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• Annetta Antonia Derkina Koole, Groningen, Nederland († 1994)
• Albert Vogelzang († 1988)
• Arno Moonen, Sprang-Capelle,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• doodgeboren van Eendenburg, Monster († 1947)
• Gary Wayne Hollingsworth, Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi († 1982)
• Johannes Nicolaas Maria (Hans) Schep, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2013)
• Harms, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1947)
• Lenie Blokland, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Gerardus Marinus Konniger, Eibergen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1968)
• Aad MARTENS († 2022)

• Anne Arie Luijendijk (90), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Burgt (86), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Robert Millar (60), Auckland,N.Z
• Adrianus Vorstenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adriana Neeltje Hendrikse (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Bergheger (61), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Boon (70), Lekkerkerk
• Aloysius Defever (84), Merckem
• Anna Catharina Bruijninckx (78), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Lester Whitson (73), Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington, United States of America

• 1945 » Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author († 2009)
• 1945 » Richard Bausch, American novelist and short story writer
• 1946 » Hayley Mills, English actress
• 1946 » Tommy Shannon, American bass guitarist
• 1947 » Cindy Pickett, American actress
• 1947 » Dorothy Lyman, American actress
• 1947 » James Woods, American actor and producer
• 1947 » Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia († 2013)
• 1948 » Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)

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.
• February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
• April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
• May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
• June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• 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 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

The temperature on April 18, 1947 was between 2.5 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.