March 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
• 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
• 1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1846 – Mexican–American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• 1918 – Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
• 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
• 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

Births

• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1196 – Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (d. 1252)
• 1306 – Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• 1416 – Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1632 – Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1677)
• 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (d. 1735)
• 1681 – Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1760)
• 1684 – Tekle Haymanot I, Ethiopian Emperor (d. 1708)
• 1696 – Antoine Court, French minister (d. 1760)
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1709 – William Flackton, English organist, viola player, and composer (d. 1798)
• 1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1723 – James Madison, Sr., American colonel and planter (d. 1801)
• 1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist (d. 1766)
• 1727 – Magnus von Behm, Russian commander (d. 1806)
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English scholar and critic (d. 1786)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
• 1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (d. 1832)
• 1760 – Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer (d. 1842)
• 1761 – James Sykes, American physician and politician, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1767 – Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
• 1770 – Sophie Mereau, German author (d. 1806)
• 1776 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French botanist and politician (d. 1854)
• 1781 – Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist (d. 1864)
• 1784 – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
• 1785 – Filippo Giudice Caracciolo, Italian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1844)
• 1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• 1781 – Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats, English politician (d. 1871)
• 1791 – Reuben Uther, English-Australian businessman (d. 1894)
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
• 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1802 – Félix-Jacques Moulin, French photographer (d. 1875)
• 1804 – Giacomo Panizza, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1860)
• 1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer (d. 1891)
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English scholar and academic (d. 1886)
• 1812 – Ivan Panaev, Russian journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Seymour Mills Spencer, American-New Zealand missionary (d. 1898)
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator, co-founded Currier and Ives (d. 1888)
• 1814 – Diego Archuleta, American colonel and general (d. 1884)
• 1818 – Erminia Frezzolini, Italian soprano (d. 1884)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Elias David Sassoon, Iraqi-Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1880)
• 1822 – Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
• 1824 – Virginia Minor, American activist (d. 1894)
• 1825 – Hubert de Castella, Swiss-Australian author and wine maker (d. 1907)
• 1827 – Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Mary Abigail Fillmore, American daughter of Millard Fillmore (d. 1854)
• 1834 – Pierre Gaspard, French mountaineer (d. 1915)
• 1839 – John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1843 – George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English army officer and entomologist (d. 1934)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1845 – Melville R. Hopewell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (d. 1911)
• 1845 – Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop, priest and politician (d. 1899)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1849 – Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat (d. 1910)
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1853 – John Edward Kelley, American journalist and politician (d. 1941)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1855 – James Alfred Ewing, Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1935)
• 1855 – William Russell Lane-Joynt, Irish target shooter (d. 1921)
• 1855 – William Libbey, American target shooter, geologist, and geographer (d. 1927)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
• 1859 – Gerrit J. Diekema, American politician, 31st Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives (d. 1930)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American scholar (d. 1924)
• 1861 – Nikolay Demyanov, Russian chemist and inventor, discovered Demjanov rearrangement (d. 1938)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Italian nun and nurse (d. 1894)
• 1865 – Eugene Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1918)
• 1865 – Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
• 1866 – John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
• 1866 – Andon Zako Çajupi, Albanian lawyer, poet, and playwright (d. 1830)
• 1867 – Karl Zsigmondy, Austrian mathematician (d. 1925)
• 1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
• 1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author (d. 1950)
• 1871 – Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and minister (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Christophorus III, Georgian patriarch (d. 1932)
• 1873 – Giannina Russ, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Austin Harrison, English journalist and author (d. 1928)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Frank Burke, Australian politician (d. 1949)
• 1876 – Karl Fredrik Wilkama, Finnish general (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Konstantinos Skarlatos, Greek general and pistol shooter (d. 1969)
