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• Gailya Lee Mashburn, Brownwood, Texas († 1968)
• Johannes Pieter Slingerland, Amsterdam († 2018)
• ? ? († 1947)
• Jetske Anne Elisabeth Wiersma, Rotterdam († 2022)
• Klaas BRINKMAN, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 2018)
• Gradus Johannus Antonius Grooten († 1999)
• Johanna Hendrika Maria Bergsma († 2019)
• Hendrikus Meinardus (Henk) Fransen, Basse († 2008)
• Jacoba Lammigje "Coby" Oudhof, Westbroek, Nederland († 2017)
• Dirk Kroon, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands († 1976)

• Berendina Johanna Rabelink (86), Gaanderen, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Johannes Josephus van Roestel (71), Tilburg
• Anna Catharina Rooseboom (74), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Artje Brusten (76), Haaften West Betuwe (GL)
• Alice Mary Frances Pearson (76), Italy
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• Antje Wagter (51), Den Haag
• Anna Petronella Boode (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Artje Bruisten (76), Haaften
• Arnoud Joannes Josephus van Roestel (72)

• 1944 » Mick Avory, English drummer
• 1945 » Douglas Hofstadter, American author and academic
• 1945 » Jack Dann, American-Australian author and poet
• 1945 » John Helliwell, English saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1946 » Clare Short, English civil servant and politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1947 » John Adams, American composer
• 1947 » Marisa Berenson, American model and actress
• 1948 » Art Spiegelman, Swedish-American cartoonist and critic
• 1949 » Ken Anderson, American football quarterback and coach
• 1951 » Markku Alén, Finnish race car driver

• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)

• 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 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• 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.
• May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
• July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
• August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
• 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.

The temperature on February 15, 1947 was between -8.9 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.