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• Johanna Antonia Dekker, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Hendrik Wilhelm Adriaan van Elburg († 2007)
• Maria Adriana Rufina Janmaat, Willeskop, Utrecht, Nederland († 1948)
• Herman Wilco van den Born, Rhenen († 2015)
• Antonius Johannes Wilhelmus Olthof, Nijverdal,Hellendoorn († 2012)
• Lawrence Wayne Brangers, Hardin County, Kentucky († 1975)
• Gerardus de Vries, Velsen († 2003)
• Adrianus Franciscus Aloijsius Maria Cools, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 2002)
• Emanuel Corrêa de Godoy, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2023)
• Dirk Haasnoot, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)

• Andries Koning de (91), IJsselstein
• Arnoldus Hendrikus Johannes Broers (58), Apeldoorn
• Albert Gerrit Boekhold (79), Enschede
• Adrianus Petrus van den Bosch (80), Zoetermeer
• Albertus Dennesen (92), Groesbeek (GLD), Nederland
• Albertus Dennesen (92), Groesbeek
• Anna Maria Biemond (80), arnhem
• Antje Westra (72), Grootegast
• Ausbrand Meyer (63), Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa
• Bastiaan Marius (Bas) Veth (55), Rotterdam

• 1945 » Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
• 1946 » Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1946 » John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1946 » Robert Ayling, English businessman
• 1946 » Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter († 2004)
• 1947 » Ralph Wright, English footballer († 2020)
• 1948 » Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France
• 1949 » B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter
• 1949 » Philip Casnoff, American actor and director
• 1949 » Sue Slipman, English politician

• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1943 » Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1914)
• 1949 » Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Colette, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1958 » Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1925)

• 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 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 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
• August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
• November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
• November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

The temperature on August 3, 1947 was between 13.4 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.