About the day » Monday March 17, 1947Calender converter

• David L Millett († 2018)
• Gayle Alan VAN DER WIER, Muskegon Muskegon County Michigan U.S.A († 1993)
• NN Le Louse - Le Loux, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1947)
• Marinus Johannes Laurentius van Remunt, Moergestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Bauke Meinte Oosterhout, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)
• Jaap Foppen, Arnhem († 2008)
• Divera Maria van Leeuwen, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• G.L.M. (Gerda) VANEIGELSHOVEN, Waubach/Landgraaf (NL/LI) († 2000)
• Maartje Behr, Amsterdam († 2002)
• Lucia Cornelia Maria Petronella Santegoets, Tilburg († 1947)

• Anna Maria Sinnigen (76), Aschendorf
• Alzira Leite do Amaral (61), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Gerdina Berends (80), Gouda
• Arie Jans Van Schajik (53), Zuilen, Gem. Utrecht
• Anton Theodor Fest (84), Landkreis Düsseldorf, Unterrath, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Aart Polhoud (83), Putten
• Afina Tjaaktje Metting (10), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Bokhorst (50), Edam
• Adrianus van de Loo (82), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonie Adrianus van WALWIJK (77), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1944 » Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 » Pattie Boyd, English model, author, and photographer
• 1945 » Michael Hayden, American general, 20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1947 » Dennis Bond, English footballer, midfielder
• 1947 » Yury Chernavsky, Russian-American songwriter and producer
• 1948 » Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1948 » William Gibson, American-Canadian author and screenwriter
• 1949 » Pat Rice, Irish footballer and coach
• 1949 » Patrick Duffy, American actor, director, and producer
• 1949 » Stuart Rose, English businessman

• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)

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.
• February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• 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 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
• July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
• August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

The temperature on March 17, 1947 was between 4.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.