Reinhard Bredow

East german luger.

Born April 6th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Ilsenburg.

Dagmar Käsling

East german sprinter.

Born February 15th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Magdeburg.

Giampaolo Crepaldi

Italian roman catholic archbishop.

Born September 29th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Pettorazza Grimani.

Mana Mamuwene

Dr congolese footballer.

Born October 10th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Belgian Congo.

Krzysztof Gawedzki

Polish-french physicist.

Born July 2nd, 1947 in Żarki. ^[ref]

Died January 21st, 2022 at 74 years old in Caluire-et-Cuire. ^[ref]

Ueli Sutter

Swiss cyclist.

Born March 16th, 1947 in Bettlach.

Died December 9th, 2025 at 78 years old in Willisau. ^[ref]

Kati-Claudia Fofonoff

Skolt saami writer and translator from finland (1947–2011).

Born December 8th, 1947 in Ivalo.

Died June 12th, 2011 at 63 years old

Lilita Ozoliņa

Soviet and latvian theater and film actress (1947—2023).

Born November 19th, 1947 in Riga.

Died June 5th, 2023 at 75 years old in Latvia. ^[ref]

Pekka Marjamäki

Finnish ice hockey player (1947–2012).

Born December 18th, 1947 in Tampere.

Died May 10th, 2012 at 64 years old in Tampere. ^[ref]

Ronald Riley

Australian field hockey player.

Born September 14th, 1947 (age 78 years).

Guðmundur Sigurjónsson

Icelandic chess player.

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

Maria Badia i Cutchet

Spanish politician.

Born May 13th, 1947 in Sant Quirze del Vallès.

Died March 28th, 2026 at 78 years old ^[ref]

Hideaki Yanagida

Japanese sport wrestler.

Born January 1st, 1947 (age 79 years) in Hachirōgata-machi.

Anatoliy Novikov

Ussr judoka (1947–2022).

Born January 17th, 1947 in Maltsevka.

Died January 19th, 2022 at 75 years old in Kharkiv. ^[ref]

Ryszard Katus

Polish decathlete and hurdler.

Born March 23rd, 1947 (age 79 years) in Boska Wola.

Julie Okoh

Nigerian playwright and academic.

Born August 5th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Ubiaja.

Reno Olsen

Danish cyclist.

Born February 19th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Roskilde. ^[ref]

Zdzisław Antczak

Polish handball player (1947-2019).

Born November 20th, 1947 in Milkowice.

Died February 28th, 2019 at 71 years old in Poland. ^[ref]

Rustam Kazakov

Olympic wrestler.

Born January 2nd, 1947 (age 79 years) in Tashkent.

Nobuo Kawakami

Japanese association football player.

Born October 4th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Saitama.

Oļegs Antropovs

Volleyball player (1947–2023).

Born November 5th, 1947 in Turkistan Region.

Died October 15th, 2023 at 75 years old ^[ref]

Vladimir Vasin

Soviet diver.

Born January 9th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Moscow.

Oscar Julio Vian Morales

Guatemalan archbishop (1947-2018).

Born October 18th, 1947 in Guatemala City.

Died February 24th, 2018 at 70 years old in Guatemala City (cancer). ^[ref]

William Allen

American sailor.

Born November 20th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Minneapolis.

Hartmut Wenzel

German coxswain (1947-2020).

Born February 23rd, 1947 in Berlin.

Died August 24th, 2020 at 73 years old in Essen. ^[ref]