About the day » Monday January 6, 1947Calender converter

• Gerrit ten Caat f, Hoogeveen {DR} († 1947)
• Evert Zweers, Heemse († 2014)
• Doodgeboren kind Hamers, Tilburg († 1947)
• Doodgeboren Benerink, Almelo († 1947)
• Jaapje Habers († 1949)
• Henricus Petrus Johannes Vlaminckx, Boxtel († 2018)
• anna mathea jacoba hunnekens, helden-grashoek
• Johanna Adriana (Joke) Pil, Schiedam
• Hubertine Urlings
• James Ralph Samiljan, Ridgewood, Brooklyn, NY († 1999)

• Bartje Romp (86), Ellecom (gem. Rheden, Gelderland)
• Hamers (0), Tilburg
• Albertus (Bertus) Sibon (72), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba von Schmid (46), Wassenaar,Gemeente Wassenaar,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adrianus Alexander Boers (72), Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria van 't Hoff (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amandus Henricus Baptistus Sprengers (73), Haarlem
• baby boy DePass (0), Kingston, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
• Adela Crombez (69), Staden
• Antonia Johanna Baars (40), Woerden, UTR, Nederland

• 1944 » Alan Stivell, French singer-songwriter and harp player
• 1944 » Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer († 2013)
• 1944 » Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 » Barry John, Welsh rugby player
• 1946 » Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2006)
• 1947 » Sandy Denny, English folk-rock singer-songwriter (d 1978)
• 1948 » Dayle Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
• 1948 » Guy Gardner, American colonel and astronaut
• 1949 » Carolyn D. Wright, American poet and academic († 2016)
• 1949 » Mike Boit, Kenyan runner and academic (estimated date)

• 1934 » Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » André Bessette, Canadian saint (b. 1845)
• 1939 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian journalist and politician, 2nd President of Latvia (b. 1871)
• 1941 » Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (b. 1882)
• 1942 » Emma Calvé, French soprano and actress (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Ida Tarbell, American journalist, reformer, and educator (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
• 1949 » Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)

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.
• February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
• June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
• 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 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
• July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
• August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

The temperature on January 6, 1947 was between -9.9 °C and -4.3 °C and averaged -7.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.