* 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

* Emiel Puttemans, middle-and long-distance runner ( b. 1947 )

Emiel Puttemans ( born 8 October 1947 ) is a retired middle-and long-distance runner, who set world records for 3000 metres ( 7 minutes 37. 6 seconds ) in 1972, for 2 miles ( 8 minutes 17. 8 seconds ) in 1971, and for 5000 metres ( 13 minutes 13 seconds ) in 1972.

* 1947 – Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete

* 1947 – Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat

* 1947 – Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian politician

* 1947 – Louis Michel, Belgian politician

* Victor Horta ( 1861 – 1947 ), a Belgian architect who worked in the Art Nouveau style

André Franquin ( 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997 ) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series ' golden age.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

During this time he twice was appointed Prime Minister as well, first from 13 to 31 March 1946 – the shortest government in Belgian history, and again from March 1947 to August 1949.

Precise figures on the ethnic composition of Belgium are impossible to obtain, for the language question is so controversial that the Belgian census has not included data on linguistic composition of communes since 1947.

1947 it was renamed to Casernes Ardennes and were used by the Belgian army till 1955.

The title was revived by the FIA after World War II, and was first given to the Belgian Grand Prix in 1947, and was distributed across several countries until the 1977 British Grand Prix, the last race to receive the honorific title.

After not being held for 8 years because of World War II, the Belgian Grand Prix was held in 1947, and the circuit had been modified to make it even faster, shortening it to 8. 7 miles ( 14. 1 km ).

In September 1947, Mills fought for the vacant European light-heavyweight title against the Belgian, Pol Goffaux, winning by a knockout in the fourth round.

In 1947, scheduled flights from Brussels to Elizabethville in Belgian Congo were launched on behalf of several companies in the Belgian colony, which held the majority of the stakes in the company.

Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont ( Aalst, Belgium, 3 January 1868 – Brussels, 25 August 1947 ) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism.

Michel ( born 2 September 1947 ) is a Belgian politician.

Luc Jouret ( 18 October 1947 – 5 October 1994 ), born in Kikwit, Belgian Congo, was a Belgian religious group leader in Switzerland.

Jouret was born on 18 October 1947 in what was then the Belgian Congo, Africa.

The Belgian writer Marnix Gijsen borrows elements of the story in his first novel Het boek van Joachim van Babylon, 1947.

* Herman Van Rompuy ( born 1947 ), Belgian politician, first President of the European Council

Robert Cailliau (), born 26 January 1947, is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.

The city hall was completed only after the war in 1947 and was at that time, with a height of 39 meters, the tallest building in the Belgian Congo.