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Deaths on the year of 1947 in history

Deaths
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04 Jan 1947 Forrest Reid: Irish Author / critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71
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05 Jan 1947 Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (b. 1873)
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09 Jan 1947 Lambertus Zijl: Sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80
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09 Jan 1947 Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
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11 Jan 1947 Eva Tanguay, Canadian-American singer and actress (b. 1879)
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12 Jan 1947 Jonas Cohn German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77
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13 Jan 1947 Veit Valentin German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
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17 Jan 1947 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883)
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17 Jan 1947 Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general (b. 1869)
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20 Jan 1947 Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
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23 Jan 1947 Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
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23 Jan 1947 Roy Park cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
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24 Jan 1947 Felix Timmermans writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60
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25 Jan 1947 Al Capone, American mob boss (b. 1899)
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26 Jan 1947 Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (b. 1898)
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26 Jan 1947 Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (b. 1906)
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26 Jan 1947 Gustav Adolf crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
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28 Jan 1947 Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
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29 Jan 1947 Fred Barratt cricket (5 wickets at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
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30 Jan 1947 Frederick Blackman, British plant physiologist (b. 1866)
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30 Jan 1947 Frederick F Blackman English botanist, dies at 80
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03 Feb 1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg: Austrian soprano / director, dies at 74
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03 Feb 1947 Marc A "Pete" Mitscher: US Lieutenant Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58), dies at 60
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05 Feb 1947 Ganzefles: Dutch Nazi spy / Jews hunter, executed
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05 Feb 1947 Hans Fallada: Writer, dies at 53
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06 Feb 1947 Albert JM Bakker: Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82
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06 Feb 1947 Luigi Russolo: Composer, dies at 61
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08 Feb 1947 Ernest Samuel Williams: Composer, dies at 65
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11 Feb 1947 Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
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12 Feb 1947 Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
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12 Feb 1947 Sidney Toler actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72
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25 Feb 1947 Friedrich Paschen German physicist, dies at 82
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26 Feb 1947 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
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26 Feb 1947 Ben Webster actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
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27 Feb 1947 Mackinnon of Mackinnon cricketer (Tests England vs Australia 1879), dies at 89
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01 Mar 1947 J Boogaard: Nazi collaborator, executed
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02 Mar 1947 Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
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05 Mar 1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
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06 Mar 1947 Ludwig Weber: Composer, dies at 55
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09 Mar 1947 Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1896)
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11 Mar 1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, dies at 45
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12 Mar 1947 Winston Churchill, American author and playwright (b. 1871)
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18 Mar 1947 William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
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19 Mar 1947 Willem F J Pijper Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
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20 Mar 1947 Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
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23 Mar 1947 Archduchess Louise of Austria (b. 1870)
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27 Mar 1947 Charlie Smith, South African cricketer (b. 1872)
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27 Mar 1947 Sydney Howard Smith, English tennis and badminton player (b. 1872)
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27 Mar 1947 Edith Craig, English actress, director, producer, and fashion designer (b. 1869)
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27 Mar 1947 Charles Smith cricketer (batted for South Africa in 1902-03), dies
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28 Mar 1947 Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
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28 Mar 1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer, dies at 57
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01 Apr 1947 George II of Greece (b. 1890)
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06 Apr 1947 Vaclav Kapral: Composer, dies at 58
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06 Apr 1947 Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
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07 Apr 1947 Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
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08 Apr 1947 Henry Ford: US industrialist (Ford cars)
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08 Apr 1947 Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
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09 Apr 1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel: Composer, dies at 43
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10 Apr 1947 Charles Nordhoff, English-American lieutenant and author (b. 1887)
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11 Apr 1947 Louise Peete, American murderer (b. 1880)
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12 Apr 1947 Christian F L Leipoldt South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies
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15 Apr 1947 Wolstenholme rocker, dies
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16 Apr 1947 Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900)
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18 Apr 1947 Benny Leonard lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), dies at 51
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20 Apr 1947 Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
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24 Apr 1947 Willa Cather, American author and poet (b. 1873)
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24 Apr 1947 Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
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29 Apr 1947 Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)
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01 May 1947 Sanner: Leader of Norger blood bath, executed
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02 May 1947 Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
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05 May 1947 Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
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08 May 1947 Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)
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11 May 1947 Ture Rangstrom: Composer, dies at 62
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11 May 1947 Else JT Rangstr
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13 May 1947 Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
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14 May 1947 John Ray Sinnock US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
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16 May 1947 Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
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16 May 1947 Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
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17 May 1947 George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
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18 May 1947 Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
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20 May 1947 Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
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20 May 1947 Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890)
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22 May 1947 Edwin Hedley, American rower (b. 1864)
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23 May 1947 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet (b. 1878)
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23 May 1947 C F Ramuz writer, dies at 68
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27 May 1947 Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885)
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28 May 1947 August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (b. 1907)
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30 May 1947 Georg Johannes von Trapp, Croatian-Austrian captain (b. 1880)
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30 May 1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson composer, dies at 72
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31 May 1947 Adrienne Ames actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
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31 May 1947 Henri G Casadesus Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
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01 Jun 1947 Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, singer, and director (b. 1868)
