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• Levenloos Suijkerbuijk, Oudenbosch († 1947)
• Pieter Glas, Nieuw Roden († 1978)
• Carola Pauline van der Boon, Delft († 2018)
• Jacqueline J.G. van den Enden († 1988)
• Bertus Zomer, Schardam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Peter Roordink, Putten († 2015)
• Nel Vrijenhoek († 2018)
• Maarten Meeuse, Bodegraven gem. Bodegraven-Reeuwijk Zhl. Nederland († 2006)
• Winand de Wilde, Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland († 1958)
• Camiel WUYTS, Sint-Antonius, Brecht, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2021)

• Albertjen de Jong (78), Rotterdam
• (82), Ft. Mitchell, Kenton Co., KY /, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Cornelia Henrietha Leeuw, de (24), Nieuwer Amstel gem. Amstelveen Nrh. NL
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Kwaspen (82), Stramproy, Provincie Limburg, Nederland
• Alfred Henry Whitehead Mundell (77), Tarkastad, Tarkastad, Stormberg District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Sonneveld, Rotterdam
• Adeleida Huberta Jenneskens (76), Heel en Panheel,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Neijenhof van Nijenhoff (80), Rotterdam
• Alan Hugh McKAY (0), London, Ontario, Canada
• Achiel Alfons Bosch (44), Handzame

• 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. 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.
• March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 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.
• November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

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.