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• Agnes Antoinetta Maria (Jesje) Vorselaars, Tilburg († 1956)
• Michel Debusscher, Lembeek († 2008)
• John Smit, Edam / Volendam († 2025)
• Hermina op den Brouw, Capelle aan den IJssel
• Erle Antonio Amorim Pessoa, Itabaiana, Paraiba, Brasil († 2007)
• Nellie DONKERSLOOT († 1953)
• Betty Sorgeloos, Aspelare († 2008)
• Hugo Demortier († 2014)
• Annie Vervalcke, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen († 2003)
• Levenloos Kind Stenssen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Anna Catharina Ronden (60), Lindenheuvel-Geleen
• Carl Jerry Bremmer (65), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Bernardus Johannes Weijenbarg (68), Didam, Montferland
• Antonius Veldhuis (72), Denekanp
• Adriana de KONING (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Melchior "Arjaan" "Arjaan" Hagenaars " Hagenaars (73), Bergen op Zoom
• Albertien Bosman (54), Bussum
• Aaltje Huizing (1), Enschede, Nederland
• Bernardina Hendrika de Pont (72), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus ? Vielvoije

• 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)

• 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.
• February 28 » Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
• 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.
• July 26 » U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.
• September 13 » Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
• November 22 » Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
• December 9 » The Genocide Convention is adopted.

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.