Born on Wednesday, 27th August – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 264 notable people were born on 27th August — spanning from 865 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 marks the birth of numerous notable figures across sports, entertainment and public service. Among the most significant is Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian politician born in 1986 who served as the 25th Chancellor of Austria. His rise in European politics represented a shift in continental governance during the early twenty-first century. Another prominent figure born on this date is Carlos Moyá, the Spanish-Swiss tennis player born in 1976, whose career spanned the competitive era of professional tennis in the late twentieth century. The date has also given rise to contemporary entertainment talents including German singer-songwriter Kim Petras, born in 1992, whose work in pop music gained international recognition.
The roster of births on this day extends across multiple professional disciplines. Sergey Sirotkin, born in 1995, became a Russian race car driver competing at the highest levels of motorsport. English actress Jessie Mei Li, also born in 1995, found prominence through film and television work in the 2020s. The variety of professions and nationalities represented on 27 August demonstrates how a single date in the calendar encompasses achievements across diverse fields of human endeavour.
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27/08/2007
Ariana Greenblatt, American actress
Ariana Greenblatt is an American actress. Her first starring role was in the Disney Channel comedy series Stuck in the Middle (2016–2018). Other early roles included the comedy film A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and the musical film In the Heights (2021). She rose to greater prominence with the science-fiction film 65, the comedy film Barbie, and the space opera television series Ahsoka, which were all released in 2023. For Barbie, she received nominations at the Critics' Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
27/08/2006
Kang Ju-hyeok, South Korean footballer
Kang Ju-hyeok is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a forward for K League 1 club FC Seoul. He made his debut professional appearance in the 2024 K League 1 season.
27/08/2001
Franz Wagner, German basketball player
Franz Jacob Wagner is a German professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines.
27/08/1998
Kevin Huerter, American basketball player
Kevin Joseph Huerter is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Red Velvet" and "the Big Huert", he played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins.
Matheus Nunes, Portuguese footballer
Matheus Luiz Nunes is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or right-back for Premier League club Manchester City and the Portugal national team.
Rod Wave, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
Rodarius Marcell Green, known professionally as Rod Wave, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Signed to Alamo Records, Green is known for his strong voice and incorporation of hip hop and R&B, having been recognized as a pioneer of "trap-soul." Green rose to prominence with his 2019 single "Heart on Ice," which first went viral on TikTok before peaking at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song preceded his debut studio album, Ghetto Gospel (2019), which peaked at number ten on the US Billboard 200. His second album, Pray 4 Love (2020), peaked at number two on the chart and included the song "Rags2Riches", which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
27/08/1997
Lucas Paquetá, Brazilian footballer
Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima, better known as Lucas Paquetá, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Brazil national team.
27/08/1995
Jessie Mei Li, English actress
Jessica Mei Li is an English actress. She is best known for her starring role as the main character and protagonist Alina Starkov in the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023). She also played as Ellie in the 2025 Netflix film Havoc.
Sergey Sirotkin, Russian race car driver
Sergey Olegovich Sirotkin is a Russian racing driver, who most recently competed in the 2025 Middle East Trophy for SMP Racing. Sirotkin competed in Formula One in 2018.
27/08/1994
Ellar Coltrane, American actor
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
Breanna Stewart, American basketball player
Breanna Mackenzie Stewart, nicknamed "Stewie", is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She is one of the most accomplished basketball players in history. Stewart is a founder of the Unrivaled basketball league together with Napheesa Collier.
27/08/1993
Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
Sarah Stefanie Hecken is a German retired figure skater. She is a four-time German national champion and has won twelve senior international medals, including six gold. She has placed as high as 11th at the World Championships. Her first international victory was at the 2007 Junior Grand Prix event in Germany.
Olivier Le Gac, French cyclist
Olivier Le Gac is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ United. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España and the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.
27/08/1992
Blake Jenner, American actor and singer
Blake Alexander Jenner is an American actor. Jenner won the second season of Oxygen's The Glee Project and, as a result, portrayed Ryder Lynn on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. He has since had starring and supporting roles in Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), American Animals (2018), and What/If (2019).
Stephen Morris, American football player
Stephen Morris is an American former football quarterback. He played college football at the University of Miami, and signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2014. Morris was also a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Orlando Apollos.
Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter
Kim Petras is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. After attracting international attention for transitioning as a teenager, she released the EP One Piece of Tape (2011) and wrote tracks for Fergie, JoJo, Skylar Stecker, and Twice. She released her debut single, "I Don't Want It at All", in August 2017, followed by the single "Heart to Break" (2018), which charted at No. 52 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. She followed this with Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1 (2018), Clarity (2019), Turn Off the Light (2019), and the single "How It's Done" (2019); the last of these featured on the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels. A further track, "Broken Glass" (2020), charted at number 23 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
Ayame Goriki, Japanese actress and singer
Ayame Goriki is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She was represented by the talent agency Oscar Promotion until 2020. Currently she was represented by the talent agency Short Cut.
27/08/1991
Lee Sung-yeol, South Korean actor and singer
Lee Sung-yeol, known mononymously as Sungyeol, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Infinite and its sub-group Infinite F.
27/08/1990
Tori Bowie, American athlete (died 2023)
Frentorish "Tori" Bowie was an American track and field athlete, who primarily competed in the long jump, 100 meters, and 200 meters. She won the silver medal in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, bronze and gold in the 100 m at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships, respectively, and also earned gold medals as part of U.S. women's 4 × 100 m relays at both the 2016 Olympic Games and 2017 World Championships.
Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer
Luuk de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Primeira Liga club Porto.
27/08/1989
Romain Amalfitano, French footballer
Romain Grégoire Clément Amalfitano is a French professional footballer who last played as an attacking midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers. He previously played for Reims, Châteauroux, Evian, Newcastle United, Dijon FCO and Al-Faisaly.
Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress
Juliana Cannarozzo is an American former competitive figure skater and actress. She won two gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
27/08/1988
Alexa PenaVega, American actress and singer
Alexa Ellesse PenaVega is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Carmen Cortez in the first four Spy Kids films and Julie Corky in the 2004 film Sleepover. In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & the Rockits.
27/08/1987
Darren McFadden, American football player
Darren Deon McFadden is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round with the fourth overall pick of the 2008 NFL draft. McFadden also played three seasons for the Dallas Cowboys.
27/08/1986
Lana Bastašić, Serbian-Bosnian author and translator
Lana Bastašić is a Bosnian writer, novelist and translator.
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria
Sebastian Kurz is an Austrian former politician who served twice as Chancellor of Austria, first from 2017 to 2019 and then again from 2020 to 2021.
Mario, American singer and actor
Mario Dewar Barrett, known mononymously as Mario, is an American R&B singer, songwriter and dancer. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he signed a record deal with J Records—at the age of 14—to release his self-titled debut studio album (2002). Its lead single, "Just a Friend 2002", peaked within the Billboard Hot 100's top five, while the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200. His second album, Turning Point (2004), was supported by the Billboard Hot 100-number one single "Let Me Love You," which was nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, won two Billboard Music Awards, and yielded his furthest commercial success.
