* 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

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

* 1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.

* 1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.

Noah's Ark New England Yankees and the Endless Quest: a Short History of the Original Webster Dictionaries, With Particular Reference to Their First Hundred Years ( 1947 ).

* Warta Poznań – men's football team ( Polish Champion: 1929, 1947 ), currently plays in the Polish First League.

After its adoption by the First Pan African Congress in 1947, the Three-Stage Chronology was amended by the Third Congress in 1955 to include a First Intermediate Period between Early and Middle, to encompass the Fauresmith and Sangoan technologies, and the Second Intermediate Period between Middle and Later, to encompass the Magosian technology and others.

First published in Planet Stories, spring 1947.

First appeared in Weird Tales, July 1947.

They were finally promoted back to the First Division at the end of the 1947 – 48 season.

* 1947 – First supersonic manned flight

* 1947 – First germanium point-contact transistor invented

* 1947 – First commercial application of a piezoelectric ceramic: barium titanate used as a phonograph pickup

In the 20th century, the race was run on the first Wednesday in June from 1900 until 1995 apart from: 1915 to 1918, ( during the First World War ) when it was on a Tuesday ; during the Second World War, from 1942 until 1945 the race was run on a Saturday as it was in the post war years of 1947 to 1950 and again in 1953.

“ The Jews in the Byzantine Empire under the First Palaeologi .” Speculum, 22 ( 1947 ): 75 – 77.

The ENIAC patent, issued in 1964 was filed on June 26, 1947, and granted February 4, 1964, but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft ( which were also common to ENIAC ) was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

Some had to do with the time between publication ( the First Draft ) and the patent filing date ( 1947 ).

First published in 1947 in the aftermath of the crushing Conservative election defeat of 1945, and aimed at the mass market and the layman, it presented a well-written and coherent case for Conservatism.

The string of notable successes continued as Princess Charlotte in The First Gentleman ( Savoy, 1945 ) opposite Robert Morley as the Prince Regent, Pegeen in Playboy of the Western World ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946 ) and Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End in 1947 ), which was adapted for the stage by her husband.

* Frederick Russell Burnham ( May 11, 1861-September 1, 1947 ), best known for his service in the First Matabele War, Second Matabele War, the Second Boer War, and for teaching woodcraft ( i. e., scoutcraft ) to Robert Baden-Powell, becoming one of the inspirations to the founding of the Boy Scouts and recognized today as the father of the international scouting movement.

Several liberal members of SAG, led by Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kaye, and Gene Kelly formed the Committee for the First Amendment ( CFA ) and flew to Washington, DC, in late October 1947 to show support for the Hollywood Ten.

* John Mitchel First Felon for Ireland, Edited By Brian O ' Higgins, Brian O ' Higgins 1947.

In 1947, McQueen joined the United States Marine Corps and was quickly promoted to Private First Class and assigned to an armored unit.

Bomber Offensive, ( First edition Collins 1947 ), Pen & Sword military classics 2005 ; ISBN 1-84415-210-3.