Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
2
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
3
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
4
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
5
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
6
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
7
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
Politician
8
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
Movie Actor
9
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
10
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
11
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
12
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
13
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
14
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
15
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
16
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
17
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
18
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
19
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
20
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
Poet
21
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
22
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
23
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
24
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
25
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
26
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
27
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
Children's Author
28
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
29
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
30
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
31
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
32
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
33
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
34
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
35
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
36
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
37
Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
38
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
39
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
40
Jack Glasscock (1857-1947)
41
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
Sculptor
42
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
43
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
44
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
45
Hal Chase (1883-1947)
46
Leonardo Arguello Barreto (1875-1947)
World Leader
47
Antonio Sciortino (1879-1947)
48
Celebrities Born in 1947
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