Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Entrepreneur
1
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Religious Leader
2
Felix Fox (1876-1947)
Pianist
3
Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947)
4
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Physicist
5
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947)
Politician
6
Josh Gibson (1911-1947)
Baseball Player
7
RB Bennett (1870-1947)
8
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947)
Political Wife
9
Jimmy Doyle (1924-1947)
Boxer
10
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947)
11
John F. Carlson (1875-1947)
Painter
12
Harry Carey (1878-1947)
Movie Actor
13
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
14
William Moulton Marston (1893-1947)
Psychologist
15
Olive Borden (1906-1947)
Movie Actress
16
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Opera Singer
17
Charles Francis Adams (1876-1947)
18
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Civil Rights Leader
19
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
20
GH Hardy (1877-1947)
Mathematician
21
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947)
22
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Novelist
23
Petras Cvirka (1909-1947)
Children's Author
24
Celebrities Born in 1947
Deaths by Year
Gavin Fitzjohn (1925-1947)
Saxophonist
25
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
26
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Philosopher
27
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
Screenwriter
28
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
29
C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947)
Poet
30
J Warren Kerrigan (1879-1947)
31
William C. Durant (1861-1947)
32
Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
33
Eva Tanguay (1878-1947)
Stage Actress
34
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947)
Family Member
35
Manolete (1917-1947)
Bullfighter
36
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
37
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
38
Balys Sruoga (1896-1947)
39
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
40
Warwick Armstrong (1879-1947)
Cricketer
41
Johnny Evers (1881-1947)
42
Evelyn Francis McHale (1923-1947)
43
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Director
44
Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)
Sculptor
45
Jack Glasscock (1857-1947)
46
Andrew Volstead (1860-1947)
47
Hal Chase (1883-1947)
48
