Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
2
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
3
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
4
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
5
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
6
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
7
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
8
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
9
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
Politician
10
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
11
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
12
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
13
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
14
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
15
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
16
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
17
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
18
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
Movie Actor
19
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
20
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Composer
21
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
22
Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)
23
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
24
Celebrities Born in 1947
Deaths by Year
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
25
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
Poet
26
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
27
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
28
Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
29
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
30
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
31
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
32
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
33
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
34
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
Children's Author
35
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
36
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
37
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
38
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
39
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
40
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
41
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
42
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
43
William Moulton Marston (1893-1947)
Psychologist
44
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
45
Jack Glasscock (1857-1947)
46
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
Sculptor
47
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
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