1947

**1947** (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## 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