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• Alphonsine Pierrette Leona Banken, Suizen (B), België († 1995)
• Henricus Theodorus (Harrie) van Zwam, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Aantjen Aaltjen van den Brink († 2006)
• Margaretha Gijsberta Johanna Josephina Tijsmans, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Jean-Pierre Jespers, Asse († 2018)
• Isaac Baart, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Leike Eijkenboom, Heerlen († 1947)
• Elisabeth HELDER, Molenrij, Kloosterburen, Groningen, Nederland († 1985)
• Albert Tienkamp, Medemblik († 2016)
• Cornelius Franciscus Maria van den Boogaard, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)

• Bauke Buwalda (58), Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Clasinus Josephus Driessen (0), 's Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aaltje Bosma (57), Emmen
• Antonuius Bernardus Boelens (74), Haarlem Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius Jozef Wanders (23), Madoera
• Adrianus Cornelis Vugs (71), Berkel-Enschot
• Anna de Ruiter (37), Enschede
• Ananias Johannessen Grindheim (81), Sletta, Radoy, Hordaland, Norge
• Darrell DEBOEF (0), Wilmar, Kandiyohi, MN
• Charles William JENSON (50), Fremont, Wayne County, Utah, United States of America

• 1944 » John Glover, American actor
• 1944 » Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1945 » Alan Page, American football player and jurist
• 1945 » Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director († 2014)
• 1947 » Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1947 » Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1948 » Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1948 » Marty Appel, American businessman and author
• 1949 » Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
• 1949 » Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician

• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)

• 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.
• February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
• May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
• June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
• October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
• October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.

The temperature on August 7, 1947 was between 11.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.