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