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• Eloina Garcia, São Jeronimo da Serra, Parana, Brasil († 1948)
• Jacobus Petrus Westgeest, Leiden († 2010)
• Henry C Beenken, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2014)
• Gerry ter BEKE, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2016)
• Levenloos kind van den Berg, Harderwijk († 1947)
• Barbara Sue Daugherty ****, Winfield, Scott County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Cecilia Dorias Arandia, Philippines († 2019)
• Denise SPIESSENS, Antwerpen Belgie († 1947)
• Arend JAGER, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1953)
• Betty Plakké († 2001)

• Adriana Bonefaas (71), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adolf Ludwig Winkelmann (59), Hamburg,,Hamburg,Germany
• Antje Jongsma (84), Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Patience (380), Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
• ABRAHAM VAN VLIET (78), RIJSWIJK, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Johannis van Dalen (71), Noordgouwe, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kresner (81), Tuk (Steenwijkerwold)
• Akke Pieters Beimers (71), St. Annaparochie
• Aaltje De KONING (78), 's-Gravendeel
• Adolf Hendrik Coopmans (66), Hengelo

• 1944 » Petru Popescu, Romanian-American director, producer, and author
• 1945 » Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1945 » Mary Jane Reoch, American cyclist († 1993)
• 1945 » Serge Joyal, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Secretary of State for Canada
• 1946 » Elisabeth Sladen, English actress († 2011)
• 1946 » Karen Krantzcke, Australian tennis player († 1977)
• 1947 » Adam Ingram, Scottish computer programmer and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
• 1947 » Jessica Savitch, American journalist († 1983)
• 1947 » Normie Rowe, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1948 » Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2004)

• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1940 » Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)

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 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
• September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
• October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
• November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
• November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.

The temperature on February 1, 1947 was between -10.8 °C and -1.3 °C and averaged -7.2 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.