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• LEON RENE SUZANNE BEIRNAERT, SINAAI,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1992)
• Gary Wayne Hollingsworth, Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi († 1982)
• Joost de Vries, Lemmer Friesland Nederland († 1982)
• Johannes jacobus van der Werff, Groningen († 1954)
• Corry Paree, 's Heerenhoek († 2015)
• Henk van Lier, Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland († 2003)
• Arno Moonen, Sprang-Capelle,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• bernardina alida johanna (dien) willemsen, helden-grashoek
• Adrianus Josephus Wilhelmus Maria Aarts, Breda
• (Stillborn) GROENENDAAL, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1947)

• Antje Soldaat (66), Lutjegast, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Pronk (63), Scheveningen
• Anna Nap (76), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Ritskes Tuinstra (66), Ferwerderadeel
• Adriaan de JONGE (74), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Bruijninckx (78), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius Johannes Schouten (40), Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen), Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Neeltje Hendrikse (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Josephus Doorakkers (46), Tilburg
• * Jan Hubert Beekman (74), Heerlen

• 1945 » Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author († 2009)
• 1945 » Richard Bausch, American novelist and short story writer
• 1946 » Hayley Mills, English actress
• 1946 » Tommy Shannon, American bass guitarist
• 1947 » Cindy Pickett, American actress
• 1947 » Dorothy Lyman, American actress
• 1947 » James Woods, American actor and producer
• 1947 » Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 » Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia († 2013)
• 1948 » Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)

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.
• 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.
• February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
• April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
• July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
• December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The temperature on April 18, 1947 was between 2.5 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.