About the day » Saturday May 17, 1947Calender converter

• Alida Hendrina Butter, Middenmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Jan Hendrik (Jan) Everts, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 2019)
• Florent Siebens, Oppuurs († 2020)
• Irene Elisabeth Baier, , Australien († 1998)
• Ali van Urk, Urk († 1952)
• Marten de Vries († 2023)
• Eusebius van der Vegt, Noordoostpolder († 1970)
• Barbara Revertera von Salandra, Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria († 1948)
• Angenita Griep, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Jan Schaafsma († 2008)

• Annie Elizabeth EYLER (80), Collinsville, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
• Aline SPITAELS (71), Orchies, 59449, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Antonius Petrus Martinus van der Stap (20), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Fortgens (67), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Maria Bertens (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Hazelaar (69), Voorst
• Barthold Henny (61), Wassenaar (Z.-H.), Neth
• Andreas Giezen (56), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Zuidgeest (80), Rotterdam
• Anna Lena Visser (44), Ede

• 1944 » Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2014)
• 1945 » B.S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
• 1945 » Tony Roche, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1946 » Udo Lindenberg, German singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1947 » Stephen Platten, English bishop
• 1948 » Dick Gaughan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Bill Bruford, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1949 » Keith, American pop singer
• 1950 » Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer († 1991)
• 1950 » Keith Bradley, Baron Bradley, English accountant and politician

• 1934 » Cass Gilbert, American architect (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Panagis Tsaldaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian academic and politician (b. 1877)
• 1943 » Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (b. 1864)
• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Adrianus
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 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
• April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
• June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
• July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
• July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
• 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.

The temperature on May 17, 1947 was between 10.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.