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• Johannes Johanna Wilhelmus Sassen, Venray
• John Ellis Kalagian, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Gloria Jean Faber, Fullerton, Orange County, California († 2014)
• Koos Zwart, Amsterdam († 2014)
• ??? Hoppenbrouwer, 's-Gravenhage
• Adriaan Laurens van Westen, Nieuwerkerk († 1980)
• Joke A. Riemersma († 2003)
• Cornelis Valstar, Maassluis (Maassluis), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Cornelis Valstar, Maassluis († 1997)
• Henricus Adrianus van den Bersselaar, Zwolle († 1981)

• Anna Hendrika Balk (81), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Abarham Piket (57), Leiden
• Cornelis (Kees) Klaasz de Geus (67), Alkmaar
• Aagtje Bindinga (65), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Jonkheer Feith (75), 's Gravenhage
• Adriana Elisabeth Mulders (80), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Arijanna Molenaar (73), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Geus (67), Alkmaar
• Anna Cornelia Hendrica Korst (73), Kruisland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonij Tempelman (73), Harderwijk

• 1945 » Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor († 1993)
• 1946 » Claude Lelièvre, Belgian activist
• 1946 » Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
• 1947 » Christopher Chope, English lawyer and politician
• 1947 » David Helfgott, Australian pianist
• 1947 » Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1948 » Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1949 » Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1949 » Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, English politician

• 1936 » Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)

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.
• February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
• June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
• August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
• November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 19, 1947 was between 7.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.