27/08/1985
Kayla Ewell, American actress
Kayla Ewell is an American actress known for her roles on television as Caitlin Ramirez on CBS's long-running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, as Maureen Sampson on NBC's Freaks and Geeks, and as Vicki Donovan on The CW's The Vampire Diaries.
Kevan Hurst, English footballer
Kevan James Hurst is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer
Nikica Jelavić is a Croatian football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He is the manager of Croatian Football League club Lokomotiva.
Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter and sculptor
Alexandra Nechita is a Romanian-American cubist painter and philanthropist. At age 12 she was dubbed the "Petite Picasso" by the media and the art community. She has been praised for her paintings and vision of art.
27/08/1984
David Bentley, English footballer
David Michael Bentley is an English former professional footballer who played primarily as a winger, but also played as a central midfielder or as a second striker.
Amanda Fuller, American actress
Amanda Fuller is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for being the second actress to portray Kristin Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing.
Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
Suleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Italy, playing for clubs such as Udinese, Inter Milan, and AC Milan.
27/08/1983
Joanna McGilchrist, English rugby player and physiotherapist
Joanna Gabrielle McGilchrist is an English rugby union player. She represented England at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup. She was also named in the squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.
27/08/1981
Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor
Patrick Johannes Adams is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his role as Mike Ross, a college dropout turned unlicensed lawyer, in the USA Network legal drama series Suits (2011–2019). His performance earned him a nomination in 2012 for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer
Maxwell Scherrer Cabelino Andrade, known as Maxwell, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is currently employed by Paris Saint-Germain as assistant sporting director.
Chantal Djotodia, Beninese-Central African nurse and politician
Chantal Vinadou Tohouégnon Djotodia is a Beninese-born nurse who became the First Lady of the Central African Republic from 2013 to 2014.
Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
Alessandro Gamberini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He is working as assistant coach for Virtus Verona.
Karla Mosley, American actress
Karla Cheatham Mosley is an American actress and singer. She starred on the Emmy-nominated children's show Hi-5; she has starred in numerous plays and also had minor roles in several other TV shows and films. She regularly appeared as Christina Moore Boudreau in the soap opera Guiding Light and as Maya Avant in The Bold and the Beautiful. As of 2025, she stars as Dani Dupree on Beyond the Gates.
27/08/1979
Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist who is known for her work with indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom she is a former core member and currently a touring member. She has contributed to each of the band's studio albums to date. Neufeld is also a member of the instrumental band Bell Orchestre.
Aaron Paul, American actor and producer
Aaron Paul is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). He went on to reprise the role in the Netflix sequel film El Camino (2019) and during the final season of spin-off series Better Call Saul (2022).
Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachunek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the team was decimated in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League (NHL). Rachůnek was drafted in the ninth round, 229th overall, by the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Rachunek was the brother of Ivan Rachůnek and Tomáš Rachůnek who also played professional ice hockey.
Rusty Smith, American speed skater
Rusty Smith is a short track speed skater from the United States who won bronze in the 500m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another bronze in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
27/08/1978
Demetria McKinney, American actress and singer
Demetria Dyan McKinney is an American actress, model, and singer. From 2006 to 2012, during its original run, she starred in the TBS sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne, and a BET revival of the show was announced in 2020. Her other series regular roles include TV One sitcom The Rickey Smiley Show, Bounce TV prime time soap opera Saints & Sinners and Syfy horror drama Superstition, as well as Motherland: Fort Salem on Freeform.
27/08/1977
Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
Anderson Luís de Souza, also known as Deco, is a former professional footballer who primarily played as an attacking or central midfielder. Born and raised in Brazil, he played for the Portugal national team. He currently works as sporting director for Barcelona.
Justin Miller, American baseball player (died 2013)
Justin Mark Miller was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines. Miller was the inspiration for the "Justin Miller rule" requiring pitchers with arm tattoos to wear long-sleeved shirts.
27/08/1976
Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
Sarah Louise Christine Chalke is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring roles as the second Becky Conner in the ABC sitcom Roseanne (1993–1997), Elliot Reid in the NBC/ABC medical comedy series Scrubs, Beth Smith and Space Beth in the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty (2013–present), and Kate Mularkey in the Netflix drama series Firefly Lane (2021–2023).
Audrey C. Delsanti, French astronomer and biologist
Audrey Delsanti is a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Milano Collection A.T., Japanese wrestler
Akihito Sawafuji , born Akihito Terui , is a Japanese color commentator and retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Milano Collection A. T. . As Milano, Sawafuji adopted the gimmick of an Italian fashion aficionado/supermodel, reflected in his ring attire. Milano is also known for walking to the ring with an invisible dog known as Mikeru. After retiring from in-ring competition in 2010, Milano began working as a color commentator for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), a position he maintains to this day.
Carlos Moyá, Spanish-Swiss tennis player
Carlos Moyá Llompart is a Spanish former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Moyá won 20 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 1998 French Open, and was part of the victorious Spanish Davis Cup team in 2004. He was also the runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. After his playing career, Moyá served as Rafael Nadal's primary coach from 2016 to 2024.
Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
Mark Alan Webber is an Australian former racing driver, broadcaster, and driver manager who competed in Formula One from 2002 to 2013. Webber won nine Formula One Grands Prix across twelve seasons. In endurance racing, Webber won the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2015 with Porsche.
27/08/1975
Blake Adams, American golfer
Blake Adams is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.
Mase, American rapper, songwriter and pastor
Mason Durell Betha, known professionally as Mase, is an American rapper. Best known for his work with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records, he signed with the label in 1996 and quickly found mainstream recognition as Combs' hype man. He guest appeared on Combs' 1997 single "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, while his first two singles as a lead artist, "Feel So Good" and "What You Want", both peaked within the chart's top ten. Released in October of that year, his debut studio album, Harlem World (1997), peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart, received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and spawned his third top ten single as a lead artist, "Lookin' at Me". Furthermore, his guest performances on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "Mo Money Mo Problems" and Combs' "Been Around the World" peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, that same year.
Jonny Moseley, Puerto Rican-American skier and television host
Jonathan William Moseley is an American freestyle skier and television presenter. He is the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a member of the U.S. Ski Team. He is also known for hosting three seasons of MTV's The Challenge, which was formerly known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He has also hosted four reunion specials for Battle of the Sexes, the sequel of Battle of the Seasons, Rivals II and Free Agents.
Marko Rudan, Australian footballer and manager
Marko Ante "Mark" Rudan is an Australian association football manager and former player.
27/08/1974
Aaron Downey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Aaron Douglas Downey is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Downey played 13 seasons of professional ice hockey and played 243 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars and Detroit Red Wings. He was not drafted by either an NHL team or a major junior team. Downey was mostly known for his role as an enforcer. Downey also played in the minor leagues for the Manitoba Moose, Portland Pirates, Providence Bruins, Norfolk Admirals, Hampton Roads Admirals and the Grand Rapids Griffins.
