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• N.N. Schonewille, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands († 1948)
• Cor Verberk († 2004)
• Štefan - Milan Butinar, CELJE († 1949)
• Huub Klompenhouwer, Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Cornelis Oosterbroek, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde) († 2010)
• Anna Arnolda Nieuwhart, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2002)
• Daniel John Wiersma († 2020)
• willy MATHIEU, Eugies (Belgium) Hainaut († 2013)
• Hendrikus Johannes Keesom, Texel († 2008)
• NN Mollema, Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland († 1948)

• Bastiaantje Versluis (53), Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine (72)
• Egbert van Bon (85), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonius Loozekoot (63), Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Loozekoot (63), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Augusta Alvah Vaughan (63), Carlsbad, NM (Eddy Co)
• Cornelia Margaretha Raucamp (54), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cora A Pearl (68), Big Clifty, Grayson County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana de Boef (73), Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Loozekoot (63), Utrecht

• 1946 » David Suchet, English actor
• 1946 » Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1946 » Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic († 2011)
• 1947 » James Dyson, English businessman, founded the Dyson Company
• 1947 » Lynda Myles, English screenwriter and producer
• 1947 » Philippe Herreweghe, Belgian conductor
• 1948 » Larry Gatlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1949 » Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener and author
• 1949 » Alfons Schuhbeck, German celebrity chef, author and businessman
• 1950 » Simon Gaskell, English chemist and academic

• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)

• 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.
• April 9 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
• June 22 » King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
• 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.
• September 17 » The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
• September 17 » The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.

The temperature on May 2, 1948 was between 5.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.