• 1879 – Sahan Dosova, Kazakhstani super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Catherine Carswell, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Izaak Reijnders, Dutch general (d. 1966)
• 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1880 – Ruth Hanna McCormick, American politician (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Horace Bonser, American target shooter (d. 1934)
• 1883 – Paul McCullough, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1883 – Margaret Cobb Ailshie, American publisher and activist (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English army officer and politician, Governor of Cyprus (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer, designed Großes Festspielhaus (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1932)
• 1887 – Chapman Grant, American herpetologist, historian, and publisher (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1888 – George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Leonard Mociulschi, Moldavian-Romanian general (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Jean-François Pouliot, Canadian lawyer, author, and politician (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
• 1891 – A. P. Elkin, Australian anthropologist and priest (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Vallance Jupp, English cricketer (d. 1960)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Swami Vipulananda, Sri Lankan author, poet, phliosopher and critic (d. 1947)
• 1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
• 1893 – Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
• 1893 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American politician (d. 1981)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1894 – Soeprapto, Indonesian judge (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1895 – Juan Guzmán Cruchaga, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Wolfgang von Weisl, Austrian-Israeli journalist and author (d. 1974)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1897 – Cyril Slater, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Titina De Filippo, Italian actress (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Maria Rasputin, Russian-American daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Herb Stein, American football player (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Alma Tell, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1898 – Josef Müller, German lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Carl Aage Hilbert, Danish-Faroese jurist and politician (d. 1953)
• 1899 – Karim Mammadbeyov, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1938)
• 1899 – Francis Ponge, French poet (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentinian singer-songwriter, bandoneón player, pianist, and author (d. 1951)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – George Dowty, English businessman, founded Dowty Group (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Leif Tronstad, Norwegian army officer and scientist (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Betty Balfour, English actress (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Nobuo Aoyagi, Japanese director and producer (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Hal Kemp, American saxophonist, clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1940)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Domenico da Cese, Italian monk (d. 1978)
• 1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
• 1905 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and educator (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Evaristo Sourdis Juliao, Colombian lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia (d. 1970)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Johnny Gill, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1905 – Jack Patten, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1957)
• 1906 – Cecil Purdy, Egyptian-Australian chess player and author (d .1979)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1907 – George Pollock, English director (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Bernard Hügl, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Solomon Aaron Leschinsky, Canadian-American mathematician and inventor (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Veikko Larkas, Finnish architect, designed Pielisensuu Church (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet (d. 1937)
• 1909 – Raymond Oliver, French chef (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Wally Nelson, American activist (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Hugh Nibley, American author (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Norman Livermore, American environmentalist (d. 2006)
• 1911 – Franc Rozman, Slovenian general (d. 1944)
• 1911 – Viola Keats, Scottish actress (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Robert Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Paul Maitla, Estonian military commander (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Ciril Praček, Slovenian skier (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Kris Sivara, Thai general and politician, Defence Minister of Thailand (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Bernardo Poli, Italian footballer (d. 1944)
• 1915 – Wang Daohan, Chinese politician, Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Frank Pitelka, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Mario Tonelli, American football player (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, German marine (d. 1945)
• 1916 – Jack M. Warner, American film producer (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Reva Gerstein, Canadian psychologist and educator
• 1917 – Joko Beck, American monk and educator (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Cornelius Rost, Austrian-German soldier (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Richard Hayman, American harmonica player, conductor, and composer (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1920 – William C. Conner, American judge (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American historian, theorist, and academic (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Joe Tuminelli, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Wallace McIntosh, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Hélène Berr, French author and holocaust victim (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Calvin Gotlieb, Canadian computer scientist and educator
