In the year 1947, the Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf is killed in a plane crash (Jan 26), the communists take power in Poland (Jan 31), the Paris Peace Treaty is signed (Feb 10), the Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Feb 17), ISO is founded (Feb 23), the German state Prussia is officially abolished (Feb 25), IMF begins to operate (Mar 1), the Truman Doctrine is first announced, in effect beginning the Cold War (Mar 12), Miracle on the 34th Street premiers (May 2), the first SAAB automobile is produced (Jun 22), CIA is founded (Sep 18), the U.N. votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, resulting in the creation of the State of Israel (Nov 29), the first microwave enters the market - and all these fine people were born:
1947-0101 Risto Kuisma* politician - Savonlinna, Finland
1947-0102 Alexander Yakushev* hockey player/OG/coach - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1947-0108 David Bowie* singer - Brixton, London, England (2016/69)
1947-0108 Antti Kalliomäki* athlete (pole vault/OS)/politician- Siikainen, Finland
1947-0116 Laura Schlessinger* talk radio host (The Dr. Laura Program)/author - Brooklyn, NY USA
1947-0120 Ari Salin* athlete/hurdler/coach - Lohja, Finland
1947-0123 Joel Douglas* film producer/son of Kirk Douglas - USA
1947-0123 Megawati Sukarnoputri* politician/P - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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1947-0125 Louis-Gaston Mayila* Gabonese politician - Boungounga, French Equatorial Africa (2025/78)
1947-0127 Björn Afzelius* singer-songwriter/ guitarist - Huskvarna, Sweden (1999/52)
1947-0127 Perfecto Yasay Jr.* politician - Kidapawan, Philippines (2020/73)
1947-0128 Jeanne Shaheen* (b Bowers) politician/ senator - Saint Charles, MO USA
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1947-0131 Glynn Turman* actor/ director/producer - New York, NY USA
1947-0201 Clark Olofsson* bank robber ("Stockholm syndrome") - Trollhättan, Sweden
1947-0202 Farrah Fawcett* model/actress/artist - Corpus Christi, TX USA (2009/62)
1947-0203 Stephen McHattie* actor - Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
1947-0204 John Campbell Brown* astronomer/solar physicist - Dumbarton, Scotland (2019/72)
1947-0204 Yogesh Chander Deveshwar* businessman - Lahore, British India (2019/72)
1947-0204 Dan Quayle* lawyer/politician/VP - Indianapolis, IN USA
1947-0207 Mauri Paasilinna* administrator/writer - Ii, Finland - Oh Brother
1947-0215 Rusty Hamer* actor - Tenafly, NJ USA (1990/42)
1947-0219 Tim Shadbolt* politician/ mayor - Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand
1947-0222 Pirjo Honkasalo* film director/partner of Pirkko Saisio - Helsinki, Finland
1947-0224 Edward James Olmos* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1947-0225 Esa Peltonen* hockey player - Oulu, Finland
1947-0227 Peter Strauss* actor - Croton-on-Hudson, NY USA
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1947-0303 George Pappas* bowler - Charlotte, NC USA
1947-0303 Johnny Petraglia* bowler - Brooklyn, New York USA
1947-0303 Oscar “El Maestro” Tabárez* football player/manager - Montevideo, Uruguay
1947-0305 Ottis Toole* serial killer - Jacksonville, FL USA (1996/49)
1947-0306 Rob Reiner* actor/film director - The Bronx, NY USA
1947-0307 Donna Loren* singer/actress - Boston, MA USA
1947-0308 Tom Rapp* singer/songwriter - Bottineau, ND USA (2018/70)
1947-0308 Anneli Sari* singer - Taivassalo, Finland
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1947-0311 Harry Kent* track cyclist/of Waitaha descent - Upper Hutt, New Zealand (2021/74)
1947-0312 Mitt Romney* businessman/politician - Detroit, MI USA
1947-0314 Pam Ayres* poet/ comedian/television presenter - Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, England
1947-0319 Donna Cuomo* politician/911 WTC survivor - Lawrence, MA USA
1947-0319 Glenn Close* actress - Greenwich, CT USA
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1947-0322 Leo Pusa* athlete (javelin)/coach - Sievi, Finland
1947-0323
1947-0324 Jean-Christophe Bouvet* actor/ writer/film director - Paris, France
1947-0331 Päivi Istala* journalist/ theater director - Imatra, Finland
1947-0401
1947-0402 Paquita la del Barrio* (b Francisca Viveros Barradas) singer - Alto Lucero, Veracruz, Mexico (2025/77)
1947-0402 Tua Forsström* writer/member of the Swedish Academy - Porvoo, Finland
1947-0407 Peggy Cooper Cafritz* art collector/ activist/ philanthropist - Mobile, AL USA (2018/70)
1947-0411 Peter Riegert* actor/screenwriter/director - The Bronx, NY USA
1947-0412 David Letterman* stand-up comedian/TV-host/producer - Indianapolis, IN USA
1947-0416 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* basketball player - Harlem, NY USA
