* 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

Hendrik Pieter ( Henk ) Barendregt ( born 1947, Amsterdam ) is a Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.

* Hendrik (" Henk ") Pieter Barendregt ( born 1947, Amsterdam ), a Dutch logician

* 1947 – Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer

* 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger ( b. 1889 )

The archive consists of about nineteen thousand drawings and prints, one thousand of which are by the designer and architect Lilly Reich ( 1885 – 1947 ), Mies van der Rohe's close collaborator from 1927 to 1937 ; of written documents ( primarily, the business correspondence ) covering nearly the entire career of the architect ; of photographs of buildings, models, and furniture ; and of audiotapes, books, and periodicals.

* 1889 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger ( d. 1947 )

Han van Meegeren () ( 10 October 1889 in Deventer, Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam ), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

In 1947 he applied for graduate studies at Harvard, Yale, and Illinois Institute of Technology and was accepted at all three institutions, and left Ireland in 1948 to study under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Vitamin A was first synthesized in 1947 by two Dutch chemists, David Adriaan van Dorp and Jozef Ferdinand Arens.

* Harry van der Kamp ( Kampen, 1947 ) bass-baritone, bass-soloist, ensemble singer and initiator of ' The Sweelinck Monument ' in which he directed his Gesualdo Consort in a series of recordings of the complete vocal works of the Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

* ' The Prehistory of Post-Scarcity Anarchism: Josef Weber and the Movement for a Democracy of Content ( 1947 – 1964 )' by Marcel van der Linden, Anarchist Studies, vol.

After a period with no principal conductor, the orchestra engaged the Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum in 1947.

He visited an exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh which resulted in a study Van Gogh le suicidé de la société Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society, published by K éditeur, Paris, 1947 which won a critics ' prize.

nl: Vrede van Parijs ( 1947 )

In 1947, the Dutch astronomer Hendrik van de Hulst suggested that surface waves are involved.

In 1947, the name was changed to Universiteit van Indonesie ( UVI ) or Universitas Indonesia.

* Report to Saint Peter, upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life-an unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, 1947, Simon and Schuster

The original title ranged from De Avonturen van Detectief Van Zwam in 1947 to De Avonturen van Nero en zijn Hoed in 1950, and finally De Avonturen van Nero & Co from 1951.

He first sketched the van in a doodle dated April 23, 1947, proposing a payload of and placing the driver at the very front.

In the 1940s several seminal Westerns were published, including The Ox-Bow Incident ( 1940 ) by Walter van Tilburg Clark, The Big Sky ( 1947 ) and The Way West ( 1949 ) by A. B.

The Belgian writer Marnix Gijsen borrows elements of the story in his first novel Het boek van Joachim van Babylon, 1947.

* Arie van der Wel ( 1947 – 48 )