Manny Fernandez, Canadian ice hockey player
Emmanuel L. Fernandez is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and the Boston Bruins. Fernandez was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, but grew up in Kirkland, Quebec.
Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
Michael James Mason is a former New Zealand cricketer, born in Carterton. He played Test matches and One Day Internationals for New Zealand.
José Vidro, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
José Angel Vidro is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals and Seattle Mariners.
Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
Mohammad Yousuf PP SI is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer and captain, who played all three formats. Prior to his conversion to Islam, Yousuf was one of the few Christians to play for the Pakistan national cricket team. Yousuf scored 1,788 runs in 2006 which is a world record for most runs scored in a year in tests at an average of almost 100. He was a part of the Pakistan squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
27/08/1973
Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
Daniel Coyne is a Welsh football coach and former professional player.
Dietmar Hamann, German footballer and manager
Dietmar Johann Wolfgang "Didi" Hamann is a German football pundit and former professional player.
Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter
Burak Kut is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter.
Johan Norberg, Swedish historian and author
Johan Norberg is a Swedish author devoted to promoting economic globalization and classical liberal positions. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001), Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016), and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). Since 15 March 2007, he has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and since January 2017 an executive editor at Free To Choose Media, where he regularly produces documentaries for US public television.
27/08/1972
Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player
Jaap-Derk Buma is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 143 international matches for the Netherlands, in which he scored nineteen goals. The striker made his debut for the Dutch on 5 November 1994 in a match against Belgium. He played in the Dutch League for HC Klein Zwitserland, HC Bloemendaal, Amsterdam, and HC Breda, and was a member of the squad that won the golden medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His father Edo was also a field hockey international for Holland.
The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler
Dalip Singh Rana, better known by his ring name The Great Khali, is an Indian-born American former professional wrestler, promoter, and actor. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he became the first Indian-born world champion. Standing over 7 feet tall due to acromegaly, Khali gained attention for his imposing stature and was prominently featured in WWE storylines throughout the mid-2000s to early 2010s.
Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis is a British sports administrator and former sports presenter and athletics athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon.
Jimmy Pop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Moyer Franks, better known by his stage name Jimmy Pop, is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and one of the founding members of the comedic rock band Bloodhound Gang.
Pokwang, Filipino comedian, actress, television host and singer
Marietta Tan Subong, known professionally as Pokwang, is a Filipino comedian, actress, television host and singer.
27/08/1971
Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and manager
Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the head coach and technical director of Eredivisie club Heracles Almelo.
Kyung Lah, South Korean-American journalist
Kyung I. Lah is a South Korean journalist and correspondent for CNN based in the United States.
Hisayuki Okawa, Japanese runner
Hisayuki Okawa is a retired male long-distance runner from Japan, who won the 1995 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:14:00 on September 24, 1995.
Aygül Özkan, German lawyer and politician
Aygül Özkan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as managing director of the German Property Federation (ZIA) since 2020.
27/08/1970
Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer and coach
Andrew John Bichel is a former Australian cricketer, who played 19 Test matches and 67 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1997 and 2004. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler, but was also a hard-hitting lower-order batsman. Bichel was a member of the Australian team who won the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Mark Ilott, English cricketer
Mark Christopher Ilott is a former English professional cricketer.
Tony Kanal, British-American bass player. songwriter, and record producer
Tony Ashwin Kanal is a British-American musician, songwriter and record producer who is known for his work as the bassist and co-writer for the rock bands No Doubt and Dreamcar. His career outside of performing includes production and songwriting credits with artists such as Pink, Weezer, Elan Atias and No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani's solo work.
Jim Thome, American baseball player and manager
James Howard Thome is an American former professional baseball player—a first baseman, third baseman and designated hitter—who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 22 seasons (1991–2012). A prolific power hitter, Thome hit 612 home runs during his career—the eighth-most all time. He amassed a total of 2,328 hits and 1,699 runs batted in (RBIs). His career batting average was .276. He was a member of five All-Star teams and won a Silver Slugger Award in 1996.
Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (died 2008)
Karl Unterkircher was an Italian mountaineer. He is mostly known for opening new mountain routes.
27/08/1969
Mark Ealham, English cricketer
Mark Alan Ealham is a former English cricketer, who played Test and One Day International cricket. He played domestic cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club as an all-rounder.
Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer, television personality, and author
César Felipe Millán Favela is a Mexican-American dog trainer. His television series Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan was produced from 2004 to 2012 and has been broadcast in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Reece Shearsmith, English actor, comedian and writer
Reeson Wayne Shearsmith is a British actor, comedian and writer. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, he created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. Shearsmith also had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End.
Chandra Wilson, American actress and director
Chandra Danette Wilson is an American actress and director best known for her role as Dr. Miranda Bailey in Grey's Anatomy, for which she has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series four times. She also played the character of Bailey on Private Practice and Station 19. She made her New York stage debut in 1991 and began to land guest spots on a variety of prime-time television shows. She made her first film appearance in the 1993 film Philadelphia.
27/08/1968
Eric "Bobo" Correa, American musician
Eric "Bobo" Correa is an American percussionist best known as a member of Cypress Hill and for his work with the Beastie Boys in the 1990s. He is also a founding member of the industrial metal supergroup Sol Invicto, alongside Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter and producer/guitarist Richie Londres.
Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic
Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.
Michael Long, New Zealand golfer
Michael Richard Long is a New Zealand professional golfer who has played on a number of tours, including two seasons on the PGA Tour and three seasons on the European Tour. He won four times on the PGA Tour of Australasia between 1996 and 2018 and twice on the Nationwide Tour. He won the 2020 European Senior Tour Q-School.
Matthew Ridge, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
Matthew John Ridge is a New Zealand television presenter, and a former rugby union and rugby league footballer.
27/08/1967
Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Herminio Jose Lualhati "Ogie" Alcasid Jr. is a Filipino actor, singer, songwriter, comedian, director and producer. He is best known for his songwriting and collaboration with other musical artists. He has appeared in films and television shows, notably as a cast member of Tropang Trumpo (1994–1995) and Bubble Gang (1995–2013) and a host and main performer of SOP (1997–2010) and ASAP (2017–present). He is currently married to Regine Velasquez, with whom he has one child.
Rob Burnett, American football player and sportscaster
Robert Barry Burnett is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Syracuse Orange.
27/08/1966
Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower
Jeroen Tarquinis Cornelis Duyster is a former coxswain from the Netherlands, who won a gold medal with the Holland Acht as a cox at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the older brother of former Dutch field hockey international Willemijn Duyster, who won the bronze medal at the same Olympic tournament.
René Higuita, Colombian footballer
José René Higuita Zapata is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was nicknamed El Loco for his high-risk 'sweeper-keeper' playing style and his flair for the dramatic, and sometimes even scoring goals despite being a goalkeeper.
