List of Famous people who died in 1947

Winter Hall was a New Zealand actor of the silent era who later appeared in sound films. He performed in 127 films between 1916 and 1938. Prior to that, he had a career as a stage actor in Australia and the United States. In sound films, he was frequently typecast as a clergyman. Hall was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and died in Los Angeles, California. Hall was married to fellow-New Zealander, Katherine Young, a concert pianist. Their Australian-born son, Desmond Winter Hall, was a science fiction writer, magazine editor, and the author of I Give You Oscar Wilde (1965), a novel about the nineteenth century dramatist and wit.

Frederick Frost Blackman FRS was a British plant physiologist.

Adolf Erbslöh was a German Expressionist painter; one of the founders of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München.

Arthur Rankin was an American film actor.

Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar, popularly known as Sahityasamrat Tatyasaheb Kelkar, was a lawyer from Miraj as well as a dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet, biographer, critic, historian, writer on philosophical and political themes. He was born in Chitpavan Brahmin family. He was a literary and political figure in Maharashtra, India, and also both editor and trustee of the newspaper Kesari. He served as editor twice when Tilak was imprisoned in 1897 and 1908.

Jack J. Clark was an American director and actor of the early motion picture industry.

Lynn Joseph Frazier was a politician from North Dakota, serving as a U.S. Senator from 1923 to 1941 and the 12th Governor of North Dakota from 1917 until being recalled in 1921.