About the day » Wednesday August 27, 1947Calender converter

• Cornelis Dijkhuizen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Helmut Berger, Gronau († 1989)
• Harm Wever, Onstwedde († 2009)
• Dina Groeneveld († 1992)
• OG Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Dennis M. Carlisle, Cairo, Alexander, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Hermanus Johannes MAria Bosch († 1947)
• Bernardus Johannus Schaepers, Oldenzaal († 1995)
• Paula Maria Cesar BEKS, (LOOSE-END) Antwerpen (B) († 1948)
• Ada Affourtit (van Slooten) († 2011)

• Arend Eekhuis (80), Beilen
• Cornelis Jan Willem Mantel (52), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Run (36), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bertha Francisca Abrams (62), Berchem
• Charles Ernest Stahlman (56), Oil City, Venango Cnty, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Friedrich Johann de Jong (77), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Nederland
• Cicero Arthur ROBERSON (70)
• Cornelis de Zeeuw (73), Schipluiden, Nederland
• Arend Jan Eekhuis (45), Beilen
• Albert Knoef (85), Lochem

• 1946 » Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer and manager
• 1947 » Barbara Bach, American model and actress
• 1947 » Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer and sportscaster († 2002)
• 1947 » Halil Berktay, Turkish historian and academic
• 1947 » John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and politician
• 1947 » Kirk Francis, American engineer and producer
• 1947 » Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1948 » Deborah Swallow, English historian and curator
• 1948 » John Mehler, American drummer
• 1948 » Philippe Vallois, French director and screenwriter

• 1931 » Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (b. 1846)
• 1931 » Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)
• 1931 » Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)
• 1935 » Childe Hassam, American painter and academic (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)
• 1945 » Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer, designed the Petőfi Bridge (b. 1894)
• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

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 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
• March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 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.
• November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
• December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The temperature on August 27, 1947 was between 12.8 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.