About the day » Thursday January 15, 1948Calender converter

• George Daniel Walker, Madison County, KY († 1997)
• Freddy De Praeter, Merelbeke († 1949)
• Michaël Cornelius Avonts, Waarloos († 2004)
• Adriana Jacoba van 't Hoog, Schipluiden (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Adje van Leijsen, Beek,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2021)
• Francien Coppejans, Oostburg,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1998)
• Anton Marie Steins Bisschop, Eindhoven,Gemeente Eindhoven,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1986)
• Rita Angèle Brackenier, Balegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2021)
• Hendrik Jan Gradus Roerink, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2008)
• Jacoba Cornelia van de Kamp, Putten († 1989)

• Adrianus Maria van Roessel (63), Tilburg
• Chaim Barzel (79), USA
• Alfred Le Grelle (75), Wilrijk, 11002, Belgique
• Albert Jacob Dorrepaal (42), Arnhem (GL)
• * Ria van der Mee (26), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Arie van Schagen (Walkier) (51), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Alkemade (79), Alkemade
• Catharina Cornelia Hollenberg (48), Akersloot, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna 't Mannetje (76), Lienden
• Adriana LETSCH (76), Scheveningen

• 1945 » Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director, and politician († 2015)
• 1946 » Charles Brown, American actor († 2004)
• 1947 » Andrea Martin, American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Mary Hogg, English lawyer and judge
• 1948 » Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter († 1977)
• 1949 » Alasdair Liddell, English businessman († 2012)
• 1949 » Howard Twitty, American golfer
• 1949 » Ian Stewart, Scottish runner
• 1949 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player († 2001)
• 1950 » Marius Trésor, French footballer and coach

• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)
• 1951 » Ernest Swinton, British Army officer (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian captain and sailor (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Ned Hanlon, Australian sergeant and politician, 26th Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Yves Tanguy, French-American painter (b. 1900)
• 1959 » Regina Margareten, Hungarian businesswoman (b. 1863)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Jacob
16. Gerardus

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 20 » Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
• June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
• June 26 » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• July 5 » National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• September 15 » The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.

The temperature on January 15, 1948 was between 1.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.