About the day » Sunday October 19, 1947Calender converter

• Leslie L. Bohiman († 1966)
• Sharol Kay Heronimus, Alexandria, South Dakota († 2022)
• Raymond L. Drake († 1965)
• Elisabeth Maria Jongh de, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland († 2011)
• Arthur Thomas Berlingo, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Cornelia Alida Maria Wagemakers, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Paul Bolluijt, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Gerardus Johannes van den Bos, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2016)
• Anna Koutstaal († 1975)
• Nathalie de la Boëssière-Thiennes, Lombise, 53046, Belgique († 2000)

• Anna PALSTRA (57), Leeuwarden(Friesland)
• Cornelis Johannes van Spronsen (21), Kabandjake (Sumatra)
• Akke (Anna) Riemersma (79), Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Petronella Paijmans (73), Tilburg
• Clara E HERBERT (36), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Wilhelmina Alida Heijdra (36), Delft
• Antonie van Bogerijen (84), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Kramer (79), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pulstra (57), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Nieuwenhoven (60), Arnhem

• 1945 » Angus Deaton, Scottish-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 » Divine, American drag queen performer, and actor († 1988)
• 1945 » Patricia Ireland, American lawyer and activist
• 1946 » Bob Holland, Australian cricketer and surveyor († 2017)
• 1946 » Keith Reid, English songwriter and lyricist
• 1946 » Philip Pullman, English author and academic
• 1947 » Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian author and illustrator
• 1948 » Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1948 » James Howard Kunstler, American author and critic
• 1948 » Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1936 » Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1952 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
• 1960 » George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1895)

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 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
• April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
• April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
• October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

The temperature on October 19, 1947 was between -1.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.