About the day » Saturday December 6, 1947Calender converter

• johanna m.h. tillemans, helden
• Rullmann, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Johanna Maria Annes Vis, Monster († 1995)
• Jan van Dijk, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Donald Bruce Wareham, COLFAX († 1987)
• Darcísio Michels, Grão Pará, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1974)
• Antonius Nicolaas Maria Koppen, Baarn († 1948)
• Jan Koenderink, Enter, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Elisabeth(Liesbeth (Lisbeth???)) van der Zalm, Noordwijk
• Johanna Luberta Littooij, Rotterdam († 2015)

• Albert Guillaume Célestin Bauduin (66), Brussel,,Brussels Capital Region,Belgique
• Adrianus Akkermans (49), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Edward Huelsick (79), Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Arendina Klunder (47), Hoogeveen, Drente, Nederland
• Aaltje Ritsema (83), Hoogezand
• Bernard Minnegal (77), Enschede
• Adriana Apeldoorn (54), Heiloo
• Achiel Joseph Cloet (53), Saint-Vaast, Frankrijk
• Aaltje Ritsema* (83), Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Rens (83), Nunspeet

• 1945 » Larry Bowa, American baseball player and manager
• 1946 » Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Maze)
• 1946 » Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1947 » Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author († 2005)
• 1947 » Lawrence Cannon, Canadian businessman and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1947 » Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist and songwriter
• 1948 » Don Nickles, American businessman and politician
• 1948 » Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic († 2014)
• 1948 » JoBeth Williams, American actress
• 1948 » Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver

• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)
• 1961 » Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
• 1972 » Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)
• 1974 » Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)

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 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
• April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
• November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
• December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

The temperature on December 6, 1947 was between 1.0 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.