Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1947

Harukichi Hyakutake fue un general del Ejército Imperial Japonés durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A veces es referido como Haruyoshi Hyakutake o Seikichi Hyakutake. Dos de sus hermanos mayores fueron almirantes de la Armada Imperial Japonesa.

Juan Tepano Rano ʻa Veri ʻAmo was a Rapa Nui leader of Easter Island. He served as an informant for Euro-American scholars on the culture and history of the island.

William Crapo «Billy» Durant fue un pionero líder de la industria automotriz de Estados Unidos y fundador de General Motors, quien creó el sistema de grupo empresarial multimarca con diferentes líneas de automóviles.

Aung San, también conocido como Bogyoke fue un militar y político nacionalista birmano. Fue comandante del Ejército Independiente Birmano y presidente de la Liga Antifascista por la libertad de los pueblos.

Joshua Gibson fue un beisbolista estadounidense que ha sido considerado uno de los más poderosos bateadores de larga distancia en la historia de este país. Jugó la mayor parte de su carrera en las Ligas Negras además de hacerlo en equipos del Caribe y México. Es conocido por algunos como el Black Babe Ruth.

Winston Churchill was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century.

Abdul Bari was an Indian academic and social reformer. He sought to bring about social reform in Indian society by awakening people through education. He had a vision of India free from slavery, social inequality, and communal disharmony. He took part in the freedom movement and finally sacrificed his life for the cause.

Jesse Benjamin Jackson was a United States consul and an important eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He served as consul in Aleppo when the city was the junction of many important deportation routes. Jackson concluded that the policies towards the Armenians were "without doubt a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race." He considered the "wartime anti-Armenian measures" to be a "gigantic plundering scheme as well as a final blow to extinguish the race." By September 15, 1915, Jackson estimated that a million Armenians had been killed and deemed his own survival a "miracle". After the Armenian Genocide, Jackson led a relief effort and was credited with saving the lives of "thousands of Armenians."

Friedrich Karl Hermann Entress was a German camp doctor in various concentration and extermination camps during the Second World War. He conducted human medical experimentation at Auschwitz and introduced the procedure there of injecting lethal doses of phenol directly into the hearts of prisoners. He was captured by the Allies in 1945, sentenced to death at the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials, and executed in 1947.

Sir John Fraser, 1st Baronet, FRSEd was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1944 and served as principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1944 to 1947.