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• Maartje van Dijk, de Lier († 2004)
• Peter Alan Graves, Verenigde Statn († 2008)
• Teun van der Kruijk († 2013)
• Joan Marie Weijerstrass, Bridgeport (Conn.), Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Hubertina Wilhelmina Maria Manders, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands († 1996)
• Cornelia Andriessen, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2006)
• Hendrikus Johannes (Henk) Heijnen, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands († 1947)
• PIERRE - MARCEL - HENRI DESTAILLEUR, Halluin, 59250 († 2019)
• Hermine Amalie van Aanholt - Berendsen (geb. Berendsen), Apeldoorn († 2004)
• Everdina Alida van den Berg, Lunteren († 2013)

• Bernardus Tinselboer (61), Albergen, 7665, Nederland
• Beulah Independence McCloughan (39), Douglas, Allegan, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van Rijn (70), Oud Ade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Mathilda Reijnders (68)
• Antoinette Marie Narcisse Stael (76), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Petrus Josephus Meijs (57), Oisterwijk
• Albertus Visser (77), Bergh (Montferland), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adella Jane Pattison (77), Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio
• Dirkje Smith (86), Harlingen
• "Edgard" Marie Charles Jean Humann-Guilleminot (58), Paris

• 1945 » Martin Chivers, English footballer and manager
• 1946 » Franz Roth, German footballer
• 1947 » Ann Peebles, American soul singer-songwriter
• 1947 » G. K. Butterfield, African-American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1947 » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2003)
• 1947 » Nick Greiner, Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
• 1947 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1975)
• 1948 » Frank Abagnale Jr., American security consultant and criminal
• 1948 » Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1948 » Kate Pierson, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1952 » Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (b. 1865)
• 1961 » Roy Del Ruth, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1962 » A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, Pakistani Minister of the Interior (b. 1873)
• 1965 » Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 1967 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
• 1969 » René Barrientos, Bolivian soldier, pilot, and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)

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 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
• March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
• 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.
• August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

The temperature on April 27, 1947 was between 0.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.