Juhan Parts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia
Juhan Parts is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia from 2003 to 2005 and Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications from 2007 to 2014. Juhan Parts is a member of Isamaa party.
27/08/1965
Scott Dibble, American lawyer and politician
David Scott Dibble is an American politician serving as a member of the Minnesota Senate since 2003. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Dibble represents District 61, which includes parts of Minneapolis in Hennepin County. From 2001 to 2003, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
Wayne Robert James is a former cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper batsman for Zimbabwe. Between 2010 and 2014, James was also part of the selection panel for the national team.
Ange Postecoglou, Greek-Australian footballer and coach
Angelos Postecoglou is a professional soccer manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Premier League club Nottingham Forest. He is known for his heavily attacking style of play, dubbed "Angeball".
27/08/1964
Stephan Elliott, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
Stephan Elliott is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994).
Paul Bernardo, Canadian serial rapist and murderer
Paul Kenneth Bernardo, also known as Paul Jason Teale, is a Canadian serial rapist and serial killer dubbed the Scarborough Rapist, the Schoolgirl Killer and, together with his former fiancée and later wife Karla Homolka, one of the Ken and Barbie Killers. He initially committed a series of rapes in Scarborough, Ontario, a district of Toronto, between 1986 and 1990, before committing three murders with Homolka between 1990 and 1992; among these victims was Karla's younger sister, Tammy Homolka.
27/08/1963
Nguyễn Phương Nga,Vietnamese diplomat
Madam Nguyễn Phương Nga is a Vietnamese female diplomat. She was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 2011 until 2018. In 2019, she became the Chairwoman Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations.
27/08/1962
Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
Adam Robert Oates is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, former co-head coach for the New Jersey Devils and former head coach for the Washington Capitals. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers from 1985 to 2004. Known as an elite playmaker, Oates's career total of 1,079 assists was the fifth-highest total in NHL history at the time of his 2004 retirement. He has the second highest number of games played and points scored among undrafted NHL players with 1,337 and 1,420, respectively.
27/08/1961
Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress
Yolanda Yvette Adams is an American gospel singer, actress, and host of her own nationally syndicated morning gospel show. She is one of the best-selling gospel artists of all time, having sold over 10 million albums worldwide. In addition to achieving multi-platinum status, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Dove Awards, five BET Awards, six NAACP Image Awards, six Soul Train Music Awards, two BMI Awards and sixteen Stellar Awards. She is the first Gospel artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Song. She is also the first Gospel artist to be awarded an American Music Award.
Mark Curry, English television host and actor
Mark Preston Curry is an English television presenter, actor and broadcaster. He is best known for his career on the British television children's show Blue Peter (1986–1989) as a presenter, as well as hosting ITV game show Catchphrase in 2002.
Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director
Thomas Carlyle Ford is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous fashion brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. He wrote and directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016), and served as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America from 2019 to 2022.
Steve McDowall, New Zealand rugby player
Steven Clark "Steve" McDowall is a former rugby union player from New Zealand ; he played as a Prop forward and he won 46 full caps for the All Blacks between 1985 and 1992.
Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer
Helmut Winklhofer is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder for Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern Munich. He won four German titles and played in the 1987 European Cup Final before his career was cut short by injury in 1990.
27/08/1959
Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
Teresa Presmanes Corona, known professionally as Daniela Romo, is a Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess. During her career, she has sold 15 million records, making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists.
Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
Gerhard Berger is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1997. Berger won ten Formula One Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
Juan Fernando Cobo Agudelo was a Colombian painter, illustrator, sculptor and cultural promoter, one of the most notable artists of his native region, Valle del Cauca.
Denice Denton, American engineer and academic (died 2006)
Denice Dee Denton was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer
Frode Fjellheim is a Southern Saami yoiker and musician from Norway. He is best known for his band Transjoik and as the composer of the 2002 song "Eatnemen Vuelie", which was later adapted to become the opening musical number of Frozen. Fjellheim was raised in Gausdal Municipality and Karasjok Municipality, and is South Sámi.
András Petőcz, Hungarian author and poet
András Petőcz is a Hungarian writer and poet.
Jeanette Winterson, English journalist and novelist
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
27/08/1958
Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut. He is a veteran of six spaceflights, including two long-duration missions to Mir, two short-duration missions aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, and two long-duration missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
Tom Lanoye is a Belgian novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area, and makes regular appearances at all the major European theatre festivals. He was born in Sint-Niklaas.
Hugh Orde, British police officer
Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), representing the 44 police forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009, he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). He holds a degree in Public Administration (BA) from the University of Kent.
27/08/1957
Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
Jeff Grubb is an author of novels, short stories, and comics, as well as a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the Dragonlance campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the Forgotten Realms setting with Ed Greenwood. His written works include The Finder's Stone Trilogy, the Spelljammer and Jakandor campaign settings, and contributions to Dragonlance and the computer game Guild Wars Nightfall (2006).
Bernhard Langer, German golfer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the sport's first number one ranked player following the creation of the Sony Ranking.
27/08/1956
Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player
Glen Matlock is an English musician and the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only officially released studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band early in the recording process, credited as bassist and backing vocalist on only one song on the album, "Anarchy in the U.K." However, on the bootleg album Spunk, Matlock played bass on all the songs, which included earlier studio recordings of 10 of the 12 songs that later appeared on the Bollocks album.
27/08/1955
Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC is an American cinematographer.
Diana Scarwid, American actress
Diana Scarwid is a retired American actress who is best known for her portrayal of Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981). She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Inside Moves (1980), and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Truman (1995).
27/08/1954
John Lloyd, English tennis player and sportscaster
John Lloyd is a British former professional tennis player. Lloyd reached an ATP world ranking of 23 in July 1978, and was ranked as UK number 1 in 1984 and 1985. He now works as a tennis commentator.
Rajesh Thakker, English physician and academic
Rajesh Vasantlal Thakker is May Professor of Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Thakker is also a Consultant physician at the Churchill Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Principal investigator (PI) at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) and was Chairman of the NIHR/MRC Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Board until Spring 2016.
Derek Warwick, English race car driver
Derek Stanley Arthur Warwick is a British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1981 and 1993. In endurance racing, Warwick won the World Sportscar Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans, both in 1992 with Peugeot.
27/08/1953
Tom Berryhill, American businessman and politician (died 2020)
Thomas Charles Berryhill was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors from January 7, 2019, until his death. He previously represented the 8th district in the California State Senate from December 6, 2010, to November 30, 2018. He had also served in the California State Assembly, representing the 25th district from December 4, 2006, to November 30, 2010.
Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Aleksandar Živojinović, known professionally as Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones. One month later, Jones was succeeded by Geddy Lee and in 1974, Rutsey was succeeded by Neil Peart, at which point the lineup remained unchanged until the band's initial dissolution in 2015; Lifeson and Lee eventually reformed Rush in 2025, with Anika Nilles as a live drummer. Lifeson is the only member of Rush to have stayed in the band throughout its entire existence and, alongside Lee, the only member to appear on all of the band's albums.
