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• Jannie Blomberg († 2007)
• Jacoba Margaretha KAPTEIJN, Amsterdam († 2022)
• Marianne Boersma, Deventer († 2009)
• Jan Huijbrechts, Wijk aan Zee († 2013)
• Jantje Blomberg, Schagen († 2007)
• Jean Janssen, Herderen, België († 2023)
• John George Sumner Albee, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States († 2017)
• Barbara Klerkx, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Irene Leonie Emma Pijcke, Waterlandkerkje († 2016)
• Effie J. Plank, Coatesville, Pennsylvania († 1949)

• Alida van der Kleij (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adam de Jong (22), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Kleijn (82), 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Hillenaar (58), Den Haag
• Anna Loots (36), Wellsburg, Grundy County, Iowa
• Antonie Pieter Net (60), Heerlen
• Breunis Zoeten (55), Barneveld
• Alphonsus Josephus DE MEY (70), Hamme,9220,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Braam (3), Benneveld, Nederland
• Adriana Jacquelina Jacoba Reckerts (64), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname

• 1946 » Bernard Maris, French economist and journalist († 2015)
• 1946 » Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
• 1946 » Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh, English politician
• 1947 » Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 » Mary Kay Place, American actress
• 1947 » Neal Smith, American drummer and songwriter
• 1948 » Dan Toler, American guitarist († 2013)
• 1949 » Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Floella Benjamin, Trinidadian-English actress, academic, and politician
• 1949 » Kostas Tournas, Greek singer-songwriter

• 1929 » Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Hale Holden, American businessman (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)

• 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 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
• May 12 » Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
• September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
• September 24 » The Honda Motor Company is founded.
• 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 28 » The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

The temperature on September 23, 1948 was between 4.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.