* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

* 1947 – John Weider, English musician ( Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, and Stud )

* Goldstine, Herman H., and von Neumann, John, " Planning and Coding of the Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument ", Rep. 1947, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

He attributed its origin to John W. Tukey, who had written a Bell Labs memo on 9 January 1947 in which he contracted " binary digit " to simply " bit ".

* Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare ( b. 1947 )

Band structure calculations was first used in 1930 to predict the properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor-based transistor, heralding a revolution in electronics.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

* Manas, John Helen, Divination, ancient and modern, New York, Pythagorean Society, 1947.

* 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

* 1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American politician ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – John McWethy, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer

* Sir Halford John Mackinder ( 1861 – 1947 ), author of The Geographical Pivot of History, co-founder of the London School of Economics, along with the Geographical Association.

Riding high in 1947 with a new contract which provided some script refusal rights and the right to form his own separate production company, Bogart reunited with John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a stark tale of greed involving three gold prospectors played out in the dusty back country of Mexico.

* 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor

* 1947 – John Lees, English Musician ( Barclay James Harvest )

They began with serious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock ( 1947 ), both with Roy producing and John directing.

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

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

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

John Coolidge Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947.

The actual term " State of the Union " first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its generally accepted name since 1947.

The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to an unprecedented third term as president ( Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died less than three months after his inauguration ).

In 1947, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey, he founded Americans for Democratic Action to support the cause of economic and social justice.

In 1942, he was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962.

His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed ( due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), followed by Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) as Bertie ; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag ( Charlie Horse ), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures ; The Goofy Gophers ( Tosh ), and One Meat Brawl ( Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell ).

In 1947, Roosevelt telephoned Hughes to warn him that a Senate subcommittee ( the " Brewster Committee ," formerly the " Truman Committee ") intended to call them both to account for financial irregularities regarding the XF-11 as well as for Hughes's H-4 Hercules, popularly known as the " Spruce Goose ".

As part of the ongoing " Investigation of the National Defense Program ", on August 4, 1947 the subcommittee called Roosevelt and Meyer to testify about the Hollywood and Manhattan parties and women that Meyer had arranged and paid for.

In 1947 she bought from the FDR estate Val-Kill farms, the home she lived in after FDR's death, and deeded the property to Roosevelt.

Since 1947, the Auditorium Building has been the home of Roosevelt University.

President Truman established the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park on April 25, 1947, the first and only National Memorial Park ever established.

" But the sea and maritime life are central to many of his poems, both short ( eg, " Erosion ," " Sea-Gulls ," " Silences ") and long, such as " The Cachalot " ( 1926 ), describing duels between a whale and its foes, a giant squid and a whaling ship and crew ; The Roosevelt and the Antinoe ( 1930 ), recounting the heroic rescue of the crew of a sinking freighter in a winter hurricane ; The Titanic ( 1935 ), an ironic retelling of a well-known marine tragedy ; and Behind the Log ( 1947 ), the dramatic story of the North Atlantic convoys during WWII.

Robert Porter Patterson ( Sr .) ( February 12, 1891-January 22, 1952 ) was the United States Under Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman from September 27, 1945 to July 18, 1947.

* Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, first recipient of the rank ( then known as degree ) of Chief Commander, given posthumously on 1947.

In 1947, the Auditorium Building was sold to the university for one dollar and became the permanent home of Roosevelt University.

He served from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1947, during the administrations of U. S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

The company name " Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier " was changed to EG & G in 1947.

However, after providing war materiel for Israel through Czechoslovakia ( Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel 1947 – 1949 ), Stalin later changed his mind and came out against Israel.

The Soviets changed the name from " Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania " to " Mecklenburg " in 1947.

The company name was changed to Motorola in 1947.

The organizational structure of Jardines has changed almost totally, but the members of the family of Dr. William Jardine still control the firm through a complex cross-shareholding structure, several allied shareholders and a secretive 1947 Trust.

Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years ; a complete history of each award category was published in 2005.

In the 1947 preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity, Korzybski wrote, " We need not blind ourselves with the old dogma that ' human nature cannot be changed ,' for we find that it can be changed.

Allied dismantling policy changed in late 1946 to mid 1947, although heavy industry continued to be dismantled until 1951.

A suggested cause is that a multitude of frequently changed regulations, at times extended to ridiculous specifics ( such as a 1947 decree setting prices and menus for restaurants ), choked economic activity.

Berger and Chalfen purchased the NBL's Detroit Gems for $ 15, 000 in 1947, relocated them to Minnesota, and changed their name to the Lakers.

After World War II, Marcel Bloch changed his name to Marcel Dassault, and the name of the company was changed to Avions Marcel Dassault on 20 December 1947.

* Deep River ( Town ) ( Known as Saybrook until 1947, when name was changed to Deep River )

In 1947, the Council name was changed to Tunxis.

The first post office was opened in 1856, the name changed to Westpoint in 1895 and changed back to West Point in 1947.

In 1947, the town of Saybrook changed its name to " Deep River ", matching the name of the town center village.

In September 1947, the United States Air Force became a separate service and the base ’ s name was changed to Great Falls Air Force Base.

It began as the Eden Post Office, was incorporated as the borough of Attleboro in 1899 ; the name changed to South Langhorne in 1919, and finally to Penndel in 1947.

The organization changed to its current name in 1947 and soon began attracting well known soloists such as Isaac Stern and Glenn Gould.

The family was originally named Johansen, but in the 1950s, they changed their name to Jagland, a newly constructed surname that appeared in a book published by a bureaucrat ( 2000 nye slektsnavn New Family Names by Astrid Moss, 1947 ) which aimed at helping people find new surnames instead of patronyms, which had long been associated with the working class.

In 1945 he had changed to the Conservative Party, heading the party chapter in Trondheim until 1947.

Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki raft used in his expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.