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1947 births
- Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- Paul WerbosPaul John Werbos was born on the 4th of September 1947 in the United States. He began his academic journey as a social scientist rather than an engineer or…
- Muzaffar AlamMuzaffar Alam was born on the 3rd of February 1947 in India. He began his academic journey at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.
- Elton JohnOn the 25th of March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight entered the world in Pinner, Middlesex. His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother worked as…
- Salman RushdieSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie entered the world on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay. This city was then part of British India and is now known as Mumbai within…
- Michael Cox (academic)Michael E. Cox was born in March 1947 and began his academic life at the University of Reading. His career took him across continents before he settled at…
- Margaret L. KingMargaret L. King entered Sarah Lawrence College in 1963 and graduated with a history degree in 1967. Her academic journey continued at Stanford University…
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell entered the world on the 7th of February 1947. This date marks the beginning of a life that would eventually reshape our understanding…
- David LettermanDavid Michael Letterman was born on the 12th of April 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father worked as a florist and his mother served as a church…
- Ronnie WoodRonald David Wood was born on the 1st of June 1947 in the London Borough of Hillingdon. He grew up in a family of English bargees who operated river and…
- Jonathan PryceJohn Price was born on the 1st of June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire. His father Isaac worked as a coal miner before running a small grocery shop with his wife…
- Gerd B. AchenbachGerd B. Achenbach opened the doors to the world's first philosophical practice in 1981. He was born Gerd Böttcher on the 11th of February 1947 in Hameln…
- Pat ProftPat Proft was born in 1947 and grew up in Minnesota. He attended Columbia Heights High School where his English teacher Stuart J.
- Mick FleetwoodMichael John Kells Fleetwood arrived in the world on the 24th of June 1947 within the red clay hills of Redruth, Cornwall.
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on the 30th of July 1947, in the small village of Thal, Styria. His father Gustav served as the local police chief and…
- Alan Lee (illustrator)Alan Lee entered the world on the 20th of August 1947 in Middlesex, England. His early years unfolded within a landscape that would later inform his artistic…
- Daniel YerginDaniel Howard Yergin arrived in the world on the 6th of February 1947. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. His father Irving worked at Warner Brothers and…
- Willy RussellWilliam Russell was born on the 23rd of August 1947 in Whiston, Lancashire. He left school at age fifteen to work as a women's hairdresser.
- Jeff LynneJeffrey Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham. His father bought him an acoustic guitar for just £2, a instrument he still…
- Sogyal RinpocheSonam Gyaltsen Lakar arrived in the Trehor region of Kham, Tibet, during 1947. His mother identified him as a significant figure when Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi…
- Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Everest Hinton was born on the 6th of December 1947 in Wimbledon, England. He attended Clifton College in Bristol before matriculating at King's…
- Steve Perry (author)Steve Perry arrived into the world on the 31st of August 1947. He grew up in the Deep South of America. His life took him to Louisiana before he moved…
- Barbara DicksonBarbara Ruth Dickson was born on the 27th of September 1947 in Dunfermline. Her family moved to Rosyth before settling back in Dunfermline during the 1950s.
- Kareem Abdul-JabbarFerdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. grew up in the Dyckman Street projects of Inwood, Upper Manhattan, after moving there at age three in 1950.
- Dave ArnesonIn 1960, a young Dave Arneson received the board wargame Gettysburg from his parents. This Avalon Hill product sparked a lifelong obsession with miniature…
- Brian DaleyBrian Charles Daley entered the world on the 22nd of December 1947 at Englewood Hospital. He grew up in Rockleigh, New Jersey with an older brother named…
- James KahnJames Kahn was born in Chicago on the 30th of December 1947. He began playing guitar at age twelve while living in that city.
- Fergus BordewichFergus M. Bordewich was born on the first of November in 1947 within New York City. He grew up in Yonkers, New York during the post-war era.
- Bob Allen (economic historian)Robert Carson Allen was born on the 10th of January 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts. He began his academic journey at Carleton College in Minnesota where he…
- Pete MaravichPeter Press Maravich was born on the 22nd of June 1947 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. This steel town sat near Pittsburgh and shaped his early years.
- Timothy ReuterTimothy Alan Reuter entered the world on the 25th of January 1947 in Manchester. His family background included a grandfather who served as mayor of Berlin…