* 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

* 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience ) ( b. 1947 )

* Mitch Mitchell ( 1947 – 2008 ), ( child )- actor known as John Mitchell

John Ronald " Mitch " Mitchell ( 9 July 1947 – 12 November 2008 ) was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Jonathan Sachs ( b. June 25, 1947 ) was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.

" A taxi whizzes by, an owl car clutters, passengers yawn reading street signs ..." In " A Streetcar Named Desire " Act II Scene II ( 1947 ), Mitch tells Blanche how he'll get home: " I'll walk over to Bourbon and catch an owl-car.

* Dave Mitchell ( b. 1947 ), Dallas and Miami radio personality, lived in Hallandale Beach 1992-2000

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

* John Mitchell ( cricketer ) ( born 1947 ), former New Zealand cricketer

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

* William Foot Mitchell ( 1859 – 1947 ), Conservative Party politician in England, MP 1910 and 1922 – 1929

* John Mitchell ( cricketer ) ( William John Mitchell, born 1947 ), Northern Districts cricketer

In 1947, she married American writer Mitchell Goodman and moved with him to the United States the following year.

* B-25 / WB-25D Mitchell, ( 1944, 1946 – 1947 )

Hip-Hop artist Jay-Z wore Baugh's Mitchell & Ness 1947 Washington jersey in his 2002 video for the single " Girls, Girls, Girls ".

Herbert Mitchell Muschamp ( November 28, 1947 – October 2, 2007 ) was an American architecture critic.

Greene and Terence Rattigan wrote the screenplay for a 1947 film adaptation, produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, with assistant director Gerald Mitchell.

* Nationality Rooms of the University of Pittsburgh, with Ruth Crawford Mitchell and Andrey Avinoff, nonfiction ( Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1947 ).

Olivia Mitchell ( born 31 July 1947 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician.

* Dave Mitchell ( born 1947 ), American radio personality

Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ( The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944 ) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947, it received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company ( United States ) and Valentine Mitchell ( United Kingdom ) in 1952.

The medal was awarded to Wesley Clair Mitchell in 1947, John Maurice Clark in 1952, Frank Knight in 1957, Jacob Viner in 1962, Alvin Hansen in 1967, Theodore Schultz in 1972, and Simon Kuznets in 1977.

* Alex Mitchell ( journalist ) ( 1947 – 2010 ), British journalist and editor of Christian magazine Third Way

In 1947, the riding was expanded to include the township of Logan and the town of Mitchell in the county of Perth.