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• Sharon Lynn Erhardt, Mandan Morto, North Dakota († 2002)
• Larry Edward "Jack" Darr, New Bethlehem, Clarion, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Lynn K Donohue, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 2017)
• Jacobus Cornelis Smit, Noordwijk († 2011)
• Johannes Antonius Wesselink, Geesteren († 1994)
• Gerrit Willem de Wal, Rotterdam († 1992)
• Nn van Rijn, Naaldwijk
• Jaap Evert Lagerweij, Dordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Marie Louise HARDY, Kleine-Spouwen, 3740, Bilzen, Limburg, België († 1958)
• Jan Wesselink († 1994)

• Boer (77), Hazerswoudse Rietveld
• Jan Hendrik Gerrit (66), Enschede
• Arnoldus Matheus Joseph van Kempen (46), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• (72), Rosendael 59140 (nord)
• Augusta Stiefelhagen (83), Lindlar-Stolzenbach
• Arnoldus Mattheus Joseph van Kempen (46), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adaline Greene (57), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Abraham Ariensz Oosterlee (82), Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eelco Jelle van der Brug (36), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Anna Meijers (88), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1945 » Bobby Manuel, American guitarist and producer
• 1945 » Knut Riisnæs, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 1945 » Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese race car driver
• 1946 » Ray Wylie Hubbard, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar († 2014)
• 1947 » Amory Lovins, American physicist and environmentalist
• 1947 » Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist
• 1947 » Toy Caldwell, American guitarist and songwriter († 1993)
• 1948 » Humayun Ahmed, Bengali popular writer, dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and filmmaker († 2012)
• 1949 » Terry Reid, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1929 » Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)
• 1932 » Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (b. 1857)
• 1942 » Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Margaret Wise Brown, American author (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1955 » Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1955 » Moshe Pesach, Greek rabbi (b. 1869)
• 1961 » Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (b. 1897)
• 1963 » Margaret Murray, Indian-English anthropologist and author (b. 1863)

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 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
• October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
• November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The temperature on November 13, 1947 was between 6.3 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.