List of Famous people who died in 1947

Sten Gustaf Fredrik Troil Ramel was a Swedish baron, governor, diplomat and officer. He was the Governor of Malmöhus County from 1925 to 1938.

Antonius Hilfrich was a German priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg, Germany.

Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, was a British Army general and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924. He was Secretary of State for War for the two years prior to the First World War, before being forced to resign as a result of the Curragh Incident. As General Jack Seely, he led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his war horse Warrior in March 1918. Seely was a great friend of Winston Churchill and the only former cabinet minister to go to the front in 1914 and still be there four years later.

Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, widowed Princess of Schönaich-Carolath, was the second wife of Wilhelm II (1859–1941). They were married in 1922, four years after he abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia.

Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt was the last ruler of the Duchy of Anhalt.

Archibald Hill Carmichael was an American Democratic politician who represented Alabama's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from November 1933 to January 1937.

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, OMI was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.