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• (Stillborn) VAN DEN BERG, Hoogeveen Drenthe Netherlands († 1947)
• Johanna Hermanna Ekelhoff († 1948)
• J(oh)an Willem de Schiffart, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 1968)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1947)
• Jeanne Joyce Buseman, Bristow, Butler County, Iowa († 2023)
• José van Hout († 2008)
• James Norbert Koehs, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Johanna Josephina Maria Rijnders, Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Nn, Nieuw Lekkerland
• Jozef Gerardus Maria KRUESE, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2010)

• Aaltje van Veen (60), Schiedam
• Antonetta Roosenbrand (0), Sprang-Capelle
• Annie Maria van Helvoort (23), Oss, Nederland
• Antonius Henricus Breems (67), Castricum
• Meesters (86), Lepelstraat
• Alida Munneke (78), Groningen
• Annie Katharina Marie Rosy Hedwig von dem Bussche (58), Celle
• Aloysius van Aerde (77), Sluiskil, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van den HOEK (43), Tilburg
• Adriaan van der Heijden (78), Boxtel

• 1945 » Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and actor († 2012)
• 1945 » Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment
• 1945 » Paola Pigni, Italian runner
• 1946 » Berti Vogts, German footballer and coach
• 1946 » Clive Bunker, English drummer and songwriter
• 1946 » Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1947 » James Kahn, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1947 » Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 » Steve Mix, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 » Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director († 1996)

• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)

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.
• May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
• 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.
• July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
• July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
• 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.

The temperature on December 30, 1947 was between -4.2 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.