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In the year 1947
1,824 Notable birthdays
Lasse Lehtinen
Finnish politician and television presenter.
Born January 23rd, 1947 (age 79 years) in Kotka.
Ivan Zafirov
Bulgarian footballer.
Born December 30th, 1947 in Sofia.
Died October 15th, 2025 at 77 years old [ref]
Peter Persidis
Austrian footballer (1947-2009).
Born March 8th, 1947 in Vienna.
Died January 21st, 2009 at 61 years old in Vienna (cancer). [ref]
Ruben Zackhras
President of the marshall islands (1947–2019).
Born December 4th, 1947 in Ailinglaplap Atoll.
Died January 2nd, 2019 at 71 years old in Hawaii. [ref]
Yevgeni Zimin
Ice hockey player (1947–2018).
Born August 6th, 1947 in Moscow.
Died December 28th, 2018 at 71 years old in Moscow (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). [ref]
Gerardo Vera
Spanish film director (1947–2020).
Born March 10th, 1947 in Miraflores de la Sierra.
Died September 20th, 2020 at 73 years old in Miraflores de la Sierra (COVID-19). [ref]
Hugo Fernández Faingold
Uruguayan politician.
Born March 1st, 1947 in Montevideo.
Died May 22nd, 2025 at 78 years old [ref]
Volodymyr Troshkin
Soviet footballer (1947-2020).
Born September 28th, 1947 in Yenakiieve.
Died July 5th, 2020 at 72 years old in Kyiv. [ref]
Jozef Móder
Association football player (born 1947).
Born September 19th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Tvrdošovce.
Lajos Kocsis
Association football player (1947–2000).
Born June 17th, 1947 in Szeged. [ref]
Died October 9th, 2000 at 53 years old in Budapest.
Jaak Jõerüüt
Estonian writer, politician and diplomat (born 1947).
Born December 9th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Tallinn.
Aleksandr Gusev
Soviet ice hockey player (1947–2020).
Born January 21st, 1947 in Moscow.
Died July 22nd, 2020 at 73 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Birthdays 1476 to 1500 of 1824
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope