List of Famous people who died in 1947

Howard Mason Gore was an American politician. He served as the 8th Secretary of Agriculture from 1924 to 1925, during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge, and he served as 17th Governor of West Virginia from 1925 to 1929.

Alexander Löhr was an Austrian Air Force commander during the 1930s and, after the annexation of Austria, he was a Luftwaffe commander. Löhr served in the Luftwaffe during World War II, rising to commander of Army Group E and then to commander-in-chief in Southeast Europe.

Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas † was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church 1900–1947.

Léonce Rosenberg was an art historian, art collector, publisher and one of the most influential French art dealers of the 20th century. The son of an antique dealer Alexander Rosenberg and brother of the gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, Léonce, a prominent gallery owner in Paris at the end of World War I, would become one of the world's major dealers of Modern art.

Jean-Richard Bloch was a French critic, novelist and playwright.

Ernst Simmel was a German-American neurologist and psychoanalyst.

Emil Gheorghe Racoviță was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer.

John Ferguson "Jack" Page was a British figure skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was born in Brooklands, Sale, Manchester, and died in Manchester. In 1924 he finished fifth in the singles event. In the pairs competition he and his partner Ethel Muckelt finished fourth. Four years later he finished ninth in the singles event at the St. Moritz Games and with his partner Ethel Muckelt he finished seventh in the pairs competition.

Paul Huldschinsky was a German-Jewish architect and set decorator. After imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for California. He won an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for the film Gaslight.