* 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 – 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

* 1947: Six heures à perdre, directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

* 1947 Alex Toth, comic book illustrator, animator for Hanna-Barbera

His first three adventures were drawn by creator Dennis Neville ( who modeled Hawkman's costume on the hawkmen characters in the Flash Gordon comic strip by Alex Raymond ), then by Sheldon Moldoff, and later by Joe Kubert, who slightly redesigned his mask in Flash Comics # 85 ( Jul 1947 ) and then, one year later, replaced the winged-hawk-like mask by a much simpler yellow cowl in Flash Comics # 98 ( Aug 1948 ).

By 1947, Adams had built a farm system which bred, among others, Alex Delvecchio, Terry Sawchuk, Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly, Sid Abel, and most notably Gordie Howe.

Alexander " Alex " Briley ( b. April 12, 1947 ) performed the " G. I.

* Alex MacLean ( born 1947 ), American photographic artist

* Alex Mitchell ( journalist ) ( 1947 – 2010 ), British journalist and editor of Christian magazine Third Way

* Alex Taylor ( musician ) ( 1947 – 1993 ), American musician and brother of James Taylor

In 1947 Alex “ Shoney ” Schoenbaum opened the Parkette Drive-In next to his father ’ s bowling alley in Charleston, West Virginia.

Alex S. MacLean ( born 1947 ) is an American photographic artist who is best known for his aerial photographs.

The sanctuary was opened as the Currumbin Bird Sanctuary by Alex Griffiths in 1947 as a scheme to stop the local lorikeet population destroying his flower plantations.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

* 1947 – Barbara Mason, American singer-songwriter

* 1947 – Fred Stanley, American baseball player

* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

* 1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author

* 1947 – Dennis Zine, American politician

* 1947 – Larry Wilcox, American actor

* 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player

* 1947 – Bruce Nash, American television producer

* 1947 – Danielle Steel, American novelist

* 1876 – Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician

* 1947 – Sam Rosen, American sportscaster

* 1947 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach ( d. 2007 )

* 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor