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• Ineke Adriaanse, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 2006)
• Jan Everhardus van Aken, Harderwijk († 1994)
• Jacobus Bernardus Wijsman, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• Hanja Adriaansen, Middelburg († 2008)
• Allen Dale Black, Ashe, North Carolina († 1996)
• Jacob Van Laar, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1975)
• Arend Jan Jacobsz Huibers († 2021)
• Elizabeth Meesters, Onstwedde († 2015)
• Berend Albertus Fluit, Ede († 2004)
• Adriana Pieternella Jozina Blaas, Stavenisse, Nederland († 2016)

• Cornelia Christina Rodenhuis (57), Leeuwarden
• Adriana Tanna Bruijnzeel (69), Sluis
• Antonius Henricus VAN ROMONDT (54), Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Evelyn Bartsch (68), Verenigde Statn
• Anna Cornelia van de Vooren (73), Arnhem
• Christie Jean McEwen (87), Lanark, Ontario, Canada
• Adriana Klazina Timmer (75), Linschoten
• Adrianus Schepp (54), Rotterdam
• Barend Petrus VAN DEN BERG (30), Nasionale Hospitaal, Bloemfontein
• Barna Sidney Meeker (73), Lovell, Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States of America

• 1944 » Perry Christie, Bahamian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Bahamas
• 1944 » Peter Weir, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 » Basil Poledouris, Greek-American composer, conductor († 2006)
• 1945 » Celia Brayfield, English journalist and author
• 1945 » Jerry DaVanon, American baseball player
• 1945 » Patty McCormack, American actress
• 1945 » Willie Lanier, American football player
• 1947 » Carl Giammarese, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1949 » Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
• 1949 » Loretta Devine, American actress and singer

• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)

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 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
• March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
• November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
• December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

The temperature on August 21, 1947 was between 13.8 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.