Month April 1947 Calendar

About Month of April Calendar

• April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).

Historical Events for April, 1947

• Day of Week 1st » Paul of Greece named Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II of Greece or George II.
• Day of Week 6th » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
• Day of Week 9th » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• Day of Week 16th » Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 16th » Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• Day of Week 28th » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the 'Kon-Tiki' to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• Day of Week 30th » In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1947

• 1st » Alain Connes, French mathematician and educator
• 1st » Philippe Kirsch, Canadian lawyer and judge
• 1st » Francine Prose, American author
• 1st » Robin Scott, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (M (band) called M)
• 1st » Norm Van Lier, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 2nd » Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 2nd » Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2nd » Camille Paglia, American author and critic
• 3rd » Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Pat Proft, American actor and screenwriter
• 4th » Wiranto, Indonesian general
• 4th » Ray Fosse, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 4th » Luke Halpin, American actor
• 5th » Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Filipino politician, 14th President of the Philippines
• 5th » Virendra Sharma, Indian-English politician
• 6th » John Ratzenberger, American actor
• 6th » André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 6th » Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist
• 7th » Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
• 7th » Florian Schneider, German singer and drummer (Kraftwerk and Organisation (band) e.g Organisation)
• 7th » Eliseo Soriano, Filipino minister
• 7th » Michèle Torr, French singer and author
• 8th » Tom DeLay, American politician
• 8th » Steve Howe (guitarist) Steve Howe, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Yes (band) Yes, Asia, Tomorrow (band) Tomorrow, GTR (band) GTR, and Bodast)
• 8th » Robert Kiyosaki, American businessman, co-founded Cashflow Technologies
• 8th » Pascal Lamy, French businessman and politician
• 8th » Larry Norman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (People!) (d. 2008)
• 9th » Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Italian development economist
• 10th » David A. Adler. American author
• 10th » William Castell, English businessman
• 10th » Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• 11th » Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
• 11th » Uli Edel, German director and screenwriter
• 11th » Frank Mantooth, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
• 11th » Peter Riegert, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 11th » Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
• 11th » Michael T Wright (Engineer) known as Michael T Wright, English engineer and academic
• 12th » Roy M. Anderson, English epidemiologist, zoologist, and academic
• 12th » Alex Briley, American singer (Village People)
• 12th » Tom Clancy, American author (d. 2013)
• 12th » Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist
• 12th » Dan Lauria, American actor
• 12th » David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host
• 12th » Wayne Northrop, American actor
• 13th » Rae Armantrout, American poet
• 13th » Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer
• 13th » Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist
• 14th » Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
• 15th » Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter and producer
• 15th » Martin Broughton, English businessman
• 15th » Lois Chiles, American model and actress
• 15th » David Omand, English civil servant and academic
• 15th » Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish nurse and politician
• 15th » Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (d. 2010)
• 16th » Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
• 16th » Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) (d. 2011)
• 17th » George Emslie, Lord Emslie, Scottish judge
• 17th » Richard Field (judge) known as Richard Field, English judge
• 17th » Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter
• 17th » Paul Thomas (pornographic actor) called Paul Thomas, American porn actor and director
• 17th » Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager
• 18th » Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997)
• 18th » Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
• 18th » Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer
• 18th » Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
• 18th » Cindy Pickett, American actress
• 18th » Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013)
• 18th » Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 18th » James Woods, American actor and producer
• 19th » Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
• 19th » Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara, English civil servant
• 19th » Yan Pascal Tortelier, French violinist and conductor
• 19th » Mark Volman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers of Invention)
• 20th » Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
• 20th » David Leland, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 20th » Ken Scott, English record producer
• 20th » Björn Skifs, Swedish singer, songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (Blue Swede and Slam Creepers)
• 20th » Viktor Suvorov, Soviet-born writer and historian, former Soviet military intelligence officer
• 20th » Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
• 21st » Barbara Park, American author
• 21st » Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Stooges and The Trolls)
• 21st » John Weider, English bass player (Family (band) known as Family, The Animals, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, and Stud (band) named Stud)
• 23rd » Robert Burgess (sociologist) known as Robert Burgess, English sociologist and academic
• 23rd » Glenn Cornick, English bass player (Jethro Tull (band) called Jethro Tull and Paris (band) called Paris) (d. 2014)
• 23rd » Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish politician
• 23rd » Carlton Sherwood, American soldier and journalist (d. 2014)
• 24th » Josep Borrell, Spanish politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament
• 24th » João Braz de Aviz, Brazilian cardinal
• 24th » Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 24th » Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician
• 24th » Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate
• 25th » Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
• 25th » Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
• 26th » Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer
• 27th » G. K. Butterfield, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 27th » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
• 27th » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
• 27th » Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
• 28th » Christian Jacq, French historian and author
• 28th » Nicola LeFanu, English composer and academic
• 29th » Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 29th » Tommy James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tommy James and the Shondells)
• 29th » Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Third Rail (band) known as The Third Rail and Ohio Express)
• 29th » Johnny Miller, American golfer
• 29th » Jim Ryun, American runner and politician
• 30th » Paul Fiddes, English theologian and academic
• 30th » Leslie Grantham, English actor
• 30th » Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 30th » Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer and manager
• 30th » Mats Odell, Swedish economist and politician

Famous Deaths for April 1947

• 1st » George II of Greece (b. 1890)
• 6th » Herbert Backe, German politician (b. 1896)
• 7th » Henry Ford, American businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
• 8th » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 10th » Charles Nordhoff, English-American author(b. 1887)
• 11th » Louise Peete, American murderer (b. 1880)
• 16th » Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 18th » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 20th » Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
• 24th » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
• 24th » Willa Cather, American author (b. 1873)
• 29th » Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)

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