About the day » Thursday January 9, 1947Calender converter

• Harry Martin van Hassel, Den Haag († 1995)
• Lucia Johanna Wilhelmina Nijhuis, Haaksbergen († 1947)
• Dolf Heukels, Deventer, prov. Overijssel († 2017)
• Janna Es, van, Esbeek gem. Hilvarenbeek Nb. Nederland († 2002)
• Jacobus M. (Sjaak) Waasdorp, Leiden († 1989)
• Janet Louise RAMSELL (SPENCE) († 2007)
• Lucia Johanna Wilhelmina Nijhuis, Haaksbergen († 1947)
• Jean Yves Louis Bedos, Saint-Rémy,14570,Calvados,Normandie,France († 1982)
• Cornelia Smeets, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1947)
• Juliana Paulina Caroline Stütz († 2015)

• Arie de Kaste (36), Amsterdam
• Ada Estella Allen (74), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Albert HEELING (67), Aalden
• Anthonij van den DOEL (61), Dirksland
• Antonia Willemina Schuttevaar (64), Renkum, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje de Haan (82), Twijzelerheide, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie VERZENDAAL (68), Dordrecht
• Adriaan van der Have (57), Goes
• (Stillborn) FOLKERSMA (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Aart Verwijs (75), Andel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1944 » Harun Farocki, German filmmaker († 2014)
• 1944 » Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1944 » Mihalis Violaris, Cypriot singer-songwriter and actor
• 1945 » Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Syrian-Armenian scholar and politician, 1st President of Armenia
• 1946 » Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician, 45th Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1946 » Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Indian historian and academic († 2013)
• 1947 » Ronnie Landfield, American painter and educator
• 1948 » Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2006)
• 1948 » Jan Tomaszewski, Polish footballer, manager, and politician
• 1950 » Alec Jeffreys, English geneticist and academic

• 1936 » John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1939 » Johann Strauss III, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1890)
• 1945 » Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1945 » Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral and pilot (b. 1908)
• 1946 » Countee Cullen, American poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1947 » Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Adrianus
9. Pieter
10. Jacobus
11. Peter
12. Petrus
13. Dirk
14. Jacob
15. Wilhelmus
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Elisabeth
5. Wilhelmina
6. Anna
7. Hendrika
8. Petronella
9. Catharina
10. Adriana
11. Geertruida
12. Margaretha
13. Yvonne
14. Jacoba
15. Helena
16. Linda

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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.
• The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
• February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
• March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
• April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
• June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
• September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

The temperature on January 9, 1947 was between -1.0 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.