About the day » Sunday December 7, 1947Calender converter

• Servaas Leendert Hubertus Roos, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Daphne Marylee Hurlston, Cyprus († 1999)
• Rodney Clare Smith, Clarks Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne Co, Nova Scotia, Canada († 1948)
• mathea anna bruijnen, helden-beringe
• Pieter Marinus Folmer, Nieuwerkerk († 1953)
• Klaas Zwanepol, Kampen († 2018)
• N.N. van Oirschot, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Johanna Gerda Nieuwenhuis, Avereest († 1952)
• Herman Wolff, Oldebroek († 2009)
• Emiel Harry Hiehle, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)

• Arie Huigen (81), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arendina Maria Eckhard (80), Alblasserdam
• Bettie LNU (76)
• Catharina Geertruida van der Wees (76), Delft
• Catharina Henderika Bolt (73), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• angenietje MOERMAN (68), nieuw helvoet
• Antje Kooij (82), Uitgeest
• Adriana Johanna van Gelder (84), Vlissingen
• Anderies Zwikstra (63), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• antje roodbergen (77), rotterdam

• 1944 » Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and composer
• 1944 » Miroslav Macek, Czech dentist and politician
• 1947 » Anne Fine, English author
• 1947 » Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1947 » James Keach, American actor, producer, and director
• 1947 » Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1948 » Gary Morris, American country singer-songwriter and actor
• 1948 » Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
• 1949 » James Rivière, Italian sculptor and jeweler
• 1949 » Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1941 » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)

• 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.
• January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
• February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
• April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• 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 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.

The temperature on December 7, 1947 was between 0.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.