* 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

* 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

* William Ernest Smith, mayor of Murray, Utah, 1946 – 1947

Pioneer days in Laguna Beach and its growth from a few scattered buildings to one of the most beautiful seaside resorts in the West as well as a famous California art colony was vividly recounted by J. S. Thurston ( born in 1868 ), a son of one of the community's original settlers, in Laguna Beach of Early Days ( The Press of Murray & Gee, Culver City, California, 1947 ).

In a 1947 book, Arthur Murray recognized that, " There are hundreds of regional dances of the Jitterbug type.

Over the years it has been presented by Joan Griffiths, Olive Shapley, Jean Metcalfe ( 1947, 1958 ), Marjorie Anderson ( until 1972 ), Judith Chalmers ( 1966 – 1970 ), Sue MacGregor ( 1972 – 1987 ), Jenni Murray ( 1987 – present ), and Martha Kearney ( 1998 – March 2007 ).

Nicholas Murray Butler ( April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947 ) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator.

Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India, 1660 to 1947, John Murray Ltd, London.

* George Thomas Murray ( 1859 – 1947 ), New Zealand civil engineer and surveyor

Murray had another fight on his hands in 1947 when the Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto.

* Andrew Murray ( politician ) ( born 1947 ), Australian politician, former member of the Australian Senate

Sir Murray Louis Tyrrell KCVO CBE ( 1 December 191313 July 1994 ) was the Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia for a record term of 26 years, 1947 – 73, in which time he served six governors-general.

Murray Tyrrell succeeded Rear-Admiral Sir Leighton Bracegirdle as Official Secretary to the Governor-General, William McKell, in March 1947.

Having returned to Harvard 1947, Murray lectured and established with others the Psychological Clinic Annex and was a chief researcher at Harvard.

Under Ms Lortel's guidance The White Barn premiered plays ( many of which enjoyed successful transfers to commercial theatres ) such as: George C. Wolfe and Lawrence Bearson's Ivory Tower with Eva Marie Saint ( 1947 ); Sean O ' Casey's Red Roses for Me ( 1948 ); Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs ( 1957 ); Archibald MacLeish's This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters ( 1959 ); Edward Albee's Fam and Yam ( 1960 ); Samuel Beckett's Embers ( 1960 ); Murray Schisgal's The Typists ( 1961 ); Adrienne Kennedy's The Owl Answers ( 1965 ); Norman Rosten's Come Slowly Eden ( 1966 ); Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1966 ); Terrence McNally's Next ( 1967 ); Barbara Wersba's The Dream Watcher starring Eva Le Gallienne ( 1975 ); June Havoc's Nuts for the Underman ( 1977 ); David Allen's Cheapside starring Cherry Jones ( which Ms. Lortel later co-produced at the Half Moon Theatre in London ); and Margaret Sanger's Unfinished Business, starring Eileen Heckart ( 1989 ).

Murray George Webb ( born 22 June 1947 in Invercargill ) is a respected New Zealand caricature artist.