List of Famous people who died in 1947

Rudolf Buttmann was a German politician and diplomat. He was a department minister in the Reich Ministry of the Interior at the time of the signing of the Reichskonkordat.

• From 1935 to 1945 he was director general of the Bavarian State Library.

Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo was a German city planner, architect and painter.

Walter Samuel Goodland was an American politician and the 31st Governor of Wisconsin. He was a Republican. He attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Harry Frank was a German actor.

Leonardo Argüello Barreto was a Nicaraguan politician who, after several attempts, became the President of Nicaragua in 1947. He served from 1 May to 27 May 1947. His older brother was the noted poet Santiago Arguello Barreto.

George Curry was a U.S. military officer and politician. He was governor of New Mexico Territory from 1907 to 1910, and once it became a state he represented it in the 62nd United States Congress. Curry County, New Mexico is named in his honor.

Johannes Haller was a Baltic German medievalist and teacher at the universities of Tübingen, Marburg and Giessen.

Robert René ('René') Kuczynski (1876–1947) was a leftwing German economist and demographer and is said to be one of the founders of modern vital statistics.

Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.