Joan Smith, English journalist and author
Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist and novelist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hacked Off.
Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare is a Swedish-American actor. He played Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman, Gaear Grimsrud in the film Fargo (1996) and John Abruzzi in the television series Prison Break (2005–2007). He has appeared in films including The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Playing God (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Armageddon (1998), 8mm (1999), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Windtalkers (2002), Minority Report (2002), Bad Boys II (2003), Constantine (2005), 22 Jump Street (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Until Dawn (2025), The Blacklist (2013) and the video games Destiny (2014), Until Dawn (2015), and Destiny 2 (2017).
27/08/1952
Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian (died 2023)
Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.
27/08/1951
Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager
David Gus "Buddy" Bell is an American former third baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) currently serving as vice president and senior advisor to the general manager for the Cincinnati Reds.
Mack Brown, American football player and coach
William Mack Brown is an American former college football coach. Brown most recently coached at the University of North Carolina, where he had two stints, first from 1988 until 1997, and again from 2019 until his firing at the end of the 2024 season. During his second stint in Chapel Hill, Brown became the North Carolina Tar Heels football program's all-time winningest coach, passing Dick Crum for most wins in program history.
Randall Garrison, American-Canadian criminologist and politician
Randall C. Garrison is a Canadian politician. Elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election, he represented the electoral district of Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke until 2025 as a member of the New Democratic Party. He served as the party's critic for justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights and deputy critic for National Defence.
27/08/1950
Charles Fleischer, American comedian and actor
Charles Fleischer is an American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, and writer, best known for his recurring role as Carvelli in Welcome Back, Kotter, and for appearing in films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Polar Express, Rango, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. He made a cameo in Back to the Future Part II and also reprised the role of Roger Rabbit in the Roger Rabbit theatrical shorts. After beginning his career on the comedy club circuit, Charles Fleischer's first big break in comedy television came when he made an appearance on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter
Philip Neil Murray is a Scottish musician, best known as the former bassist of Whitesnake, the Brian May Band, Black Sabbath, and Gary Moore.
Edmund Weiner, English lexicographer and author
Edmund S. C. Weiner is the former co-editor of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1985–1989) and Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993–present). He originally joined the OED staff in 1977, becoming the dictionary's chief philologist.
27/08/1949
Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Jeffrey Alan Cook was an American country musician. He was best known for being a founding member of the band Alabama, in which he contributed to occasional lead vocals, guitar, fiddle, piano and other musical instruments.
Leah Jamieson, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator, currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Jamieson was a co-founder of the Engineering Projects in Community Service program (EPICS), a multi-university engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. She is a recipient of the Gordon Prize. From 2006-2017, she served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue.
Ann Murray, Irish soprano
Ann Murray is an Irish mezzo-soprano.
27/08/1948
John Mehler, American drummer
John Mehler is a drummer for Love Song, Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands.
Sgt. Slaughter, American wrestler
Robert Rudolph Remus, better known as Sgt. Slaughter, is an American voice actor and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE in the ambassador program.
Deborah Swallow, English historian and curator
Deborah Anne Swallow is a British educator, museum curator and academic. From 2004 to 2023, she was Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art and its Gallery; she was its first female Director. She previously worked at the University of Cambridge and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alongside education and curation, she is a proponent of the broadest possible appreciation of art and its histories, and a specialist in Indian art and anthropology.
Philippe Vallois, French director and screenwriter
Philippe Vallois is an openly gay screenwriter and director whose film Johan (1976) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
27/08/1947
Barbara Bach, American actress and model
Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American retired actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Halil Berktay, Turkish historian and academic
Halil Berktay is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University. He has worked as a columnist for the daily newspaper Taraf and is one of the first Turkish historians to acknowledge the Armenian genocide as a historical fact.
Kirk Francis, American engineer and producer
Kirk H. Francis was an American sound engineer. He won the 2008 Academy Award for The Bourne Ultimatum, and for LA Confidential he also received an Academy Award nomination in 1998. He was on the crew for the 1973 film Executive Action.
Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)
Peter Krieg, born as Wilhelm Walter Gladitz was a German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He initially enrolled in business and economics courses at Hamburg University but abandoned his studies to travel and teach horsemanship in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. He later returned to Germany with his first wife, the American Heidi Knott, with whom he studied film at the German Film & TV Academy (DFFB) in Berlin and collaborated on his early works.
John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and politician
John Francis Maclean Morrison is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 17 Test matches and 18 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. From 1998 to 2013, he was a Wellington City Councillor; his political career ended when he stood for mayor in 2013.
Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer and sportscaster (died 2002)
Gavin Pattison Pfuhl was a South African first-class cricketer who played for Western Province. He was a wicketkeeper who took more than 300 dismissals in his 95-game career.
27/08/1946
Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer and manager
Anthony Bourne Howard is a former West Indies international cricketer who played in one Test match in 1972, taking two wickets for 140 in a drawn match against New Zealand.
27/08/1945
Douglas R. Campbell, Canadian lawyer and judge
Douglas R. Campbell was a judge who served on the Federal Court of Canada. He was Canada's longest-serving judge, serving a total of 46 years.
Marianne Sägebrecht, German actress
Marianne Sägebrecht is a German film actress.
27/08/1944
G. W. Bailey, American actor
George William Bailey is an American actor. His roles include Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in M*A*S*H, Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the Police Academy films (1984–1994), and Captain Felix Maxwell in Mannequin (1987). He played Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza on TNT's television crime drama The Closer and its spin-off series Major Crimes from 2005 to 2018.
Tim Bogert, American singer and bass player (died 2021)
John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III was an American multi-instrumentalist musician and frequent collaborator with drummer Carmine Appice; the duo performed in such bands as Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.. As a bass guitarist and vocalist he was best known for his powerful vocal ability and his fast runs, fluid agility and ground-breaking sound on his Fender Precision Bass. He was one of the pioneers of using distortion with his bass to help it cut through the mix with the low-powered amps of his time, which also imparted a very sharp-edged sound to it.
27/08/1943
Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Chuck Girard was an American musician, considered a pioneer of Contemporary Christian music. He moved to Santa Rosa, California in his early teens, becoming a band member of the Castells and later the surf-rock band The Hondells.
Bob Kerrey, American lieutenant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient, 35th Governor of Nebraska
Joseph Robert Kerrey is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001.
Tuesday Weld, American model and actress
Tuesday Weld is an American retired actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.
27/08/1942
Daryl Dragon, American keyboard player and songwriter (died 2019)
Daryl Frank Dragon was an American musician known as Captain from the pop musical duo Captain & Tennille with his wife, Toni Tennille.
Brian Peckford, Canadian educator and politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
Alfred Brian Peckford is a Canadian politician who served as the third premier of Newfoundland from March 26, 1979 to March 22, 1989. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Peckford was first elected as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Green Bay following the 1972 general election. He served as a cabinet minister in Frank Moores' government before he was elected as PC leader in 1979 following Moores' retirement.
