Famous People Who Died in 1947

• Capone, Al

  The American gangster known as "Scarface"

• Cather, Willa

  Author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia

• Cleveland, Frances Folsom

  President Grover Cleveland's young wife

• Crowley, Aleister

  Author of Magick in Theory and Practice

• Ford, Henry

  Creator of the Ford Motor Company

• La Guardia, Fiorello

  The New York mayor they named the airport after

• Lubitsch, Ernst

  The director of Ninotchka

• Planck, Max

  The German physicist who originated quantum theory

• Seabiscuit

  Thoroughbred hero of the American Depression

• Short, Elizabeth

  The "Black Dahlia" murder victim

• Whitehead, Alfred North

  Mathematician who turned to metaphysics and religion

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