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• Pier Glas, Nieuw Roden (Roden) († 1978)
• John Fredrick Vogel, Gary, Indiana († 1995)
• Peter Roordink, Putten († 2015)
• Maria A.A. Versleijen, Gilze en Rijen
• Hebert Anthony Flowers, Huxford, Escambia, Alabama, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Paulus Andreas Maria Oor, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)
• Nelleke Sierink, Twisk († 2008)
• Chrétien Cornelis Knippenberg, Genk, Limburg, Belgium († 2000)
• Maria Beukman, amsterdam, Nederland († 1949)
• John Joseph Motyka Jr, Detroit Wayn, Michigan († 2001)

• Anna Maria Strubberg (79), Florissant MO (USA)
• Adriana Heijstek (68), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adolphus Hendrikus Voorloop (67), Amsterdam
• Alan Hugh McKAY (0), London, Ontario, Canada
• Albertjen de Jong (78), Rotterdam
• Adriana Louwe (78), Schoorl
• Alphonsus, Seraphinus De Gols (74), Baardegem
• Abraham Maas (70), Vlissingen
• Aaltje Ruiterkamp (84), Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amália Ribeiro Gonçalves (52), Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brasil

• 1943 » Blythe Danner, American actress
• 1943 » Dennis Edwards, American soul/R&B singer († 2018)
• 1945 » Bob Griese, American football player and sportscaster
• 1945 » Johnny Cymbal, Scottish-American singer-songwriter and producer († 1993)
• 1947 » Paul Auster, American novelist, essayist, and poet
• 1947 » Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor and director
• 1948 » Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright († 2015)
• 1949 » Jim Thorpe, American golfer
• 1950 » Grant Goldman, Australian radio and television host († 2020)
• 1950 » Morgan Fairchild, American actress

• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Vasily Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)
• 1956 » Johnny Claes, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (b. 1916)
• 1959 » The Day the Music Died
• 1960 » Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)

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

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 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
• May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
• 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.
• July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
• October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The average temperature on February 3, 1947 was -1.4 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 11.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.