A list of events in 1947 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 8 — William Bonin is born.
- 26 — Lauren Porter is apprehended.
- 27 — Philipp Tyurin is apprehended.
- 29 — Thomas Whisenhant is born.
- ? — "Second Kodaira" is apprehended.
February[]
- 18 — Jack Trawick is born.
March[]
- 1 — Toader Covali is born.
- 5 — Ottis Toole is born.
- 7 — Bert Leroy Hunter is born.
- 15 — Marc Fasquel is born.
- 17 — Darlene Ferrin (victim) is born.
- 31 — Eddie Mosley is born.
April[]
- 7 — Gennady Mikhasevich is born.
- 7 — Herb Baumeister is born.
- 11 — Louise Peete died.
- 12 — Robert Bradley died.
- 18 — Herbert Mullin is born.
- 21 — Robert Black is born.
- 25 — Lauren Porter died.
- 25 — Tamara Samsonova is born.
May[]
- 1 — Georgia Weckler is allegedly murdered by Ed Gein (suspected victim).
- 11 — Stanislas Walezewsky died.
- 15 — Robert Liberty is born.
- 30 — Robert George Clements died.
June[]
- 17 — John Norman Collins is born.
- 18 — Charlie Davis is born.
- ? — Joseph Atkins is born.
July[]
- 24 — Thomas Ley died.
August[]
- 21 — Sachiko Eto is born.
September[]
- 7 — Graham Young is born.
- 11 — John Agrue is born.
- 19 — Abdul Latif Sharif is born.
- 26 — Michael Sumpter is born.
October[]
- 24 — Edmund Kolanowski is born.
- 30 — Jake Bird is apprehended.
November[]
- 8 — Joseph Stephen Holt is born.
- 18 — Sliman ben Mohamed Bellounès died.
- 29 — Andrés Mendoza is born.
December[]
- 9 — James Edward Wood is born.
- 30 — Pierre Bodein is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Dennis Ray Anderson is born.
- ? — William Batten is born.
- ? — Iancu Berilă is apprehended.
- ? — Carlos Beltrán Castro is born.
- ? — Gregory Breeden is born.
- ? — Joseph Burgess is born.
- ? — Alberto Caldera García is apprehended.
- ? — William Cosden is born.
- ? — Antonia Giampietro is born.
- ? — Herman Lee Hobbs is born.
- ? — Hsu Tung-chih is born.
- ? — Russell Maurice Johnson is born.
- ? — Constantin Moraru is born.
- ? — Dickson Ndongai is born.
- ? — James Ryan O'Neill is born.
- ? — Iran Mousavi Sani is born.
- ? — Ramiro Matildes Siqueira is born.
- ? — Magdalena Solís is born.
- ? — Philipp Tyurin died.
- ? — Ronald Glenn West is born.
- ? — Lila Gladys Young is apprehended.
- ? — William Peach Young is apprehended.