Born on Tuesday, 27th May – Famous Birthdays

27/05/2003

Franco Colapinto, Formula 1 driver

Franco Alejandro Colapinto is an Argentine racing driver who competes in Formula One for Alpine.

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27/05/2002

Jérémy Doku, Belgian footballer

Jérémy Baffour Doku is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgium national team. He is most known for his speed and dribbling ability.

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Gabri Veiga, Spanish footballer

Gabriel Veiga Novas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Primeira Liga club Porto.

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27/05/2000

Abner Vinícius, Brazilian footballer

Abner Vinícius da Silva Santos, known as Abner Vinícius or simply Abner, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Brazil national team.

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27/05/1999

Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer

Matheus Santos Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward, attacking midfielder, or winger for Premier League club Manchester United and the Brazil national team.

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Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model

Lily-Rose Melody Depp is a French and American actress. Born to actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she began her acting career in film with a minor role in Tusk (2014) and pursued a career as a fashion model. She appeared in the period dramas The Dancer (2016) and The King (2019), and the romantic comedy A Faithful Man (2018).

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27/05/1998

Josep Martínez, Spanish footballer

Josep Martínez Riera is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Inter Milan. He made one appearance for the Spain national team in 2021.

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27/05/1997

Anna Bondar, Hungarian tennis player

Anna Bondár is a Hungarian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 50 by the WTA, achieved on 18 July 2022 and a best doubles ranking of No. 43, reached on 30 January 2023. She is currently the No. 1 singles player from Hungary.

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Daniel Jones, American football player

Daniel Stephen Jones III, nicknamed "Danny Dimes" and "Indiana Jones", is an American professional football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Duke Blue Devils and was selected sixth overall by the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL draft.

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Konrad Laimer, Austrian footballer

Konrad Laimer is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, full-back and wing-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Austria national team. He previously played for Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig.

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27/05/1996

Kim Jae-hwan, South Korean singer

Kim Jae-hwan, known mononymously as Jaehwan (재환), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, known for finishing fourth in Produce 101 . He is a former member of the South Korean boy group Wanna One. As the group promoted for a year and a half, it achieved both critical and commercial success with all four of its albums topping South Korea's Gaon Album Chart and all five of its lead singles ranking in the top three of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart.

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27/05/1995

Yoán Moncada, Cuban baseball player

Yoán Manuel Moncada Olivera is a Cuban professional baseball third baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. He made his MLB debut with the Red Sox in 2016, and was traded to the White Sox during the 2016–2017 offseason. He is one of the first active MLB players to represent the Cuban national team in international competition.

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27/05/1994

Maximilian Arnold, German footballer

Maximilian Arnold is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, which he captains. An academy graduate of Wolfsburg, Arnold became the club's youngest ever debutant in 2011 and has since made over 300 league appearances for the club.

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João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer

João Pedro Cavaco Cancelo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full-back for La Liga club Barcelona, on loan from Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal, and the Portugal national team.

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Aymeric Laporte, French-Spanish footballer

Aymeric Jean Louis Gérard Alphonse Laporte is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao. Born in France, he plays for the Spain national team.

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27/05/1992

Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter

Aaron Brown is a Canadian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. As part of Canada's 4 × 100 m relay team, he is the 2024 Olympic gold medallist, 2020 Olympic silver medallist, 2016 Olympic bronze medallist and the 2022 World champion. Brown has also won two World bronze medals as part of Canada's 4 × 100 m relay teams in 2013 and 2015.

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Jeison Murillo, Colombian footballer

Jeison Fabián Murillo Cerón is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Qatari club Al-Shamal.

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Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer

Laurence Vincent Lapointe is a Canadian sprint canoer. She has won eleven gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, starting with the 2010 Poznań Championships, and most recently three gold medals at the 2018 Montemor-o-Velho Championships. She has also won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games, and silver and bronze medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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27/05/1991

Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer

Sébastien Dewaest is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as centre-back for Challenger Pro League club Francs Borains.

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Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player

Timoteo Lafai is a retired Samoan rugby league footballer, who last played as a centre for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League, and Samoa at international level..

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Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player

Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak is a former tennis player from Russia.

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Mário Rui, Portuguese footballer

Mário Rui Silva Duarte, known as Mário Rui, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left-back.

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Armando Sadiku, Albanian footballer

Armando Sadiku is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss Challenge League club Bellinzona.

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Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer

Eneli Kutter is an Estonian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Naiste II liiga club JK Poseidon.

