Famous People Who Died In 1947
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1947. This list includes people like Al Capone, Aleister Crowley, Black Dahlia, Henry Ford, Bugsy Siegel and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, philosophers and artists who died in 1947. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Rudolf Höss(Military Leader)
25 November 1901
German
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy(Numismatist, Politician)
11 November 1869
Italian
Harry Gordon Selfridge(business magnate)
11 January 1856
British
Pierre Bonnard(Painter, Sculptor, Engraver, Graphic artist)
03 October 1867
French
Christian X of Denmark(King)
26 September 1870
Danish
Ettore Bugatti(entrepreneur, engineer, racecar driver)
15 September 1882
French,Italian
Kurt Lewin(Psychologist, University teacher)
09 September 1890
German,Polish,American
George II of Greece(King of Greece)
20 July 1890
Greek
Aung San(Politician, Military personnel)
13 February 1915
Burmese
William C. Durant(entrepreneur)
1861 AD
American
Jozef Tiso(Politician)
13 October 1887
Slovak
Nicholas Roerich(Philosopher, Painter, Choreographer, Writer, Archaeologist, Poet, Diplomat)
09 October 1874
Russian
K. L. Saigal(Actor, Singer)
11 April 1904
Indian
Ernst Lubitsch(Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer, Film editor)
29 January 1892
German,American
Han van Meegeren(Painter, Art forger, Restorer)
10 October 1889
Irving Fisher(Economist, Statistician)
27 February 1867
American
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque(Military personnel)
22 November 1902
French
Frederick Russell Burnham(Explorer, Writer)
11 May 1861
American
R. B. Bennett(Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat)
03 July 1870
Canadian
P. D. Ouspensky(philosopher, writer)
04 March 1878
Russian
Ananda Coomaraswamy(Art historian, Philosopher, Mythographer)
22 August 1877
Sri Lankan
Victor Horta(Architect)
06 January 1861
Belgian
Hans Fallada(Writer, Novelist, Children's writer)
21 July 1893
German
Karl Mannheim(Sociologist, University teacher, Writer)
27 March 1893
German,Hungarian,British
Marc Mitscher(Officer)
26 January 1887
American
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger(Politician, Jurist)
14 April 1890
German
Luigi Russolo(Composer, Painter, Artist, Musical instrument maker)
30 April 1885
Italian
Reynaldo Hahn(Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic, Pianist)
09 August 1874
French,Venezuelan
Paul P. Harris(Jurist, Lawyer)
19 April 1868
American
Franz Xaver Schwarz(Politician)
27 November 1875
German
Herbert Backe(Politician)
01 May 1896
German
Pyotr Krasnov(writer, officer, historian)
10 September 1869
Russian
Helmuth von Pannwitz14 October 1898
German
Joseph Cook(politician, diplomat, trade unionist)
07 December 1860
Australian
Albert Marquet(Painter, Writer)
27 March 1875
French
Alfredo Casella(Composer, Conductor, Pianist)
25 July 1883
Italian
W. I. Thomas(Sociologist, Writer)
13 August 1863
American
Duncan Campbell Scott(Poet, Writer, Civil servant)
02 August 1862
Canadian
Fernand de Brinon(Journalist, Socialite, Lawyer)
26 August 1885
French
Bert Kalmar(Lyricist, Songwriter, Screenwriter)
10 February 1884
American
Benigno Aquino, Sr.04 September 1894
Filipino
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton(Military personnel)
16 January 1853
British
Som Nath Sharma31 January 1923
Indian
Halford John Mackinder(Geographer, academic, politician)
15 February 1861
British
Jimmy Doyle(boxer)
01 August 1924
American
Anna Wickham(Poet)
1884 AD
British
Anton Ivanovich Denikin(General)
16 December 1872
American
Nicholas M. Butler(American philosopher)
02 April 1862
American
Baroness Emma Orczy23 September 1865
Hungarian
Richard B. Bennett(Prime Minister,politician)
03 July 1870
Canadian
James Evershed Agate09 September 1877
British
Kōda Rohan(Novelist, Writer, Literary critic)
23 July 1867
Japanese
Kōtarō Nakamura(Military personnel)
28 August 1881
Japanese
Władysław Raczkiewicz(Politician, Jurist, Lawyer)
28 January 1885
Polish
Yūzō Matsuyama(Military personnel)
01 February 1889
Japanese