This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1947, together with births and deaths of prominent Malayans. As the Malayan Union, Malaya was a British colony .
9 October â An Indonesian farmer named Mat Taram bin Sa'al killed eleven people and wounded ten others on a Kuala Lumpur-bound train and a kongsi near Bangi. He was acquitted by reason of insanity.