* 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

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

* 1947 – Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Planxty )

* 1947 – Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former police commissioner

Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis ( 1947 ) contributed to this increase in mathematical modelling.

** Paul Boffa, Maltese politician, Prime Minister of Malta ( 1947 – 1950 ) ( b. 1890 )

* Hazard, Paul ( 1947 ).

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Paul John Kelly ( born 11 October 1947 ) is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney.

Paul John Kelly was born on 11 October 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales.

In 1947, with French prestige at a low ebb, the French government, headed by Prime Minister Paul Ramadier of the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) party, suppressed the Madagascar revolt, a nationalist uprising.

In recent years, a number of his compositions ( notably championed by the violinist, Paul Zukofsky ) have been recorded and made available on CD, including three of his string quartets, the three symphonies, a rhapsody for orchestra, and four solo piano works: his Sonata, Dance Suite, Piece in Seven Movements ( 1935 – 37 ) and Seven Pieces ( 1947 ).

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

* Le Petit Soldat ( The Little Soldier ) ( short animated film, 1947 ), with Paul Grimault, after The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen

* Paul Gruchow ( 1947 – 2004 ), Former professor at St. Olaf and Concordia colleges, and former editor of the Worthington Daily Globe in Worthington.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 1990 ), Dannie Abse ( born 1923 ), Raymond Garlick ( born 1926 ), Peter Finch ( born 1947 ), and perhaps also Paul Groves ( born 1947 ) have a significant place.

King George died in 1947, and his brother became King Paul, making Constantine crown prince.

Paul (, Pávlos, Vasiléfs ton Ellínon ; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964 ) reigned as King of Greece from 1947 to 1964.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers ' Orchestra split into two.

* 1948: Paul W. Ward, Baltimore Sun, " for his series of articles published in 1947 on ' Life in the Soviet Union.

" In response, Prof. Paul De Waart said that the Court put the legality of the 1922 League of Nations Palestine Mandate and the 1947 UN Plan of Partition beyond doubt once and for all.

In 1947 Paul Bowles received a contract for a novel from Doubleday and moved permanently to Tangier, where Jane joined him in 1948.

* King Paul of Greece, who succeeded his brother George II in 1947