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Kenneth Arthur Kelsch (July 8, 1947 – December 11, 2023) [1] was an American cinematographer, teacher, and Vietnam veteran. He was best known for his guerilla filmmaking style and his career-spanning partnership with filmmaker Abel Ferrara, with whom he made more than a dozen films, including The Driller Killer (1979), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Dangerous Game (1993), The Addiction (1995), The ...
Thomas B. Silver (1947 [1] – December 26, 2001) was an American author and scholar who was president of the Claremont Institute.His first book, Coolidge and the Historians, a biography of President Calvin Coolidge, was considered to be a favorite of a later president, Ronald Reagan. [2]
Alban Köhler (1 March 1874 – 26 February 1947) was a German radiologist best known for his discovery of a rare foot disorder found in children that was named Köhler disease in his honor. Early life and education
Alice Thacher married widower Louis F. Post in 1893. He died in 1928, and she died in 1947, at her home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 93. [1] Anna George de Mille wrote a tribute to the Posts, as "Partners in the truest sense, these two great people lived gently and bravely, asked little and gave much.
Guilday was born in Chester, Pennsylvania of Irish parents. [2] Graduated from Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia in 1901. [1] He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook PA. [2]
Richard E. Crandall (December 29, 1947 – December 20, 2012) was an American physicist and computer scientist who made contributions to computational number theory.
David Harney (2 March 1947 – April 2019) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town, Scunthorpe United and Brentford as a forward. Career [ edit ]
October–November – Great Fires of 1947: Forest fires in Maine consume more than 200,000 acres of wooded land statewide, including over 17,000 acres on Mount Desert Island alone. 16 persons are killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed in the blazes, with total property damage exceeding $23 million.