Guðmundur Sigurjónsson

Icelandic chess player.

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

Oļegs Antropovs

Volleyball player (1947–2023).

Born November 5th, 1947 in Turkistan Region.

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

Hartmut Wenzel

German coxswain (1947-2020).

Born February 23rd, 1947 in Berlin.

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

Hideaki Yanagida

Japanese sport wrestler.

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

Rose Gana Fomban Leke

Cameroonian malariologist and scientist.

Born February 13th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Kumbo. ^[ref]

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]

William Allen

American sailor.

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

Zdzisław Antczak

Polish handball player (1947-2019).

Born November 20th, 1947 in Milkowice.

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

Karel Kodejška

Czech ski jumper.

Born March 20th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Jičín, Lomnice nad Popelkou. ^[ref]

Vladimir Vasin

Soviet diver.

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

Reno Olsen

Danish cyclist.

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

Rainer Seifert

German field hockey player.

Born December 10th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Wiesbaden.

Nobuo Kawakami

Japanese association football player.

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

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]

Anatoliy Novikov

Ussr judoka (1947–2022).

Born January 17th, 1947 in Maltsevka.

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

Teresa Lago

Portuguese astrophysicist.

Born January 18th, 1947 (age 79 years) in Lisbon.

Takeo Takahashi

Japanese association football player.

Born May 13th, 1947 (age 78 years) in Shinagawa.

Rustam Kazakov

Olympic wrestler.

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

Lorenz Funk

Olympic ice hockey player (1947–2017).

Born March 17th, 1947 in Bad Tölz. ^[ref]

Died September 29th, 2017 at 70 years old in Greiling. ^[ref]

Finn Tveter

Norwegian rower (1947–2018).

Born November 19th, 1947 in Oslo.

Died July 30th, 2018 at 70 years old in Oslo. ^[ref]

Klaus Reichert

Fencer.

Born June 3rd, 1947 (age 78 years) in Hanau.

Bohumila Řimnáčová

Czech gymnast.

Born September 9th, 1947 in Prague.

Died September 9th, 2025 at 78 years old ^[ref]

Renato Dionisi

Pole vaulter.

Born November 21st, 1947 (age 78 years) in Nago–Torbole.

Jacques Carette

French athlete.

Born March 1st, 1947 (age 79 years) in Roubaix.

Ueli Sutter

Swiss cyclist.

Born March 16th, 1947 in Bettlach.

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