List of Famous people who died at 47

Colonel Yury Zacharanka was the Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician abducted and probably killed in 1999.

John William Minton was an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name, Big John Studd. Studd is best known for his appearances with the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Emma Roca Rodríguez was a Spanish Catalan ski mountaineer.

James Alexander Malcolm Caldwell was a British academic and a prolific Marxist writer. He was a consistent critic of American foreign policy, a campaigner for Asian communist and socialist movements and a supporter of the Khmer Rouge. Caldwell was murdered under mysterious circumstances a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia.

David Wayne was an American singer of the heavy metal bands Metal Church, Reverend and Wayne.

Steven Scott Gubser was a professor of physics at Princeton University. His research focused on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He was a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.

Vasily Kudinov was a Russian handball player, born in Ilyinka, Astrakhan Oblast, Russian SFSR.

Richard McCord Long was an American actor best known for his leading roles in three ABC television series, including The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, and Bourbon Street Beat. He was also a series regular on ABC's 77 Sunset Strip during the 1961–1962 season.

Angelica Cob-Baehler was a Costa Rican American music industry executive and television producer. The head of music operations at The Firm, and the chief marketing officer for the basketball league Big 3, she previously held senior positions at Columbia Records, EMI and Epic.

Bonnie Law was a Hong Kong actress and singer. She was best known for her role in the 1984 Hong Kong comedic film, Happy Ghost, opposite Raymond Wong. Happy Ghost marked her film debut at the age of 15. Law and several of her co-stars, including Rachel Lee, May Lo and Fennie Yuen became known as the "Happy Girls" because of their roles in the comedy.