* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist

* 1947 – Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photographer

* 1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* 1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor

* 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician

* 1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

Censuses during independence have been taken 1947, 1960 ( the first comprehensive demographic investigation ), 1970, 1976 ( a sample census ), 1981, 1994 and 2004 and the next would be taken at 2017.

* Pete Pihos ( 1970 ) – 1947 – 55

The success of an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 1947 was soon repeated elsewhere in the world, and by 1970 it was technically feasible to operate in waters 4000 metres deep.

* Józef Cyrankiewicz 1911 – 1989 ; communist politician ; prime minister of Poland 1947 – 1970

Among the most important are the Council of Economic Advisers ( 1946 ), the National Security Council and its staff ( 1947 ), the Office of the U. S. Trade Representative ( 1963 ), the Council on Environmental Quality ( 1970 ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy ( 1976 ), the Office of Administration ( 1977 ), and the Office of National Drug Control Policy ( 1989 ).

The analysis of logical concepts and the machinery of formalization that is essential to Principia Mathematica ( 3 vols., 1910 – 1913 ) ( by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970, and Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 – 1947 ), to Russell's theory of descriptions, to Kurt Gödel's ( 1906 – 1978 ) incompleteness theorems, and to Alfred Tarski's ( 1901 – 1983 ) theory of truth, is ultimately due to Frege.

G-7's repairs were completed in 1947, and she served the Spanish Navy until 1970.

* Sir Ronald Gould ( 1904 — 1986 ), General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1947 — 1970, was educated at Shepton Mallet Grammar School.

Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 ( one son, Sean Flynn, born 1941, reported missing in Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead ); to Nora Eddington from 1943 until 1949 ( two daughters, Deirdre born 1945 and Rory born 1947 ); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death ( one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953 – 98 ).

He was an editor of the British anarchist newspaper Freedom from 1947 to 1960, and the founder and editor of the monthly anarchist journal Anarchy from 1961 to 1970.

In 1947 he secured as a job lecturing at Birkbeck College, London, but was not promoted till 1970, something that he considered to be due to his far left political views.

He also worked on the scripts for the films Laura ( 1944 ), Brotherhood of Man ( 1946 ), Forever Amber ( 1947 ), and M * A * S * H ( 1970 ).

* George Wunder Cartoons 1947 – 1970 at Syracuse University ( original Terry and the Pirates artwork )

:* 1923, 1924, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1970, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003

:: 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938 ( 1 ), 1940, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999 ( 2 ), 2001, 2012

Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army major during World War II, Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Rectorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen and the Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury ( elected in 1970 ).

** Winners ( 7 ): 1947 ; 1970 ; 1982 ; 1983 ; 1984 ; 1986 ; 1990

* Robert Van Houten ( class of 1930 ), 4th president, 1947 – 1970

:: 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1957, 1959, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2011, 2012

* Hosokawa Moritatsu, 3rd Marquis ( title made obsolete in 1947 ) ( 1883 – 1970 )

Thomas Dempsey ( born January 12, 1947 ) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints ( 1969 – 1970 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 1971 – 1974 ), Los Angeles Rams ( 1975 – 1976 ), Houston Oilers ( 1977 ) and Buffalo Bills ( 1978 – 1979 ).

" World conflicts made it impossible to hold to a strict five-year plan, but BWA has held 20 Congresses: London, 1905 ; Philadelphia, 1911 ; Stockholm, 1923 ; Toronto, 1928 ; Berlin, 1934 ; Atlanta, 1939 ; Copenhagen, 1947 ; Cleveland, 1950 ; London, 1955 ; Rio de Janeiro, 1960 ; Miami Beach, 1965 ; Tokyo, 1970 ; Stockholm, 1975 ; Toronto, 1980 ; Los Angeles, 1985 ; Seoul, 1990 ; Buenos Aires, 1995 ; Melbourne, 2000 ; Birmingham, England, 2005 ; and Honolulu, 2010.

Mortimer and the CP formed alliances at that first convention with George Addes, then the secretary-treasurer of the UAW, later its President, and Walter Reuther, who headed the UAW from 1947 until his death in 1970.

It was not to recover until after World War II when the Federal Government's postwar immigration policy saw a huge influx of migrants, nearly all of them from Europe, in the period 1947 to 1970.