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

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 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

Many artists have illustrated the Arabian nights, including: Pierre-Clément Marillier for Le Cabinet des Fées ( 1785 – 1789 ) Gustave Doré, Léon Carré ( Granville, 1878-Alger, 1942 ), Roger Blachon, Françoise Boudignon, André Dahan, Amato Soro, Albert Robida, Alcide Théophile Robaudi and Marcelino Truong ; Vittorio Zecchin ( Murano, 1878 – Murano, 1947 ) and Emanuele Luzzati ; The German Morgan ; Mohammed Racim ( Algiers, 1896-Algiers 1975 ), Sani ol-Molk ( 1849 – 1856 ) and Emre Orhun.

André Franquin ( 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997 ) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series ' golden age.

After the death of Pelletier in early 1947, the role of editor-in-chief would pass to Gérard Filion, ex-editor of La Terre de chez nous, under whose reign the paper would publish highly controversial critiques of Maurice Duplessis's government in Quebec by journalists and figures such as André Laurendeau.

Coty was elected to the National Assembly in 1946 as a Deputy for Seine-Inférieure, and from November 1947 to September 1948, he served as Minister for Reconstruction and Urban Planning in the governments of Robert Schuman and André Marie.

Another French sequel was La Conquête de l ' Eternel ( 1947 ) by Dominique André.

Claude Terrail had run the restaurant since inheriting it from his father André in 1947.

Born in Paris, Georges Philippe de Rothschild was the younger son of Baron Henri James de Rothschild ( 1872 – 1947 ) ( who was a noted playwright under the name André Pascal ) and Mathilde Sophie Henriette von Weissweiller ( 1872 – 1926 ).

In 1946 and 1947, the team was joined by some of the main contributors to Spirou for the next decades, with André Franquin, Victor Hubinon, Jean-Michel Charlier, Morris and Eddy Paape.

* André Darrieussecq, born 1947 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a French rugby player who played for Saint-Jean-de-Luz Olympique Rugby and the French national side ;

According to historian André Fontaine, Clemenceau's cordon sanitaire marked the real beginning of the Cold War: thus, it would have started in 1919 and not in 1947 as most historians contend it did.

* Pierre Bonnard ( 1867 – 1947 )-Born in Fontenay at the corner of d ' Estienne d ' Orves Neyts and André, near the College des Ormeaux, painter.

" André Maurois " was a pseudonym that became his legal name in 1947.

from Brigham Young University in 1947, and subsequently studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music under André Lafosse for two years ( 1950 – 1951 ) where he lived in Paris with his wife Evelyn Hunt and their son Steven Hunt.

The music was written in 1947 by Henri Betti, the French lyrics by André Hornez, and the English lyrics by Jerry Seelen.

* Yocheved Weinfeld ( born 1947 ), Polish-born Israeli painter

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

* 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author

The more conservative Chadian Democratic Union ( UDT ) was founded in November 1947 and represented French commercial interests and a bloc of traditional leaders composed primarily of Muslim and Ouaddaïan nobility.

* 1947 – Gérard Blanc, French singer

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer ( Les Variations )

* 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer ( d. 2009 )

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

Animated map of French territorial losses and gains from 985 to 1947.

( 1964 ; originally published in French, 1947 ), became a standard scholarly definition of feudalism.

* 1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1947 – Michel Sardou, French singer

* 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist, discovered HIV, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1875 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player ( d. 1947 )

Viet Minh units occasionally made forays into Cambodian bases during their war against the French, and, in conjunction with the leftist government that ruled Thailand until 1947, the Viet Minh encouraged the formation of armed, left-wing Khmer Issarak bands.

Laos ' first, French-written and monarchical constitution was promulgated on May 11, 1947 and declared it to be an independent state within the French Union.

* 1947 – Tristan Murail, French composer

* 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor

* 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Michel Berger, French songwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1947 – Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter

* 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host

* 1947 – Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer ( b. 1866 )

* 1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer