* 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

Albert Lawrence Brooks ( born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947 ) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.

* 1947 – Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician

* Rudgers, David F. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943 – 1947 ( Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2000 )

* August 22 – W. E. Lawrence, American actor ( d. 1947 )

In 1947, Wise directed the Lawrence Tierney noir classic Born to Kill and two years later directed the boxing movie The Set-Up, where his direction of the real-time setting got him noticed.

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.

The historian Lawrence James concurs that in 1947 Mountbatten was left with no option but to cut and run.

Day and Henrietta had five children together: Lawrence ( b. 1935 ), Elsie ( 1939 – 1955 ), David " Sonny " Jr. ( b. 1947 ), Deborah ( 1949 – 2009 ), and Joseph ( b. 1950, later changed name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman ).

Lawrence D. " Butch " Morris ( b. Long Beach, California, February 10, 1947 ) is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.

:* Chorizopella Lawrence, 1947

In 1947 he became a Fellow of Peterhouse, and the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) agreed to create a research unit for the study of the molecular structure of biological systems, under the direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg.

Robin Michael Lawrence, commonly known as Lennie Lawrence, ( born 12 December 1947 in Brighton, England ) is an English football manager who is assistant manager of Crystal Palace.

During the years 1944 to 1947, Strauss was on the faculty of Lawrence College.

After the conclusion of the trials, Lawrence was given a Peerage as Baron Oaksey on 13 January 1947 ( he also inherited the Barony of Trevethin from his brother on 25 June 1959 but was always known as Lord Oaksey ).

* Alexander Graham Lawrence, 3rd Baron Lawrence ( 1878 – 1947 )

* Roe, Andrew M. Waging War in Waziristan: The British Struggle in the Land of Bin Laden, 1849 – 1947 ( Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010 ) 313 pages

Michael Eugene Porter ( born May 23, 1947 ) is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School.

* Philip Lawrence ( 1947 – 1995 ), headmaster and murder victim

Dyson and his wife, Margaret MacGregor Dyson, had four children, John Stuart Dyson ( b. 1943 ), Robert Richard ( b. 1946 ), Anne Elizabeth ( b. 1947 ), and Peter Lawrence ( b. 1951 ).

The word has been used in South Africa since 1790, but the first written recorded English use is by Lawrence Green in the Tavern of the Seas, 1947.

The cave was discovered in 1947 by Lawrence Johnson, a logger, when his truck fell into a sinkhole which opened into the cave.