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== Events ==
* [[April 15]] – [[Jackie Robinson]], an African-American, plays first base for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] major-league [[baseball]] team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
* [[June 26]] - [[Sindh]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[June 29]] - [[Balochistan (Pakistan)]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 2]] - [[North-West Frontier Province]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 19]] - [[Punjab (Pakistan)]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 22]] – The former [[East Bengal]] province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the [[Two-nation theory]]. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
* [[August 14]] – [[Pakistan]] is granted freedom from [[Britain]], end of the [[British Raj]].
* [[August 15]] – [[India]] gains independence from [[Britain]].
== Births ==
* [[January 1]] - [[Jon Corzine]], American politician
* [[January 8]] – [[David Bowie]], British singer
* [[March 8]] – [[Carole Bayer Sager]], American actress and singer
* [[March 24]] - [[Alan Sugar]], British [[businessman]]
* [[March 24]] - [[Christine Gregoire]], American politician
* [[March 25]] – [[Elton John]], British singer
* [[April 16]] - [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[April 18]] - [[James Woods]], American actor
* [[May 8]] - [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan]], British politician
* [[July 9]] - [[O. J. Simpson]], American football player
* [[July 17]] - [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall]]
* [[July 30]] - [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former [[Governor]] of [[California]]
* [[July 31]] - [[Richard Griffiths]], British actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Carol Moseley Braun]], American jurist
* [[September 30]] - [[Marc Bolan]], British musician (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 4]] - [[Ann Widdecombe]], British politician
* [[October 26]] – [[Hillary Clinton]], former [[First Lady of the United States]] and [[United States Secretary of State]]
* [[November 10]] - [[Bachir Gemayel]], Lebanese politician (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Greg Lake]], American musician
* [[December 8]] – [[Gregg Allman]], American rock musician
== Deaths ==
* [[Emil J. Brach]], American candy manufacturer (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Al Capone]], American gangster (b. [[1899]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Victor Lustig]], Austrian-born con artist (b. [[1890]])
* [[March 18]] – [[William C. Durant]], American automobile pioneer (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Prudence Heward]], Canadian painter (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Victor Goldschmidt]], Swiss geochemist (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Arthur Machen]], Welsh-born writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 1]] – King [[George II of Greece]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Henry Ford]], American automobile manufacturer (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 20]] – King [[Christian X of Denmark]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Willa Cather]], American novelist (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]], American department store magnate (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Frederick Hopkins]], English biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 17]] – [[George William Forbes]], [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]]
* [[May 20]] – [[Philipp Lenard]], Austrian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1862]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Charles Ferdinand Ramuz|C. F. Ramuz]], Swiss writer (b. [[1878]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Aung San]], Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Joseph Cook]], sixth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Max Planck]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Léon-Paul Fargue]], French writer (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Aleister Crowley]], British occultist (b. [[1875]])
* December 1 – [[G. H. Hardy]], British mathematician (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Tristan Bernard]], French writer and lawyer (b. [[1866]])
* December 7 – [[Nicholas M. Butler]], American president of Columbia University, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[December 17]] – [[J. N. Brønsted]], Danish chemist (b. [[1879]])
== Movies released ==
* ''Hue and Cry''
== New books ==
* ''[[The Loved One]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
