About the day » Wednesday May 14, 1947Calender converter

• Egbert Pullen († 2013)
• NN Rasterhoff, Groningen († 1947)
• Lydia Desiree Verspreet‏‎, Kortenberg, België († 2015)
• NN Egdom, Woudenberg († 1947)
• André van Loon, Dongen († 2023)
• Hans Klaver († 1992)
• Maria Anna Pirovano († 1947)
• Emma Hendrika Maria Steenvoorden, Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Jan Aberson, Den Helder († 2008)
• Bep Anita van Midden († 1991)

• Albertina Maria Defraeye (73), Roeselare, België
• Catherine Lach (40), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Johannes Klijnsma (63), Sloten
• Aris Remmerde (80), Zwollerkerspel
• Albertus Petrus Johannes van Kessel (60), Haarlem A 695
• Anna Huisman (88), Bakhuizen, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Hubertina Bremmers (24), Herten, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Hanegraaf (76)
• Alphonsine Josephine Roovers (79), Manage
• Anna Ypkes Huisman (88), Bakhuizen

• 1945 » Francesca Annis, English actress
• 1945 » George Nicholls, English rugby player
• 1945 » Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer
• 1946 » Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, English economist and journalist
• 1947 » Al Ciner, American pop-rock guitarist
• 1947 » Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)
• 1948 » Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer and coach († 2007)
• 1948 » Timothy Stevenson, English lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire
• 1949 » Sverre Årnes, Norwegian author, screenwriter, and director
• 1949 » Walter Day, American game designer and businessman, founded Twin Galaxies

• 1940 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1945 » Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1852)
• 1945 » Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (b. 1913)
• 1953 » Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter and photographer (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (b. 1888)
• 1956 » Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (b. 1884)

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 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
• July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
• August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
• October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The temperature on May 14, 1947 was between 13.1 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.