* 1947 – Miroslav Vitous, Czech jazz musician

* 1947 – Josef Janíček, Czech songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist, member of The Plastic People of the Universe

* 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter ( Blue Effect, Flamengo )

* 1947 – Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech rock drummer ( The Primitives Group, Life After Life )

Due to the expulsion of the German residents after WW II the Czech Republic lost about 3 million inhabitants and in 1947 the population was only 8. 8 million.

In 1947 Pargeter visited Czechoslovakia and became fascinated by the Czech language and culture.

* Helena Vondráčková ( born 1947 ), Czech singer

Carl Ferdinand Cori ForMemRS ( December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984 ) was a Czech biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague ( then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic ) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen ( animal starch ) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.

Poland has maintained a museum, archive, and research centre at Oświęcim, better known by its German name of Auschwitz, since a July 2, 1947 act of the Polish Parliament, while Czechoslovakia established in the same year what was known first as the National Suffering Memorial and later simply as the Terezín memorial in Terezín, Czech Republic, better known for its part in the Holocaust as Theresienstadt.

Two Czech films by František Vláčil, Shadows of a Hot Summer ( Stíny horkého léta, 1977 ) and The Little Shepherd Boy From The Valley ( Pasáček z doliny, 1983 ) are set in 1947, and feature UPA guerrillas in significant supporting roles.

* Jan Jesenský ( 1870 – 1947 ), Czech scientist, professor of Charles University

* Karel Ančerl conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, studio recording from 1962, Supraphon ( 1947 version )

Neumann left to pursue conducting in 1947, at which point Rybensky went to the viola desk and Jiří Novák ( who shared first violin desk with Josef Vlach, founder of the Vlach Quartet, under Vaclav Talich in the Czech Chamber Orchestra ) came in as first violin.

The result was his first feature film Špalíček (" The Czech years ", 1947 ), based on a book illustrated by Mikoláš Aleš.

* Špalíček (" The Czech Year ", 1947 )

* Karel Anděl ( 1884 – 1947 ), Czech astronomer and selenographer

Karel Anděl ( December 28, 1884 – March 17, 1947 ) was a Czech astronomer and selenographer.

Jiří Bartoška ( born March 24, 1947 in Děčín ) is a Czech actor and the president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Jaroslav Perner ( March 28, 1869 in Týnec nad Labem – June 9, 1947 in Prague ) was a Czech paleontologist.

Černousy ( name used since 1947, ) is a village in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

In Hollywood, she performed in several movies: she was the murder suspect Maddalena Paradine in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), and the mysterious Czech refugee wanted by the Russians in post-war Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man ( 1949 ).

Zdeněk Zeman ( born May 12, 1947 in Prague ) is a Czech football coach.

In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, only 1, 588 inhabitants lived here, mostly Czech colonists from Prague.

At this time, there was further controversy when the British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin ordered an illegal immigrant ship, the Exodus 1947, to be sent back to Europe.

Rankin was born on a ranch near Missoula, Montana Territory, the first of seven children ( one of whom died in childhood ) born to Olive Pickering Rankin ( 1853 – 1947 ) and Canadian immigrant and rancher John Rankin ( 1840 – 1904 ).

* Israeli immigrant camps ( 1947 – 1950 ) and Ma ' abarot transition camps ( 1950 – 1963 ) to accommodate Jewish refugees and immigrants in Israel.

** who was a British subject who had acquired Canadian domicile ( ie, five years ' residence in Canada as a landed immigrant ) before 1947

* women who were married to a Canadian before 1947 and who entered Canada as a landed immigrant before 1947

The Austrian immigrant Hanz Arno, owner of an electric motor manufacturer in Brazil since the 1940s, released a blender in 1947, based on the blenders made by Hamilton Beach and Oster.

A detachment moved to Palestine in November 1947 where it carried out searches for illegal immigrant ships until February 1948, when it returned to Britain.

On May 23, 1947, the immigrant ship Mordei Hagetaot, carrying 1, 457 Jews, was stopped and boarded by the British off southern Palestine.

Tropicana Products was founded in 1947 in Bradenton, Florida by Anthony T. Rossi, an Italian immigrant, growing from 50 employees to over 8, 000 in 2004.

She played the role of the Swedish immigrant grandmother of Loretta Young in The Farmers Daughter ( 1947 ).

During the 1945 – 1947 years of the Zionist movement's struggle against British rule, Alterman's weekly column in the Labour Movement " Davar " newspaper was highly influential, strongly denouncing the British army's oppressive measures and praising the illegal immigrant boats landing Jewish holocaust survivors on the country's shores, in defiance of British policy.

Charles Baxter ( born May 13, 1947 ) is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Even so, armed Japanese troops remained in China well into 1947, with some noncommissioned officers finding their way into the Nationalist officer corps .< ref > Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

* 1873 – Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist ( d. 1947 )

* 1875 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player ( d. 1947 )

Bloomfield 1933 and Charles F. Hockett 1947 ).

It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in a festschrift volume, Essays Presented to Charles Williams, compiled by C. S. Lewis.

Process theology or process thought is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead ( 1861 – 1947 ) and further developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ).

* Ravenstein, Charles, A., Air Force Combat Wings 1947 – 1977, Office of Air Force History, USAF, 1984.

* 1947 – Charles " Bobo " Shaw, American drummer ( Black Artists Group and Human Arts Ensemble )

* Charles Holland Locke ( June 3, 1947 – September 16, 1962 )

* February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author ( d. 1947 )

Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

* Ode à Charles Fourier, 1947 – Ode to Charles Fourier

Process theology or process thought is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead ( 1861 – 1947 ) and further developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ).

* The Financier ( 1912 ), The Titan ( 1914 ), and The Stoic ( 1947 ), Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, based on the life of the notorious transit mogul Charles Tyson Yerkes

He was minister of supply in Charles de Gaulle's government ( 1945 ) and minister of public works ( 1947 – 1950 ) in various governments.

* Charles W. DeWitt, Jr. ( born 1947 ), American politician

* Charles Louis Tiffany II ( 1878 – 1947 ); and

* Charles Sydney Jones ( 1872 – 1947 ), English shipowner and Liberal Party politician

The company was bought by property developer Charles Clore in 1945 and he sold it in 1947 to the bankers Lazard Brothers.

* 1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3

William Moulton Marston ( May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947 ), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

* Charles S. Whitman ( 1868 – 1947 ), judge and the 41st Governor of New York, was born in town.

Maxwell Charles Gaines ( c. 1894-August 20, 1947 ) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book.