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• Janet Neuman († 1949)
• Jan van Veen († 1962)
• Jack Barhite († 1991)
• Dida den Braven († 1953)
• Elisabeth Christina Maria Peijs, Breda († 1947)
• Bonnie Paulette Beers, Motley, Minnesota, VS († 2021)
• Johanna Maria (Mieke) Duppen, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2020)
• Jan Barendregt, Dordrecht, Nederland († 2012)
• Beatrix Rosalie triebel († 2012)
• de Waal, Den Bommel

• Anje Abbring (66), Middelstum (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Antonius Jacobus Ezendam (46), Hengelo
• Berdina-Aleida Koenders (83), Arnhem
• adriaantje KERSTEN (89), berkel
• Antje Leenderts VAN DER MEIJ (65), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Arend Pool (74), Zwolle, Nederland
• Albert Gustav Franz Naumann (73), Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Adrianus Johannes Sebrechts (91), Ossendrecht (Woensdrecht) (Noord-Brabant)
• Bocke Alberts Boonstra (78), Wijnjeterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Huybrechts (98), Stabroek

• 1945 » Dave Walker, English singer and guitarist
• 1945 » Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
• 1946 » Doc Bundy, American race car driver and technician
• 1947 » Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer († 2017)
• 1947 » Tostão, Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
• 1948 » Georgy Shishkin, Russian painter and illustrator
• 1948 » Ros Kelly, Australian educator and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel
• 1949 » John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic
• 1949 » Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 » Gloria Naylor, American novelist († 2016)

• 1939 » Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
• 1949 » Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
• 1957 » Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
• 1957 » Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
• 1958 » Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
• 1968 » Louie Myfanwy Thomas, Welsh writer (b. 1908)

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.
• January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
• June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
• August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
• November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
• November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.

The temperature on January 25, 1947 was between -10.3 °C and -1.3 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.