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• Dennis Lee Poortinga, Des Moines (Polk), Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• John Nefkens († 1969)
• Jan Arent STEENBERGEN, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands († 2016)
• Jurjen MULDER, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland († 1972)
• Frans Mourik, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Johanna Maria Gesina (Annemie) Nijhuis, Borne († 2011)
• Cornelia Francina Maria van der Breggen, Roelofarendsveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Guido Jozef Maria Beirinckx, Broechem, Ranst, België († 1951)
• Alberdina Johanna Mathilde (Dienie) van Dam, Uithuizen
• Doodgeboren van den Heuvel, Beek en Donk († 1947)

• Clazina Maria Gerarda de Ruijter (0), Haarlem
• Abraham Kanning (80), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Catholina Stoffelina van Es (59), Alkmaar
• Cornelis Vuurmans (78), Soestdijk (gem. Soest, Utrecht)
• Anna Maria van der Linden (77), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Gijsen (67), Koudum
• Catharina Gijsen (67)
• Adriana van Iersel (67), Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Valentine (23), Waterloo, Iowa, United States
• Aarnout Willemse (67), Aagtekerke

• 1945 » Bob Balaban, American actor, director, and producer
• 1946 » Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
• 1946 » Masoud Barzani, Iranian-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
• 1947 » Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to New Zealand
• 1947 » Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
• 1948 » Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch rock musician
• 1948 » Earl Blumenauer, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon
• 1948 » Joey Spampinato, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1948 » Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 » Pierre Reid, Canadian educator and politician

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)

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.
• March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
• 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.
• October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

The temperature on August 16, 1947 was between 18.3 °C and 32.2 °C and averaged 25.0 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.