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• Johannes Hendricus Koopmans, Culemborg († 1985)
• Jeannine Ghislain Henri Maria HUYSMANS, Merksem, Merksem, Antwerpen, België († 2019)
• Aafke Hendrika ten Veen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Delden, Vaassen († 2009)
• Johan Bernard Huiskes, Hengelo
• Iréne Regina Jeanne Grunsfeld, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Lammechien Berendina KEMPINGA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1992)
• Geoffrey Wisdom, Edinburgh († 2005)
• N.N. Hellenthal, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1947)
• Annemarie Inge LOMMERSE, Haarlem († 1989)

• Adolphus Cloots (75), Herentals, België
• Aagje Spijker (65), Kamerik
• Catharina Keulemans (78), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Kraaijenveld (87), Tubbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abel Kuit (75), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Hendrika van Lienden (0), Zwammerdam
• Arie Brand (26)
• Albertus van Veen (77), Zwartsluis
• Cornelis Jongepier (62), Middelburg
• Augustijn Slabbekoorn (73), Biezelinge, Nederland

• 1945 » Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
• 1945 » Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter († 1996)
• 1947 » France Gall, French singer († 2018)
• 1947 » John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
• 1947 » Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
• 1947 » William E. McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge († 2007)
• 1948 » Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
• 1949 » Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2016)

• 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)

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.
• January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
• December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

The temperature on October 9, 1947 was between 8.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.