* 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

*:: 1947: Hans Peter Luhn ( research engineer at IBM since 1941 ) began work on a mechanized punch card-based system for searching chemical compounds.

* 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor

* 1947 – Peter Serkin, American pianist

* 1947 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter ( Yes, The Syn, and Flash )

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

* Sept. 18, 1947, Mystery in the Air Radio Program with Peter Lorre as the Protagonist in The Black Cat.

** Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher ( d. 1947 )

* Pete Arnesen ( born Hans Peter Arnesen, 25 August 1947, Salzburg, Austria )-piano

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

* The Lodger on Mystery in the Air, 1947, starring Peter Lorre and Agnes Moorehead

Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas ( born 1947 ), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas ( born 1955 ) and Eric Douglas ( 1958 – 2004 ), from stepmother Anne Buydens.

Their work with the English Opera Group ( which they had founded with designer John Piper in 1947 ) frequently took them away from home, and it was while they were on tour in Switzerland with Albert Herring and The Rape of Lucretia in August of that year, that Peter Pears said “ Why not make our own Festival?

* Peter Ady — former Fellow ( 1947 —?

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.

Peter " Pistol Pete " Press Maravich ( June 22, 1947 – January 5, 1988 ) was an American professional basketball player.

* Peter Manning ( born 1947 ), Chairman of the Irish Genealogical Research Society

Peter Leslie Osgood ( 20 February 1947 – 1 March 2006 ) was an English footballer who was active during the 1960s and 1970s.

Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and has two older sisters, Joanna ( b. 1940 ) and Lucy ( b. 1943 ), and a younger brother, Peter ( b. 1947 ).

Ryland Peter " Ry " Cooder ( born March 15, 1947 ) is an American guitarist, singer and composer.

* Peter Brimelow ( 1947 –)

Roy Sansom had died during Odette's imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill in 1947.