* 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

Its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh were delineated according to the Radcliffe Line, which was created in 1947 during Partition of India.

The Pakistan-India boundary continues irregularly southward for about 1, 280 kilometers, following the line of the 1947 Radcliffe Award, named for Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the head of the British boundary commission on the division of the Punjabs of Pakistan and Indian-annexed Khalistan in Pre-Pakistani territories and in united Bengal of India into Pakistan's Eastern wing of Mashriqi-Pakistan on 13 August 1947.

At the time of the state establishment in 1947, the founding fathers of Pakistan were presented in the West where the founding fathers held a Boundary Commission conference with Cyril Radcliffe where the arrangement, area division, and future political set up was negotiated.

* 1947 India-Pakistan Radcliffe Line

* George L. P. Radcliffe, ( 1903 ), U. S. Senator from Maryland from 1935 – 1947

Radcliffe submitted his partition map in August 1947 and Pakistan and India were divided and declared as independent nations.

The original personnel were John Meeks ( born 24 March 1937, Stalybridge, Cheshire ) ( guitar, vocals ); John's sister Lynda Meeks ( born 3 August 1947, Stalybridge ) ( vocals ); brothers George Radcliffe ( 9 August 1937, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire – 2002 ) ( bass, vocals ) and Colin Radcliffe ( born 19 January 1934, Ashton-under-Lyne ) ( guitar, vocals ); and Eddie Crotty ( 24 February 1942, Stalybridge – 11 April 2009 ) ( guitar, vocals ).

She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947.

Prior to the partition of India in 1947, Zafarullah Khan drafted the Pakistan Resolution and presented the Muslim League's view of the future boundaries of Pakistan to Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the man designated to decide the boundaries between India and Pakistan.

At the request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, he represented the Muslim League in July 1947 before the Radcliffe Boundary Commission and presented the case of the Muslims in a highly commendable manner.

The Radcliffe Line was announced on 17 August 1947 as a boundary demarcation line between India and Pakistan upon the Partition of India.

In order to determine exactly which territories to assign to each country, in June 1947, Britain appointed Sir Cyril Radcliffe to chair two Boundary Commissions — one for Bengal and one for Punjab.

After arriving in India on 8 July 1947, Radcliffe was given just 5 weeks to decide on a border.

On 16 August 1947 at 5: 00pm, the Indian and Pakistani representatives were given two hours to study copies, before the Radcliffe award was published on the 17th.

Between 12 – 15 August 1947, the fate of the district as to which side it should go, to Pakistan or to India, was undecided because the announcement of the partition award of Sir Radcliffe did not make this point clear.

When the details of the Radcliffe Award were published, the district came over to West Bengal on 17 August 1947.