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• Joan Balakier Guidry († 2016)
• Jean Pierre Clauw, Houthulst († 2014)
• François de Riquet de Caraman († 2002)
• henk berendsen, lichtenvoorde († 2007)
• Hennie Verhoef, Maarssen, U, The Netherlands († 2016)
• Ad de Rooij, Tilburg († 2004)
• Jacob de Vreugd, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Albert Zomer, Avereest († 2022)
• Beja Frouke Louise Alberda van Ekenstein († 1947)
• Dolina Morag Bethune, Uig Snizort Skye Inverness-shire Scotland († 2018)

• Anna Wilhelmina Schellekens (0), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aurèlie Françoise Jeanne Masson (73), Saint Ouen la Rouerie, 35460, FRANCE
• Benjamin Spee (81), Wageningen
• Anna (Johanna) Catharina Lauwers (68), Goirle
• Antje Hulsebos (74), Vlagtwedde
• Aagje Pieters Schuurmans (68), Bolsward, Gem. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Adamus Wilhelmus Lubbers (74), Zuilen
• Agatha van Diepen (69), Heerhugowaard, North Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Jacoba Dobbe (69), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Lauwers (68), Goirle

• 1942 » Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian political scientist, academic, and politician
• 1942 » John McLaughlin, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1943 » Doris Kearns Goodwin, American historian and author
• 1943 » Hwang Sok-yong, South Korean author and educator
• 1945 » Richard R. Schrock, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 » Arthur Conley, American singer-songwriter († 2003)
• 1947 » Marie-Thérèse Letablier, French sociologist and academic
• 1948 » Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Malian civil servant and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1948 » Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer († 1992)
• 1950 » Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic († 2013)

• 1931 » Art Acord, American actor and stuntman (b. 1890)
• 1931 » Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
• 1931 » Mohammad Ali Jouhar, Indian journalist, activist, and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)

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.
• January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
• August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 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 4, 1947 was between -4.4 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.