About the day » Tuesday May 13, 1947Calender converter

• Adrianus Wilhelmus Houbraken, Bergeijk († 1991)
• PAPEN
• Frances Ann Rieman, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2017)
• levenloos geboren zoon Rietveld, Gorinchem († 1947)
• Jacobus Marinus (Koos) Schouwenaar, Rotterdam
• Jozef, Johannes, Servatius Heuberger, Mariaberg,Maastricht,Limburg,Netherlands († 2014)
• Frans Langenberg († 2015)
• Herve Huwel, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgie († 2017)
• Geert Bouws, Annen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)
• MEUNIER, Oisseau le Petit 72 († 2014)

• Arendje Koersen (60), Zwollerkerspel, Nederland
• Aaltje Westerink (63), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jane Leneve (75), Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States
• Berendina Waanders Waanders (86), leeuwarden
• Arnoldus Franciscus (Frans) den Boer (16), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Martina van Trier (80), Breda
• Adelaide Caroline Jaeger (89), Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
• Catharina Joanna Verkooijen (23), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Busscher (51), Stedum
• Carolina van Eijk (60), Amsterdam

• 1945 » Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1945 » Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer
• 1945 » Magic Dick, American blues-rock harmonica, trumpet, and saxophone player
• 1946 » Jean Rondeau, French race car driver and constructor († 1985)
• 1946 » Marv Wolfman, American author
• 1946 » Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author († 2017)
• 1947 » Charles Baxter, American novelist, essayist, and poet
• 1947 » Edgar Burcksen, Dutch-American film editor
• 1948 » Dean Meminger, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1948 » Sheila Jeffreys, English-Australian political scientist, author, and academic

• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893)

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. Marijke

• 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 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
• September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
• October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
• October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
• 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.
• December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

The temperature on May 13, 1947 was between 13.2 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.