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Category:1947 births - Category:1947 deaths

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1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

January 1 - British mines nationalized
January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy
January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect
January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time
January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste
January 15 - Elizabeth Short is found dead
January 24 - Demetrios Maximos founds monarchist government in Athens
January 25 - Philippinean plane crashes in Hong Kong with $5 million worth of gold and money
January 29 - -26 degrees Celsius in Britain
January 30 - February 8 - heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns from Winnipeg to Calgary

February

February 3 - In Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees Celsius
February 3 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press gallery.
February 5 - Boleslaw Bierut becomes president of Poland
February 10 - Paris peace treaties signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria: Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia
February 12 - A meteor creates a crater in Sikhote-Alin, Soviet Union
February 17 - Propaganda: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
February 20 - State of Prussia ceases to exist
February 21 - In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
February 23 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
February 28 -
- USA gives France a military base in Casablanca
- February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.

March

March 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
March 1 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
March 1 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
March 6 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 15 - Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab
March 21 - Homer Collyer of the Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in Harlem, New York City. His brother is found April 8
March 25 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
March 29 - Rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar

April

April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
April 16 - The Texas City Disaster occurs when a French ship loaded with ammonium nitrate blows up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas. Approximately 600 were killed or missing due to the blast, with 2,000 injured.
April 24 - The Armenian Massacre occurs when the Ottoman Empire begins the systematic relocation of every Armenian living withing the Turkish Borders. Approximately 2.5 Million Armenians were killed or displaced during the alleged relocation.
April 27 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium

May

May 1 - Gang of Salvatore Giuliano opens fire on a labor parade near Portella Della Ginestra, Sicily; Eleven killed, thirty wounded
May 3 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
May 22 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.

June

June 5 - Secretary of State Gen George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for U.S. aid to Europe.
June 10 - Saab produces its first automobile.
June 15 - Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors to resign accused of revolutionary activity
June 20 - Bugsy Siegel found shot in his Beverly Hills home
June 21 - A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.
June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

July

July 1 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
July 7 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident
July 10 - Princess Elizabeth announces engagement to Philip Mountbatten
July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
July 19 - Murder of Burmese nationalist Aung San
July 24 - 100 year anniversary of Brigham Young leading 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
July 26 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
July 29 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
July 30 - Thor Heyerdahl sails with Kon-Tiki

August

August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 9 - Beginning the 6 Scout World Jamboree - see Jamboree Scout 1947 (in French)
August 14 - Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th. Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first Governor General of Pakistan.
August 15 - Following decades of nonviolent resistance and periodic civil unrest from 1919, India gains independence from the British Empire. Pakistan splits from India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as first Prime Minister of India.
August 16 - In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over
August 23 - Prime Minister of Greece Dimitrios Maximos resigns.

September

September 4-September 21 - Hurricane in southeast Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - 51 killed
September 9 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
September 13 - Nehru suggests transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.

October

October 14 - American test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins
October 30 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.

November

November 2 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
November 2 - Earthquake in Chilean Andes - 233 dead
November 16 - 15.000 demonstrate in Brussels against the relatively short sentences of Nazis.
November 16 - British begin to withdraw their troops from Palestine.
November 20- Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
November 24 - Red Scare:The United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of U.S. Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after the 10 had refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, (the 10 were blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios the next day).
November 25 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 27 - In Paris, police occupy editorial offices of communist newspapers.
November 29 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

December

December 3 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
December 23- the Transistor is invented.
December 30 - King Michael of Romania abdicates

Unknown date

Prussia is legally abolished by the Allied Control Council following World War II and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern border.
The House Un-American Activities Committee begin their investigations of communism in Hollywood.
Cambridge University begins to admits women as full students.
Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.
Walter Morrison invents the Frisbee.
Raytheon produces first commercial microwave oven.
Women's suffrage is granted in Argentina.

