1947

1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s  1920s  1930s  – 1940s –  1950s  1960s  1970s
Years:	1944 1945 1946 – 1947 – 1948 1949 1950

1947 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1947 MCMXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2700
Armenian calendar	1396 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6697
Bahá'í calendar	103–104
Balinese saka calendar	1868–1869
Bengali calendar	1354
Berber calendar	2897
British Regnal year	11 Geo. 6 – 12 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2491
Burmese calendar	1309
Byzantine calendar	7455–7456
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4643 or 4583     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4644 or 4584
Coptic calendar	1663–1664
Discordian calendar	3113
Ethiopian calendar	1939–1940
Hebrew calendar	5707–5708
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2003–2004
- Shaka Samvat	1868–1869
- Kali Yuga	5047–5048
Holocene calendar	11947
Igbo calendar	947–948
Iranian calendar	1325–1326
Islamic calendar	1366–1367
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 22 (昭和２２年)
Javanese calendar	1878–1879
Juche calendar	36
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4280
Minguo calendar	ROC 36 民國36年
Nanakshahi calendar	479
Thai solar calendar	2490
Tibetan calendar	阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 2073 or 1692 or 920     — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 2074 or 1693 or 921

Events

• February 28 incident in Taiwan was an affair in which large numbers of people protested against the government, in which thousands were killed by the regime's forces.
• April 15 – Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
• June 26 - Sindh province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
• June 29 - Balochistan (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
• July 2 - North-West Frontier Province province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
• July 19 - Punjab (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
• July 22 – The former East Bengal province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the Two-nation theory. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
• August 14 – Pakistan is Created from British India ,end of the British Raj.
• August 15 – India gains independence from Britain.

Births

• January 1 - Jon Corzine, American politician
• January 8 – David Bowie, British singer (d. 2016)
• January 22 – Vladimir Oravsky, Swedish author
• February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, American keyboardist (Styx)
• March 3 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer
• March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American actress and singer
• March 24 - Alan Sugar, British businessman
• March 24 - Christine Gregoire, American politician
• March 25 – Elton John, British singer
• March 29 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
• April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
• April 18 - James Woods, American actor
• May 8 - John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, British politician
• May 25 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2017)
• May 31 - Junior Campbell, Scottish musician and composer
• June 24 - Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
• July 2 - Elijah Kostunica, Serbian politician
• July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player (d. 2024)
• July 17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• July 19 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
• July 19 - Bernie Leadon, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
• July 22 - Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
• July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former Governor of California
• July 31 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
• August 16 – Carol Moseley Braun, American jurist
• September 21 - Don Felder, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
• September 30 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
• October 4 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
• October 26 – Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and United States Secretary of State
• October 30 - Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
• November 1 - Bob Weston, English rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2012)
• November 8 - Marianne Wiggins, American author
• November 10 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982)
• November 10 - Greg Lake, English musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (d. 2016)
• November 20 - Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
• December 8 – Gregg Allman, American rock musician (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 2017)
• December 11 - David E. Stone, American sound editor

Deaths

• Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b. 1859)
• January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
• March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
• March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
• March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
• March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
• March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born writer (b. 1863)
• April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
• April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
• April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
• April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
• May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (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) (b. 1915)
• July 30 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
• 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 7 – Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
• December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)

Movies released

• Hue and Cry

New books

• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• Bright November – Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
• Country Place – Ann Lane Petty
• Creatures of Circumstance – W. Somerset Maugham
• The Cold War – Walter Lippmann
• Dark Carnival – Ray Bradbury's first book
• Dialectic of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
• Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
• Eyes of a Blue Dog – Gabriel García Márquez
• Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
• God Is For White Folks – Thomas Will
• Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
• Great Northern? – Arthur Ransome
• A High Wind Rising – Elsie Singmaster
• I, the Jury – Mickey Spillane
• Les Jeux Inconnus – François Boyer
• Knock On Any Door – Willard Motley
• Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool – George Orwell
• Masquerade, a Historical Novel – Oscar Micheaux
• Miss Hickory – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• The Moneyman – Thomas B. Costain
• Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation – Samuel Putnam
• The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
• The Pearl – John Steinbeck
• The Adventures of Tintin
• The Plague (La Peste) – Albert Camus
• Prince of Foxes – Samuel Shellabarger
• Rocket Ship Galileo – Robert A. Heinlein
• Saggy Baggy Elephant – Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
• Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
• Tales of the South Pacific – James A. Michener
• Tarzan and the Foreign Legion – Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Tea with Mrs Goodman – Philip Toynbee
• Theatre – W. Somerset Maugham
• Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
• Who Has Seen the Wind? – W.O. Mitchell

Nobel prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori and Bernardo Houssay