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1947 facts
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1944 1945 1946 – 1947 – 1948 1949 1950 |
Contents
Events
- April 15 – Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
- June 26 - Sindh province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- June 29 - Balochistan (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 2 - North-West Frontier Province province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 19 - Punjab (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 22 – The former East Bengal province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the Two-nation theory. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
- August 14 – Pakistan is granted freedom from Britain, end of the British Raj.
- August 15 – India gains independence from Britain.
Births
- January 1 - Jon Corzine, American politician
- January 8 – David Bowie, British singer
- March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American actress and singer
- March 24 - Alan Sugar, British businessman
- March 24 - Christine Gregoire, American politician
- March 25 – Elton John, British singer
- April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- April 18 - James Woods, American actor
- May 8 - John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, British politician
- July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player
- July 17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former Governor of California
- July 31 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
- August 16 – Carol Moseley Braun, American jurist
- September 30 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
- October 4 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- October 26 – Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and United States Secretary of State
- November 10 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982)
- November 10 - Greg Lake, American musician
- December 8 – Gregg Allman, American rock musician
Deaths
- Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b. 1859)
- January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
- March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
- March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born writer (b. 1863)
- April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
- May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
- May 16 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
- May 17 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- July 30 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
- December 1 – Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
- December 1 – G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
- December 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
- December 7 – Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
Movies released
- Hue and Cry
New books
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- Bright November – Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
- Country Place – Ann Lane Petty
- Creatures of Circumstance – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Cold War – Walter Lippmann
- Dark Carnival – Ray Bradbury's first book
- Dialectic of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
- Eyes of a Blue Dog – Gabriel García Márquez
- Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
- God Is For White Folks – Thomas Will
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Northern? – Arthur Ransome
- A High Wind Rising – Elsie Singmaster
- I, the Jury – Mickey Spillane
- Les Jeux Inconnus – François Boyer
- Knock On Any Door – Willard Motley
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool – George Orwell
- Masquerade, a Historical Novel – Oscar Micheaux
- Miss Hickory – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- The Moneyman – Thomas B. Costain
- Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation – Samuel Putnam
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
- The Pearl – John Steinbeck
- The Adventures of Tintin
- The Plague (La Peste) – Albert Camus
- Prince of Foxes – Samuel Shellabarger
- Rocket Ship Galileo – Robert A. Heinlein
- Saggy Baggy Elephant – Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
- Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
- Tales of the South Pacific – James A. Michener
- Tarzan and the Foreign Legion – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tea with Mrs Goodman – Philip Toynbee
- Theatre – W. Somerset Maugham
- Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
- Who Has Seen the Wind? – W.O. Mitchell
Nobel prizes