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• Imogene Warren [Wk Ob], Casey County, Kentucky († 2008)
• Heleentje Johanna Post, Assen († 1993)
• Doodgeboren kind van den Nieuwenhof, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Doodgeboren kind van Engelen, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Jellie Westhuis († 2003)
• Hilco Koopman († 1963)
• Johannes Gerardus Jan Masselink, Geesteren († 2023)
• Jan Jentinus Schonewille, Kloosterhaar († 2014)
• Herman August DRIESEN, Beerse,2340,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2021)
• Jan Jentinus Schonewille, Kloosterhaar, Hardenberg († 2014)

• * Franciscus Wilhelmus Strijbosch (74), Haarlem
• Adriana van den Heuvel (61), Geertruidenberg
• Antonius Johannes Croonen (69), Nijmegen
• Annigje OUWERKERK (79), Gouda
• Arie Huijzer (58), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Alle Durks Sybersma (82), Deinum
• Anton Pieter Varekamp (67), Haarlem
• Alle Sijbersma (82), Menaldumadeel
• Adriaan van Liere (85), Kapelle, ZL, NL
• Alberik Camiel PATTYN (48), Roeselare

• 1945 » Jim McCarty, American blues rock guitarist
• 1945 » Linda Scott, American singer
• 1946 » Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1947 » Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor and singer
• 1947 » Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group
• 1947 » Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 » Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor († 1995)
• 1948 » Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player († 2006)
• 1948 » Powers Boothe, American actor († 2017)
• 1948 » Tomáš Halík, Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian and scholar

• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 » Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 » Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
• 1948 » Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1952 » John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1953 » Emanuel Vidović, Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish-German journalist and author (b. 1869)

• 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 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
• February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
• August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
• August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

The temperature on June 1, 1947 was between 16.1 °C and 30.0 °C and averaged 22.3 °C. There was 24.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.