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- April 27 - Babe Ruth day was celebrated all across the Major Leagues, Babe himself appeared in Yankee Stadium. Although stricken with throat cancer, Ruth said to the audience "The only real game I think in the world is baseball."
England
Awards
Births
- January 20 — Cyrille Guimard, French racing cyclist
- January 25 — Bruce Bradley, American water polo player
- January 31 — Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Famer
- February 1 — Gaston Rahier, Belgian motocross racer (d. 2005)
- February 5 — Darrell Waltrip, American automobile racer and broadcaster
- February 18 — Gary Sheerer, American polo player
- February 28 — Włodzimierz Lubański, Polish football (soccer) striker
- March 3 — Ian O'Brien, Australian breaststroke swimmer
- March 7 — Walter Röhrl, German car racer
- March 10 — Zachary Zorn, American swimmer
- March 21 — Ferenc Szekeres, Hungarian long-distance runner
- March 26 — John van Reenen, South African discus thrower
- April 5 — Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav breaststroke swimmer
- April 15 — Onny Parun, New Zealand tennis player
- May 21 — Hans Hoogveld, Dutch water polo player
- May 27 — Branko Oblak, Slovenian football (soccer) player and coach
- May 29 — Peter Lown, UK-born Canadian field hockey player
- June 2 — Giorgio Cagnotto, Italian diver
- June 2 — Sonia Robertson and Sandra Chick, Zimbabwean field hockey players and twin sisters
- June 6 — Marion Coakes, English equestrian show jumper
- June 19 — James Mason, Australian field hockey player
- June 25 — John Powell, American discus thrower
- June 27 — Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
- July 22 — Amado Morales, Puerto Rican javelin thrower
- July 24 — Jacques Fouroux, French rugby union player (d. 2005)
- July 30 — James Slatton, American water polo player
- August 26 — Jan Krekels, Dutch cyclist
- August 28 — Boris Zaychuk, Soviet hammer thrower
- September 7 — Wim Hermsen, Dutch water polo player
- September 8 — Amos Biwott, Kenyan athlete
- September 20 — Victor Zilberman, Romanian boxer
- September 25 — Ali Parvin, Iranian football (soccer) player
- September 27 — Jan Borren, Dutch-born New Zealand field hockey player and coach
- October 3 — Carroll Morgan, Canadian heavyweight boxer
- October 6 — Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver
- October 8 — Emiel Puttemans, Belgian middle- and long-distance runner
- October 11 — Alan Pascoe, British athlete
- October 23 — Kazimierz Deyna, Polish football (soccer) player (d. 1989)
- November 1 — Rolando Garbey, Cuban boxer
- November 5 — Oleg Antropov, Soviet volleyball player
- November 17 — Keith Remfry, British judoka
- December 5 — Ain Roost, Swedish-Canadian discus thrower
- December 16 — Vincent Matthews, American track and field athlete
- December 27 — Willy Polleunis, Belgian long-distance runner
Deaths
fr:1947 en sport ja:1947年のスポーツ sv:Sportåret 1947
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