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• Jacoba Maria Pronk, Delft, Zuid Holland († 2020)
• Jan Barendrecht († 2019)
• Cornelis van Delden, Vaassen († 2009)
• Jozef Dieters, Schinnen († 1997)
• Marie Dorothea Francisca Mulders, Maasbree († 1999)
• Lammert van der Veen, Rottevalle (gemeente Achtkarspelen) († 2004)
• Jacobus Pieter (Koos) Dijkxhoorn, Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Carlos Mauricio d'Amorim Goes Lima, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 1991)
• Cornelis de Lange († 1947)
• Jerry Lee Todd ****, Mountain Grove, Wright, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2007)

• Aagje Spijker (65), Kamerik
• David Henry Anderson (66), Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
• Bernardus Sebastianus Wensing (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Veen (77), Zwartsluis
• Arend Middelveld (77), Rolde
• Albert Kramer (61), Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
• Aleida Pullen (0), Hardenberg
• Berendina Kraaijenveld (87), Tubbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia van den Berg (60), Wouw
• Catharina Maria Ei (77), Amsterdam

• 1945 » Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
• 1945 » Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter († 1996)
• 1947 » France Gall, French singer († 2018)
• 1947 » John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
• 1947 » Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
• 1947 » William E. McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge († 2007)
• 1948 » Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
• 1949 » Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2016)

• 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)

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.
• April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 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 18 » The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States by the National Security Act. It also establishes the Air Force as an equal partner of the Army and Navy.
• November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
• December 30 » Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.

The temperature on October 9, 1947 was between 8.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.