About the day » Thursday August 12, 1948Calender converter

• Maarten Tony te Wierike, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2000)
• Alan R Harding, Canton, Fulton, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• G.C. Wilbrink, Apeldoorn {GE} († 2019)
• Martinus Rudolpha Henricus Alphonsus Maria Coehorst, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jannie Noordhuis († 2008)
• Alida Johanna Bentum, Veendam († 2015)
• Marinus Adam Hubertus de Man († 1978)
• Michael Connolly, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Hubertus Jacobus CLIJSTERS, Tongerlo,,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2010)
• George Allen Henrichs, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 2016)

• Aaltje Maria Onink (85), Maurik
• Beno Geert Kamphuis (85), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Krouwel (68), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• François Zamoyski (60)
• Albert Reefman (64), Rotterdam
• Beno Geert Kamphuis (85), Eelde
• Antonia Maria Ooijen (79), Zevenbergen
• Cornelis van Wijk (59), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bowdoin Bradlee (BB) Crowninshield (80), Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Arij van der Windt (34), Vlaardingen

• 1946 » Terry Nutkins, English television host and author († 2012)
• 1947 » John Nathan-Turner, English author and television director, producer, and writer († 2002)
• 1948 » Graham J. Zellick, English academic and jurist
• 1948 » Siddaramaiah, Indian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
• 1949 » Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer († 2013)
• 1949 » Lou Martin, Northern Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer († 2012)
• 1949 » Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1949 » Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek admiral and politician
• 1949 » Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer and photographer
• 1950 » Jim Beaver, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1941 » Bobby Peel, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1857)
• 1941 » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)
• 1943 » Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)

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.
• June 7 » Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
• June 16 » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
• June 26 » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
• December 22 » Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.

The temperature on August 12, 1948 was between 12.3 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 16.1 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.