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• James Hunt († 1993)
• sibilla gerarda dorothea (sibil) ebisch, helden-beringe
• Nicolaas Jan Zoetelief († 1965)
• Simon Koorn, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Hans Oscar Bosman, Hilversum († 2009)
• Ad van Loon, Tilburg († 2004)
• Glenda Marie Maxwell, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 2019)
• Marinus Timmer, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1995)
• Jane Louise McCLYMONDS, Leon Iowa U.S.A († 2018)
• Gerrit Krijgsman, Vaassen,Gemeente Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)

• Charles Newton PHILLIPS (69), Queensland, Australia
• Drewes GROENEVELD (69), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Albert Hidding (75), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Dirk van den Berg (20), Tiel,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Axel RICKSON (70), Grand Rapids, Kent, MI
• Cornelis Johannes Hooijer (53), Oosterbeek, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ariaantje Zijp (64), Hoorn
• Cornelis Petrus Koolen (16), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Issac Pashen (82), Mt Molloy, North Queensland, Australia
• Cornelis Johannes Hooijer (53), Renkum

• 1945 » Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
• 1946 » Bob Beamon, American long jumper
• 1946 » Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus († 2019)
• 1946 » Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic
• 1946 » Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
• 1947 » James Hunt, English race car driver and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1947 » Temple Grandin, American ethologist, academic, and author
• 1948 » Robert S. Langer, American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic
• 1949 » Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor

• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)

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.
• April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
• 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.
• July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are 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 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
• November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

The temperature on August 29, 1947 was between 10.9 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.