1947 Deaths
- Capone, Al (25 January)
- Cather, Willa (24 April)
- Cleveland, Frances Folsom (29 October)
- Crowley, Aleister (1 December)
- Ford, Henry (7 April)
- La Guardia, Fiorello (20 September)
- Planck, Max (4 October)
- Seabiscuit (17 May)
- Short, Elizabeth
- Whitehead, Alfred North (30 December)
