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1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
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January 25 – Marjorie Scardino, American-born business executive; January 26 – Mark Dayton, American politician; January 27 – Cal Schenkel, American illustrator; January 28 – Jeanne Shaheen, American politician; January 29. Linda B. Buck, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [4] Ernie Lively, American ...
Marvin Lee Aday was born in Dallas, Texas, on September 27, 1947, [8] [9] the son of Wilma Artie (née Hukel), a schoolteacher and member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel music quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a former police officer who went into business selling a homemade cough remedy with his wife and a friend under the name of the Griffin Grocery Company. [10]
Born: Michio Kaku, Japanese-American futurist and theoretical physicist, in San Jose, California; [29] Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer, in Kaifu District, Tokushima, Japan; Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter, in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003) [30]
Born: Lynn Anderson, country music singer, in Grand Forks, North Dakota (d. 2015) Died: Hugh Lofting , 61, British author and creator of Doctor Dolittle September 27 , 1947 (Saturday)
23 August – Roy Chadwick, aircraft designer (born 1893; killed in aircraft accident) 13 October – Sidney Webb, political economist (born 1859) 28 November – James Miller, Scottish architect (born 1860) 1 December Samuel Courtauld, art collector (born 1876) Aleister Crowley, occultist (born 1875) G. H. Hardy, mathematician (born 1877) 14 ...
Born: H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel prize winning biologist, in Chicago, Illinois Died: Harry Gordon Selfridge , 89, American retail magnate and founder of the Selfridges department store chain May 9 , 1947 (Friday)