* 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 – Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete

* Willy Russell ( born 1947 ), British playwright, lyricist and composer

Although produced with success in the U. S. ( 1914 ) and outstanding success in the UK ( 1918 ), the work was not seen in France until 1947, when a production was mounted at Mulhouse, with a cast including Willy Clément.

Willy Munyoki Mutunga ( born, 16 June 1947 in Kitui District, Eastern Kenya ) is a Kenyan lawyer, intellectual and pro-reform activist.

The Robotech definition of Protoculture is similar in some respects to the Vril energy described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, a substance used by a subterranean humanoid species of Earth called the Vril-ya ; in Trevor Ravenscroft's book about the occult practices within the Nazi inner circle, Spear of Destiny, it is stated that the process of deriving Vril energy was discovered by Atlanteans, which involved " extracting life-power from seeds "; German rocket engineer Willy Ley alludes to the Nazi occult fascination with Vril energy in his 1947 article, " Pseudoscience in Naziland ", linking the Vril-ya to the Aryan race and Nazism.

" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.

* 1861 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and adventurer ( d. 1947 )

* May 11 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American scouter ( d. 1947 )

The analysis of logical concepts and the machinery of formalization that is essential to Principia Mathematica ( 3 vols., 1910 – 1913 ) ( by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970, and Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 – 1947 ), to Russell's theory of descriptions, to Kurt Gödel's ( 1906 – 1978 ) incompleteness theorems, and to Alfred Tarski's ( 1901 – 1983 ) theory of truth, is ultimately due to Frege.

Specter, who was six years younger than Dole and graduated Russell High School in 1947, was not a Dole contemporary although Specter's brother Morton Specter and Dole's brother Kenny Dole were friends.

* Frederick Russell Burnham ( May 11, 1861-September 1, 1947 ), best known for his service in the First Matabele War, Second Matabele War, the Second Boer War, and for teaching woodcraft ( i. e., scoutcraft ) to Robert Baden-Powell, becoming one of the inspirations to the founding of the Boy Scouts and recognized today as the father of the international scouting movement.

His first American film role was opposite Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1947 the play was adapted for film by Dudley Nichols, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Douglas.

* Russ Abbot ( born 1947 ) ( birth name Russell A. Roberts ), musician, comedian and actor.

* Russell, Bertrand Religion & Science, Home University Library, 1947.

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

Russell later appeared in the more popular films Calcutta ( 1947 ) with Alan Ladd and the two with John Wayne, Angel and the Badman ( 1947 ) and Wake of the Red Witch ( 1948 ).

* John H. Russell, Jr. ( 1872 – 1947 ), major general and 16th Commandant of the Marine Corps

William Russell ( born 23 August 1947 ) is a British dramatist, lyricist, and composer.

David Russell Gordon " Dave " Davies ( born 3 February 1947, Fortis Green, London ) is an English rock musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks.

# David Whitney Erskine Russell, 5th Baron Ampthill ( b. 1947 ), great-great-grandson of Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, younger brother of the 9th Duke and third and youngest son of Maj .- Gen. Lord Sir George William Russell

She was born Roberta Brooke Russell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the only child of John Henry Russell, Jr. ( 1872 – 1947 ), the 16th Commandant of the Marine Corps and his wife, née Mabel Cecile Hornby Howard ( 1879 – 1967 ).

These include impressionist John Peter Russell, bohemian painters like Rupert Bunny ( 1864 – 1947 ) and Agnes Goodsir, printmaker Hall Thorpe, a religious man who intended to make spiritually uplifting work, and the internationally renowned sculptor Bertram Mackennal.

Following the death of Edith Hannah in 1888, he met Annie Scott Dill Russell ( 1868 – 1947 ) in 1890, a mathematician with whom he collaborated for the remainder of his life.

In 1947, at the age of 33, he succeeded Russell as director of Princeton University Observatory, an institution that, virtually jointly with his contemporary