Title: 1947 Content: == 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 granted freedom from Britain, 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) * 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 * 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 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