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• Theodoor Pieter Antonius Maes, Tilburg, Nederland († 1949)
• Coby Buitenhuis († 2010)
• John Henry Kok, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota († 2020)
• Aart Peter den Hartog, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Maria Cornelia Beumer, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• Peter Schosser, Bad Schussenried, Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland († 2019)
• May Vrolings
• Johan ( Hans ) Leeflang, Overschie Zuid-Holland Nederland († 2016)
• Virginia Dare Norwood Kittrell, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina († 2018)
• Jacques Smeets, Herk-de-Stad, België († 2009)

• Aleida Keizer (68), Oldenzaal
• Dirk Koers (75), Haarlem
• Abraham KAMERLING Tzn (75)
• Anne Willem Hoekstra (83), Groningen
• Anne te Kloese (60), Hilversum, Heuvellaan 2
• Charley Matt Miller (44)
• David Peter DeVries (51), ,, Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Margaretha Pauli (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aalbertje 'T Hart (73), Rotterdam
• Baukje Runia (75), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland

• 1945 » Elaine Joyce, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1945 » John McEuen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » Robert Urich, American actor and producer († 2002)
• 1946 » Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster
• 1947 » Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass player and songwriter († 2016)
• 1948 » Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1949 » Claudia Kolb, American swimmer
• 1949 » Orna Berry, Israeli computer scientist and businesswoman
• 1949 » Sebastian, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » Eleanor J. Hill, American lawyer and diplomat

• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)

• 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 19 » The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
• March 20 » With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
• June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
• 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.
• July 29 » Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
• October 5 » The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.

The temperature on December 19, 1948 was between -2.4 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.