* 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 – The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

William Frederick Schelter ( 1947 – July 30, 2001 ) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer.

Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.

He graduated from Texas High School in Texarkana in 1947.

* On September 18, 2009, the Texarkana Independent School District named him ( 1947 graduate of Texas High School ) as a 2009 Distinguished Alumnus.

When the S. S. Grandcamp exploded in the Texas City Disaster on April 16, 1947, one fragment of that blast was a two ton anchor which was hurled nearly two miles inland to embed itself in the parking lot of the Pan American refinery.

* Coke R. Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ), Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947

* Joseph J. Mansfield ( 1861 – 1947 ), American Congress representative from Texas

He subsequently entered flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1947.

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Harris County, Texas, Anna Nicole was the child of Donald Eugene Hogan ( July 12, 1947 – September 19, 2009 ) and Virgie Mae ( née Tabers ; born July 12, 1951 ), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.

In 1947, the State of Texas opened the Brady State School for Negro Girls in a former prisoner of war camp in McCulloch County, near Brady on a former prisoner of war camp leased from the Federal Government of the United States.

* Photos of the Monsanto Plant after the 1947 Texas City Disaster hosted by the Portal to Texas History

Concepcion TX is home to the oldest Catholic church in South Texas, a small chapel built in 1866 and renovated in 1947.

* James C. Spencer, former member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1939 – 1941, 1947 – 1949, later Henderson county judge

In 1947 the State of Texas opened the Brady State School for Negro Girls in a former prisoner of war camp in McCulloch County, near Brady, on a former prisoner of war camp leased from the Federal Government of the United States.

Luther Bedford " Bob " Robertson ( 1894 – 1947 ), a native of Greenville, Texas, came to Matador in the 1920s.

* Beauford Jester, governor of Texas 1947 – 1949, ( 1893 – 1949 )

In January 1946, he became the commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas where he retired in August 1947.

With Tennessee Williams's encouragement, Inge wrote his first play, Farther Off from Heaven ( 1947 ), which was staged at Margo Jones ' Theatre ' 47 in Dallas, Texas.

Shortly after, Burger appeared in a case defending the U. S. against claims from the Texas City ship explosion disaster, successfully arguing that the Federal Tort Claims Act of 1947 did not allow a suit for negligence in policy making ; the U. S. won the case ( Dalehite, et al., vs. United States 346 U. S. 15 ( 1953 )).

Schramm attended Alhambra High School and went to the University of Texas, graduating in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.