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• Frans Jeuken, Heusden, Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• hendrikus matheus petrus smits, baarlo
• Egbert Koersen, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1947)
• Johannes Bernardus Jozef Rohling, Groningen († 1947)
• Frank, Karel ALGOET, Kortrijk,8500,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België († 1982)
• Aaldert Kuiper, Steenwijk († 2009)
• Guido Jan Julia De Vogel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, België († 1985)
• John Wyman Thornton, Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Jan Diepeveen († 2023)
• Hendricus (Heini) VROOMEN, Heerlen (NL/LI) Lived Maastricht (NL/LI) († 1973)

• Catharina Hendrica van Gilst (77), Kortgene, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert van der Beek (44), Eberswalde, Barnim, Brandenburg, Germany
• Bernard Hoff (72), Zwolle
• Arie van der Meer (82), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Melsen (73), Woensburg
• Arie de BLOM (46), Amsterdam
• Arie de Wit (62), Wieringen
• Antonius Maria Spijker (0), Enschede
• Adriana van den Boer (71), Berkel-Enschot, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bougien Tunteler (85), Ten Post (gem. Groningen)

• 1945 » Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Robin Strasser, American actress
• 1946 » Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer
• 1946 » Brian Turner, English chef and television host
• 1946 » Marv Hubbard, American football player († 2015)
• 1946 » Michael Rosen, English author and poet
• 1946 » Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress
• 1949 » Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor
• 1949 » Kathy Ahern, American golfer († 1996)
• 1950 » John Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman

• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899)

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.
• 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.
• August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
• September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
• October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
• October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.

The temperature on May 7, 1947 was between 6.7 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.