babberich († 1988)
• Raphael Van Melkebeke, Schelderode († 1979)
• Harrie Kogelman († 1973)
• Dick Feddes († 1980)
• infant Huibregtse († 1948)

• Baukje van Delden (85), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus de Rooij (74), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Beemsterboer (80), Blokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benoni Seraphin Lippens (64), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriana van den Brink (81), Soest
• Bertha Momma (68), Süchteln (D)
• Baukje van Delden (85), Hoorn
• Antonius Josephus Maria van Dijk (48), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Commodore George Hunsaker (83), Kirksville, Adair Co, MO
• August D'haen (61), Hoboken

• 1945 » Bo Rein, American football player and coach († 1980)
• 1945 » John Lodge, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1945 » Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Larry Craig, American soldier and politician
• 1946 » Randal Kleiser, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 » Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Gerd Binnig, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 » Muse Watson, American actor and producer
• 1950 » Edward Leigh, English lawyer and politician
• 1950 » Lucille Lemay, Canadian archer

• 1937 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Ludwig Beck, German general (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Abdullah I, king of Jordan (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Jan Struther, English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
• 1956 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (b. 1868)

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.
• March 18 » Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
• April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
• April 28 » Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
• May 24 » Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• July 1 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
• 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 July 20, 1948 was between 13.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.