In the year 1947
389 Notable deaths
Louis Delaunoij
Dutch fencer.
Born March 3rd, 1879 in Amsterdam.
Died October 29th, 1947 at 68 years old in Bussum.
Marcello Nizzola
Olympic wrestler.
Born December 17th, 1900 in Genoa.
Died February 22nd, 1947 at 46 years old in Genoa.
Aukusti Sihvola
Olympic wrestler.
Born March 7th, 1895 in Sippola.
Died June 18th, 1947 at 52 years old in Luumäki.
Øistein Schirmer
Gymnast.
Born April 11th, 1879 in Fredrikstad.
Died May 24th, 1947 at 68 years old in Larvik.
Tan Teng-pho
Taiwanese artist (1895-1947).
Born February 2nd, 1895 in Tainan Prefecture.
Died March 25th, 1947 at 52 years old (ballistic trauma).
Mikhail Bondarenko
Soviet wwii ace and twice hero of the soviet union.
Born October 20th, 1913 in Bohdanivka.
Died July 27th, 1947 at 33 years old in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (drowning).
Uliana Kravchenko
Ukrainian poet.
Born April 18th, 1860 in Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast.
Died March 31st, 1947 at 86 years old in Przemyśl.
Heinrich August Luyken
German british author and esperantist (1864-1947).
Born December 10th, 1864 in Altenkirchen.
Died September 21st, 1947 at 82 years old in Amersham.
Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin
Russian mathematician.
Born August 3rd, 1869 in Mtsensk.
Died March 28th, 1947 at 77 years old in Moscow.
Deaths 381 to 389 of 389
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare