* 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

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

* 2002 – Haim Smadar, Israeli security guard ( b. 1947 )

See, for instance, the rabbinic category of Damages ( Jewish law ) ( note though that while a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law-as enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and taking effect in 1947, a year before Israel became a state ).

Amos Kollek ( born 1947 ) is an Israeli film director, writer and actor.

In 1947, during discussions at the United Nations about the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, the Vatican supported the internationalization of Jerusalem, in order to keep the holy places away from either Israeli or Arab sovereignty.

After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab – Israeli conflict of 1947 – 1948.

The establishment of the Palmach underground army in 1942 which won the yishuv crucial military struggle against Palestinian Arabs from 30 November 1947 up to 15 May 1948 that made possible the establishment of the Israeli state, was due to efforts by Tabenkin and other Kibbutz Meuchad leaders.

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt ( March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011 ) was an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru.

Abdullah went so far as to have secret meetings with the Jewish Agency ( future Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was among the delegates to these meetings ) that came to a mutually agreed upon partition plan independently of the United Nations in November 1947.

The Israeli Combat Engineering Corps ( ICEC ) was founded in 1947 and since then taken important part in all the wars of Israel.

In his first The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947 — 1949 ( 1988 ), Morris argues that the 700, 000 Palestinians who fled their homes in 1947 left mostly due to Israeli military attacks ; fear of impending attacks ; and expulsions.

* Amira Dotan ( born 1947 ), an Israeli military figure and a former member of Knesset for Kadima

* Yehonatan Geffen ( born 1947 ), Israeli writer

A 17-year-old Vidal Sassoon, joined the group in 1947, and went on to fight in the Israeli Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and later founded an international hairdressing empire.

* Israeli immigrant camps ( 1947 – 1950 ) and Ma ' abarot transition camps ( 1950 – 1963 ) to accommodate Jewish refugees and immigrants in Israel.

Jacob David Bekenstein ( Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין ) ( born May 1, 1947 ) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.

Between the beginning of December 1947 and the end of May 1948, when the Israeli army was created, 574 deaths are listed.

* Palavir ( The Air Companies ): made up of Jewish pilots, the Palmach air force was incorporated into the Sherut Avir ( predecessor of the Israeli Air Force ) upon the Sherut's foundation in late 1947.

Salim Joubran ( born 1947 ) is an Israeli Arab judge on the Israeli Supreme Court.

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

Aaron Ciechanover ( אהרן צ ' חנובר ; born October 1, 1947 ) is an Israeli biologist, who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in late 1947 led to civil war ; the end of the British Mandate of Palestine and the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948 – immediately endorsed by the major powers.