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• Javier Carlos Levy Vazquez, Colima, Mexico († 2015)
• Catharina Joanna Maria Raap, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Maria Alberdina Tromp, Heukelum († 2012)
• Maartje Jacoba Krijgsman, Katwijk († 2012)
• Josina de Jong, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Aart van der WULP, 's-Gravendeel († 1953)
• Neill Muller († 2018)
• Larry Jay Boven († 2019)
• Paul Eymael, Schaesberg († 1989)
• Johanna Antonia Walthaus, Rotterdam († 1949)

• Alida Baas (71), Linschoten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andreas Jacobus Kruijt (1929)
• Aleida Geziena ten Cate ov (60), Hengelo {OV}
• Alberta Pot (57), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Agatha de Vette (64), Delft,-
• Andries Douwes Posthuma (78), Dreisum
• Albert Speelman (48), Westerbork, Drenthe (NL)
• Aleida Geziena ten Cate (60), Hengelo
• Amy Jane Woodhouse (76), Midlothian, Ellis County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Petronella Johanna van der Meer (0), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1941 » Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer
• 1942 » Otis Clay, American singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1943 » Alan Rubin, American trumpet player († 2011)
• 1943 » Joselito, Spanish singer and actor
• 1944 » Joy Williams, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
• 1944 » Mike Oxley, American lawyer and politician († 2016)
• 1946 » Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer and manager († 2007)
• 1947 » Derek Shulman, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 » Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese engineer and politician and Prime Minister of Japan
• 1951 » Mike Leavitt, American politician, 14th Governor of Utah

• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• 1963 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1932)

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 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
• February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
• April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
• June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
• October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.

The temperature on February 11, 1947 was between -9.3 °C and -6.5 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.