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27/05/1990

Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner

Yenew Alamirew Getahun is an Ethiopian middle and long-distance runner. He represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics as well as two indoor and one outdoor World Championships.

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Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

Christopher Paul Colfer is an American actor, singer, and author. He gained international recognition for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television musical Glee (2009–2015). Colfer's portrayal of Kurt received critical praise and won him several awards, including the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film, three consecutive People's Choice Awards for Favorite Comedic TV Actor from 2013 to 2015, two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations and one Grammy Award nomination. In April 2011, Colfer was named one of the Time 100, Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Jonas Hector, German footballer

Jonas Armin Hector is a German former professional footballer who played as a left-back and midfielder.

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Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player

Marcus Viktor Krüger is a Swedish professional ice hockey centreman. He is currently playing as captain for Djurgårdens IF Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fifth round, 149th overall, in the 2009 NHL entry draft. He is a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.

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27/05/1989

Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer

Igor Morozov is an Estonian football manager and former professional player who played as a centre-back.

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Peakboy, South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter

Kwon Sung-hwan, known professionally as Peakboy, is a South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. He released his debut single "Gin & Tonic" in 2017 via SoundCloud and first mini-album Portrait the following year. Since signing with Neuron Music, he has released two additional mini-albums and numerous stand-alone singles.

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27/05/1988

Celso Borges, Costa Rican footballer

Celso Borges Mora is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Liga FPD club Alajuelense. With 164 international appearances, he is the most capped player in Costa Rica's history.

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Vontae Davis, American football player (died 2024)

Vontae Ottis Davis was an American professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. Davis also played for the Indianapolis Colts and Buffalo Bills. He made two Pro Bowls in his career.

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Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler

Irina Andreyevna Davydova is a Russian athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles with a personal best time of 53.77 seconds.

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Garrett Richards, American baseball pitcher

Garrett Thomas Richards is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, and Texas Rangers.

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Tyler Sash, American football player (died 2015)

Tyler Jordan Sash was an American professional football safety for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Giants in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft.

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27/05/1987

Gervinho, Ivorian footballer

Gervais Yao Kouassi, known as Gervinho, is an Ivorian former professional footballer who plays as a forward.

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Bella Heathcote, Australian actress

Isabella Heathcote is an Australian actress. Following her film debut in Acolytes (2008), she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera Neighbours (2009). She gained further recognition for her dual roles as Victoria Winters and Josette du Pres in the dark fantasy film Dark Shadows (2012), and Olive Byrne in the biographical drama film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017).

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Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player

Bora Hun Paçun is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played as a center. He is 6 ft 10.75 in tall.

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Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player

Matthew Prior is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as prop and loose forward for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.

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Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater and cyclist

Martina Sáblíková is a Czech former speed skater, specializing in long track speed skating. She is a three-time Olympic gold medal winner and a multiple European and World allround champion. She became the first Czech to win two Olympic gold medals at one Winter Games in 2010. Sáblíková also competes in inline speed skating and road cycling races as a part of her summer preparation for the skating season. In cycling, she focuses on individual time trial discipline in which Sáblíková holds multiple Czech Republic National Championships titles and belongs to the world's top 15 female time-trialists. Sáblíková is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.

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27/05/1986

Conor Cummins, Manx motorcycle racer

Conor Cummins is a Manx motorcycle road racer who rides in British racing events, competing in the British Superstock Championship, as well as in specialist closed-road events at his home Isle of Man TT races and in Northern Ireland. A part-time seasonal racer, his normal income is derived from his business as a barista and coffeemaker supplier.

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Bamba Fall, Senegalese basketball player

Bamba Fall is a Senegalese professional basketball player who currently plays for Fundación CB Granada of the Spanish LEB Oro league. He played college basketball for the Southern Methodist University and represents the Senegal national basketball team in international competition.

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Lasse Schöne, Danish footballer

Lasse Schöne is a Danish former professional footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder. A versatile player, he had been deployed as a box-to-box midfielder, holding midfielder and winger in his career. He was also known for his set piece abilities.

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27/05/1985

Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player

Chiang Chien-ming is a Taiwanese former professional baseball starting pitcher who played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball. He was initially signed in 2005, becoming the fifth Taiwanese player to ever play for the Yomiuri Giants. His NPB debut was on June 14, 2006, first start was on August 22, on which day he got his first win.

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Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer

Roberto Soldado Rillo is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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27/05/1984

Blake Ahearn, American basketball player

Daniel Blake Ahearn is an American professional basketball coach and former player who was an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Missouri State.

