* 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 – 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 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician

* 1947 – Christos Tsigiridis, Greek electrical engineer and technological pioneer ( b. 1877 )

* 1947 – Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician

* 1947 – Anna Panayiotopoulou, Greek actress and writer

* 1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

* 1947 – Maria Farantouri, Greek singer

* 1947 – Panayotis Varotsos, Greek physicist

* 1947 – Lucas Papademos, Greek economist

In 1947 element 43 was named after the Greek word τεχνητός, meaning " artificial ", since it was the first element to be artificially produced.

The strength in the Dow occurred despite a brief recession in 1949 and other global conflicts which started a short time later including the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Greek Civil War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

In February 1947, Britain formally requested the United States take over its role in supporting the Greek government.

President Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U. S. Congress on March 12, 1947, amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War ( 1946 – 1949 ).

Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944 – 1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine.

In 1947 the Byron Hot Springs property was put up for sale and purchased by the Greek Orthodox Church for a sum of $ 105, 000.

His first piano piece, " For a Small White Seashell " (" Για μια Μικρή Λευκή Αχιβάδα "), came out in 1947 and in 1948 he shook the musical establishment by delivering his legendary lecture on rembetika, the urban folk songs that flourished in Greek cities, mainly Piraeus, after the Asia Minor refugee influx in 1922 and until then had heavy underworld and cannabis use connections and were consequently looked down upon.

He succeeded to the throne in 1947, on the death of his childless elder brother, King George II, during the Greek Civil War ( between Greek Communists and the non-communist Greek government ).

After the ravages of the war the nationalists and communists fought in the Greek Civil War ( 1945 – 1947 ), after which the Greek government used the island to exile about 13, 000 communists.

In May 1945 it was still under British administration, but on September 15, 1947 effectively came under Greek administration.

In particular, after the creation of Greece in 1830, the following regions were annexed and still are Greek territory: Ionian Islands ( 1864 ), Thessaly ( 1881 ), southern Macedonia, Crete, southern Epirus and the Eastern Aegean Islands ( 1913 ), Western Thrace ( 1920 ), and the Dodecanese ( 1947 ).

Martha Nussbaum ( née Craven, May 6, 1947 ) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights.

In March 1947, President Truman, a Democrat, asked the Republican controlled Congress to appropriate $ 400 million in aid to the Greek and Turkish governments, then fighting Communist subversion.