About the day » Thursday February 6, 1947Calender converter

• Jan Dijkema, Stedum († 2014)
• David Jonathon Cash, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Jan Dijkema, Stedum († 2014)
• Esdert de Roo, Vlagtwedde (NL) († 2011)
• catharina (toos) sondagh, nijmegem († 2023)
• Daniel Cornelis Jacobus van Damme, Delft († 1947)
• Anders Torsten Holmström, Örebro, Närke, T, Sweden († 1996)
• Antje│Anneke van Egmond│Vermae, Leiden († 1989)
• Cornelis Gijsbert (Kees) van Wijk, Groningen († 2010)
• Jannigje Wijntje HONKOOP, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)

• Adriana Geertruida Verdoorn (0), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Kingsbury
• Arnoldus Brok (72), Drunen
• Adriana Hannessen (61), Arnhem
• Annigje Versluis (91), Meerkerk
• Antonia cornelia maria (tonia) Steur (1), Wognum
• Anna Margaretha Schippers (55), Eindhoven
• Arendina Alida Smit (43), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Jacobus Smitt (82), De Wijk
• Anna Smitt (81), De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1944 » Christine Boutin, French politician, French Minister of Housing and Urban Development
• 1945 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
• 1946 » Jim Turner, American captain and politician
• 1946 » Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter († 2010)
• 1946 » Richie Hayward, American drummer and songwriter († 2010)
• 1947 » Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Charlie Hickcox, American swimmer (d .2010)
• 1949 » Jim Sheridan, Irish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 » Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player
• 1949 » Mike Batt, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1929 » Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
• 1932 » John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1865)
• 1938 » Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1880)
• 1951 » Gabby Street, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1882)
• 1952 » George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
• 1958 » victims of the Munich air disaster
• 1963 » Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
• 1964 » Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)

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.
• January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
• April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
• July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
• August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

The temperature on February 6, 1947 was between -8.6 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -5.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.