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