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• Gerhardus Johannes Booijink, Geesteren († 1975)
• Aartje Cornelia Verkerk, Hei-en Boeicop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Krijn van der Heiden, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Annemieke van Roon, Rotterdam
• Ton (Anton) Jansen, Nederland († 2015)
• Jerry Lowell Evers, Murdo, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Franciscus Enkelaar, Zeist († 1998)
• Hendrikje Wouters, Hierden († 1973)
• Adelheid (Ada) BAHNEN, Kerkrade, Nederland († 2019)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1948)

• Anna Bieze (66), Illinois
• Berica Isabelle Zileri dal Verme degli Obbizi (55), Costa-Bissara, Veneto
• Catharina Mulder (71), Emmen
• Aart Snitselaar (63), Ede
• Berica Isabella Zileri (55), Costabissara, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
• Adriana Verhulst (81), Alkmaar,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anske de Boer, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Brons (43)
• Antonia Prijs (34), Vlijmen
• Adriaan Kattestaart (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1946 » Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum
• 1947 » Michael Ignatieff, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1948 » Dave Heineman, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska
• 1948 » Lindsay Crouse, American actress
• 1948 » Richard Riehle, American actor
• 1948 » Steve Winwood, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• 1949 » Ross Bleckner, American painter
• 1950 » Bruce Boxleitner, American actor and author
• 1950 » Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor, director, and producer
• 1950 » Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Scottish lawyer, academic, and politician

• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1957 » Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)

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 24 » Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• 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.
• October 5 » The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.
• November 1 » Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.
• December 10 » The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.

The temperature on May 12, 1948 was between 10.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.