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• Henk Spiegelenberg, Zutphen († 1996)
• Levensloos Vanrijckel, Wellen, België († 1947)
• Jack G Olsen, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• Leonie Maria Gerarda Leunissen, Klimmen († 2000)
• Magreet Bats
• Kees Terbrack, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Ine Heupers, Enschede († 2020)
• Gerardus Wilhelmus Theodorus Maria van de Kragt, Doetinchem,Doetinchem,Gelderland,Nederland († 2015)
• Hermine KUIPER- DUBBELBOER († 2006)
• Harvey James Blankespoor, Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa († 1999)

• Antonia Meulenbroek (70), Den Dungen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje de Jong (87)
• (2) Gijsberta van de Logt (83), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Annigje Kuiper (91), Enschede,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Booij (58), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
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• Annigje Kuiper (Kuper) (91), Enschede
• Coremans (74), Etten-Leur, Noord Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Aaltje Meulink (62), Epe
• Arendina Geertruida Helmich ter Horst (88), Bussum

• 1944 » Chi Cheng, Taiwanese runner and politician
• 1944 » Jacques Doillon, French director and screenwriter
• 1945 » Mark J. Green, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 » Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and coach († 2003)
• 1946 » John Dempsey, English born Irish international footballer, centre-back and manager
• 1947 » Gino Ferrin, German footballer and manager
• 1947 » Juraj Kukura, Slovak-German actor
• 1947 » Ry Cooder, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1948 » Kate Bornstein, American author and activist
• 1948 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat († 2003)

• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1939 » Luis Barceló, Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
• 1941 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)

• 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 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
• April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
• May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The temperature on March 15, 1947 was between -3.9 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.