27/08/1941
Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (died 2011)
Cesária Évora GCIH was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nostalgia, and the history of the Cape Verdean people. She was known for performing barefoot and for her habit of smoking and drinking on stage during intermissions. Évora's music has received many accolades, including a Grammy Award in 2004, and it has influenced many Cape Verde diaspora musicians as well as American pop singer Madonna. Évora is also known as Cize, the Barefoot Diva, and the Queen of Morna.
János Konrád, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer (died 2014)
János Konrád was a Hungarian water polo player and backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics, in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest. On 25 November 2014 he died at the age of 73.
Harrison Page, American actor
Harrison Page is an American television and film actor who has appeared in many popular series, including Sledge Hammer!, Cold Case, JAG, ER, Ally McBeal, Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, Melrose Place, Quantum Leap, The Wonder Years, 21 Jump Street, Midnight Caller, Murder, She Wrote, Fame, Gimme a Break!, Benson, Hill Street Blues, Webster, The Dukes of Hazzard, Kung Fu, Kojak, Mannix, Soap, Bonanza, and Columbo.
27/08/1940
Fernest Arceneaux, American singer and accordion player (died 2008)
Fernest Arceneaux was a French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer from Louisiana. He was known as "The New Prince of Accordion" for his virtuosity.
Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (died 1994)
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. His first wife was singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed.
27/08/1939
William Least Heat-Moon, American travel writer and historian
William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer and historian. He describes his heritage as English, Irish, and Osage. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through the United States, including cross-country trips by boat and, in his best known work, about his journey in a 1975 Ford Econoline van.
Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2005)
Edward Roy Patten was an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He was a cousin of Gladys Knight. Patten was a member of the group from 1959 until the disbandment in 1989. Patten was a multiple Grammy Award winner, and along with the group, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Nikola Pilić, Yugoslav tennis player and coach (died 2025)
Nikola Pilić was a Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was the coach of the Croatian, West German and Serbian national tennis teams, with whom he won several Davis Cup titles. He participated in the founding of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the professionalization of tennis.
27/08/1937
Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (died 2007)
Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967.
Tommy Sands, American pop singer and actor
Thomas Adrian Sands is an American country and pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as a child, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". The song from the show, "Teen-Age Crush", reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox.
27/08/1936
Joel Kovel, American scholar and author (died 2018)
Joel Stephen Kovel was an American psychiatrist, scholar, human rights activist, and author known as a founder of eco-socialism. Kovel became a psychoanalyst, but he abandoned psychoanalysis in 1985.
Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician, Vice President of the Republic of China
Lien Chan is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he nominally governed Taiwan as the head of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993 and served as Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and Chairman of the Kuomintang from 2000 to 2005.
27/08/1935
Ernie Broglio, American baseball player (died 2019)
Ernest Gilbert Broglio was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs from 1959 to 1966.
Michael Holroyd, English author
Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd is an English biographer.
Frank Yablans, American screenwriter and producer (died 2014)
Frank Yablans was an American studio executive, film producer, and screenwriter. Yablans served as an executive at Paramount Pictures, including President of the studio, in the 1960s and 1970s.
27/08/1932
Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2008)
Cor Brom was a Dutch football player and manager.
Antonia Fraser, English historian and author
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
27/08/1931
Sri Chinmoy, Indian-American guru and poet (died 2007)
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy established his first meditation center in Queens, New York, and eventually had seven thousand students in 60 countries. He was an author, artist, poet, and musician; he also held public events such as concerts and meditations on the theme of inner peace. Chinmoy advocated a spiritual path to God through prayer and meditation. He advocated athleticism including distance running, swimming, and weightlifting. He organized marathons and other races, and was an active runner and, following a knee injury, weightlifter. Some ex-members have accused Chinmoy of running a cult.
Joe Cunningham, American baseball player and coach (died 2021)
Joseph Robert Cunningham Jr. was an American baseball first baseman and outfielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, and Washington Senators from 1954 to 1966. He batted and threw left-handed, and was a two-time All-Star.
27/08/1930
Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (died 2023)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen was a Norwegian writer. She primarily wrote for children and young adults, but also books for adults.
Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler and politician (died 1968)
Gholamreza Takhti was an Iranian freestyle wrestler and a practitioner of varzesh-e bastani. He was a gold medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1958 Asian Games, 1959 World Championships, and 1961 World Championships, as well as a three-time Pahlevan of Iran.
27/08/1929
Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (died 2007)
Ira Marvin Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. He received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and several Edgar Awards. In 1996 he was given the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
George Scott, Canadian-American wrestler and promoter (died 2014)
George Scott was a Canadian professional wrestler, booker and promoter. From the 1950s until the 1970s, he and his younger brother Sandy competed as The Flying Scotts in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, particularly the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic territories, as well as successful stints in the American Wrestling Association, Maple Leaf Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling.
27/08/1928
Péter Boross, Hungarian lawyer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of Hungary
Péter Boross is a Hungarian retired politician and former member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He assumed the position upon the death of his predecessor, József Antall, and held the office until his right-wing coalition was defeated in election by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), which was led by his successor Gyula Horn. Prior to his premiership, Boross functioned as Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services (1990) and Minister of the Interior (1990–1993). He was also a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2009.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician, Chief Minister of KwaZulu (died 2023)
Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi was a South African politician and Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. He was appointed to this post by King Bhekuzulu, the son of King Solomon kaDinuzulu.
Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (died 2003)
Joan Beverly Kroc, also known as Joni, was an American philanthropist and the third wife of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.
27/08/1926
George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (died 2008)
George Brecht, born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978.
Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (died 2002)
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
27/08/1925
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (died 2017)
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1977 until he retired in 2001. As Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls from 2005 to 2009 he helped oversee important restoration work. He was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 March 2006.
Nat Lofthouse, English footballer and manager (died 2011)
Nathaniel Lofthouse was an English professional footballer who played as a forward for Bolton Wanderers for his entire career. He won 33 caps for England between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals, with one of the highest goals-per-game ratios of any England player.
Saiichi Maruya, Japanese author and critic (died 2012)
Saiichi Maruya was a Japanese author and literary critic.
Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (died 1989)
William Arthur Neilson AC was Premier of Tasmania from 1975 to 1977.
Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian poet and academic (died 2015)
Jaswant Singh Neki was a leading Indian Sikh scholar, significant neo-metaphysical Punjabi language poet and former Director of PGI Chandigarh and Head of the Psychiatry Department at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Carter Stanley, American bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)
Carter Glen Stanley was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys band with his younger brother Ralph Stanley.
27/08/1924
David Rowbotham, Australian journalist and poet (died 2010)
David Harold Rowbotham was an Australian poet and journalist.
Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (died 2013)
Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist, lawyer, public defender, clinical law professor, and judge. She was the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court, which she did for some seventeen years. Governor Rudy Perpich nominated Wahl to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1977 and Wahl won the election to the seat in a non-partisan election in 1978, defeating three male candidates. She chaired the state's Gender Bias Taskforce and Racial Bias Taskforce and led the American Bar Association's efforts to establish clinical legal education. She was a champion for the mentally ill and for displaced homemakers. She wrote 549 opinions including for the majority in holding that different penalties for crack and powder cocaine were unconstitutional in State v. Russell .
27/08/1923
Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (died 2013)
James Radcliffe Greenhalgh was an English football player and manager. He played as a wing half and made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League for Hull City, Bury and Gillingham. As a manager, he took charge of Darlington from 1966 to 1968 and had a lengthy career in coaching and scouting.
27/08/1922
Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, Minister of Defence for The Netherlands (died 2012)
Roelof Johannes Hendrik Kruisinga was a Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union (CHU) party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and physician.
27/08/1921
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1996)
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1963 until his death.
Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1998)
Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.
27/08/1920
Baptiste Manzini, American football player (died 2008)
Baptiste John "Bap" Manzini was a professional American football center and high school football coach.
James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (died 2015)
James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC, often known as Jim Molyneaux, was a unionist politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1979 to 1995, and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim from 1970 to 1983, and later Lagan Valley from 1983 to 1997. An Orangeman, he was also Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution from 1971 to 1995, and a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club.
27/08/1919
Pee Wee Butts, American baseball player and coach (died 1972)
Thomas Lee "Pee Wee" Butts was an American baseball player who played in the Negro leagues.
Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2007)
Murray Grand was an American singer, songwriter, lyricist, and pianist best known for the song "Guess Who I Saw Today".
27/08/1918
Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
Jelle Zijlstra was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967. He was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).
27/08/1917
Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1986)
Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds (1949–50), St. Louis Cardinals (1950–54) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955).
27/08/1916
Gordon Bashford, English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover (died 1991)
Gordon Dennis Bashford was a British car design engineer. Bashford played a significant part in the design of most post-war Rover cars, including the Land Rover.
Tony Harris, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1993)
Terence Anthony Harris known as Tony Harris, was a South African sportsman who was the last man to be a dual international of both cricket and rugby union for his country. He represented South Africa in five rugby union Tests during the 1930s as a fly-half, following World War II he played Test cricket three times between 1947 and 1949 as an attacking batsman.
Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (died 1994)
Martha Raye was an American comic actress and singer whose career spanned six decades across film, theater, and television. Her wide smile and energetic comedic style earned her the nickname "The Big Mouth."
27/08/1915
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. A physics professor at Harvard University for most of his career, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Among his other accomplishments are helping to found the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab.
27/08/1912
Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (died 1980)
Gloria Guinness, previously Countess Gloria von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, was a Mexican socialite and a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 to 1971. She was photographed by Cecil Beaton, Slim Aarons, Alejo Vidal-Quadras; designed for by Cristóbal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint-Laurent; and was also a close friend and inspiration to Truman Capote.
27/08/1911
Kay Walsh, English actress and dancer (died 2005)
Kathleen Walsh was an English actress, dancer, and screenwriter. Her film career prospered after she met her future husband, film director David Lean, with whom she worked on productions such as In Which We Serve and Oliver Twist.
27/08/1909
Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (died 1966)
Sylvère Maes was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in 1936 and 1939. In 1937, Maes left the 1937 Tour de France together with his Belgian team while he was leading the general classification, in response to actions from French spectators and decisions from the jury.
Charles Pozzi, French race car driver (died 2001)
Charles Pozzi was a French racing driver who participated in one World Championship Formula One race in 1950, the year of its inception.
Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (died 1959)
Lester Willis Young, nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
27/08/1908
Don Bradman, Australian cricketer and manager (died 2001)
Sir Donald George Bradman, nicknamed "the Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. His cricketing successes have been claimed by Shane Warne, among others, to make Bradman the "greatest sportsperson" in history. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is considered by some to be the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 until 1969. He was John F. Kennedy's vice president from 1961 to 1963, and a member of Congress for 26 years before. Johnson was a U.S. representative from Texas's 10th congressional district and the elder U.S. senator for Texas as a member of the Democratic Party. Born and raised in the segregationist South, Johnson had to compromise during the height of the civil rights movement.
27/08/1906
Ed Gein, American murderer and body snatcher, The Butcher of Plainfield (died 1982)
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.
Edmund Wojtyła, Polish doctor (died 1932)
Edmund Antoni Wojtyła was a Polish doctor who died of scarlet fever a few years after graduating. He was the elder brother of Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
27/08/1905
Aris Velouchiotis, Greek soldier (died 1945)
Athanasios Klaras, better known by the nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis, was a Greek journalist, politician, member of the Communist Party of Greece, the most prominent leader and chief instigator of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), the military branch of the National Liberation Front (EAM), which was the major resistance organization in occupied Greece from 1942 to 1945.
27/08/1904
Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (died 1963)
Alar Kotli was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922–1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the University of technology in Gdańsk in 1927 as an architect.
Norah Lofts, English author (died 1983)
Norah Ethel Lofts was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books. Although specializing in historical fiction and "known for her effective use of English history" in her work, she also wrote some mysteries, short stories and non-fiction. Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of specific houses and their residents over several generations.
John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (died 1982)
John Hay Whitney was an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Museum of Modern Art.
27/08/1899
C. S. Forester, English novelist (died 1966)
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, best known by his pen name C.S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
27/08/1898
Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian businessman and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1963)
Gaspard Fauteux, was a Canadian parliamentarian, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (1945–1949), and the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1950–1958).
27/08/1896
Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (died 1933)
Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese novelist, poet, and children's literature writer from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.
27/08/1895
Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian (died 1981)
András (Andreas) Ede Zsigmond Alföldi was a Hungarian historian, art historian, epigraphist, numismatist and archaeologist, specializing in the Late Antique period. He was one of the most productive 20th-century scholars of the ancient world and is considered one of the leading researchers of his time. Although some of his research results are controversial, his work in several areas is viewed as groundbreaking.
27/08/1890
Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (died 1976)
Man Ray was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all.
27/08/1886
Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (died 1979)
Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.
27/08/1884
Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, President of the French Republic (died 1966)
Vincent Jules Auriol was a French politician who served as President of France from 1947 to 1954. A member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he was the first president elected under the Fourth Republic. His presidential term was marked by the Indochina War, the implementation of the Monnet Plan for modernisation, as well as France joining the Council of Europe and NATO as a founding member.
Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition (died 1963)
Denis Gascoigne Lillie was a British biologist who participated in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) to the Antarctic. He collected numerous marine animals as well as plants and fossils–many of which were new to science–and published scientific papers on whales, fossils, and medicine. He received the Polar Medal along with other Terra Nova members in 1913. He was also a noted caricaturist who made cartoons of professors, colleagues, and friends: some of his caricatures are collected in the National Portrait Gallery. He worked as a government bacteriologist during World War I and then suffered a severe mental breakdown, spending three years at Bethlem Royal Hospital and never fully recovering. He is commemorated in the names of several marine organisms as well as Lillie Glacier in Antarctica.