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Miguel González, Mexican baseball pitcher

Miguel Ángel González Martínez, also known by his nickname El Mariachi, is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2012 to 2018 for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, and Texas Rangers. He played college baseball at Los Angeles Mission College.

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27/05/1982

Natalya, Canadian professional wrestler

Natalie Katherine Neidhart-Wilson is a Canadian-American professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Nattie. She also wrestles under her real name, stylized as Nattie Neidhart. She is a two-time women's champion, having won the WWE Divas Championship and WWE SmackDown Women's Championship once each. She is also a former one-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion.

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Mariano Pavone, Argentine footballer

Hugo Mariano Pavone is an Argentine former professional footballer who last played for Quilmes Atlético Club as a striker.

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27/05/1981

Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina

Alina Cojocaru is a Romanian ballet dancer. She was previously a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet and a lead principal with the English National Ballet.

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Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer

Johan Erik Calvin Elmander is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Beginning his career with Holmalunds IF in the late 1990s, he went on to play professionally in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, France, England, and Turkey before retiring at Örgryte IS in 2017. A full international between 2002 and 2015, he scored 20 goals in 85 games for the Sweden national team, and represented his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2012.

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27/05/1980

Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater

Craig Buntin is a Canadian former pair skater. He is the co-founder and CEO of Sportlogiq, a sports analytics company based in Montreal, Quebec. With former partner Meagan Duhamel, he is the 2009 Canadian silver medallist, the 2008 & 2010 Canadian bronze medallist, and the 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist. With Valérie Marcoux, he represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they placed 11th.

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27/05/1979

Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (died 2004)

Michael A. Buonauro was an American webcomic artist, and author. Best known for his webcomic Marvelous Bob, Buonauro had co-created various other webcomics in collaboration with Jeff Lofvers.

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Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer

Mile Sterjovski is an Australian former professional soccer player. He played predominantly as a right winger or as a second striker, but also played as a left winger and central midfielder. Sterjovski is the current head coach of A-League club Macarthur FC.

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27/05/1978

Adin Brown, American soccer player

Adin Brown is an American soccer coach and former player. He is currently the goalkeeping coach for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.

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27/05/1977

Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian high jumper

Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer is the Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports and a former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 2000, taking the bronze medal and made a second appearance at the 2004 Athens Olympics. His personal best of 2.34 m is the Algerian record for the event. He retired from the sport in 2010. In 2020, he became the President of the Algerian Olympic Committee. Hammad was appointed as minister on 16 March 2023.

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Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer

Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer, captain, and batsman of the Sri Lankan national cricket team..

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27/05/1976

Marcel Fässler, Swiss racing driver

Marcel Fässler is a Swiss former racing driver. From 2010 to 2016 he competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship as part of Audi Sport Team Joest with co-drivers André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and capturing the World Endurance Drivers' Championship in 2012.

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27/05/1975

André 3000, American rapper

André Lauren Benjamin, known professionally as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, record producer and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he is one half of the hip-hop duo Outkast along with rapper Big Boi, which they formed in 1992. Often recognized for his early use of rap-singing, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. In 2025, Benjamin was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Outkast.

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Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former international cricketer, who played all forms of the game. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname 'Mr Cricket'. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the Australian one-day international and Test teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective formats, with 15,313 first-class runs before making his Test debut. With his time representing Australia, Hussey won multiple ICC titles with the team: the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, and the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Jadakiss, American rapper

Jason Terrance Phillips, better known by his stage name Jadakiss, is an American rapper who began his career in the 1990s and formed the hip hop trio the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in 1994. The group signed with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records, an imprint of Arista Records to release their debut studio album, Money, Power & Respect (1998); their second album, We Are the Streets (2000) was released by Ruff Ryders Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records. Both peaked within the top five of the Billboard 200 and yielded critical praise; their two subsequent albums, Filthy America... It's Beautiful (2016) and Living Off Xperience (2020) were both released by Jay-Z's Roc Nation and met with continued praise.

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Jamie Oliver, English chef and author

Jamie Trevor Oliver is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, and he has fronted many television shows and opened numerous restaurants.

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Feryal Özel, Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic

Feryal Özel is a Turkish American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the department chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in Atlanta. She was previously a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory.