• 1921 – Harry Järv, Finnish-Swedish lieutenant, historian and author (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Alex Agase, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Barnaby Conrad, American author (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Dan Kurzman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Murray Olderman, American illustrator
• 1923 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Vladimír Zábrodský, Czech ice hockey and tennis player
• 1923 – Gennadi Yudin, Russian actor (d. 1989)
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Hideko Takamine, Japanese actress (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician, 15th President of the European Parliament
• 1926 – Bill Bagnall, American publisher, founded Motorcyclist (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
• 1926 – Jacques Villeglé, French poster designer
• 1927 – Ibrahim Abi-Ackel, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice for Brazil
• 1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Ralph Sorenson, Canadian politician
• 1927 – Cornelius Pasichny, Canadian bishop and religious leader (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Ernest Eastman, Liberian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liberia (d. 2011)
• 1927 – François Furet, French historian (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Gerald J. Wasserburg, American geologist, chemist, geophysicist, and astrophysicist
• 1927 – Lorenzo Miguel, Argentinian labor leader (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jacek Sempoliński, Polish painter and critic (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Mo Ostin, American record producer, co-founded Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Reg Evans, Welsh-Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Antonín Tučapský, Czech-English composer
• 1929 – Salvador Botella, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh-American actress and director (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Žarko Petan, Slovenian author and screenwriter
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer
• 1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1931 – Walter Hooper, American author and scholar
• 1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1932 – Trevor Stubley, English painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, Mayor of Madrid (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Guido Bodrato, Italian politician
• 1933 – Hazel Henderson, English economist and activist
• 1933 – Vince Gibson, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Robert Castel, French sociologist (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Michel Guérard, French chef and author
• 1933 – Don Lassetter, American baseball player
• 1933 – Gino Pivatelli, Italian footballer and coach
• 1933 – Le Van Hung, Vietnamese general (d. 1975)
• 1934 – Peter Schamoni, German director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
• 1934 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Ioannis Paleokrassas, Greek politician, 17th Minister of Finance for Greece
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell, American choreographer and dancer
• 1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian author
• 1935 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1935 – John Henry Dowse, Australian rugby player
• 1935 – Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Race Mathews, Australian economist, author, and politician
• 1935 – Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1936 – Otmar Issing, German economist
• 1936 – Jerry Lacy, American actor
• 1937 – Johnny Copeland, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• 1937 – Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Brazilian author
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1938 – Aloizs Tumiņš, Latvian boxer (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Bruce Johnston, American criminal and murderer (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1939 – Angelo Cifelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Lawrence Eugene Brandt, American bishop
• 1939 – Jay Kim, South Korean-American politician
• 1939 – José Bardina, Spanish-Venezuelan actor (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Leila Kasra, Iranian-American poet and songwriter (d. 1989)
• 1939 – Beba Selimović, Bosnian singer
• 1939 – Ladislas de Hoyos, Belgian-French journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Silvano Bertini, Italian boxer
• 1940 – Ullrich Libor, German sailor
• 1940 – Christina Jutterström, Swedish journalist
• 1940 – June Wilkinson, English model and actress
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Derrick Morgan, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1940 – Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Kurt Felix, Swiss television host (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Peter Göbel, German figure skater
• 1941 – Per Abramsen, Dutch sculptor
• 1941 – Helmuth Orthner, Austrian-American computer scientist (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Chip Pashayan, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Antonina Lazareva, Russian high jumper
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1942 – Wili Jønsson, Danish singer-songwriter and bass player (Gasolin')
• 1942 – John Adshead, English-New Zealand footballer and manager
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player
• 1943 – Nicholas Humphrey, English psychologist
• 1943 – Grant McCune, American special effects designer (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Duncan Paterson, Scottish rugby player (d. 2009)
• 1943 – Lorraine Michael, Canadian nun, educator, and politician
• 1943 – Keith Allan, English-Australian linguist
