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• Lammechiena Berendina Kempinga, Groningen, Nederland († 1992)
• Lammechien Berendina KEMPINGA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1992)
• Carlos Mauricio d'Amorim Goes Lima, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 1991)
• Johanna Petronella Arnolda Hoogveld, Arnhem († 1999)
• Cornelis de Lange († 1947)
• Johan Bernard Huiskes, Hengelo
• Betty Carolyn Nealy, Horry County,South Carolina († 2000)
• Krijn Kater, Den Helder, Nederland († 2005)
• Lammert van der Veen, Rottevalle (gemeente Achtkarspelen) († 2004)
• Jerry Lee Todd ****, Mountain Grove, Wright, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2007)

• Andries Bravenboer (46), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Spijker (65), Kamerik
• Dorothea Dethmars (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jongepier (62), Middelburg
• David Henry Anderson (66), Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
• Berendina Kraaijenveld (87), Tubbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adolphus Cloots (75), Herentals, België
• Cornelia Hendrika van Lienden (0), Zwammerdam
• Albertus van Veen (77), Zwartsluis
• 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. 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.
• April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
• 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.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
• November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
• November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

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.