Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
2
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
3
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
4
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
Politician
5
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
6
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
7
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
8
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
9
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
10
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
11
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
12
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
13
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
14
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
15
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
Movie Actor
16
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
17
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
18
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
19
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
20
Gavin Fitzjohn (1925-1947)
Saxophonist
21
William Moulton Marston (1893-1947)
Psychologist
22
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
23
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
24
Celebrities Born in 1947
Deaths by Year
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
25
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
26
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
27
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
28
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
Poet
29
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
30
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
31
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
32
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
33
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
34
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
35
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
36
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
37
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
38
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
39
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
Children's Author
40
Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
41
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
42
Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)
Composer
43
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
44
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
45
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
46
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
47
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
Sculptor
48
