* 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 – 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

James Danforth " Dan " Quayle (; born February 4, 1947 )

* Dan Sten Olsson, ( b. 1947 ), industry leader, CEO of Stena AB and chairman in Concordia Maritime AB, Stena Line Holding B. V., Stena Metall AB, Stena Bulk AB, Stena Sessan AB, Stena Drilling Ltd. Also member of international advisory board of Alliance for Global Sustainability and honorary doctorate at the University of Technology

Fyodor Ilyich Dan (), often known in English as Fedor Dan, ( October 19, 1871, Saint Petersburg – January 22, 1947, New York ) was one of the founding leaders of Menshevism.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

Dan Gurney's father, John Gurney, was a prominent singer with the Metropolitan Opera in New York who retired in 1947 and moved the family to Riverside, California when Dan was a teenager.

In October 1947, just after the 1947 World Series championship, Weiss was promoted to general manager of the Yankees, after the team's newly reconstituted ownership tandem of Dan Topping and Del Webb bought out original partner Larry MacPhail, who had also been general manager.

One of the stars of the 1947 team, Dan Dworsky, went on to a career as an architect and designed Crisler Arena.

Jim Hodder ( December 17, 1947 – June 5, 1990 ) was an American drummer, best known as the original drummer for Steely Dan.

* Avery made several non-sequels to the film, including Swing Shift Cinderella ( 1945 ), The Shooting Of Dan McGoo and Wild And Woolfy ( both 1945 and both featuring Droopy ), Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), and Little Rural Riding Hood ( 1949 ).

* Lewis, Oscar ( 1947 ), " Introduction " in Dan De Quille ( Oscar Lewis, ed.

The many novels influenced by the Ripper include: A Case to Answer ( 1947 ) by Edgar Lustgarten, The Screaming Mimi ( 1949 ) by Fredric Brown, Terror Over London ( 1957 ) by Gardner Fox, Ritual in the Dark ( 1960 ) and The Killer ( 1970 ) by Colin Wilson, Sagittarius ( 1962 ) by Ray Russell, A Feast Unknown ( 1969 ) by Philip José Farmer, A Kind of Madness ( 1972 ) by Anthony Boucher, Nine Bucks Row ( 1973 ) by T. E. Huff, The Michaelmas Girls ( 1975 ) by John Brooks Barry, Jack's Little Friend ( 1975 ) by Ramsey Campbell, By Flower and Dean Street ( 1976 ) by Patrice Chaplin, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper ( 1980 ) by Richard Gordon, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings ( 1987 ) by Iain Sinclair, Anno Dracula ( 1992 ) by Kim Newman, A Night in the Lonesome October ( 1993 ) by Roger Zelazny, Ladykiller ( 1993 ) by Martina Cole, Savage ( 1993 ) by Richard Laymon, The Pit ( 1993 ) by Neil Penswick, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ( 1994 ) by Peter Ackroyd, Pentecost Alley ( 1996 ) by Anne Perry, and Matrix ( 1998 ) by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.

Daniel Joseph " Dan " Lauria ( born April 12, 1947 ) is an American television and film actor.

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