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Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1947
[edit] January
- January 1
- British coal mines are nationalized.
- Nigeria gains limited autonomy.
- The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect.
- January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- January 10 – The United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste.
- January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved to this day.
- January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of France.
- January 19 – A shipwreck near Athens, Greece kills 392.
- January 24 – Dimitrios Maximos founds a monarchist government in Athens.
- January 25 – A Philippine plane crashes in Hong Kong, with $5 million worth of gold and money.
- January 30 – February 8 – A heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Calgary.
- January 31 – Communists take power in Poland.
[edit] February
- February 3
- The lowest temperature in North America (-63 degrees Celsius) is recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory.
- Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press gallery.
- February 5 – Bolesław Bierut becomes president of Poland.
- February 8 – A dance hall fire in Berlin kills over 80.
- February 10 – Paris peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland: Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia.
- February 12 – A meteor creates a crater in Sikhote-Alin, Soviet Union.
- February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
- February 20 – An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co in Los Angeles, California leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22-foot crater.
- February 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- February 23 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- February 25
- February 28
- The U.S. gives France a military base in Casablanca.
- In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.
[edit] March
- March 1
- The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
- Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
- March 6 – The USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
- March 12 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- March 14 – The River Thames bursts its banks.
- March 15 – Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab.
- March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
- March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- March 28 – A WW2 Japanese booby trap explodes in Corregidor, killing 28.
- March 29 – A rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar.
- March 31 – The leaders of the People's Republic of Mahabad, the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran, are hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad after the country is conquered by Iranian forces.
[edit] April
- April 1
- Jackie Robinson, the first African American baseball professional, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- King George II of Greece is succeeded by his brother King Paul I.
- April 9 – Multiple tornadoes strike Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas killing 181 and injuring 970.
- April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball.
- April 16 – Texas City Disaster: An Ammonium nitrate cargo of the SS Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas, kiling 552, injuring 3,000, causing 200 lost, and destroying 20 city blocks.
- April 18 – The British Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tonnes of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the small island of Heligoland, Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.
[edit] May
- May 1 – The Salvatore Giuliano Gang opens fire on a labor parade near Portella Della Ginestra, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 30.
- May 2 – Miracle on 34th Street, the timeless Christmas classic, is released in theaters.
- May 3 – The new post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- May 12 – The cartoon Rabbit Transit, directed by Friz Freleng, is released.
- May 22 – Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
- May 22 – David Lean's film Great Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, opens in the United States. Critics call it the finest film ever made from a Dickens novel.
[edit] June
- June 5 – Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for U.S. aid to Europe.
- June 7 – The ASA (currently Steaua) sport club is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
- June 10 – Saab produces its first automobile.
- June 15 – The Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors accused of revolutionary activity to resign.
- June 21
- Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reports the first modern Men in Black encounter.
- The Canadian Parliament votes unaminiously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.
- 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.
- June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
[edit] July
- July 7 – A downed UFO is found in the Roswell UFO incident, written about by Stanton T. Friedman.
- July 10 – Princess Elizabeth announces her engagement to Philip Mountbatten.
- July 11 – The Exodus (ship) leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees.
- July 17 – The Indian passenger ship Ramdas is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India; 625 are killed.
- July 18
- Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, the Exodus (ship) is captured by British troops and refused entry to Palestine in the port of Haifa.
- President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
- July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
- July 27 – Take It or Leave It airs its final episode on CBS Radio.
- July 29 – After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
[edit] August
- August 4 – Betty Moore from Horsham, Sussex, sails in her first Cowes Week (59 years later she is awarded the Skandia Cowes Week Ladies Day Trophy, after campaigning her Solent Sunbeam, WHY, in all 60 consecutive regattas).
- August 5 – The Netherlands stops political actions in Indonesia.
- August 7
- Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- August 14 – After 90 years of British colonial rule, Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th. Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the first Governor General of Pakistan.
- August 15
- After 150 yrs of British colonial rule India gains independence from British. Pakistan is split from India. Rajendra Prasad is the first President of India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
- The Khan of Kalat (princely state), Baluchistan joins Muslim Pakistan.
- August 16 – In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over.
- August 23 – Prime Minister of Greece Dimitrios Maximos resigns.
- August 24 – The first Edinburgh International Festival begins, with a post-war mission to 'provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit’.
- August 27 – When the French government lowers the bread ration to 200 grams, it causes riots in Verdun and Le Mans.
- August 30 – A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France kills 87.