Year in topic

1947 in aviation
1947 in film
1947 in literature
1947 in music
1947 in rail transport
- June 6 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is merged into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
1947 in sports
1947 in television
January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- January 30 - The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
- May 7 - Kraft Television Theater premieres on NBC, the first regularly scheduled drama series on a network.
- September 30 - The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass audience.
- October 5 - The first presidential address is telecast from the White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis.
- November 6 - Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington.
- November 20 - Meet the Press first network telecast.
- December 27 - Puppet Television Theater (later called Howdy Doody), a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
- The first Hollywood film production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
- There are 14,000 television sets in use in the United States.

Births

May

May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
May 13 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American fantasy novelist

June

June 4 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
June 6 - David Blunkett, British politician
June 14 - Barry Melton, musician (Country Joe and The Fish and The Dinosaurs)
June 15 - John Hoagland, war photographer
June 16 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
June 19 - Salman Rushdie, Indian-born author
June 20- The Duchess of Gloucester
June 20 - Candy Clark, American actress
June 22 - David Lander, actor and baseball scout
June 22 - Pete Maravich, basketball player (d. 1988)
June 22 - Mike Stone, U.C. Berkeley football player (retired 2005)
June 28 - Mark Helprin, American writer

July

July 2 - Larry David, American actor, writer, producer, and director
July 7 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor
July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and suspected murderer
July 10 - Arlo Guthrie, American singer
July 10 - Jackie Lane, British actress
July 19 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
July 24 - Peter Serkin, American pianist
July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California

August

August 10 - Ian Anderson, British rock musician (Jethro Tull)
August 15 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
August 19 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
August 24 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian road cyclist
August 28 - Liza Wang, actress

September

September 1 - Al Green, American politician
September 3 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
September 17 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
September 19 - Steve Bartlett - former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
September 21 - Stephen King, author
September 22 - Norma McCorvey, best known as Jane Roe
September 30 - Marc Bolan, musician ("T Rex") (d. 1977)

October

October 1 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 5 - Brian Johnson, singer
October 14 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist and actor
October 17 - Gene Green, American politician
October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
October 24 - Kevin Kline, actor
October 26 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and Senator from New York
October 26 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet

November

November 14 - P. J. O'Rourke, journalist and satirist
November 19 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
November 19 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
November 24 - Dwight Schultz, actor

December

December 7 - Wendy Padbury, British actress
December 9 - U.S. Senator Tom Daschle
December 14 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
December 18 - Rod Piazza, blues musician
December 16 - Vincent Matthews, American athlete
December 21- Paco de Lucía, Musician
December 26 - Carlton Fisk, Baseball Hall of Famer
December 28 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Baseball player (d. 2000)
December 29 - Ted Danson, American Actor
December 30 - Jeff Lynne , Top British musician,Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)

Deaths

Emil J. Brach

January-April

January 25 - Al Capone, gangster
March 11 - Victor Lustig, great con artist
March 18 - William C. Durant, automobile pioneer, founder of General Motors
March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter
March 20 - Victor Goldschmidt, Father of Modern Geochemistry
March 30 - Arthur Machen, author
April 1 - George II, King of the Hellenes (b. 1890)
April 7 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer
April 20 - Christian X, King of Denmark (b. 1870)
April 24 - Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)

May-August

May 8 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnage (b. 1858)
May 16 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
May 17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
May 20 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
May 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
July 19 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist, assassinated.
July 30 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia

September-December

October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
November 25 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
December 1 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
December 1 - G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
December 7 - Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
December 17 - J. N. Brønsted, physical chemist (b. 1879)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Edward Victor Appleton
Chemistry - Sir Robert Robinson
Medicine - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
Literature - André Gide
Peace - The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers.

