Steve Nichols

American engineer.

Born February 20th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Salt Lake City.

Ricardo Teixeira

Brazilian football administrator.

Born June 20th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Carlos Chagas.

Aleida Assmann

German professor of english and literary studies.

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

Philip Kitcher

British philosopher (born 1947).

Born February 20th, 1947 (age 79 years) in London.

Reg Empey

Northern ireland politician (born 1947).

Born October 26th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Belfast.

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti

Iraqi secret police (1947–2013).

Born February 27th, 1947 in Tikrit.

Died July 8th, 2013 at 66 years old in Baghdad (cancer). ^[ref]

Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa

Mongolian cosmonaut.

Born December 5th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Gurvanbulag.

James Rumbaugh

American computer scientist.

Born August 22nd, 1947 (age 78 years) in Bethlehem.

Georgina Theodora Wood

Ghanaian judge and chief justice.

Born June 8th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Ghana. ^[ref]

Paolo Roversi

Italian photographer.

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

John Holloway

Sociologist (born 1947).

Born July 26th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Dublin.

Stéphane Courtois

French historian.

Born November 25th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Dreux.

Luigi Cozzi

Italian film director.

Born September 7th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Busto Arsizio.

Georg Feuerstein

German indologist (1947–2012).

Born May 27th, 1947 in Würzburg.

Died August 25th, 2012 at 65 years old in Saskatchewan. ^[ref]

Abby Hoffman

Canadian middle-distance runner and sprinter.

Born February 11th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Toronto.

Francis Huster

French actor, film director, theatre director and screenwriter.

Born December 8th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Ingrid Steeger

German actress and singer (1947–2023).

Born April 1st, 1947 in Berlin.

Died December 22nd, 2023 at 76 years old in Bad Hersfeld. ^[ref]

Eric F. Wieschaus

American geneticist.

Born June 8th, 1947 (age 78 years) in South Bend.

Hawa Abdi

Somalian physician, activist (1947-2020).

Born May 17th, 1947 in Mogadishu. ^[ref]

Died August 5th, 2020 at 73 years old in Mogadishu. ^[ref]

Mark Dvoretsky

Russian chess trainer, writer and international master (1947-2016).

Born December 9th, 1947 in Moscow.

Died September 26th, 2016 at 68 years old in Moscow. ^[ref]

Maude Barlow

Canadian author and activist.

Born May 19th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Toronto. ^[ref]

Fernando Savater

Spanish philosophy professor and author.

Born June 21st, 1947 (age 78 years) in San Sebastián.

Juliet Berto

Actress, film director (1947–1990).

Born January 16th, 1947 in Grenoble.

Died January 10th, 1990 at 42 years old in Breux-Jouy (breast cancer).

Leoluca Orlando

Italian politician.

Born August 1st, 1947 (age 78 years) in Palermo.

Joe Wilson

Republican united states house representative from south carolina.

Born July 31st, 1947 (age 78 years) in Charleston. ^[ref]