Famous Deaths for Year 1947

Months in Year 1947: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 151

Jan 4th - Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71
Jan 9th - Karl Mannheim, sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53
Jan 9th - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80
Jan 11th - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
Jan 12th - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77
Jan 13th - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
Jan 15th - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
Jan 17th - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
Jan 17th - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
Jan 20th - Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
Jan 23rd - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79
Jan 23rd - Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
Jan 24th - Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60
Jan 25th - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
Jan 26th - Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
Jan 26th - Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
Jan 28th - Reynaldo Hahn, composer, dies at 72
Jan 29th - Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for Eng 1929-30), dies
Jan 30th - Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
Gangster Al Capone (Jan 25th) Feb 3rd - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
Feb 3rd - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-adm (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60
Feb 5th - Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
Feb 5th - Hans Fallada, writer, dies at 53
Feb 6th - Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82
Feb 6th - Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61
Feb 8th - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65
Feb 12th - Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72
Feb 25th - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82
Feb 26th - Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
Feb 26th - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
Feb 27th - Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricketer (Tests Eng v Aust 1879), dies at 89
Mar 1st - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
Mar 5th - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
Mar 6th - Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55
Mar 9th - Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
Mar 11th - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
Mar 12th - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
Mar 18th - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
Mar 19th - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
Mar 20th - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
Mar 23rd - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
Mar 27th - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
Mar 28th - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
Mar 28th - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
Apr 1st - George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
Apr 2nd - Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for Eng 1907-08), dies
Apr 4th - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
Apr 6th - Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
Apr 6th - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford (Apr 8th) Apr 8th - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83
Apr 9th - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
Apr 11th - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
Apr 12th - Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies
Apr 15th - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
Apr 16th - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
Apr 18th - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
Apr 20th - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
Apr 24th - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
Apr 29th - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
May 1st - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed
May 2nd - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
May 5th - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
May 8th - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
May 11th - Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62
May 14th - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
May 16th - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
May 17th - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
May 20th - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
May 23rd - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
May 27th - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
May 28th - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
May 30th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
May 30th - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
May 31st - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
May 31st - Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
Jun 2nd - Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64
Jun 6th - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
Jun 8th - Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
Jun 9th - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
Jun 10th - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
Jun 12th - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
Jun 16th - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
Jun 18th - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
Jun 19th - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
Jun 20th - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
Jun 24th - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
Jun 26th - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
Jun 28th - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
Jul 1st - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
Jul 9th - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
Jul 12th - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
Jul 13th - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs), dies
Jul 15th - Henry Kolker, dies at 76
Jul 15th - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
Jul 17th - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
Jul 19th - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
Jul 19th - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
Jul 24th - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
Jul 30th - George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
Jul 30th - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
Aug 5th - Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies
Aug 8th - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
Aug 13th - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies
Aug 19th - Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
Aug 20th - Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
Aug 21st - Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies
Aug 25th - Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76
Aug 28th - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
Sep 1st - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
Sep 6th - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76
Sep 12th - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89
Sep 20th - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
Sep 21st - Harry Carey Sr, actor/director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69
Sep 23rd - Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
Sep 26th - Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61
Sep 28th - Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58
Sep 28th - William B Davidson, dies
Oct 2nd - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
Oct 4th - Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
Oct 6th - Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
Oct 8th - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
Oct 12th - Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42
Oct 13th - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter, dies
Oct 26th - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
Oct 29th - Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
Oct 29th - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69
Nov 1st - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
Nov 6th - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
Nov 11th - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
Nov 12th - Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
Nov 14th - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
Nov 17th - Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83
Nov 17th - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
Nov 25th - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
Nov 28th - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44
Nov 30th - Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
Dec 1st - Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72
Dec 1st - Hardy, mathematician, dies
Dec 7th - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
Dec 7th - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
Dec 13th - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
Dec 14th - Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84
Dec 14th - Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80
Dec 14th - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
Dec 15th - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
Dec 22nd - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
Dec 25th - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
Dec 28th - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
Dec 29th - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78
Dec 30th - Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58