March

March 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
March 1 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
March 1 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
March 6 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 15 - Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab
March 21 - Homer Collyer of the Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in Harlem, New York City. His brother is found April 8
March 25 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
March 29 - Rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar

April

April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
April 16 - The Texas City Disaster occurs when a French ship loaded with ammonium nitrate blows up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas. Approximately 600 were killed or missing due to the blast, with 2,000 injured.
April 24 - The Armenian Massacre occurs when the Ottoman Empire begins the systematic relocation of every Armenian living withing the Turkish Borders. Approximately 2.5 Million Armenians were killed or displaced during the alleged relocation.
April 27 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium

May

May 1 - Gang of Salvatore Giuliano opens fire on a labor parade near Portella Della Ginestra, Sicily; Eleven killed, thirty wounded
May 3 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
May 22 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.

June

June 5 - Secretary of State Gen George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for U.S. aid to Europe.
June 10 - Saab produces its first automobile.
June 15 - Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors to resign accused of revolutionary activity
June 20 - Bugsy Siegel found shot in his Beverly Hills home
June 21 - A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.
June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

July

July 1 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
July 7 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident
July 10 - Princess Elizabeth announces engagement to Philip Mountbatten
July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
July 19 - Murder of Burmese nationalist Aung San
July 24 - 100 year anniversary of Brigham Young leading 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
July 26 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
July 29 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
July 30 - Thor Heyerdahl sails with Kon-Tiki

August

August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 9 - Beginning the 6 Scout World Jamboree - see Jamboree Scout 1947 (in French)
August 14 - Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th. Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first Governor General of Pakistan.
August 15 - Following decades of nonviolent resistance and periodic civil unrest from 1919, India gains independence from the British Empire. Pakistan splits from India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as first Prime Minister of India.
August 16 - In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over
August 23 - Prime Minister of Greece Dimitrios Maximos resigns.

September

September 4-September 21 - Hurricane in southeast Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - 51 killed
September 9 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
September 13 - Nehru suggests transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.

October

October 14 - American test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins
October 30 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.

November

November 2 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
November 2 - Earthquake in Chilean Andes - 233 dead
November 16 - 15.000 demonstrate in Brussels against the relatively short sentences of Nazis.
November 16 - British begin to withdraw their troops from Palestine.
November 20- Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
November 24 - Red Scare:The United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of U.S. Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after the 10 had refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, (the 10 were blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios the next day).
November 25 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 27 - In Paris, police occupy editorial offices of communist newspapers.
November 29 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

December

December 3 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
December 23- the Transistor is invented.
December 30 - King Michael of Romania abdicates

Unknown date

Prussia is legally abolished by the Allied Control Council following World War II and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern border.
The House Un-American Activities Committee begin their investigations of communism in Hollywood.
Cambridge University begins to admits women as full students.
Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.
Walter Morrison invents the Frisbee.
Raytheon produces first commercial microwave oven.
Women's suffrage is granted in Argentina.

Year in topic

1947 in aviation
1947 in film
1947 in literature
1947 in music
1947 in rail transport
- June 6 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is merged into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
1947 in sports
1947 in television
January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- January 30 - The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
- May 7 - Kraft Television Theater premieres on NBC, the first regularly scheduled drama series on a network.
- September 30 - The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass audience.
- October 5 - The first presidential address is telecast from the White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis.
- November 6 - Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington.
- November 20 - Meet the Press first network telecast.
- December 27 - Puppet Television Theater (later called Howdy Doody), a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
- The first Hollywood film production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
- There are 14,000 television sets in use in the United States.

Births

January

January 2 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
January 6 - Sandy Denny - British vocalist (d. 1978)
January 8 - David Bowie - Musician
- Samuel Schmid, member of the Swiss Federal Council
January 11 - Bryan Robson, football player
January 16 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, physiologist, radio talk show host
January 18 - Takeshi Kitano - Director and actor
January 24 - Warren Zevon, musician (d. 2003)
January 29 - Linda B. Buck, scientist
January 30 - Les Barker, English poet
- Steve Marriott, musician ("The Small Faces") (d. 1991)
January 31 - Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Famer

