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• Jan Sparidaens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2009)
• doodgeboren Voois, Monster († 1947)
• Hendrik van den Brink, Zwolle
• David John Westendorf († 1949)
• Anna Maria Annemarie (Anneke) de Wild, Haastrecht († 2022)
• Abel Dekker, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2002)
• Bernardina Wilhelmina Johanna WELLING, Duiven, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Louis Kroezen († 2008)
• Jonny Golverdingen, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Elizabeth Adriana Petronella van Maurik, Rotterdam († 1973)

• Dingena Johanna Antonia Verbaten (0), Heerlen
• Berend Bouwmeester (69), Rhienderen, Gemeente Brummen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arie Kranenburg (22), Wareng Indonesie
• Apolonia Tramper (72), s Gravenpolder
• Berend Kikkert (3), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berend Bouwmeester (69), Rhienderen (Brummen)
• Cornelis Renzenbrink (17), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Celia Janna Dijkhuizen (64)
• cornelis VERMAAS (70)
• Angus Lamont (96), Victoria Cross, Prince Edward Island, Canada

• 1946 » Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician
• 1946 » Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
• 1946 » Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
• 1946 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1947 » Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
• 1947 » Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
• 1947 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1997)
• 1947 » Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1948 » Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
• 1948 » Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright

• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)

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.
• March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
• April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
• October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

The temperature on October 18, 1947 was between 1.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.