- August 31 – Communists take power in Hungary.
[edit] September
- September 13 – Indian Prime Minister Nehru suggests the transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
- September 17–21 – A hurricane in southeast Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama kills 51.
- September 18
- The United States Army Air Forces, along with some components of the United States Navy's air arm, becomes the United States Air Force.
- The National Security Act creates the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA.
- September 30 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
[edit] October
- October 14 – American test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
- October 20 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins.
- October 30 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
[edit] November
- November 2
- In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasts only 8 minutes).
- An earthquake in the Chilean Andes kills 233.
- November 6 – Meet the Press makes its television debut on the NBC television network.
- November 10 – The arrest of 4 steel workers in Marseille begins a communist riot that spreads to Paris.
- November 16
- November 18 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41.
- November 20
- Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
- Paul Ramadier resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls 80,000 reservists to quell the rioting miners.
- November 21 – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. The conference ends in 1948, when members finish the Havana Charter.
- November 24 – Red Scare: The United States House of Representatives votes 346-17 to approve citations of contempt of U.S. Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10, after the 10 refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry (the 10 are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios the next day).
- November 25 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- November 27 – In Paris, police occupy the editorial offices of communist newspapers.
- November 29 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews, resulting in the creation of the State of Israel.
[edit] December
- December 3
- French communist strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing Express train because of false rumors that it was transporting soldiers; 21 are killed.
- Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
- December 4 – French interior minister Jules S. Moch secures emergency measures against riots after 6 days of violent arguments in the national assembly.
- December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, based on Shakespeare's Othello, on NBC Radio. The second half is broadcast a week later. Starring are Ramon Vinay, Giuseppe Valdengo, and Herva Nelli. The complete performance (both parts) is eventually released on LP and CD. Many believe this is one of the very finest opera performances led by Toscanini. It is for some the definitive Otello.
- December 9 – French labour unions call off the general strike and begin negotiations with the French government.
- December 12 – The Iranian Royal Army takes back power in Azerbaijan province.
- December 22
- The Italian Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new constitution.
- The first practical transistor is demonstrated.
- December 30 – King Michael of Romania abdicates.
[edit] Undated
- The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into communism in Hollywood.
- Cambridge University begins to admit women as full students.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.
- Raytheon produces the first commercial microwave oven.
- Women's suffrage is granted in Argentina.
- In a cave in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea), several tall pottery jars containing leather scrolls are discovered, which later become known as the Dead Sea scrolls.[1]
- By discovery of Promethium in products of nuclear fission, the last gap of the periodic table is closed.
[edit] Ongoing
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1947 MCMXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2700 |
| Armenian calendar | 1396 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 103 – 104 |
| Berber calendar | 2897 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2491 |
| Burmese calendar | 1309 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7455 – 7456 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年十二月初十日 (4583/4643-12-10) — to —
丁亥年十一月二十日(4584/4644-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1663 – 1664 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1939 – 1940 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5707 – 5708 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2002 – 2003 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1869 – 1870 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5048 – 5049 |
| Holocene calendar | 11947 |
| Iranian calendar | 1325 – 1326 |
| Islamic calendar | 1366 – 1367 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 22 (昭和22年) |
| Korean calendar | 4280 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2490 |
[edit] January–February
- January 1 – Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
- January 2 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
- January 6 – Sandy Denny, British singer (d. 1978)
- January 7 – Shobha De, Indian writer
- January 8
- David Bowie, English rock musician
- Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor
- January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, American artist
- January 11 – Mart Smeets, Dutch sports journalist
- January 14 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
- January 16 – Laura Schlessinger, American psychologist and radio talk show host
- January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director and actor
- January 23 – Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware
- January 24
- Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
- Warren Zevon, American rock musician (Werewolves of London) (d. 2003)
- Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
- January 29 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 30 – Steve Marriott, British rock musician (The Small Faces, Humble Pie) (d. 1991)
- January 31 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
- February 1 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
- February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charlie's Angels) (d. 2009)
- February 3
- Melanie, American rock singer
- Paul Auster, American novelist
- February 4 – Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States 1989-1993
- February 5 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and broadcaster
- February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) (d. 2009)
- February 10 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
- February 10 – Nicholas Owen, English newsreader (ITN)
- February 12 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Punjabi saint, Sikh theologian, military leader (d. 1984)
- February 13 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
- February 15 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer
- February 18
- Princess Christina of the Netherlands
- Dennis DeYoung, American rock musician (Styx)
- February 20
- Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
- Peter Strauss, American actor
- February 21 – Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (d. 2006)
- February 24 – Edward James Olmos, American actor (Stand and Deliver)
- February 25 – Doug Yule, American rock singer and musician (The Velvet Underground)
- February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
- February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
[edit] March–April
- March 2 – Harry Redknapp, Tottenham Hotspur Manager
- March 4
- David Franzoni, American screenwriter
- Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
- Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
- March 6
- Kiki Dee, English singer
- Dick Fosbury, American athlete
- Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
- Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian and director (All In The Family)
- March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
- March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter
- March 10
- Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada
- Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter, and inventor
- March 11 – David Ferguson (impresario), American music producer and activist
- March 12
- Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
- Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts
- March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
- March 14 – Pam Ayres, British poet
- March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
- March 16
- Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor
- Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
- March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer
- March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress
- March 20 – John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
- March 24
- Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer
- Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur
- March 25 – Elton John, English rock singer, pianist, and songwriter
- March 27 – Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist
- April 1 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
- April 2
- Emmylou Harris, American singer
- Camille Paglia, American literary critic
- April 4 – Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher
- April 5 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, incumbent Philippine president and daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal
- April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cheers)
- April 8 – Tom DeLay, American politician
- April 12 – Tom Clancy, American author
- April 12 – David Letterman, American talk show host
- April 15
- Lois Chiles, American actress
- Mike Chapman, Australian-born record producer and songwriter
- April 16
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American basketball player
- Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter
- April 18
- Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
- James Woods, American actor
- April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
- April 20 – Hector, Finnish rock musician
- April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician
- April 25 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach
- April 28 – Ken St. Andre, American game designer and author
- April 29
- Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
- Tommy James, American rock singer and producer (Mony Mony)
- April 30 – Leslie Grantham, British actor
[edit] May–June
- May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
- May 6 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
- May 8 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- May 11- Walter Selke, German physicist
- May 12 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian public intellectual, philosopher and historian
- May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
- May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer/songwriter
- May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
- May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain
- May 27
- Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach
- Peter DeFazio, American politician
- May 29 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (d. 2007)
- June 1 – Ronnie Wood, English rock musician (The Faces, The Rolling Stones)
- June 4 – Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
- June 6
- David Blunkett, British politician
- Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
- Robert Englund, American actor (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
- June 7 – Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher (d. 1979)
- June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 14 – Barry Melton, American rock musician (Country Joe and The Fish)
- June 15 – John Hoagland, American war photographer (d. 1984)
- June 16 – -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
- June 19
- Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
- Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author (The Satanic Verses)
- Candy Clark, American actress
- June 21
- Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Meredith Baxter, American actress (Family Ties)
- Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties)
- June 22
- Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
- David Lander, American actor and baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
- Mike Stone, American football player
- June 25 – Jimmie Walker, American actor (Good Times)
- June 28 – Mark Helprin, American writer
[edit] July–August
- July 2 – Larry David, American actor, writer, producer, and director
- July 3 – Dave Barry, American writer
- July 7
- Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
- Richard Beckinsale, British actor (d. 1979)
- July 8 – Bobby Sowell, American pianist and composer
- July 9
- Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
- Mitch Mitchell, American rock drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008)
- O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (The Naked Gun)
- July 10 – Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer (The City of New Orleans)
- July 17 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- July 18 – Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
- July 19 – Brian May, English rock guitarist (Queen)
- July 20
- Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Carlos Santana, Mexican-born rock guitarist
- July 21 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
- July 24 – Peter Serkin, American pianist
- July 27 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
- July 30 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
- July 31 – Richard Griffiths, English actor
- August 3 – Colleen Corby, American fashion model
- August 7 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian children's entertainer, composer and artist
- August 8 – Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
- August 9 – John Varley, American science-fiction author
- August 10 – Ian Anderson, British rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- August 12 – William Hartston, British chess player
- August 14 – Maddy Prior, English folk singer
- August 15 – Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
- August 16 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor
- August 19
- Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
- Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
- August 23 – Willy Russell, British playwright
- August 24 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
- August 26 – Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
- August 27 – Barbara Bach, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me)
- August 28 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
- August 29 – Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
- August 30 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
- August 31
- Ramon Castellano de Torres, Spanish painter
- Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
[edit] September–October
- September 1 – Al Green, American politician
- September 3 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
- September 6 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
- September 14 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (A Cry In The Dark)
- September 17 – Tessa Jowell, British politician
- September 19 – Steve Bartlett, U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- September 21 – Stephen King, American horror author
- September 22 – Norma McCorvey, American abortion plaintiff (Roe v. Wade)
- September 25 – Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer and coach
- September 26 – Lynn Anderson, American country singer
- September 27
- Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
- Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), American rock singer and actor
