* 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

* 1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.

* January 17, 1947: explosion of collected grenades on the factory premises, 17 deaths and much damage in Muiden.

Shortly after, Burger appeared in a case defending the U. S. against claims from the Texas City ship explosion disaster, successfully arguing that the Federal Tort Claims Act of 1947 did not allow a suit for negligence in policy making ; the U. S. won the case ( Dalehite, et al., vs. United States 346 U. S. 15 ( 1953 )).

However, between December 1946 and September 1947, most of the city's Italian residents opted to emigrate to Italy during the Istrian exodus: on 18 August 1946 it was the site of the Vergarola explosion and on 10 February 1947 an Italian woman named Maria Pasquinelli shot British general De Winton.

In 1947, the sheds were the scene of a serious boiler explosion, where both driver and fireman were severely scalded, but survived.

1947 proved to be a particularly difficult year for the government ; an exceptionally cold winter that year caused coal mines to freeze and cease production, creating widespread power cuts and food shortages.

British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and Yarrow Shipbuilders ; the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners ' shares had been converted into.

The nearby Saar region, containing much of Germany's remaining coal deposits, was handed over to economic administration by France as a protectorate in 1947 and did not politically return to Germany until January 1957, with economic reintegration occurring two years later.

In South Charleston are the headquarters of International Industries, the parent company of a group of subsidiaries founded in 1947 by James H. " Buck " Harless ( now its president and CEO ), based primarily in natural resources such as coal and timber, but which also include the manufacturing, hotel and real estate industries.

In 1947, France created the nominally politically independent Saar Protectorate and merged it economically with France in order to exploit the area's vast coal reserves.

* Monnet Plan, a 1945 – 1947 reconstruction plan for France that proposed giving France control over the German coal and steel areas of the Ruhr area and Saar.

In 1947, Britain experienced, in an exceptionally severe winter, a serious coal shortage.

James Steven " Steve " Griles ( born December 13, 1947 ) was a coal industry lobbyist and the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior during the George W. Bush administration from July 12, 2001, until his resignation on December 7, 2004.

The neighboring Saar area, containing much of Germany's remaining coal deposits, was by the U. S. handed over to French economic administration as a protectorate in 1947 and did not politically return to Germany until January 1957, with economic reintegration occurring a few years later.

* A message to America's coal miners New York: Communist Party, U. S. A., 1947

The rivalry between the Midland and LNW Railway companies ensured that the line ultimately failed to serve the people of Hemel Hempstead in the most useful way possible, and the last passenger train ran in December 1947, following a ' temporary ' suspension of services due to the national coal shortage.

In 1947 he ordered the Meiraki-gumi, an affiliated gang, to break up a labour movement at the Hokutan coal mine.

The last coal mine located close to the town centre ( Ravenhead Colliery ) and those that were located in the outlying districts of St Helens, including Clock Face ( Clock Face Colliery ), Sutton, ( Bold Colliery ), Sutton Heath ( Lea Green Colliery ), Haydock ( Lyme Pit, Wood Pit, Old Boston ), were closed during a period that lasted from the nationalisation of the deep coal mining industry in 1947 until the early 1990s.

* Franz Joseph Emil Fischer ( 1877 – 1947 ), German chemist, worked with oil and coal

Thus in the 1947 – 1956 period, France benefited from the resources and production of the Saar, and continued to extract coal from the Warndt coal deposit until 1981.

From 15, 000 miners in 1947, Rhondda had just a single pit within the valleys producing coal in 1984, located at Maerdy.

A single daily goods train continued to run until 1947, when coal shortages forced its temporary withdrawal.

Between 1945 and 1947, coal shortages caused GWR to experiment with oil fired 2800 locomotives and 12 of the 2800 class were converted, as were eight of the 2884 class.

In 1947 experiments had been made with a four-row high-degree superheater in No. 6022 King Edward III, owing to a decline in the availability of high-calorific South Wales steam coal, on which the GWR had always relied for its good locomotive performance.

Initially created as a storage dam for water supplies in the late 1890s, it was increased in size in 1947 for coal storage.