page_title: 1947
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1947 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: English: The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, PC, CC, OBC, QC, served as Canada’s 19th and first female Prime Minister in 1993 and continues to promote global democracy, international cooperation and women in politics, for which she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, television host (d. 2016)
  March 2 – Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (d. 1989)
  March 4
  David Franzoni, American screenwriter
  Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
  Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015)
  March 6
  Kiki Dee, English pop singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
  Dick Fosbury, American athlete
  Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
  Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer, director and activist (All in the Family)
  March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
  March 8
  Carole Bayer Sager, American singer, songwriter
  Michael S. Hart, American author, inventor (d. 2011)
  March 9 – Ryszard Peryt, Polish conductor, librettist (d. 2019)
  March 10
  Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
  Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter and inventor
  March 11
  David Ferguson, American music producer, activist
  Geoff Hunt, Australian squash player
  March 12
  Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
  Mitt Romney, American businessman, politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 presidential candidate, and US Senator (R-Ut.)
  March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician, cellist (d. 2018)
  March 14
  Pam Ayres, English comic verse writer and performer
  Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
  March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
  March 16
  Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor
  Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
  March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer, producer
  March 18
  Tamara Griesser Pečar, Slovenian historian
  Susan Sheridan, English actress (d. 2015)
  March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress
  March 20
  John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
  Chip Zien, American actor
  March 21 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (d. 2017)
  March 22
  Babz Chula, American-born Canadian actress (d. 2010)
  James Patterson, American author
  Florence Warner, American singer, voice actress (Once Upon a Forest)
  March 24
  Mike Kellie, English rock musician (d. 2017)
  Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist, writer
  Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur
  March 25 – Elton John, English rock musician (Rocket Man)
  March 26 – Subhash Kak, Indian-American author
  March 27 – Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist
  March 31
  Wong Choon Wah, Malaysian footballer (d. 2014)
  César Gaviria, Colombian economist, politician and 28th President of Colombia
caption: Kim Campbell
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