• 1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean politician, physician and activist (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Enrique Barón Crespo, Spanish lawyer and politician, 16th President of the European Parliament
• 1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 – Judi Garman, American-Canadian softball player and coach
• 1944 – Bebu Silvetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (d. 2003)
• 1945 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (d. 2004)
• 1945 – Rolf M. Aagaard, Norwegian photographer
• 1945 – Brit Selby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Anna Mae Aquash, Canadian-American tribal leader (d. 1975)
• 1945 – Harry Rowohlt, German author and translator
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Andy Bown, English bass player and songwriter (Status Quo, The Herd, and Judas Jump)
• 1946 – Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Russian diplomat, 5th Russian Ambassador to Armenia
• 1946 – Boris Kopeikin, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch footballer, manager, and coach
• 1947 – Olavi Suomalainen, Finnish runner
• 1947 – Craig Defoy, Welsh golfer
• 1947 – John Mayhew, English-Australian drummer (Genesis) (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author and poet
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
• 1947 – David Ward, 5th Earl of Dudley
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish politician
• 1948 – Dele Charley, Sierra Leonean author and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1948 – Rosemary Follett, Australian politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
• 1949 – Dubravka Ugrešić, Croatian-Dutch author
• 1949 – Poul Ruders, Danish composer
• 1949 – Leigh Steinberg, American lawyer and agent
• 1949 – Nadia Arslan, Lebanese actress (d. 2008)
• 1949 – Nancy Sullivan, American educator and politician
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Genesis)
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician
• 1950 – Markku Andersson, Finnish politician
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1950 – Modou Dia, Senegalese politician and diplomat
• 1950 – Julia Alvarez, American-Dominican author and poet
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano
• 1950 – David Edgar, American swimmer
• 1950 – Matt Siegel, American radio host
• 1950 – Anton Ondruš, Czech-Slovak footballer
• 1950 – Madeleine Moon, English social worker and politician
• 1950 – Terry Yorath, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1951 – Andrey Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1951 – Marielle de Sarnez, French politician
• 1951 – Angelo Recchi, Italian footballer
• 1951 – Nigel Cawthorne, American-English author
• 1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author
• 1952 – Gheorghe Tadici, Romanian handball player and coach
• 1952 – Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1952 – Diosdado Peralta, Filipino lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1952 – Arnold Morgado, American football player
• 1952 – Erwin Fuchsbichler, Austrian footballer
• 1952 – Joško Marušić, Croatian animator and illustrator
• 1952 – Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, Catalan lawyer and politician
• 1953 – George Copos, Romanian businessman and politician
• 1953 – Bairbre Dowling, Irish actress
• 1953 – Jørn Goldstein, Norwegian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Dennis Bevington, Canadian politician
• 1953 – Gary Wayne Alexander, American baseball player
• 1953 – Gabriele Gatti, Sanmarinese politician, Captain Regent of San Marino
• 1953 – Edwarda O'Bara, American coma patient (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
• 1953 – Ranjit Sinha, Indian police officer
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English politician
• 1954 – Robbie Haines, American sailor
• 1954 – Mauro Roman, Italian horse rider
• 1954 – Paul Bennett, Canadian football player
• 1954 – Armando Vara, Portuguese politician
• 1954 – Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Swiss-Australian painter
• 1954 – Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Brazilian diplomat
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish author and playwright
• 1955 – Lefteris Pantazis, Uzbek-Greek singer
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcycle racer
• 1955 – Hana Sweid, Israeli politician
• 1955 – Yisrael Eichler, Israeli journalist and politician
• 1955 – Ion-Aurel Stanciu, Romanian general
• 1956 – Dale Arnold, American sportscaster
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist
• 1956 – Dave Debol, American ice hockey player
• 1956 – Nora Volkow, Mexican-American physician
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish skier
• 1956 – Paul Wickens, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins, English lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Konstantin Kokora, Russian figure skater
• 1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1958 – Susan Molinari, American journalist and politician
• 1958 – Ronald Keller, Dutch diplomat
• 1958 – Parker Johnstone, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1958 – Wendy Jacob, American sculptor
• 1958 – Adrian Rawlins, English actor
• 1958 – Wim Hofkens, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1959 – Steve Crowley, American sergeant (d. 1979)
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian keyboard player and songwriter (INXS)
• 1959 – Kid Congo Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Congo Norvell, The Cramps and Knoxville Girls)
• 1959 – Tatyana Ivinskaya, Belarusian basketball player
• 1959 – Ivan Savvidis, Georgian-Russian businessman and politician
• 1959 – Mariusz Strzałka, Polish fencer
• 1959 – Oleksandr Sorokalet, Ukrainian volleyball player
• 1959 – Ivan Sunara, Croatian basketball player
• 1960 – Johannes Kerkorrel, South African singer-songwriter, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1960 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Heiki Vilep, Estonian poet and author
• 1960 – Tim Wrightman, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Mark Cohen, Irish cricketer
• 1961 – Nikita Dzhigurda, Russian actor and singer
• 1961 – Valery Kargin, Latvian banker