1947-0416 Urpo Martikainen* TV news anchor - Helsinki, Finland
1947-0417 Charles Frank* actor - Olympia, WA USA
1947-0418 James Woods* actor - Vernal, UT USA
1947-0420 Heikki “Hector” Harma* singer - Helsinki, Finland
1947-0420 Björn Skifs* singer/television host - Vansbro, Dalarna, Sweden
1947-0421 Iggy Pop* (b James Newell Osterberg Jr.) singer/songwriter - Muskegon, MI USA
1947-0424 Josep Borrell* aeronautical engineer/economist/politician - La Pobla de Segur, Spain
1947-0425 Jeffrey DeMunn* actor - Buffalo, NY USA
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1947-0501 Ian Ridpath* science writer/broadcaster/popularizer of astronomy - Ilford, Essex, England
1947-0503 Doug Henning* magician/ escape artist/ politician - Winnipeg, MB Canada (2000/52)
1947-0504 Richard Jenkins* actor - DeKalb, IL USA
1947-0506 Alan Dale* actor - Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
1947-0510
1947-0514 Lauri Ihalainen* trade union leader/politician - Pihtipudas, Finland
1947-0515 Claude Picasso* photographer/ cinematographer/son of Pablo Picasso - Boulogne-Billancourt, France
1947-0517 Hawa Abdi* physician/ human rights activist - Mogadishu, Somalia (2020/73)
1947-0519 David Helfgott* concert pianist - Melbourne, Australia
1947-0521 Linda Laubenstein* early HIV/AIDS reseacher - Boston, MA USA (1992/45)
1947-0525 Jacki Weaver* actress - Sydney, NSW Australia
1947-0529 Steven Mulleme** mathematician - South Africa (1987)
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1947-0531 Diane Langton* actress/ singer/dancer - Somerset, England (2025/77)
1947-0601 Jonathan Pryce* actor - Carmel, Flintshire, Wales
1947-0606 Robert Englund* actor/voice actor/director - Glendale, CA USA
1947-0609 Eugene Mallove* scientist/science writer - USA (2004/56)
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1947-0615 Timo T A Mikkonen* talk show host/entrepreneur - Helsinki, Finland (2017/69)
1947-0616 Günther Kaufmann* actor /w American father - Munich, Allied-occupied Germany (2012/64)
1947-0619 Paula Koivuniemi* singer - Seinäjoki, Finland
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1947-0621 Meredith Baxter* actress/producer - South Pasadena, CA USA
1947-0621 Michael Gross* actor - Chicago, IL USA
1947-0623 Bryan Brown* actor - Sydney, Australia
1947-0624 Mick Fleetwood* drummer/co-founder of Fleetwood Mac - Redruth, Cornwall, England
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1947-0629 Brian Herbert* author (the Dune franchise, created by his father Frank Herbert) - Seattle, WA USA
1947-0630 Vladimir Petrov* hockey player/OG - Krasnogorsk, Russia, Soviet Union (2017/69)
1947-0704 Brian Clark* businessman/911 WTC survivor - Toronto, ON Canada
1947-0707 Jerzy Sarnecki* Swedish-Polish criminologist - Warzaw, Poland
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1947-0716 Alexis Herman* politician/ - Mobile, AL USA (2025/77)
1947-0717 Camilla, Queen consort* (b Shand) wife of Charles III - London, England
1947-0719 Brian May* musician (Queen) - Hampton, Middlesex, England - Who Wants To Live Forever
1947-0722 Albert Brooks* actor - Beverly Hills, CA USA
1947-0722 Mihaela Peneș* athlete (javelin/OG)/coach/athletics official - Bucharest, Romania
1947-0723 Gardner Dozois* science fiction author/editor - Salem, MA USA (2018/70)
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1947-0724 Loa Falkman* opera singer/actor - Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden
1947-0727 Serge Bouchard* anthropologist/ writer/media personality - Montreal, QC Canada (2021/73)
1947-0730 Arnold Schwarzenegger* actor/politician - Thal, Styria Austria
1947-0731 Johan Rabaeus* actor - Stockholm, Sweden
1947-0802 Marie-Laure de Decker* French war and portrait photographer - Bône, French Algeria (2023/75)
1947-0803 Temmy Shmull* Palauan politician/Governor of Peleliu - Peleliu (2025/77)
1947-0804 Moufida Tlatli* film director/ screenwriter/editor - Sidi Bou Said, French Tunisia (2021/73)
1947-0808 Ken Dryden* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/GM/author/politician - Hamilton, ON Canada
1947-0810 Ian Anderson* musician (Jethro Tull) - Dunfermline, Scotland
1947-0816 Lauri Törhönen* film director - Helsinki, Finland
1947-0819 Albert Breach*
1947-0819 Gerald McRaney* actor - Collins, MS USA
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1947-0824 Anne Archer* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1947-0829 Temple Grandin* autistic savant/animal behaviorist - Boston, MA USA
1947-0829 Bill Hammond* artist - Christchurch, New Zealand (2021/73)
1947-0829 James Hunt* racing driver/WC - Belmont, Surrey, England (1993/45)
1947-0830 Rauli “Badding” Somerjoki* singer/songwriter - Somero, Finland (1987/39)
