* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – David Robb, English-Scottish actor

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1947 – David Lander, American actor

* 1947 – David Bowie, English musician

* 1947 – David Essex, English singer-songwriter and actor

The early works of David Hockney and the works of Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi ( who created the groundbreaking I was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947 ) are considered seminal examples in the movement.

* David Moor ( born 1947 ), British general practitioner who was prosecuted for the euthanasia of a patient

* 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor

* 1947 – David Zucker, American film director

* Rudgers, David F. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943 – 1947 ( Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2000 )

The responsible colonial officer David Gordon Hines from 1947 to 1959 achieved the vast expansion of the co-operatives: by the early 1950s, there were over 400 co-operatives nationally.

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

Against her family's wishes, she married on 17 March 1947 to failed American movie producer David Alfred Sebastian, born in Detroit on 23 November 1908.

On July 4, David devises a plan to use the 1947 spacecraft to sneak into the mothership and introduce a computer virus before detonating a nuclear weapon inside the ship.

The mothership is destroyed and the 1947 spacecraft crashes in the desert near Area 51, with David and Hiller emerging safe and sound from the wreckage.

Vitamin A was first synthesized in 1947 by two Dutch chemists, David Adriaan van Dorp and Jozef Ferdinand Arens.

* 1947 David Valentine Willcocks, MC

* John Brown ( footballer born 1947 ), English association football goalkeeper

* John Campbell Brown ( born 1947 ), Scottish astronomer and professor

His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts ' calendars between 1925 and 1976 ( Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America ), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the " Four Seasons " illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964.

* The story was the basis of a 1947 children's book, Stone Soup ( ISBN 9780689878367 ), by Marcia Brown, which featured soldiers tricking miserly villages into cooking them a feast.

Robert Brown reminded chemists in 1947 that Arochlors were " objectionably toxic.

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

Ella Fitzgerald performing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown ( musician ) | Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Timmie Rosenkrantz in September 1947, New York

Brown were Hot Springs natives who served as reform mayor and sheriff, respectively ( 1947 – 1949 ), before resuming their Air Force careers.

* Yusef Komunyakaa, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was born James Willie Brown Jr. in Bogalusa, Louisiana ( April 29, 1947 ).

* Joe Brown ( born 1947 ), civil court judge and host of TV program Judge Joe Brown.

Brown in 1947.

In 1947 Goodnight Moon written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd was published.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

In 1947, surfing legend, Woodbridge " Woody " Brown and Alfred Kumalae designed and built the first modern ocean-going catamaran, Manu Kai, in Hawaii.

Komunyakaa was born in 1947 and given the name James William Brown, the eldest of five children of James William Brown, a carpenter.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947 – 62.

The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962.

In 1947, Cleo and Mary moved to Osage, Arkansas, while Brown stayed in Los Angeles.

Bonnie Blair Brown ( born April 23, 1947 ) is an American theater, film, and television actress.