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (B'z and Tak Matsumoto Group)
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American author
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English author
• 1962 – Brad Wright, American basketball player
• 1963 – Philippos Sachinidis, Canadian-Greek economist and politician, Minister of Finance for Greece
• 1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian drummer (Soda Stereo)
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
• 1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist and radio host
• 1963 – Jörg Michael, German drummer (Stratovarius, Mekong Delta, Running Wild, and Rage)
• 1963 – Cory Blackwell, American basketball player
• 1963 – Pip Karmel, Australian director, editor, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Bedabrata Pain, Indian director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Ed Pinckney, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1963 – Mikhail Scherbakov, Russian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1963 – Gary M. Stevens, English footballer
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1963 – Tim Worstall, English author and blogger
• 1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer
• 1964 – Clive Rowe, English actor
• 1964 – Pascale Machaalani, Lebanese singer
• 1964 – Guy Guzzone, American politician
• 1964 – Kad Merad, Algerian-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Jessica Soho, Filipino journalist and broadcaster
• 1964 – Clark Datchler, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Johnny Hates Jazz)
• 1965 – Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
• 1965 – Sonia Falcone, Bolivian painter
• 1965 – Dina Talaat, Italian-Egyptian actress and dancer
• 1966 – Arthur H, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1966 – Ramiro Castillo, Bolivian footballer (d. 1997)
• 1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese illustrator
• 1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
• 1967 – Heath Sherman, American football player
• 1967 – Cathy Guetta, Senegalese-French businesswoman
• 1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese wrestler, judoka, rugby union player, and bodybuilder
• 1967 – Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
• 1967 – Dean Starkey, American pole vaulter
• 1967 – Bob Morgan, Welsh diver
• 1967 – Jaime Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American model and actress
• 1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss actress
• 1968 – Stacey Kent, American singer
• 1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
• 1968 – Piret Viirma, Estonian draughts player
• 1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
• 1969 – Stuart Slater, English footballer
• 1969 – Mary Kiani, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Time Frequency)
• 1969 – Mickey Hardt, Swiss-Luxembourgian actor and martial artist
• 1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (d. 1990)
• 1969 – Todd Raleigh, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian-American drummer and songwriter (Theory of a Deadman, Union, Econoline Crush, and Indigenous)
• 1970 – Eleanor Maguire, Irish neuropsychologist
• 1970 – Goran Janus, Slovenian ski jumper and coach
• 1970 – Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby player
• 1970 – Damian Hampson, Australian footballer
• 1970 – Brendan Hill, English-American drummer (Blues Traveler and Stolen Ogre)
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1970 – Mauricio Vallina, Cuban-Belgian pianist
• 1970 – Niša Saveljić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1971 – Thom Barron, German porn actor
• 1971 – Victor Bodiu, Moldovan economist and politician
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1971 – Kelvyn Alp, New Zealand politician
• 1971 – Roger Owensby, Jr., American sergeant and shooting victim (d. 2000)
• 1971 – Santiago Herrero Amor, Spanish footballer
• 1971 – Matt Pegg, English bass player (Procol Harum)
• 1972 – David Bain, New Zealand murderer
• 1972 – Simona Richter, Romanian martial artist
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American wrestler
• 1972 – Emily Kapnek, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
• 1972 – Serhan Yavaş, Turkish model and actor
• 1972 – Ignacio Garrido, Spanish golfer
• 1972 – Anne-Kat. Hærland, Norwegian comedian and television host
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and coach
• 1972 – Kieran Modra, Australian cyclist and swimmer
• 1972 – Kazimír Verkin, Slovak race walker
• 1972 – Van Phillips, English golfer
• 1973 – Ade Adepitan, Nigerian-English basketball player
• 1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
• 1973 – Shay Sights, Canadian porn actress and director
• 1973 – Greg Lalas, Greek-American soccer player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Pablo Pozo, Chilean footballer and referee
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Luca Banti, Italian footballer and referee
• 1974 – Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Graham Clarke, Irish hurler
• 1974 – Bernard Curry, Australian actor
• 1974 – Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1974 – Joan Horrach, Spanish cyclist
• 1974 – Aram Margaryan, Armenian wrestler
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Jason Narvy, American actor
• 1974 – Simon Terry, English archer
• 1974 – Dmitri Yemets, Russian author
• 1974 – Andrea Conti, Italian basketball player
• 1975 – Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Black Eyed Peas and Wild Orchid)
• 1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
• 1975 – Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
• 1975 – Kim Felton, Australian golfer
• 1975 – Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva, Russian politician
• 1975 – Jeff Palmer, American-Argentinian porn actor
• 1975 – Andrea Jennifer Shubert, American video game designer
• 1975 – Bruce Jacobs, South African field hockey player
• 1975 – Stefán Þórðarson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 – Hennadiy Moroz, Ukrainian footballer
• 1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, French-Algerian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Alexei Koledayev, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
