About the day » Monday October 6, 1947Calender converter

• Frederika Bakker († 2002)
• Aad Droppert († 2004)
• Han PEEKEL, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Maria Berendina (Dina) (Assen) Maatje, Klazienaveen, Emmen, Nederland († 2021)
• L.L. Johans Nooijen, Horst (L († 1947)
• Jacoba Margaretha Jansen, amsterdam, Nederland († 1996)
• Annemieke Van Vessem, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Frederik Braam, Hengelo, Nederland († 2009)
• André Hendrickx, Neuvilles en Condroz († 1992)
• Lidy Maria Assunta Lange, Katwijk aan den Rijn,Katwijk (Zuid-Holland),Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 2007)

• Cornelia Johanna Maria Geertruida van der Poel (68), Alphen a.d.Rijn
• * Johanna Frederika van der Poel (88), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Jacobs Viersen (59), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Geertruida Tinkelenberg (83)
• Anna Alberdina Sieders (78), Vlaardingen
• Cornelis Besterveld (77), Almkerk
• Antonetta Dedrika de Nekker (81), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Fransisca Maria Nelly2 Fouchier (3), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Francisca Anna Fouchier (3), Tilburg
• Cyrillus Camillus De Blonde (71), Klerken

• 1946 » Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
• 1946 » John Monie, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1946 » Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter († 2020)
• 1946 » Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster († 2012)
• 1946 » Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician († 2017)
• 1947 » Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver
• 1947 » Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor († 2019)
• 1948 » Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician
• 1948 » Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer († 2018)

• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

• 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 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
• April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
• June 5 » Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
• July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
• November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
• December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

The temperature on October 6, 1947 was between 3.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.