List of Famous people who died in 1947

Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, was a British Army officer who, following an extensive British Imperial military career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, commanded the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.

Brandon Hurst was an English stage and film actor.

Heinrich Thyssen, after 22 June 1907 Heinrich Freiherr Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, was a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector.

Bert Kalmar was an American lyricist, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Max Berg was a German architect and urban planner.

Martha Ellen Young Truman was the mother of U.S. president Harry Truman, the paternal grandmother of Margaret Truman, and the mother-in-law of Bess Truman.

Mavis Constance Tate, baptised Maybird Hogg, was a British Conservative politician and campaigner for British women's rights.

Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt KP MVO was an Irish peer.

Erich Hecke was a German mathematician. He obtained his doctorate in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students.

Wilhelm Uhde was a German art collector, dealer, author and critic, an early collector of modernist painting, and a significant figure in the career of Henri Rousseau.