About the day » Thursday December 18, 1947Calender converter

• Freddy Vangeel, Budingen, België († 1953)
• Mattheus, Maria Willemse, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Dirkje Roessink, enter
• Carol Jean GELEYNSE, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 2021)
• Jannie Dirkje Blink, Warffum, Groningen, Nederland († 1949)
• Johanna Alfonsa van der Pluijm, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• NN Ham, Apeldoorn
• Ruth Antoinette van Weerdhuizen, Sumas Whatcom Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1947)
• Hendrikus Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Belt, Voorst († 2011)
• Hubertina in 't Zandt, Velden († 1956)

• Anneke van Eck (74), De Bilt
• Adrianus Jacobus van Loon (70), Eindhoven
• Abramina van Dien (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij Schipper (79), s Heer Arendskerke
• Anna Maria ROERDINKHOLDER (77), Utrecht
• Aaltje Rorije (20), Zwolle, Nederland
• Abraham MEIJER (71), Groningen, Netherlands
• Berthe-Marie PECKEL, Lille, 59000, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Aaltje Stapel (65), Zuidwolde, De Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham de Man (79), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1944 » Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
• 1945 » Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 » Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement († 1977)
• 1946 » Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
• 1947 » Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter
• 1948 » Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter
• 1949 » David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist († 1980)
• 1950 » Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)

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.
• March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
• July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
• August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.

The temperature on December 18, 1947 was between -5.0 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.