Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
2
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
3
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
Movie Actor
4
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
5
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
6
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
Politician
7
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
Poet
8
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
9
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
10
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
11
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
12
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
13
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
14
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
15
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
16
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
17
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
18
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
19
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
20
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
21
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
22
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
23
Gavin Fitzjohn (1925-1947)
Saxophonist
24
Celebrities Born in 1947
Deaths by Year
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
25
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
26
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
27
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
28
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
29
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
30
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
Children's Author
31
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
32
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
33
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
34
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
35
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
36
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
37
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
38
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
39
Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)
Sculptor
40
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
41
Heiti Talvik (1904-1947)
42
William Moulton Marston (1893-1947)
Psychologist
43
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
44
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
45
Jack Glasscock (1857-1947)
46
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
47
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
48
