List of Famous people who died in 1947

Constantin Sănătescu was a Romanian general and statesman who served as the 44th Prime Minister of Romania after the 23 August 1944 coup, through which Romania left the Axis Powers and joined the Allies.

Elena Lunda was an Italian actress. She was the daughter of Vittorio Lunda Gondola (Gundulić) from Ragusa/Dubrovnik. She appeared in 35 films between 1919 and 1928.

Gino Sensani (1888–1947) was an Italian costume designer who worked on over eighty films during his career.

Sir Joseph Barcroft was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood.

Guy Coombs was an American stage and screen actor who had a prolific career during the silent era. He was born in Washington, D. C. and died in Los Angeles, California. He left films in 1922 to work in real-estate in Florida.

Francesc Cambó i Batlle was a conservative Spanish politician from Catalonia, founder and leader of the autonomist party Lliga Regionalista. He was a minister in several Spanish governments. He supported a number of artistic and cultural endeavours, especially, the translation of Greek and Latin classical texts to Catalan.

Qazi Muhammad was an Iranian Kurdish separatist leader who founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and headed the short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of Kurdistan. He was hanged by the Pahlavi dynasty for treason in 1947.

Tristan Bernard was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was the titular Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 28 February 1942 to 4 October 1947 as wife of Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, the titular Grand Duke.