About the day » Friday August 1, 1947Calender converter

• Charles Milton Snyder, Ohio, United States († 2010)
• Lynda Kaye Dupuy, Alexandria, Rapides, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Albartus Tijssen, Opheusden († 2008)
• John Gerhard Nikolaj Oprel, Ludwigsberg (Dld) († 1994)
• Johannes Izaak Oosterling, Groede, Nederland († 2008)
• Klazina Veenstra, Noorddijk, Middelbert († 1965)
• Kind Span, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1947)
• Mia Isabelle Renee Cornelia Bras, ieper westvlaanderen († 1998)
• John Yeoman Fluhart, Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina († 1947)
• Albartus Tijssen, Opheusden, Nederland († 2008)

• Charles Franklin Curtis (90), Buffalo, Dallas County, Missouri, United States of America
• Antonius van Melis (43), Heerlen
• Derk Bosscher (90), Appingedam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Wilhelmine Bakker (8), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonia Pieternella van LEERSUM (72), Utrecht, 5553, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Arnoldus Nieuwkamp (79), Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Albertdina Borkent (90), Goor, Ov, The Netherlands
• Constant PROVOOST (76), Ichtegem Belgie
• Belia Cornelia Laponder (71), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Arendine Lubiene Bos (26), Dennenoord, Gemeente Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1945 » Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 » Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist († 2006)
• 1946 » Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic
• 1946 » Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1946 » Rick Coonce, American drummer († 2011)
• 1947 » Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist
• 1947 » Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
• 1948 » Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
• 1948 » Cliff Branch, American football player
• 1948 » David Gemmell, English journalist and author († 2006)

• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)

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 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
• June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
• September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
• October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
• October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on August 1, 1947 was between 9.8 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.