1947 births

John Richard Gott III (born February 8, 1947) is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is known for his work on time travel and the Doomsday argument.

Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín (born 21 June 1947 at Basque city of San Sebastián) is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author.

Luk Renneboog, better known as Luke Walter Jr. (22 November 1947 – New York City, 18 June 1996), was a Belgian blues singer and musician.
In 1986, he founded the group Blue Blot with Albert Szukalski. With the second album 'Bridge to your heart', the group made a breakthrough to the general public.
In 1993, they discovered that he had leukemia. Just before his death, he made the solo album Back To Normal.

Joan Pau Verdier (born Jean-Paul Verdier; 1 February 1947 – 21 June 2020) was a French singer born in Périgueux, Dordogne, who performed in both Occitan and French. He was one of the main figures of the Nòva cançon, an Occitan musical renewal wave during the 1970s.
Verdier died on 21 June 2020.

María Trinidad Pérez de Miravete-Mille y Pascual del Riquelme (12 July 1947 – 6 April 2009), better known as Mari Trini, was a Spanish singer-songwriter and from Caravaca de la Cruz.
She learned to play guitar as a youngster and wrote songs from an early age. Trini met producer Nicholas Ray in the 1960s, and he encouraged her to move to London; soon after she left for Paris, where she eventually signed to a record label. Her debut album was released in 1969, and through the 1970s and 1980s was a popular figure in Spanish pop music.
Mari Trini died in Murcia in 2009, from lung cancer.

Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 in Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. She later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher. She is primarily noted for being a singer in the Sardinian language, her native tongue.
Sannia died in Cagliari at the age of 61 on April 14, 2008.

José Rubianes Alegret, better known as Pepe Rubianes (2 September 1947 – 1 March 2009) was a Galician actor and theater director, born in Galicia and brought up in Catalonia, specializing in mime, imitation and monologues. He was known for his irony, his sharp sense of humor and verbal torrents sprinkled with swear words, and rigorously dressing in black clothes when acting in dramatic scenes. He defined himself as a "Galician-Catalan actor: Galician because I was born in Galicia although I hardly ever lived there, and Catalan because I have always lived in Catalonia although I was never born here."

Amelio "Memè" Perlini (8 December 1947 – 5 April 2017) was an Italian actor and film director. His directorial debut, Italian Postcards, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.He directed Teatro La Maschera, of Rome, in his theatrical adaptation of Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City in April 1977. The production was co-presented by La MaMa and the International Theatre Institute, and billed as the First International Theater Festival.Perlini died in Rome on 5 April 2017, at the age of 69. He seems to have committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of his house.

Miguel Barrenechea (born 17 October 1947) is a Mexican former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Ivana Monti (born 20 February 1947) is an Italian stage, television and film actress.