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In the year 1947

1,821 Notable birthdays

J. Richard Gott

American astronomer.

Born February 8th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Louisville.

Bogdan Tanjević

Montenegrin basketball player and coach.

Born February 13th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Pljevlja.

Jiří Kylián

Czech dance choreographer.

Born March 21st, 1947 (age 79 years) in Prague. [ref]

Małgorzata Braunek

Actress (1947-2014).

Born January 30th, 1947 in Szamotuły.

Died June 23rd, 2014 at 67 years old in Warsaw (cancer).

Drupi

Italian singer (born 1947).

Born August 10th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Pavia.

David Eisenbud

American mathematician.

Born April 8th, 1947 (age 79 years) in New York City.

Boris Groys

Soviet art historian (born 1947).

Born March 19th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Berlin.

Dave Sinclair

British musician.

Born November 24th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Herne Bay.

Akira Terao

Japanese actor and musician (born 1947).

Born May 18th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Yokohama.

Paul Cartledge

British ancient greece historian (born 1947).

Born March 24th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Greater London.

Charles Elachi

Lebanese electrical engineer, jpl director.

Born April 18th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Lebanon.

Ali Parvin

Iranian soccer player and coach (born 1946).

Born September 25th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Tehran.

Nicolae Dobrin

Romanian footballer (1947-2007).

Born August 26th, 1947 in Pitești.

Died October 26th, 2007 at 60 years old in Pitești (lung cancer). [ref]

Yuri Matiyasevich

Soviet and russian mathematician.

Born March 2nd, 1947 (age 79 years) in Saint Petersburg.

Niyi Osundare

Nigerian writer.

Born March 12th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Ekiti State.

Robert M. Wald

American physicist.

Born June 29th, 1947 (age 78 years) in New York City. [ref]

Bernard Comrie

British linguist.

Born May 23rd, 1947 (age 78 years) in Sunderland.

Olga Sánchez Cordero

Secretary of government of mexico.

Born July 16th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Mexico City.

Gérard Collomb

French politician (1947–2023).

Born June 20th, 1947 in Chalon-sur-Saône.

Died November 25th, 2023 at 76 years old in Pierre-Bénite (stomach cancer). [ref]

André Heller

Austrian artist, author, singer and actor.

Born March 22nd, 1947 (age 79 years) in Vienna.

Elizabeth Anionwu

British nurse, professor and activist.

Born July 2nd, 1947 (age 78 years) in Birmingham.

Felicity Lott

English soprano.

Born May 8th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Cheltenham.

Yakov Kedmi

Former israeli politician.

Born March 5th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Moscow.

Götz Aly

German journalist, historian and social scientist.

Born May 3rd, 1947 (age 78 years) in Heidelberg.

Blaž Kraljević

Bosnian croat soldier (1947–1992).

Born September 16th, 1947 in Lisice.

Died August 9th, 1992 at 44 years old in Kruševo, Mostar.

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