December 8, 1947

1947Gregg Allman, American musician (died 2017)^[†]

Gregory LeNoir Allman was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Brothers Band fused it with rock music, jazz, and country. He wrote several of the band's most popular songs, including "Whipping Post", "Melissa", and "Midnight Rider". Allman also had a successful solo career, releasing seven studio albums. He was born and spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to Daytona Beach, Florida, and then Macon, Georgia.

1947Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor (died 2009)^[†]

Gérard Blanc was a French singer, guitarist and actor.

1947Thomas Cech, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.

1947Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet (died 2011)^[†]

Kati-Claudia Fofonoff was a Skolt Sámi author and translator who wrote in Skolt Sámi and Finnish. Her books have also been translated into Northern Sámi, Norwegian and Icelandic.