* ''[[Bright November]]'' – [[Kingsley Amis]]' first collection of poems
* ''[[Country Place]]'' – [[Ann Lane Petty]]
* ''[[Creatures of Circumstance]]'' – [[W. Somerset Maugham]]
* ''[[The Cold War (book)|The Cold War]]'' – [[Walter Lippmann]]
* ''[[Dark Carnival]]'' – [[Ray Bradbury]]'s first book
* ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' – [[Theodor Adorno]] and [[Max Horkheimer]]
* ''[[Doktor Faustus|Doctor Faustus]]'' – [[Thomas Mann]]
* ''[[Eyes of a Blue Dog]]'' – [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
* ''[[Froth on the Daydream]]'' – [[Boris Vian]]
* ''[[God Is For White Folks]]'' – [[Thomas Will]]
* ''[[Goodnight Moon]]'' – [[Margaret Wise Brown]]
* ''[[Great Northern?]]'' – [[Arthur Ransome]]
* ''[[A High Wind Rising]]'' – [[Elsie Singmaster]]
* ''[[I, the Jury]]'' – [[Mickey Spillane]]
* ''[[Jeux interdits|Les Jeux Inconnus]]'' – [[François Boyer]]
* ''[[Knock On Any Door]]'' – [[Willard Motley]]
* ''[[Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool]]'' – [[George Orwell]]
* ''[[Masquerade, a Historical Novel]]'' – [[Oscar Micheaux]]
* ''[[Miss Hickory]]'' – [[Carolyn Sherwin Bailey]]
* ''[[The Moneyman]]'' – [[Thomas B. Costain]]
* ''[[Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation]]'' – [[Samuel Putnam]]
* ''[[The Path to the Nest of Spiders]]'' – [[Italo Calvino]]
* ''[[The Pearl]]'' – [[John Steinbeck]]
* ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]
* ''[[The Plague]]'' (''La Peste'') – [[Albert Camus]]
* ''[[Prince of Foxes]]'' – [[Samuel Shellabarger]]
* ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]'' – [[Robert A. Heinlein]]
* ''[[Saggy Baggy Elephant]]'' – [[Kathryn Jackson]] and [[Byron Jackson]]
* ''[[Snow Country]]'' – [[Yasunari Kawabata]]
* ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'' – [[James A. Michener]]
* ''Tarzan and the Foreign Legion'' – [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
* ''[[Tea with Mrs Goodman]]'' – [[Philip Toynbee]]
* ''[[Theatre (Maugham novel)|Theatre]]'' – [[W. Somerset Maugham]]
* ''[[Under the Volcano]]'' – [[Malcolm Lowry]]
* ''[[Who Has Seen the Wind?]] '' – [[W.O. Mitchell]]
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] won by [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]], [[Gerty Cori]] and [[Bernardo Houssay]]
{{Commonscat|1947}}
[[Category:1947| ]]
== Events ==
* [[April 15]] – [[Jackie Robinson]], an African-American, plays first base for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] major-league [[baseball]] team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
* [[June 26]] - [[Sindh]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[June 29]] - [[Balochistan (Pakistan)]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 2]] - [[North-West Frontier Province]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 19]] - [[Punjab (Pakistan)]] province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
* [[July 22]] – The former [[East Bengal]] province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the [[Two-nation theory]]. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
* [[August 14]] – [[Pakistan]] is granted freedom from [[Britain]], end of the [[British Raj]].
* [[August 15]] – [[India]] gains independence from [[Britain]].
== Births ==
* [[January 1]] - [[Jon Corzine]], American politician
* [[January 8]] – [[David Bowie]], British singer
* [[March 8]] – [[Carole Bayer Sager]], American actress and singer
* [[March 24]] - [[Alan Sugar]], British [[businessman]]
* [[March 24]] - [[Christine Gregoire]], American politician
* [[March 25]] – [[Elton John]], British singer
* [[April 16]] - [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[April 18]] - [[James Woods]], American actor
* [[May 8]] - [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan]], British politician
* [[July 9]] - [[O. J. Simpson]], American football player
* [[July 17]] - [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall]]
* [[July 30]] - [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former [[Governor]] of [[California]]
* [[July 31]] - [[Richard Griffiths]], British actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Carol Moseley Braun]], American jurist
* [[September 30]] - [[Marc Bolan]], British musician (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 4]] - [[Ann Widdecombe]], British politician
* [[October 26]] – [[Hillary Clinton]], former [[First Lady of the United States]] and [[United States Secretary of State]]
* [[November 10]] - [[Bachir Gemayel]], Lebanese politician (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Greg Lake]], American musician
* [[December 8]] – [[Gregg Allman]], American rock musician
