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• Abraham Verhey, Oudewater, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2018)
• Everton Capri Freire, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil († 2012)
• Donald Dick [Wk FdgqMmSweetKYBu-2], Pulaski County, Kentucky ac († 1948)
• Jo Wijnen († 1994)
• Gerold KUHLMANN († 2009)
• Marie-Claire Houwaer, Sint-Truiden, België († 2021)
• Agnes Antoinetta Maria (Jesje) Vorselaars, Tilburg († 1956)
• Hugo Demortier, Antwerpen († 2014)
• George Eric Montagu DOUGLAS-HOME († 1999)
• Cornelis den Butter, Schoonhoven († 1994)

• Bridget "Sr Mary Columbkille" Rafferty (83), Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
• Adrianus Jacobus Melchior Hagenaars (73), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Schalken (78), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Verhaar (84), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas van der Heijden (30), Eindhoven
• Barend van Zadelhoff (54), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Weijenbarg (68), Didam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Ronden (60), Lindenheuvel-Geleen
• Carl Jerry Bremmer (65), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Albertien Bosman (54), Bussum

• 1946 » Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician
• 1947 » Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver
• 1947 » Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor († 2019)
• 1948 » Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician
• 1948 » Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer († 2018)
• 1949 » Leslie Moonves, American businessman
• 1949 » Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
• 1949 » Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer
• 1949 » Penny Junor, English journalist and author
• 1949 » Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

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. Gerardus
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 29 » The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
• 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 7 » Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
• June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
• June 22 » The ship HMTEmpire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
• July 1 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.

The temperature on October 6, 1948 was between 4.2 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.