List of Famous people who died in 1947

Henry Clarence Baldridge was an American politician. A Republican, he was the 14th governor of Idaho, serving from 1927 until 1931.

Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo was a Finnish lieutenant general who led troops in the Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War. He also saw action as a part of the Finnish volunteer "Jägerbattalion 27" fighting on the German side in World War I.

Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS was a British sculptor. She was the wife of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the mother of Sir Peter Scott, the painter and ornithologist. By her second marriage, to Edward Hilton Young, she became Baroness Kennet, and mother to the writer and politician Wayland Hilton Young.

Elisabeth Charlotte von Gutmann was Princess consort of Liechtenstein from 1929 to 1938 as the wife of Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein.

Luigi Barzini Sr. was an Italian journalist and war correspondent.

James Victor Uspensky was a Russian and American mathematician notable for writing Theory of Equations.

Walter DeLeon was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 69 films that were released between 1921 and 1953, and acted in one film. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in Los Angeles, California.

William B. Davidson was an American film actor.