page_title: 1947
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1947 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Carrie Chapman Catt from 1914.
context_page_description: 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
  It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
context_section_description: March 2 – Whately Carington, British parapsychologist (b. 1892)
  March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
  March 9
  Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffrage leader (b. 1859)
  Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet, writer (b. 1897)
  March 10 – Harukichi Hyakutake, Japanese general (b. 1888)
  March 11
  Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
  Wilhelm Heye, German general (b. 1869)
  March 12 – Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1862)
  March 15
  Arthur Machen, British-born author (b. 1863)
  Jean-Richard Bloch, French critic, novelist and playwright (b. 1884)
  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 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1881)
  March 23
  Archduchess Louise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
  Ferdinand Zecca, French actor, producer, director and screenwriter (b. 1864)
  March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b. 1895)
  March 28
  Johnny Evers, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1881)
  Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b. 1897)
  March 29 – Manuel de Adalid y Gamero, Honduran composer (b. 1872)
caption: Carrie Chapman Catt
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