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• Ron Janssen, Ned Indië († 2008)
• Gerard Geerts van der Meulen, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2003)
• Neeltje Johanna van Kessel, Haarlem, Ned
• Paul Hoogenboom, Jakarta, Indonesië († 1948)
• Larry Dean Jennings, Wendell, Idaho, VS († 2017)
• Roland de Soubeyran († 2007)
• Judith Kay LOCKETT († 2007)
• Olaf Boudewijn (Olaf) Morseld, Haarlem, Nederland († 2003)
• Gary Harrison, Chicago
• Johannes Jacobus Mager, Roermond († 2011)

• Annie Dorothy Jenson Kelson SorenFath (71), Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Reus (19), Obdam, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Jaspers (68), Nijmegen
• adriana (jaan) veldhuijzen (61), helenaveen
• Albert Antonius Kok (78), Groningen, Netherlands
• Berendina Dijkhuizen (70), Hasselt
• Anna Josephina BERNAR (80), Rillaar Vlaams Brabant *
• Bruinis van Dijk (82), Jutphaas, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltje Streurman (84), Harkstede, Slochteren,, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Adriana Smits (69), Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)

• 1945 » Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1945 » Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland († 2013)
• 1946 » Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician († 2000)
• 1947 » Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1948 » Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
• 1948 » Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
• 1949 » Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
• 1949 » Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1950 » Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress

• 1939 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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.
• April 3 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5billion in aid for 16 countries.
• May 13 » Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
• May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
• September 13 » Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
• October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
• November 1 » Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.

The temperature on May 29, 1948 was between 2.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.