About the day » Wednesday October 15, 1947Calender converter

• Maria Wasse, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Geesbrug) († 1958)
• Franciscus Reinier Verheuvel, Amersfoort
• Johan Jozef (Jos) VROOMEN, Heerlen (NL/LI) († 1996)
• Cecile Ann Southwell, Canberra, ACT, Australia († 2009)
• Richard BULTITUDE, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA († 2006)
• Nn Dieteren, Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland
• Piet Molenkamp, Zandeweer, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 2017)
• Johanna Maria (Annie) Papenborg († 2023)
• Christopher (Chris) Williams († 2017)
• Margery Faye Vis

• Alberdina Euverman (41), Gemeente Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Kornelis Dijkstra (80), Kollum,Kollumerland,Fryslan,Nederland
• Anthonius Josephus Everardus Poulissen (80)
• Antonius Josephus Everardus Poulissen (80), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• anna maria teunen (71), amsterdam
• Aaltje Dijkstra (80), kollum
• Alberdina Euverman (41), Almelo
• Arnoldus Albertus Klein Nienhuis (75), Groenlo, Nederland
• Aleida Gertrudis Broekema (68), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adhemard LEBRETON (72), Lisieux

• 1945 » Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
• 1945 » Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer († 2015)
• 1946 » Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
• 1946 » Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1946 » Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
• 1946 » Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
• 1947 » Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1947 » Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
• 1948 » Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1948 » Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 2016)

• 1934 » Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
• 1948 » Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
• 1959 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)

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 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
• April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
• July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
• September 18 » The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States by the National Security Act. It also establishes the Air Force as an equal partner of the Army and Navy.
• October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
• December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

The temperature on October 15, 1947 was between 7.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.