About the day » Monday April 28, 1947Calender converter

• Tony Clement PEARN († 1972)
• Hans Theo Jacobs, Haaren (DL) († 2020)
• NN van Laar, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Hermi Coolen († 2006)
• William G Mani, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Pieter Jan Jochems, Tull en 't Waal, Utrecht, Nederland
• levenloos geboren kind († 1947)
• Roderic Lawrence BRINGEL, SAN FRANCISCO (CALIFORNIE) U.S.A († 1950)
• Herbert Weijsenborn († 2007)
• Sabine de BRUYN, Uccle, 21016, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 1974)

• Clark Blake Reed (42), COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Adriana Maria Wamsteker (50), Breda
• Albert Eisen SCHUTRUPS (63), Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Philomena Vanheertum (79), Turnhout
• Adriaan Joseph Damen (67), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christianus Verdegaal (43), Bilthoven
• Antje Rosmolen (71), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Alida Damen (72), Heemstede, NH, Nederland
• Kalkman, Rotterdam
• Antje Pieterdina FABERY DE JONGE (40), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands

• 1946 » Ginette Reno, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1946 » Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
• 1946 » Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and producer († 2015)
• 1947 » Christian Jacq, French historian and author
• 1947 » Nicola LeFanu, English composer and academic
• 1947 » Steve Khan, American jazz guitarist
• 1948 » Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer († 2014)
• 1948 » Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1949 » Jeremy Cooke, English lawyer and judge
• 1949 » Paul Guilfoyle, American actor

• 1936 » Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Hermann Fegelein, German general (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)

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 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

The temperature on April 28, 1947 was between 8.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.