• 1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong actor
• 1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1977 – Víctor Ávila, Mexican basketball player
• 1977 – Elías Larry Ayuso, American basketball player
• 1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek gymnast
• 1977 – Juraj Minčík, Slovak canoe racer
• 1977 – Esther Wanjiru, Kenyan runner
• 1977 – Malia Jones, American model and surfer
• 1977 – Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina, Kazakh skier
• 1977 – Noname Jane, American porn actress
• 1977 – Zed Seselja, Australian politician
• 1977 – Nils Winter, German long jumper
• 1978 – Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
• 1978 – Dorothea Lasky, American poet
• 1978 – Kahlil Joseph, Indian actor
• 1978 – Dee Brown, American baseball player
• 1978 – Kate Church, Australian swimmer
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
• 1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
• 1979 – Marcello Salazar, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Martin Larsson, Swedish skier
• 1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Hayden Mullins, English footballer
• 1979 – Vidas Alunderis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
• 1979 – Louise Brealey, English actress
• 1979 – Jenny Wilson, South African field hockey player
• 1979 – Jennifer Wilson, South African field hockey player
• 1979 – Tom Palmer, English rugby player
• 1979 – Jermaine Phillips, American football player
• 1979 – Brook Silva-Braga, American director, cinematographer, and producer
• 1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (Lùnapop)
• 1980 – Nicolas Duvauchelle, French actor
• 1980 – Sean Ryan, American football player
• 1980 – Terese Pedersen, Norwegian handball player
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1980 – Greg Puciato, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Error, and Soulfly)
• 1980 – Basil Shaaban, Lebanese race car driver
• 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
• 1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Banky W., American-Nigerian singer-songwriter, founded Empire Mates Entertainment
• 1981 – Hilda Kibet, Kenyan-Dutch runner
• 1981 – JJ Lin, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Brian Miner, American comedian
• 1981 – Tobias Schenke, German actor
• 1981 – Chen Yan, Chinese swimmer
• 1981 – Gavin Skelton, English footballer
• 1981 – Martin Abentung, Austrian sled racer
• 1981 – Cesilie Carlton, American diver
• 1981 – Sione Faumuina, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 – Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
• 1982 – Tracy Phillips, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese model, Miss Universe Japan 2006
• 1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor and dancer
• 1982 – Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1982 – Luke Guttridge, English footballer
• 1982 – Admiral P, Zambian-Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Radoslav Banga, Czech singer-songwriter (Gipsy.cz)
• 1982 – Jhon Valencia, Colombian footballer and coach
• 1983 – Alina Devecerski, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Robert Guerrero, American boxer
• 1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Igor Picuşceac, Moldovan footballer
• 1983 – Joshua Hill, Australian baseball player
• 1983 – Yunus İçuz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Vasiliy Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Marc Marzenit, Spanish DJ and producer
• 1983 – Ibezito Ogbonna, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 – Jacques Riparelli, Cameroonian-Italian sprinter
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
• 1984 – Laura Critchley, English singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Kylie Cronk, Australian softball player
• 1984 – Nesar Ahmad Bahave, Afghan martial artist
• 1984 – Ben Franks, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Emily Ann Lloyd, American actress
• 1984 – Raffaele Nolè, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Fernando Usero, Spanish footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Salvis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Jon Paul Steuer, American actor
• 1984 – Jonathan Wade, American football player
• 1985 – Aman Ali, American comedian and journalist
• 1985 – Anton Amelchenko, Belarusian footballer
• 1985 – Vitaly Gurkov, Belarusian kick-boxer
• 1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Sabrina Seara, Venezuelan actress
• 1985 – Jeremy Yasasa, Papua New Guinean footballer
• 1985 – Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Alison Carroll, English model, actress, and gymnast
• 1985 – Ram Charan, Indian actor
• 1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Oren Eizenman, Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jéssica Guillén, Venezuelan model, Miss Venezuela 2009
• 1985 – Guillaume Joli, French handball player
• 1985 – David Navara, Czech chess player
• 1985 – Tobias Salmelainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1985 – Nadezhda Skardino, Belarusian biathlete
• 1985 – Karina Vnukova, Lithuanian high jumper
• 1985 – Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player
• 1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish model and actress
• 1985 – Khadzhimurat Akkayev, Russian weightlifter
• 1985 – Blake McIver Ewing, American actor and singer
• 1985 – Luis Bolaños, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1985 – Terry Kennedy, American skateboarder
• 1986 – Dan Bull, English rapper
• 1986 – Marcus Pode, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Boris Grachev, Russian chess player
• 1986 – Darren Gribben, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (at17)
• 1986 – Chris Lofton, American basketball player
• 1986 – Xavier Marshall, Jamaican cricketer
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1986 – Monica Vera, Spanish porn actress
• 1986 – Rebecca Elise Lamb, Australian actress, writer, and producer
• 1986 – Titus Brown, American football player
• 1986 – Andrés Silva, Uruguayan hurdler and sprinter
