List of Famous people who died in 1947

Gustav Stolper was an Austrian-German economist, economics journalist and politician.

Julio Castellanos González was a Mexican painter and engraver.

Cecil Guy Ridley CBE was an English barrister and Master in Lunacy.

John Edmund Sharrock Moore ARCS was an English biologist, best known for being co-publisher of the term meiosis and leading two expeditions to Tanganyika.

Harold Hale was an Australian cricketer.

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British Conservative statesman who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as Prime Minister on three occasions.

Jun Ishiwara or Atsushi Ishihara was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for his works on the electronic theory of metals, the theory of relativity and quantum theory. Being the only Japanese scientist who made an original contribution to the old quantum theory, in 1915, independently of other scientists, he formulated quantization rules for systems with several degrees of freedom.

Jan Malypetr was a Czechoslovak politician.

Walter Donaldson was an American prolific popular songwriter and publishing company founder, composing many hit songs of the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, that have become standards and form part of the Great American Songbook.