February

February 1 - Jessica Savitch, journalist (d. 1983)
February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, actress
February 2 - Melanie, singer
February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist
February 4 - Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States
February 5 - Darrell Waltrip, automobile racer, broadcaster
February 10 - Louise Arbour, jurist
February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer
February 18 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, musician ("Styx")
February 20 - Peter Osgood, English football player
February 20 - Peter Strauss, actor
February 24 - Edward James Olmos, actor
February 25 - Lee Evans, American athlete
February 25 - Doug Yule, singer and multi-instrumentalist of The Velvet Underground and solo
February 27 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist

March

March 4 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
March 6 - Kiki Dee, singer
- Dick Fosbury, athlete
- Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
March 7 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager, composer
March 10 - Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada (1993)
March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
March 13 - Beat Richner, pediatrician in Cambodia, cellist
March 14 - Pam Ayres, poet
- Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
March 15 - Ry Cooder, guitarist
March 19 - Glenn Close, actress
March 20 - John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
March 24 - Louise Lanctôt, member of FLQ and writer
March 25 - Elton John - Pop star

April

April 1 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
April 2 - Emmylou Harris, singer
- Camille Paglia, feminist writer
April 6 - John Ratzenberger, actor
April 12 - Tom Clancy, author
- David Letterman, American entertainer
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Hall of Famer
April 18 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
- James Woods, actor
April 19 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 23 - Philip Schneider, structural engineer
April 26 - Donna DeVarona, Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports journalist, sports activist
April 29 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher

May

May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
May 13 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American fantasy novelist

June

June 4 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
June 6 - David Blunkett, British politician
June 14 - Barry Melton, musician (Country Joe and The Fish and The Dinosaurs)
June 15 - John Hoagland, war photographer
June 16 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
June 19 - Salman Rushdie, Indian-born author
June 20- The Duchess of Gloucester
June 20 - Candy Clark, American actress
June 22 - David Lander, actor and baseball scout
June 22 - Pete Maravich, basketball player (d. 1988)
June 22 - Mike Stone, U.C. Berkeley football player (retired 2005)
June 28 - Mark Helprin, American writer

July

July 2 - Larry David, American actor, writer, producer, and director
July 7 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor
July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and suspected murderer
July 10 - Arlo Guthrie, American singer
July 10 - Jackie Lane, British actress
July 19 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
July 24 - Peter Serkin, American pianist
July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California

August

August 10 - Ian Anderson, British rock musician (Jethro Tull)
August 15 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
August 19 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
August 24 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian road cyclist
August 28 - Liza Wang, actress

September

September 1 - Al Green, American politician
September 3 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
September 17 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
September 19 - Steve Bartlett - former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
September 21 - Stephen King, author
September 22 - Norma McCorvey, best known as Jane Roe
September 30 - Marc Bolan, musician ("T Rex") (d. 1977)

October

October 1 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 5 - Brian Johnson, singer
October 14 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist and actor
October 17 - Gene Green, American politician
October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
October 24 - Kevin Kline, actor
October 26 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and Senator from New York
October 26 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet

November

November 14 - P. J. O'Rourke, journalist and satirist
November 19 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
November 19 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
November 24 - Dwight Schultz, actor

December

December 7 - Wendy Padbury, British actress
December 9 - U.S. Senator Tom Daschle
December 14 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
December 18 - Rod Piazza, blues musician
December 16 - Vincent Matthews, American athlete
December 21- Paco de Lucía, Musician
December 26 - Carlton Fisk, Baseball Hall of Famer
December 28 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Baseball player (d. 2000)
December 29 - Ted Danson, American Actor
December 30 - Jeff Lynne , Top British musician,Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)

Deaths

Emil J. Brach

January-April

January 25 - Al Capone, gangster
March 11 - Victor Lustig, great con artist
March 18 - William C. Durant, automobile pioneer, founder of General Motors
March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter
March 20 - Victor Goldschmidt, Father of Modern

1947

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

Year in topic

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January-April

May-August

September-December

Nobel Prizes

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

Year in topic

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January-April