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• Petronella Theresia Pennings, Koudekerk aan den Rijn († 1949)
• Henriette Leijten, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2002)
• DOODGEBOREN KIND MOSTERD, APELDOORN († 1947)
• Janny Weersing, Groningen († 2017)
• maria hendrika (mariet) koopmans, gent (sint amansberg)
• Johanna Martina van Dijk, Almelo († 1996)
• Orville Grover Aldridge Jr, Wyandotte, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• Jan van de Valk, Heumen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Arjen Klompstra, Leeuwarden († 1949)
• Menno Faber († 1988)

• Cornelia Maria Theodora van Overveld (37), Roosendaal
• Antonius Cornelius Hagen (54), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Charles James ROADLEY (32), Pelorus, Marlborough, New Zealand
• Arie Bernardus Gimberg (84), s Gravenhage
• Armand Willems (57), Gorsem, België
• Aart Evertsen Rikkers (67), ermelo (gelderland)
• Anna Maria Borsboom (88), Rotterdam
• Carolus Tuinder (87), Apeldoorn
• Anne Negenman (82), Leeuwarden
• Catharina Maria Hubertina Cabollet (46), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1945 » Baba Gana Kingibe, Nigerian politician
• 1945 » Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Harry Womack, American singer († 1974)
• 1946 » Allen Lanier, American guitarist and songwriter († 2013)
• 1946 » Ian McDonald, English guitarist and saxophonist
• 1946 » Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-Canadian general and politician
• 1947 » Jimmie Walker, American actor and comedian
• 1947 » John Hilton, English table tennis player
• 1947 » John Powell, American discus thrower
• 1949 » Richard Clarke, Irish archbishop

• 1937 » Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Richard Seaman, English race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1943 » Arthur Goldstein, German Jewish left-wing activist (c. 1887)
• 1944 » Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
• 1944 » Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Jimmy Doyle, American boxer (b. 1924)
• 1948 » William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
• 1949 » James Steen, American water polo player (b. 1876)
• 1950 » Maurice O'Sullivan, Irish police officer and author (b. 1904)

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 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
• 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.
• 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.
• February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
• August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

The temperature on June 25, 1947 was between 12.3 °C and 28.9 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.