* 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 – 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 – Tom Daschle, American politician

* 1947 – Tom Wyner, English-American voice actor, director, writer, and producer

* 1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist ( Boston )

* 1983 – Tom Evans, English bass guitarist ( Badfinger ) ( b. 1947 )

The Williams tube, better called the Williams-Kilburn tube ( after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn ), developed in 1946 and 1947, was a cathode ray tube used as a computer memory to electronically store binary data.

In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra .< ref >

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.

Hamilton County is well known for being the location where Tom Harden and eleven other members of his snake handling religious congregation were arrested in 1947, ten of them were convicted of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the handling of snakes.

After Lord Methuen raised the issue in the House of Lords in 1947, and was assured that the bridge " would be lifted at any time on notice of intended passage being given ", Tom Rolt of the Inland Waterways Association ( IWA ) announced that he intended to pass under the bridge on 20 May 1947.

After World War II, she appeared in Alexander Korda's An Ideal Husband ( 1947 ), from the Oscar Wilde play, but her remaining film appearances were in supporting roles, usually maternal, such as in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and as the secretive mother ( of James Mason's character ) in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

Thomas Dale " Tom " DeLay (; born April 8, 1947 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006.

In 1947 her colt Jet Pilot, trained and ridden by future Hall of Famers Tom Smith and Eric Guerin won the Kentucky Derby.

* Tom Konyves ( born 1947 ), Canadian poet, pioneer of videopoetry

The Hobhouse Committee report of 1947 suggested the creation of a path between Seaton Bay and the Chiltern ridge, and in 1956 Tom Stephenson proposed a longer route to Cambridge.

Thomas Richard " Tom " Carper ( born January 23, 1947 ) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party.

At the 1950 general election, Foot defended the formerly Liberal seat of North Cornwall, following the defection of its member Tom Horabin to Labour in 1947, but he lost to Harold Roper ( Conservative ).

Jessica Beth Savitch ( February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983 ) was an American television broadcaster and news reporter, host of PBS ' Frontline and New York weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News during the short-lived Roger Mudd / Tom Brokaw era.

Raised in The Bronx, New York City, New York, where he graduated from James Monroe High School in 1947, Jules Feiffer won a John Wanamaker Art Contest medal for a crayon drawing of the radio Western hero Tom Mix.

* Tom Bradley ( baseball ) ( born 1947 ), former American Major Leagues baseball player

Truman's Attorney General Tom C. Clark expanded the list, which was officially authorized by presidential Executive Order 9835 in 1947 and was administered by the new Loyalty Review Board.

* Tom House ( born 1947 ), American baseball player

* Tom Arnold ( politician ) ( born 1947 ), British politician