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02 Jun 1947 Hermann Darewsky: Composer, dies at 64
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02 Jun 1947 John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (b. 1867)
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05 Jun 1947 Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884)
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06 Jun 1947 James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
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09 Jun 1947 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz: President of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
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10 Jun 1947 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1852)
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12 Jun 1947 Jazeps Medins: Composer, dies at 70
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16 Jun 1947 Jean-Francois Capart: Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
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18 Jun 1947 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
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19 Jun 1947 Willem H Fly: Typographer / co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
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20 Jun 1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel: Gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
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20 Jun 1947 Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
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20 Jun 1947 Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
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26 Jun 1947 Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
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28 Jun 1947 Stanislav K Neumann: Czech Poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
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01 Jul 1947 Clarence Lucas: Composer, dies at 80
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06 Jul 1947 Adolfo Muller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (b. 1862)
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09 Jul 1947 Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
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12 Jul 1947 Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
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15 Jul 1947 Henry Kolker: Dies at 76
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15 Jul 1947 Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
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17 Jul 1947 Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish diplomat in WWII (saved Jews), dies at 34
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18 Jul 1947 Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
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18 Jul 1947 Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
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19 Jul 1947 U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
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19 Jul 1947 Aung San, Burmese general and politician (b. 1915)
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19 Jul 1947 Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (b. 1886)
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24 Jul 1947 Ernest Austin: Composer, dies at 72
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30 Jul 1947 Joseph Cook, English-Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
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05 Aug 1947 Joannes D M Cornelissen: Historian (Johann de White)
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08 Aug 1947 Anton Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
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13 Aug 1947 Johan H T Norlind: Swedish musicologist
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19 Aug 1947 Ernst Laqueur: Dut chemist / psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
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20 Aug 1947 Franz VM Cumont: Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
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21 Aug 1947 Ettore Bugatti: Italian / French car manufacturer
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25 Aug 1947 Clark Wissler: US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76
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29 Aug 1947 Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
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30 Aug 1947 Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
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01 Sep 1947 Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
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06 Sep 1947 Paul Guthnick: German astronomer, dies at 76
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11 Sep 1947 Alice Keppel, Scottish mistress of Edward VII (b. 1868)
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12 Sep 1947 Harry Rowe Shelley: Composer, dies at 89
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20 Sep 1947 Fiorello H. La Guardia, American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
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20 Sep 1947 Jantina Tammes, Dutch plant biologist (b. 1871)
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20 Sep 1947 Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R-NYC), dies
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21 Sep 1947 Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
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23 Sep 1947 Nikola Petkov: Leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
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24 Sep 1947 Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
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26 Sep 1947 Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886)
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28 Sep 1947 Francisco Santiago: Composer, dies at 58
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28 Sep 1947 William B Davidson
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02 Oct 1947 P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
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04 Oct 1947 Max KEL Planck: German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918)
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04 Oct 1947 Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
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06 Oct 1947 Leevi Antti Madetoya: Composer, dies at 60
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06 Oct 1947 Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
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13 Oct 1947 Sydney Webb: England, writer / husband of Beatrice Potter
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20 Oct 1947 Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer (b. 1866)
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26 Oct 1947 Edwin Sidney Savage, English cleric (b. 1862)
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27 Oct 1947 William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
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29 Oct 1947 Frances Cleveland Preston: Former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
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29 Oct 1947 Theodore Samuel Holland: Composer, dies at 69
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29 Oct 1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, American wife of Grover Cleveland, 23rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1864)
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01 Nov 1947 Man o' War, American race horse (b. 1917)
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06 Nov 1947 Kristian Elster: Norwegian Author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
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11 Nov 1947 Martin Dibelius: German Theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
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12 Nov 1947 Emmuska Orczy: British Author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
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17 Nov 1947 Ricarda Huch: Writer, dies at 83
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28 Nov 1947 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc: WWII hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44
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28 Nov 1947 Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
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30 Nov 1947 Earnest Lubitsch: Actor / director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka)
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01 Dec 1947 Aleister Edward S Crowley: British occultist, dies at 72
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01 Dec 1947 Hardy: Mathematician
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01 Dec 1947 Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
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01 Dec 1947 G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
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07 Dec 1947 Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
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07 Dec 1947 Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
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13 Dec 1947 Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
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13 Dec 1947 Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
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14 Dec 1947 Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
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14 Dec 1947 Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1864)
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14 Dec 1947 Franz Zorell German Roman Catholic lexicographer, dies at 84
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15 Dec 1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
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17 Dec 1947 Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
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20 Dec 1947 St-Georges de Bouch
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24 Dec 1947 Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1875)
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25 Dec 1947 Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
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28 Dec 1947 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
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29 Dec 1947 Joseph Cuvelier Belgian historian/general, dies at 78
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30 Dec 1947 Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
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30 Dec 1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
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30 Dec 1947 Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58
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31 Dec 1947 Franz X Ritter von Epp German general (SW Africa), dies at 79
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