List of Famous people who died at 47

Henry Williams, nicknamed, "Hi-Fly", was an American professional basketball player.

Valérie Suzanne Rose Lang was a French actress of stage, screen and television. She was educated at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Paris under the tutelage of Jean-Pierre Vincent. Lang partook in the productions as an associate member of the Nordey troupe at the Théâtre des Amandiers and had roles in such plays as The Triumph of Love, Venus in Furs, A Flea in Her Ear, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Tartuffe. She co-directed the Théâtre Gérard Philipe between 1998 and 2001 and oversaw the Théâtre citoyen project. Lang was in the film and television productions of Les Misérables, Father of My Children, Neuilly Yo Mama!, Accomplices, The Beautiful Person and Le Divorce. She was an unsuccessful candidate to be deputy for Jean-Louis Ragot for the Democratic Movement political party in the 2007 French legislative election.

Deborah Shiu-lan Jin was an American physicist and fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Professor Adjunct, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; and a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado.

Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström (1928–1976) was a Swedish multimedia artist.