* 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

Examples of such courts include the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals ( which existed from 1844 to 1947 ), the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ( which has been renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court ), the Kentucky Court of Errors ( renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court ), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals ( since renamed the Supreme Court of Mississippi ).

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

* High Button Shoes ( 1947 )

* Up and Down also known as High and Low, lithograph ( 1947 )

He graduated from Texas High School in Texarkana in 1947.

* On September 18, 2009, the Texarkana Independent School District named him ( 1947 graduate of Texas High School ) as a 2009 Distinguished Alumnus.

His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings ( 1964 ) and High Windows ( 1974 ).

Keitel's brother, General Bodewin Keitel, an infantry general in the Army High Command ( OKH ), was captured by Allied forces in 1945 and released in 1947.

Specter, who was six years younger than Dole and graduated Russell High School in 1947, was not a Dole contemporary although Specter's brother Morton Specter and Dole's brother Kenny Dole were friends.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Yearling ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

He was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1945 ), The Yearling ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

Louise Arbour, ( born February 10, 1947 ) is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Richardson graduated from Beaumont High School in 1947 and played on the " Royal Purple " football team as a defensive lineman, wearing number 85.

* 1947: High Button Shoes ( director )

The museum's Native Sons Gallery honors U. S. congressman William Flynt Nichols, U. S. Army Lieutenant General James W. Crysel, whose 33-year military career included receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, and singer and actor Jim Nabors, a 1947 graduate of Sylacauga High School.

* Harvey Milk: Former San Francisco Supervisor, gay rights pioneer, 2009 posthumous recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1947.

Born in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Butler Senior High School in 1945 and served in the United States Army as an enlisted man from 1946 to 1947, including service in the Occupation of Japan.

After Karima Primary and Nyeri Boarding primary schools, he proceeded to Mang ' u High School where he studied between 1947 and 1950.

Her December 27, 1947, recording of " It's Magic " ( from the Doris Day film Romance on the High Seas ) found chart success in early 1948.

Image: Nikon F IMG 1947. jpg | High capacity back for 30 feet ( 10 metres ) of bulk film with the F250 motor drive

In 1947 the High Court of Justice in Versailles tried Admiral Robert for collaboration.

* In the Republic of Upper Volta ( since 4 January 1947 a French territory ; present Burkina Faso, renamed 4 August 1984 ), since the 11 December 1958 grant of Autonomy as a ' republic ', République de Haute-Volta, there were two High commissioners:

Milk graduated from Bay Shore High School in Bay Shore, New York, in 1947 and attended New York State College for Teachers in Albany ( now the State University of New York at Albany ) from 1947 to 1951, majoring in mathematics.

* The Brasher Doubloon ( 1947 ) — ( adaptation of released in the UK as The High Window ) George Montgomery as Marlowe.