1947-0831 Kati Nappa (b Heli Katriina Punta) household teacher/television cook - Finland (2022/74)
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1947-0903 Mario Draghi* economist/politician/PM - Rome, Italy
1947-0905 John R. “Jack” Trimarco* FBI agent/polygraph examiner - Newark, NJ USA (2018/70) OB
1947-0909 Antony Penrose* photographer/son of the war photographer Lee Miller - London, England
1947-0912 Diana Lebacs* Curaçaoan educator/writer of children’s literature - Willemstad, Territory of Curaçao, Netherlands (2022/74)
1947-0914 Sam Neill* actor/to New Zealand at age 6 - Omagh Co., Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1947-0914 Jerzy Popieluszko* Roman Catholic priest associated with Solidarity/ murdered and beatified - Okopy, Poland (1984/37)
1947-0919 Tuija Piepponen* actress/comedian/ drama teacher - Valkeakoski, Finland
1947-0921 Stephen King* author - Portland, ME USA
1947-0922 Mike Sexton* poker player/commentator - Shelbyville, IN USA (2020/72)
1947-0924 Erik Hivju* actor/ father of Kristofer Hivju - Olso, Norway
1947-0927 Dick Advocaat* football player/coach - The Hague, Netherlands
1947-0927 Meat Loaf* (b Marvin Lee Aday) singer/actor - Dallas, TX USA (2022/74)
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1947-1001 Stephen Collins* actor/writer - Des Moines, IA USA
1947-1003 John Perry Barlow* poet/essayist/activist - Sublette County, WY USA (2018/70)
1947-1003 Fred DeLuca* businessman/ co-founder of Subway - New York City, NY USA (2015/67)
1947-1004 Elena Fatalibekova* chess player/Grand Master - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union
1947-1004 Stefan Persson* businessman(H&M)/son of the founder - Stockholm, Sweden
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1947-1006 Mauri Pekkarinen* politician - Kinnula, Finland
1947-1006 John A. Rizzo* attorney/CIA lawyer - Boston, MA USA (2021/73)
1947-1008 Emiel Puttemans* long-distance runner - Vossem, Belgium
1947-1009 Tony Zappone* freelance photographer/journalist/news correspondent - Tampa, FL USA
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1947-1016 Bob Weir* musician/Grateful Dead - San Francisco, CA USA
1947-1018 James Robert Baker* author - Long Beach, CA USA (1997/50)
1947-1018 Juha Hernesniemi* neurosurgeon - Kannus, Finland (2023/75)
1947-1024 Kevin Kline* actor - St. Louis, MO USA
1947-1026 Hillary Rodham Clinton* politician - Chicago, IL USA
1947-1027 Terry A. Anderson* journalist/hostage - Lorain, OH USA
1947-1027 Angus MacInnes* actor - Windsor, ON Canada
1947-1028 Helena Takalo* cross-country skier/OG - Nivala, Finland
1947-1029 Richard Dreyfuss* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA
1947-1030 Sven Melander* journalist/television host/actor - Malmö, Sweden (2022/74)
1947-1031 Deidre Hall* actress (Days of Our Lives) - Milwaukee, WI USA
1947-1031 Jennifer Hosten* Miss World 1970/civil servant/psychotherapist - St. George’s, Granada
1947-1031 Frank Shorter* American athlete (long-distance runner)/OG - Munich, Germany
1947-1101 Jim Steinman* composer/ lyricist/record producer - New York City, NY USA
1947-1101 Bob Weston* guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) - Plymouth, Devon, England (2012/64)
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1947-1105 Matti Esko* singer - Oulu, Finland
1947-1105 Tarja Teräsvuori* painter - Helsinki, Finland
1947-1109 Robert David Hall* actor - East Orange, NJ USA
1947-1113 Joe Mantegna* actor/producer/director - Chicago, IL USA
1947-1115 Vidya Sinha* actress - Bombay, India (2019/71)
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1947-1203 Tommy Tabermann* poet/media personality - Ekenäs, Finland (2010/62)
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1947-1207 Arto Koivisto* cross-country skier/OG - Isojoki, Finland
1947-1207 Garry Unger* hockey player - Calgary, AB Canada
1947-1208 Thomas R. Cech* chemist/N - Chicago, IL USA
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1947-1216 Ben Cross* actor - London, England (2020/72)
1947-1217 Wes Studi* Native American actor/producer - Nofire Hollow, Cherokee County, OK USA
1947-1218 Judith Heumann* disability rights activist/podcaster - Brooklyn, NY USA (2023/75)
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1947-1221 Hans-Joachim Klein* German terrorist - Frankfurt-am-Main, American occupation zone of Germany (2022/74)
1947-1226 Mariella Mehr* novelist/ playwright/poet - Zürich, Switzerland (2022/74)
1947-1229 Ted Danson* actor - San Diego, CA USA
1947-1229 Terry Manning* musician/ recording engineer/record producer - Oklahoma City, OK USA (2025/77)
1947-1229 Bill Schmidt* athlete (javelin/OB)/sports marketing officer - Southview, PA USA
1947-1231 Tim Matheson* actor - Glendale, CA USA
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