- September 30 – Marc Bolan, English rock musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977)
- October 1 – Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- October 2 – Ward Churchill, American author and activist
- October 4 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- October 5 – Brian Johnson, English rock singer (AC/DC)
- October 6 – Gail Farrell, American singer
- October 7 – Pip Williams, British record producer
- October 9 – France Gall, French singer
- October 10 – Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (d. 1998)
- October 13 – Sammy Hagar, American rock singer
- October 14 – Lukas Resetarits, Austrian singer and actor
- October 16 – Bob Weir, American rock guitarist (Grateful Dead)
- October 17
- Gene Green, American politician
- Michael McKean, American actor and comedian (Laverne and Shirley)
- October 18 – James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist
- October 19 – Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist and illustrator
- October 22 – Ed Welch, English television composer
- October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
- October 25 – Glenn Tipton, English rock guitarist (Judas Priest)
- October 26
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and Senator from New York
- Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
- October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor (Mr. Holland's Opus)
[edit] November–December
- November 6 – Jim Rosenthal, ITV sport presenter
- November 7
- Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
- Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist, writer and founder of Manager Daily, also leader of PAD
- November 10 – Glen Buxton, American rock guitarist (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
- November 14 – P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and satirist
- November 17 – Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- November 19
- Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
- Anfinn Kallsberg, former Faroese Prime Minister
- Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- November 20 – Joe Walsh, American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Rocky Mountain Way)
- November 21 – Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (d. 2008)
- November 24 – Mike Gorman, American sports announcer (Boston Celtics)
- November 25 – John Larroquette, American actor (Night Court)
- November 30
- Véronique Le Flaguais, Canadian actress
- Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
- David Mamet, American playwright
- December 1 – Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league player
- December 2 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
- December 7 – Wendy Padbury, British actress
- December 8 – Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 8 – Gérard Blanc, French singer
- December 9 – Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator
- December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
- December 12 – Will Alsop, English architect
- December 14 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
- December 16 – Vincent Matthews, American athlete
- December 21
- Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist
- Bryan Hamilton, Irish footballer and football manager
- December 22 – Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
- December 26 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
- December 28 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (d. 2000)
- December 29 – Ted Danson, American actor (Cheers)
- December 30 – Jeff Lynne, British musician (Electric Light Orchestra)
- December 31
- Burton Cummings, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
- Tim Matheson, American actor
[edit] Unknown date
- Peter Irniq, Commissioner of Nunavut
- Stephen LaBerge, Lucid dream researcher
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 15 – Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia), famous murder victim (b. 1924)
- January 20
- Andrew Volstead, American politician (b. 1860)
- Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)
- January 23 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
- January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- January 27 – Vasily Balabanov, administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (b.1873)
- February 6 – O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina
- February 12 – Sidney Toler, American actor (Charlie Chan) (b. 1874)
- February 27 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1868)
- March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
- March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
- March 12 – Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1862)
- March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
- March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1881)
- March 23 – Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
- March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b. 1895)
- March 28 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b. 1897)
- March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b. 1863)
- April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- April 8 – Langley Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1885)
- April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
- May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
- May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b. 1926)
- May 16 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
- May 17 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
- May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1907)
- May 29 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1905)
- May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame (b. 1880)
- May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress (b. 1907)
- June 11 – Richard Hönigswald, Hungarian-born American philosopher (b. 1875)
- June 18 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese rear admiral and convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)
- June 19 – Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
- June 20 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (b. 1906)
- June 26 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
[edit] July–December
- July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- July 27 – Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (b. 1868)
- July 30 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- August 8 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian military leader (b. 1872)
- September 1 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
- October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- October 6 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
- October 28 – Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon (plane crash) (b. 1895)
- October 29 – Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland (b. 1864)
- November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
- November 28 – W. E. Lawrence, American silent film actor (b. 1896)
- December 1
- Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
- G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
- December 7
- Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
- December 14
- Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
- December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
- December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
- December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer (b. 1897)
- December 28 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
[edit] Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Edward Victor Appleton
- Chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson
- Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
- Literature – André Gide
- Peace – The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends
[edit] Ship events
- List of ship commissionings in 1947
- List of ship decommissionings in 1947
- List of shipwrecks in 1947
[edit] Notes
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