1947 in sports

Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Zale to win boxing’s world middleweight championship.
December 5 - Joe Louis defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to retain his heavyweight championship

Victorian Football League
- Carlton wins the 51st VFL Premiership (Carlton 13.8 (86) d Essendon 11.17 (83))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Bert Deacon (Carlton)

January 31 — Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Famer
February 5 — Darrell Waltrip, American automobile racer and broadcaster
February 28 — Włodzimierz Lubański, Polish football (soccer) striker
March 3 — Ian O'Brien, Australian breaststroke swimmer
March 7 — Walter Röhrl, German car racer
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 — Sonia Robertson and Sandra Chick, Zimbabwean field hockey players and twin sisters
June 6 — Marion Coakes, English equestrian show jumper
July 24 — Jacques Fouroux, French rugby union player (d. 2005)
August 26 — Jan Krekels, Dutch cyclist
September 7 — Wim Hermsen, Dutch water polo player
September 8 — Amos Biwott, Kenyan athlete
September 25 — Ali Parvin, Iranian football (soccer) player
September 27 — Jan Borren, Dutch-born New Zealand field hockey player and coach
October 8 — Emiel Puttemans, Belgian middle- and long-distance runner
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 16 — Vincent Matthews, American track and field athlete

January 20: Josh Gibson, famed Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35.

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