== Deaths ==
* [[Emil J. Brach]], American candy manufacturer (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Al Capone]], American gangster (b. [[1899]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Victor Lustig]], Austrian-born con artist (b. [[1890]])
* [[March 18]] – [[William C. Durant]], American automobile pioneer (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Prudence Heward]], Canadian painter (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Victor Goldschmidt]], Swiss geochemist (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Arthur Machen]], Welsh-born writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 1]] – King [[George II of Greece]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Henry Ford]], American automobile manufacturer (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 20]] – King [[Christian X of Denmark]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Willa Cather]], American novelist (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]], American department store magnate (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Frederick Hopkins]], English biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 17]] – [[George William Forbes]], [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]]
* [[May 20]] – [[Philipp Lenard]], Austrian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1862]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Charles Ferdinand Ramuz|C. F. Ramuz]], Swiss writer (b. [[1878]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Aung San]], Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Joseph Cook]], sixth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Max Planck]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Léon-Paul Fargue]], French writer (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Aleister Crowley]], British occultist (b. [[1875]])
* December 1 – [[G. H. Hardy]], British mathematician (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Tristan Bernard]], French writer and lawyer (b. [[1866]])
* December 7 – [[Nicholas M. Butler]], American president of Columbia University, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[December 17]] – [[J. N. Brønsted]], Danish chemist (b. [[1879]])
== Movies released ==
* ''Hue and Cry''
== New books ==
* ''[[The Loved One]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
* ''[[Bright November]]'' – [[Kingsley Amis]]' first collection of poems
* ''[[Country Place]]'' – [[Ann Lane Petty]]
* ''[[Creatures of Circumstance]]'' – [[W. Somerset Maugham]]
* ''[[The Cold War (book)|The Cold War]]'' – [[Walter Lippmann]]
* ''[[Dark Carnival]]'' – [[Ray Bradbury]]'s first book
* ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' – [[Theodor Adorno]] and [[Max Horkheimer]]
* ''[[Doktor Faustus|Doctor Faustus]]'' – [[Thomas Mann]]
* ''[[Eyes of a Blue Dog]]'' – [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
* ''[[Froth on the Daydream]]'' – [[Boris Vian]]
* ''[[God Is For White Folks]]'' – [[Thomas Will]]
* ''[[Goodnight Moon]]'' – [[Margaret Wise Brown]]
* ''[[Great Northern?]]'' – [[Arthur Ransome]]
* ''[[A High Wind Rising]]'' – [[Elsie Singmaster]]
* ''[[I, the Jury]]'' – [[Mickey Spillane]]
* ''[[Jeux interdits|Les Jeux Inconnus]]'' – [[François Boyer]]
* ''[[Knock On Any Door]]'' – [[Willard Motley]]
* ''[[Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool]]'' – [[George Orwell]]
* ''[[Masquerade, a Historical Novel]]'' – [[Oscar Micheaux]]
* ''[[Miss Hickory]]'' – [[Carolyn Sherwin Bailey]]
* ''[[The Moneyman]]'' – [[Thomas B. Costain]]
* ''[[Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation]]'' – [[Samuel Putnam]]
* ''[[The Path to the Nest of Spiders]]'' – [[Italo Calvino]]
* ''[[The Pearl]]'' – [[John Steinbeck]]
* ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]
* ''[[The Plague]]'' (''La Peste'') – [[Albert Camus]]
* ''[[Prince of Foxes]]'' – [[Samuel Shellabarger]]
* ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]'' – [[Robert A. Heinlein]]
* ''[[Saggy Baggy Elephant]]'' – [[Kathryn Jackson]] and [[Byron Jackson]]
* ''[[Snow Country]]'' – [[Yasunari Kawabata]]
* ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'' – [[James A. Michener]]
* ''Tarzan and the Foreign Legion'' – [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
* ''[[Tea with Mrs Goodman]]'' – [[Philip Toynbee]]
* ''[[Theatre (Maugham novel)|Theatre]]'' – [[W. Somerset Maugham]]
* ''[[Under the Volcano]]'' – [[Malcolm Lowry]]
* ''[[Who Has Seen the Wind?]] '' – [[W.O. Mitchell]]
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] won by [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]], [[Gerty Cori]] and [[Bernardo Houssay]]
{{Commonscat|1947}}
[[Category:1947| ]]