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• Pieter Theo Hendriksen, Hilversum
• Markus, Haarlemmermeer († 1947)
• Dennis Wayne Todd ?****, Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Maxine Dorothea Webster, Detroit, Wayne, MI († 1948)
• annemie slaats, liessel († 2018)
• Maria Johanna Braakman, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 2018)
• Jan Fokke († 2015)
• N. N. Soberjé - Schoeber, Horst, Limburg, Nederland († 1947)
• Huibert Cornelis VAN DER MEULEN, Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands († 1948)
• Jean C. Johnke, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota, VS († 2019)

• Andreas Willem Slager (69), Vught
• Anna Wissink (43), Deventer, Ov, The Netherlands
• annigje leendertsdr OVERWATER (79), strijen
• Aarn Kooistra (84), Leeuwarden
• Cornelia Hendrica Kraaijmaat (70), Hilversum Kapteijnstraat 66
• Markus (0), Haarlemmermeer
• Adriana Maria Verkerk (84), Velp, Nederland
• Clara Schaier (24), den Haag
• Anton Fredrik Severs (69), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Hendrica Kraaijmaat (70), Hilversum

• 1945 » Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
• 1945 » Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
• 1945 » Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 » Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
• 1947 » Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1947 » Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1947 » Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
• 1948 » Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
• 1950 » Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
• 1951 » Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer

• 1941 » Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)

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.
• April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
• April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 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 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.

The temperature on November 15, 1947 was between 3.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.