Aged 47
Famous people who died at 47
128 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 47, including Frida Kahlo, Rosa Luxemburg and Simón Bolívar. Here are the 100 best known.
- Frida KahloMexican painter · 1907–1954
- Rosa LuxemburgPolish-German Marxist revolutionary · 1871–1919
- Simón BolívarVenezuelan statesman and military officer · 1783–1830
- Judy GarlandAmerican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian · 1922–1969
- Édith PiafFrench singer · 1915–1963
- Joseph GoebbelsNazi politician and Propaganda Minister · 1897–1945
- Taras ShevchenkoUkrainian poet and artist · 1814–1861
- AttilaRuler of the Huns · c. AD 406–453
- Alexander I of RussiaThe tenth Emperor of Russia · 1777–1825
- Grigori RasputinRussian mystic · 1869–1916
- BaburFounder of the Mughal Empire · 1483–1531
- Fernando PessoaPortuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares · 1888–1935
- Alexander HamiltonAmerican Founding Father and statesman · 1757–1804
- Huldrych ZwingliProtestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder · 1484–1531
- Jack KerouacAmerican writer · 1922–1969
- O. HenryAmerican short story writer · 1862–1910
- Joseph AddisonEnglish essayist, poet, playwright and politician · 1672–1719
- Karl LiebknechtGerman socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League · 1871–1919
- Henry FieldingEnglish novelist and dramatist · 1707–1754
- HumayunSecond Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556 · 1508–1556
- Ignaz SemmelweisHungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures · 1818–1865
- Oda NobunagaJapanese samurai and warlord · 1534–1582
- Hulegu KhanWestern Asian Mongol ruler · 1217–1265
- Anna I of RussiaFourth Emperor of Russia from 1730 to 1740 · 1693–1740
- Eugene IIPope · c. AD 780–827
- Ernest ShackletonAnglo-Irish Antarctic explorer · 1874–1922
- Nicholas IPope · c. AD 820–867
- Stephen IVPope · c. AD 770–817
- Emperor TaishōEmperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926 · 1879–1926
- Han FeiChinese Legalist, 280–233 BCE · c. 280–233 BC
- ValentinePope · c. AD 780–827
- Matthias CorvinusKing of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria · 1443–1490
- Osip MandelstamRussian poet and essayist · 1891–1938
- Mustafa I15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1591–1639
- Samuel Colt19th-century American industrialist and inventor · 1814–1862
- Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ↗Holy Roman Emperor · 1697–1745
- Tipu Sultan ↗Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799 · 1751–1799
- Paul Morphy ↗US chess player · 1837–1884
- Symon Petliura ↗Ukrainian military leader · 1879–1926
- Trebonianus Gallus ↗Roman Emperor from 251 to 253 · c. AD 206–253
- Vladimir Solovyov ↗Russian philosopher · 1853–1900
- Mary Anning ↗British fossil collector and palaeontologist · 1799–1847
- Maximilian Kolbe ↗Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church · 1894–1941
- Tamar of Georgia ↗Queen regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213 · c. 1166–1213
- al-Maʾmun ↗Abbasid caliph · c. AD 786–833
- Hamilcar Barca ↗Carthaginian general · c. 275–228 BC
- Theo van Doesburg ↗Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer · 1883–1931
- William Jones ↗Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India · 1746–1794
- George Vancouver ↗English naval explorer · 1750–1798
- Ingeborg Bachmann ↗Austrian poet and author · 1926–1973
- James Connolly ↗Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary · 1868–1916
- Denis Fonvizin ↗Russian writer · 1745–1792
- Eino Leino ↗Finnish poet and journalist · 1878–1926
- Lavr Kornilov ↗Imperial Russian Army general · 1870–1918
- Prajadhipok ↗King of Siam · 1893–1941
- Peter II of Yugoslavia ↗Last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945 · 1923–1970
- Theo van Gogh ↗Dutch film director · 1957–2004
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ↗German philosopher · 1714–1762
- Bindusara ↗Mauryan Emperor · c. 320–273 BC
- Klara Hitler ↗Mother of Adolf Hitler mi vrg · 1860–1907
- Pyotr Bagration ↗General of the Imperial Russian Army · 1765–1812
- Al-Walid I ↗Umayyad caliph · c. AD 668–715
- Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse ↗French Navy officer and explorer · 1741–1788
- Jim Jones ↗American cult leader · 1931–1978
- Charb ↗French caricaturist and journalist · 1967–2015
- Charibert I ↗King of Paris · c. AD 520–567
- Clodius Albinus ↗Usurper and Caesar of the Roman Empire · c. AD 150–197
- Vasily Blyukher ↗Soviet marshal · 1890–1938
- Zelda Fitzgerald ↗American writer · 1900–1948
- August Schleicher ↗German philologist · 1821–1868
- Stefan Dušan ↗Emperor of Serbia 1331–1355 · 1308–1355
- Thomas Cole ↗19th-century American painter · 1801–1848
- Vasily II of Moscow ↗Grand Prince of Moscow · 1415–1462
- Carlo Gesualdo ↗Napoletan noble, composer and murderer · 1566–1613
- John Gay ↗English poet and playwright · 1685–1732
- Witold Pilecki ↗Polish underground resistance soldier, World War II concentration camp resistance leader · 1901–1948
- Zygmunt Krasiński ↗Polish poet · 1812–1859
- Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar ↗Kannada actor · 1974–2021
- Theodore I Laskaris ↗13th-century emperor of Nicaea · c. 1174–1221
- Béla I of Hungary ↗King of Hungary · c. 1016–1063
- Boris Trajkovski ↗President of Macedonia · 1956–2004
- Lon Chaney ↗American actor · 1883–1930
- Taksin ↗King of Siam · 1734–1782
- Milena Jesenská ↗Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator · 1896–1944
- Nâmık Kemâl ↗Ottoman writer · 1840–1888
- Malcolm Lowry ↗British writer · 1909–1957
- Matilda of Boulogne ↗Countess of Boulogne and Queen Consort of England · c. 1105–1152
- Ōkubo Toshimichi ↗One of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan · 1830–1878
- Randy Pausch ↗American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design · 1960–2008
- Francis Gary Powers ↗American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union · 1929–1977
- Željko Ražnatović ↗Serbian military commandant and criminal · 1952–2000
- Alexander Farnese ↗Duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain · 1545–1592
- Antoine de Rivarol ↗French writer · 1753–1801
- Ariq Böke ↗13th-century Mongolian monarch · c. 1219–1266
- Rory Gallagher ↗Irish guitarist · 1948–1995
- Sozomen ↗Byzantine historian · c. AD 400–447
- Elizabeth Alexeievna ↗Empress consort of Russia; wife of Alexander I of Russia · 1779–1826
- Gabriel Cramer ↗Genevan mathematician · 1704–1752
- George Green ↗British mathematical physicist · 1793–1841
- Imre Thököly ↗Ruler of Transylvania · 1657–1705
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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