• 1986 – Pedro Solberg Salgado, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1986 – SoCal Val, American wrestling manager and announcer
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Garrett Raboin, American ice hockey player
• 1987 – Alejandro Castro, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 – Alexander Weckström, Finnish footballer
• 1987 – Lene Egeli, Norwegian model, Miss Norway 2008
• 1987 – Shin Young-Rok, South Korean footballer
• 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1987 – Anthony Levine, American football player
• 1987 – Florencio Morán, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Alex Pledger, New Zealand basketball player
• 1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
• 1987 – José Fernando Viana de Santana, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Charonda Williams, American sprinter
• 1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
• 1988 – Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
• 1988 – Anatoli Pulyayev, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1988 – Mohamed Sbihi, English rower
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Curtis Hargrove, German-Canadian humanitarian and runner
• 1989 – Šarūnas Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1989 – Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
• 1989 – Fábio Freire Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Nolan Kasper, American skier
• 1989 – Caitlin Upton, American model, Miss Teen USA 2007
• 1989 – Nana Attakora, Canadian soccer player
• 1989 – Matthew Harvey, American baseball player
• 1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Taylor Benjamin, Canadian-Guyanese footballer
• 1990 – Leandro Chichizola, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Joselu, German-Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Michelle Karvinen, Danish-Finnish ice hockey player
• 1990 – Maksim Dobroshtanov, Russian footballer
• 1990 – Junior Lake, Dominican baseball player
• 1990 – Kimbra, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Jake Odorizzi, American baseball player
• 1990 – Meelis Peitre, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Elena Gjorgjievska, Macedonian handball player
• 1990 – Natalia Sánchez, Spanish actress and singer (Santa Justa Klan)
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Pholien Systermans, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Chloe Marshall, English model
• 1992 – Mark Gillespie, English footballer
• 1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Max Veloso, Portuguese-Swiss footballer
• 1992 – Cameron Edwards, Australian footballer
• 1992 – Nino Sutidze, Georgian footballer
• 1992 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese voice actress
• 1992 – Emma Maembong, Malaysian model and actress
• 1993 – Dariya Derkach, Ukrainian-Italian hurdler, long jumper, and long jumper
• 1993 – Fraser Fyvie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 – Lucia Mokrášová, Slovak heptathlete
• 1994 – Wesley Vázquez, Puerto Rican runner
• 1996 – Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, American-Italian actress
• 1997 – Princess Sara bint Al Faisal of Jordan
• 1997 – Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal of Jordan
• 1999 – Natasha Calis, Canadian actress
• 2004 – Butler Blue II, American dog (d. 2013)

Deaths

• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian saint (b. 660)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535)
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523)
• 1625 – James VI and I of England and Scotland (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English-American politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1778 – Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, French sculptor (b. 1705)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French reformer (b. 1747)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American colonel (b. 1804)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (b. 1800)
• 1873 – Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician (b. 1811)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American scientist and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English organist and composer (b. 1841)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Timo K. Mukka, Swedish-Finnish author (b. 1944)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Eve Meyer, American model, actress, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot and captain (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, English actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, Sr., American bridge player and author (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian businessman (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, English actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Swiss-Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American author and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Adán Sánchez, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor and producer (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, Scottish typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian educator and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Arnold Meri, Soviet Estonian military commander (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Lawrence Elion, Canadian/British actor (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American critic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Gerald Curran, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Paul Williams, American journalist and publisher, founded Crawdaddy! (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day or Tatmadaw nei (Burma)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
  • Amador of Portugal
  • Augusta of Treviso
  • Gelasius
  • John of Egypt
  • Philetus and companies
  • Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
  • Rupert of Salzburg
  • Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
  • March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• World Theatre Day (International)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 27.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada