ON THIS DAY
Born in 1927
1,328 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Warren Adler
poet, playwright
- Anne Armstrong
diplomat, rancher
- Henepola Gunaratana
Buddhist monk
- John Cranko
choreographer, ballet dancer
- Jimmy Sangster
film director, producer
- Chris Connor
jazz singer, jazz musician
- Dell Hymes
linguist, folklorist
- Emil Bobu
politician
- Roger Carel
film actor, dub actor
- Diana Baumrind
psychologist
- Josy Barthel
chemist, politician
- Thanin Kraiwichian
lawyer, jurist
- Lyudmila Alexeyeva
writer, politician
- Rolf Landauer
engineer, computer scientist
- Ross Andru
illustrator, screenwriter
- Masahiro Mori
roboticist
- Guy Davenport
novelist, poet
- Barbara Rütting
politician, non-fiction writer
- Maija Isola
artist, painter
- James Prior, Baron Prior
farmer, businessperson
- Ramón Mendoza
lawyer, businessperson
- David Markson
writer, novelist
- Cora Sue Collins
actor
- Eric Hill
children's writer, cartoonist
- Jane Arden
film director, actor
- Joan Jara
dancer
- Castilho
association football player, association football coach
- Brendan Smyth
Catholic priest
- Oleg Yefremov
public figure, theatre director
- Irina Skobtseva
drama teacher, actor
- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
yoga instructor, peace activist
- Walter Bahr
association football player, association football coach
- Laurel Aitken
singer
- F. Sherwood Rowland
chemist, author
- Endel Tulving
neuroscientist, psychologist
- V Shanta
oncologist, physician
- Júlio Duarte Langa
bishop, Catholic bishop
- Florencio Campomanes
politician, chess official
- Joan Hotchkis
stage actor, television actor
- Michael Beaumont, 22nd Lord of Sark
civil engineer, engineer
- Red Mitchell
double-bassist, bandleader
- Pio La Torre
politician
- John Chamberlain
artist, sculptor
- Edward Kienholz
painter, conceptual artist
- Red Rodney
musician, trumpeter
- Thomas Luckmann
sociologist, university teacher
- Carel Boshoff
writer, university teacher
- Amos Milburn
singer-songwriter, musician
- Jan Myrdal
journalist, writer
- Josep Maria Subirachs
scenographer, painter
- Bernard Vukas
association football player
- Karl Alexander Müller
university teacher, physicist
- Sybil Jason
film actor, singer
- John S. Romanides
historian, university teacher
- George Nigh
governor, politician
- Rembert Weakland
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Bedford Jezzard
association football coach, association football player
- Jan Christiaan Heunis
politician, minister
- Víctor Rodríguez Andrade
association football player
- Roberta Haynes
actor, film actor
- Hirotugu Akaike
statistician, mathematician
- Dzeliwe of Eswatini
politician
- John Vane
university teacher, pharmacologist
- Albert Zafy
politician, surgeon
- Philip Lamantia
writer, poet
- Harlan Mathews
lawyer, politician
- Mikhail Ulyanov
politician, film director
- Yury Grigorovich
ballet dancer, ballet teacher
- Warne Marsh
musician, jazz musician
- James B. Edwards
dentist, governor
- David J. Schwartz
writer
- Lauro Cavazos
healthcare scientist, university teacher
- Karl-Heinz Kurras
police officer, unofficial collaborator
- Henry Slesar
science fiction writer, writer
- Sudharmono
politician, military personnel
- Zdzisław Marchwicki
serial killer
- Charles Jarrott
television director, film director
- Roger Pearson
anthropologist
- Erich Probst
association football player, association football coach
- Paul Badura-Skoda
musician, conductor
- Jimmy Knepper
recording artist, jazz musician
- Winfield Dunn
dentist, politician
- Jimmy Raney
guitarist, musician
- Seungsahn
lecturer, Buddhist monk
- Ralph Beard
basketball player
- Marion Williams
singer, gospel singer
- Jean-Louis Richard
film actor, screenwriter
- Paul Marco
actor, television actor
- Rik Battaglia
actor, film actor
- Randall Garrett
novelist, science fiction writer
- Lynn Stalmaster
casting director, actor
- Giovanni Arpino
screenwriter, journalist
- Olive Yang
drug trafficker
- Friedrich Hirzebruch
university teacher, mathematician
- Halton Arp
astronomer
- Bo Callaway
politician, businessperson
- Ninian Smart
peace activist, philosopher
- Tom Graveney
cricketer
- Martin Špegelj
politician, soldier
- Johannes Hendrikus Donner
writer, chess player
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik
university teacher, jazz musician
- Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
mathematician, bridge player
- Gérard Brach
film director, screenwriter
- Chuck Share
basketball player
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov
ophthalmologist, surgeon
- Richard A. Snelling
governor, politician
- Park Tae-joon
politician, entrepreneur
- Yevgeny Morgunov
film actor, theatre director
- Lea Deutsch
actor, stage actor
- Vladimir Shatalov
astronaut, career officer
- Robert Fuest
screenwriter, director
- Simin Behbahani
writer, songwriter
- David Brion Davis
author, university teacher
- Henri Huet
photojournalist, war photographer
- Vedat Dalokay
politician, writer
- Adoor Bhavani
actor
- Martial Solal
pianist, musician
- Arturo Armando Molina
military personnel, politician
- Roland Huntford
writer, biographer
- Roger Kahn
journalist, writer
- Victor J. Kemper
cinematographer
- Richard Pankhurst
university teacher, historian
- Odvar Nordli
auditor, civil servant
- Joachim Fuchsberger
actor, television presenter
- Josef Posipal
association football player
- Ariano Suassuna
poet, writer
- Mekonnen Endalkachew
diplomat, minister
- Sejdo Bajramović
politician, political commissar
- Inga Landgré
actor
- Laya Raki
actor, film actor
- Tzannis Tzannetakis
military personnel, head of government
- Adhemar da Silva
film actor, athletics competitor
- Ahmadou Kourouma
writer
- Werner Liebrich
association football player, association football coach
- Vladimir Kuts
athlete, athletics competitor
- Santha Devi
actor, television actor
- Marijane Meaker
writer, young adult author
- Fred Kavli
inventor, engineer
- Robert Spaemann
university teacher, philosopher
- Anne McLaren
developmental biologist, biologist
- José Azcona del Hoyo
politician, civil engineer
- Sonny Criss
jazz musician, saxophonist
- Roberto Suazo Córdova
surgeon, politician
- Juan Alonso
association football player
- Shirley Fry
tennis player, badminton player