Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
2
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
3
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
4
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
5
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
6
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
7
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
8
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
9
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
10
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
Politician
11
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
12
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
13
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
14
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
15
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
16
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
17
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
Movie Actor
18
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
19
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
20
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
21
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
22
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
23
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
24
Celebrities Born in 1947
Deaths by Year
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
25
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
26
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
Poet
27
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
Children's Author
28
Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
29
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
30
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
31
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
32
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
33
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
34
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
35
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
36
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
37
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
38
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
39
Gavin Fitzjohn (1925-1947)
Saxophonist
40
Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)
Sculptor
41
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
42
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
43
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
44
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
45
Jack Glasscock (1857-1947)
46
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
47
Hal Chase (1883-1947)
48
