* 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 – Klaus Schulze, German composer

* 1947 – Hans Biebow, German Nazi chief ( b. 1902 )

* 1947 – Florian Schneider, German musician ( Kraftwerk and Organisation )

* 1947 – Reinhard Adler, German footballer

The U. S. shipped food in 1945 – 47 and made a $ 600 million loan in 1947 to rebuild German industry.

Goebbels had four siblings: Hans ( 1893 – 1947 ), Konrad ( 1895 – 1949 ), Elisabeth ( 1901 – 1915 ) and Maria ( 1910 – 1949 ; married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).

* 1947 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician

* 1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, German footballer

* 1893 – Hans Fallada, German writer ( d. 1947 )

The German population was expelled from between 1945 and 1947 and replaced with Poles and, as the medieval Polish name Lignica was considered archaic, the town was renamed Legnica.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

By July 1947 Washington realized that economic recovery in Europe could not go forward without the reconstruction of the German industrial base, deciding that an " orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

In July 1947 Marshall scrapped JCS 1067 which had decreed " take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy.

* 1900 – Rudolf Höß, German concentration camp commandant ( d. 1947 )

Although acquitted at Nuremberg, von Papen was reclassified as a war criminal in 1947 by a German de-Nazification court, and sentenced to eight years ' hard labour.

* 1947 – Gerd Schwidrowski, German footballer

Starting in 1947, the Soviets, also with the help of German teams, launched sub-orbital V-2 rockets and their own variant, the R-1, including radiation and animal experiments on some flights.

The remaining ethnic German population was expelled, primarily to East Germany, between 1945 and 1947.

* November 25 – Rudolf Höß, German Nazi official ( d. 1947 )

** Petra Kelly, German politician ( b. 1947 )