27/08/1878
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (died 1928)
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel was a Russian military officer of Baltic German descent. He served as a general in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War, and in 1920 became the last commander-in-chief of the White forces in Southern Russia, which he reorganized as the Russian Army.
27/08/1877
Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (died 1910)
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1963)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
27/08/1875
Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (died 1967)
Katharine Dexter McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill.
27/08/1874
Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.
27/08/1871
Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (died 1945)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
27/08/1870
Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat (died 1919)
Amado Nervo also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism. Nervo is noted as one of the most important Mexican poets of the 19th century.
27/08/1868
Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist (died 1943)
General Hong Beom-do was a Korean independence activist and national hero. Hong served as commander of a guerrilla unit of the Justice Army "Yibyon" within the Righteous armies and the Korean Independence Army, which essentially gave rise to Korea's armed struggle against Japanese colonialists.
27/08/1865
James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian (died 1935)
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901, he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905, Breasted was promoted to full professor and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
Charles Gates Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, and a member of the Republican Party.
27/08/1864
Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
Otto Ludwig Hermann Weingärtner was a German gymnast.
27/08/1858
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1932)
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor. As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigorous and systematic treatment of the method of mathematical induction. He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin. He also created an international auxiliary language, Latino sine flexione, which is a simplified version of Classical Latin. Most of his books and papers are in Latino sine flexione, while others are in Italian.
27/08/1856
Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet (died 1916)
Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.
27/08/1845
Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St Elisabeth (died 1914)
Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vienna Secession. He is famous for decorating his buildings with Zsolnay tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art, which are combined with modern materials such as iron.
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of international law. He represented Russia at the Hague Peace Conferences and helped to settle the first cases of international arbitration, notably the dispute between France and the United Kingdom over Newfoundland. As a scholar, he is probably best remembered today for having edited 15 volumes of Russian international treaties (1874–1909).
27/08/1827
Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (died 1897)
Sir Charles Lilley was a Premier and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He had a significant influence on the form and spirit of state education in colonial Queensland which lasted well into the 20th century.
27/08/1822
William Hayden English, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana and Democratic vice-presidential nominee (died 1896)
William Hayden English was an American politician. He served as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1853 to 1861 and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1880.
27/08/1812
Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1869)
Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian poet and nationalist who became the third Prime Minister of Hungary during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when Hungary was independent of rule by the Austrian Empire.
27/08/1809
Hannibal Hamlin, American publisher and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (died 1891)
Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician and diplomat who was the 15th vice president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.
27/08/1803
Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (died 1895)
Edward Beecher was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
27/08/1795
Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (died 1885)
Giorgio Mitrovich was a Maltese patriot and politician known for his role in the struggle for freedom of the press in Malta. He was one of the founders of the Comitato Generale Maltese, and he co-authored a petition in 1832 which led to a new constitution in 1835. He travelled to London multiple times to increase awareness of Maltese grievances, and his 1835 visit resulted in a Royal Commission recommending the abolition of press censorship, which was implemented in 1839. He was briefly elected to the Council of Government in the 1850s.
27/08/1785
Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (died 1841)
Agustín Gamarra Messia was a Peruvian soldier and politician, who served twice as President of Peru.
27/08/1770
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (died 1831)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism. His influence on Western philosophy extends across a wide range of topics—from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, to philosophy of art and philosophy of religion.
27/08/1730
Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher and author (died 1788)
Johann Georg Hamann was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as "the Wizard of the North" who was one of the leading figures of post-Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J. G. Herder as the main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and is associated with the Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism.
27/08/1724
John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and politician (died 1781)
Reverend John Joachim Zubly, born Hans Joachim Züblin, was a Swiss-born American pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution. Although a delegate for Georgia to the Continental Congress in 1775, he resisted independence from Great Britain and became a Loyalist.
27/08/1677
Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian general (died 1748)
Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, was an Austrian Generalfeldmarschall. The current spelling of the name, and the spelling used in his time, is mostly Abensperg.
27/08/1669
Anne Marie d'Orléans, queen of Sardinia (died 1728)
Anne Marie d'Orléans was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to King Victor Amadeus II. She served as regent of Savoy during the absence of her spouse in 1686 and during the War of the Spanish Succession.
27/08/1665
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (died 1751)
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English Whig politician.
27/08/1637
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd Proprietor of Maryland (died 1715)
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was an English colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24. However, Charles left Maryland for England in 1684 and would never return. The events following the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 would cost Calvert his title to Maryland; in 1689 the royal charter to the colony was withdrawn, leading to direct rule by the British Crown. Calvert's political problems were largely caused by his Roman Catholic faith which was at odds with the established Church of England.
27/08/1624
Koxinga, Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist (died 1662)
Zheng Chenggong, born Zheng Sen (鄭森) and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (國姓爺), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century and expelled the Dutch from Taiwan, founding the Kingdom of Tungning.
27/08/1545
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1592)
Alexander Farnese was an Italian noble and military leader, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592. Nephew to King Philip II of Spain, he served in the Battle of Lepanto and the subsequent campaigns of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire. He was latter appointed general of the Spanish army during the Dutch revolt and its ramifications, serving in Netherlands, France and the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1592.
27/08/1542
John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania and Protestant Bishop of Cammin (died 1600)
John Frederick was Duke of Pomerania from 1560 to 1600, and Bishop of Cammin (Kamień) from 1556 to 1574. Elected bishop in 1556 and heir of the duchy in 1560, he remained under the tutelage of his great-uncle Barnim XI until he took on his offices in 1567.
27/08/1512
Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (died 1564)
Friedrich Staphylus was a German theologian, at first a Lutheran Protestant and then a Catholic convert.
27/08/1487
Anna of Brandenburg (died 1514)
Margravine Anna of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman, the daughter of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, and Margaret of Thuringia. By her marriage to Frederick I, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, she became duchess consort of Schleswig and of Holstein. Anna died at the age of 26, leaving behind two children, one of whom would go on to become King of Denmark after his father, Anna's husband, who was elected to the throne in 1523.
27/08/1471
George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)
George the Bearded was Duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539 and was known for his strong opposition to the Reformation. While the Ernestine line accepted Lutheranism, the Albertines, led by George, resisted religious change. Although he tried to prevent a Lutheran succession, the Act of Settlement of 1499 ensured that, after his death in 1539, Henry IV—a Lutheran—became duke and introduced Lutheranism as the official state religion of the Albertine territories.
27/08/1407
Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (died 1425)
Ashikaga Yoshikazu was the fifth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
27/08/0865
Rhazes, Persian polymath (died 925)
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes, 864 or 865 – 925 or 935 CE, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine, and also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar. He is also known for his criticism of religion, especially with regard to the concepts of prophethood and revelation. However, the religio-philosophical aspects of his thought, which also included a belief in five "eternal principles", are fragmentary and only reported by authors who were often hostile to him.