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27/05/1974

Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter

Skye Edwards, sometimes simply Skye, is a British singer. Her career began in the mid-1990s when she and the Godfrey brothers formed the band Morcheeba, which released five albums with Edwards as lead vocalist. In 2003, the band split, after which she released two solo albums: Mind How You Go in 2006, and Keeping Secrets in 2009. In 2010, Edwards returned to Morcheeba, again as lead vocalist. In 2012, she released her third solo album, Back to Now, and in 2015 she released her fourth album, In a Low Light.

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Denise van Outen, English actress, singer, and television host

Denise van Outen is an English actress, singer, dancer and presenter. She presented The Big Breakfast, played Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago both in the West End and on Broadway and finished as runner-up in the tenth series of the BBC One dancing show Strictly Come Dancing.

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Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Derek Walsh Webb is an American singer-songwriter of independent and Christian music who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career. As a member of the Houston, Texas-based Caedmon's Call, Webb has seen career sales approaching 1 million records, along with 10 GMA Dove Award nominations and three Dove Award wins and six No. 1 Christian radio hits.

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Danny Wuerffel, American football player

Daniel Carl Wuerffel is an American former football quarterback who played college football for the Florida Gators and professional football in the National Football League (NFL). At Florida, he was a prolific passer under head coach Steve Spurrier. Wuerffel led the NCAA in touchdown passes in 1995 and 1996 and set numerous school and conference records during his career. During his senior year in 1996, he won the Heisman Trophy while leading the Gators to their first national championship. In 2013, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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27/05/1973

Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian

Jack McBrayer is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his portrayal of Kenneth Parcell in 30 Rock. For his role in 30 Rock, McBrayer was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards. He voiced characters such as Fix-It Felix Jr. in the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph and its 2018 sequel, as well as the title character Wander in the Disney XD series Wander Over Yonder. He has had recurring roles on Phineas and Ferb, Puppy Dog Pals, Amphibia, The Middle, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and the Netflix series Big Mouth.

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Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and coach

Jonathan Ionatana Falefasa Umaga is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player and captain of the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. He is head coach of Moana Pasifika in the Super Rugby competition, and defence coach for the All Blacks. He was granted and uses the Samoan chiefly honorific title of Faʻalogo, meaning "the listener".

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27/05/1972

Todd Demsey, American golfer

Todd Demsey is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and 1993 NCAA champion.

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Antonio Freeman, American football player

Antonio Michael Freeman is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL), most notably for the Green Bay Packers. He attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Tech.

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Maxim Sokolov, Russian ice hockey player

Maxim Anatolievich Sokolov is a professional ice hockey goalie currently playing for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

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27/05/1971

Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician

Mathew Jansen Batsiua is a Nauruan politician. Batsiua, a former health minister and former foreign minister of Nauru, has served as a member of parliament for the constituency of Boe since 2004.

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Paul Bettany, English actor

Paul Bettany is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the Disney+ series WandaVision (2021), which garnered him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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Wayne Carey, Australian footballer and coach

Wayne Francis Carey is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Kaur Kender, Estonian author

Kaur Kender is an Estonian author, entrepreneur, and advertising executive. Kender entered the Estonian literary scene in 1998 with his debut novel, Independence Day (transl. Iseseisvuspäev), which has been translated into Finnish (2001) and Russian (2003).

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Lisa Lopes, American rapper and dancer (died 2002)

Lisa Nicole Lopes, also known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. She was a member of the R&B girl group TLC, alongside Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. Besides rapping on TLC recordings, Lopes was the creative force behind the group, receiving more co-writing credits than the other members. She also designed some of their outfits and the stage for their FanMail Tour and contributed to the group's image, album titles, artworks, and music videos. Through her work with TLC, Lopes won four Grammy Awards.

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Lee Sharpe, English footballer

Lee Stuart Sharpe is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit, reality television personality and golfer.

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Grant Stafford, South African tennis player

Grant Stafford is a former tennis player from South Africa.

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Sophie Walker, British politician, leader of the Women's Equality Party

Sophie Walker is a British political activist who was the founding leader of the Women's Equality Party (WE) in the United Kingdom.

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Petroc Trelawny, British radio and television broadcaster

James Edward Petroc Trelawny is a British classical music radio and television broadcaster. Since 1998 he has been a presenter on BBC Radio 3.

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27/05/1970

Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist

Michele Bartoli is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races. On his palmarès are three of the five monuments of cycling—five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings.

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Tim Farron, English educator and politician

Timothy James Farron is a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2017. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005 and is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Before entering politics, he worked in higher education.

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Joseph Fiennes, English actor

Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, known as Joseph Fiennes, is an English actor. His numerous accolades include one Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

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Alex Archer, American-born Australian musician

Chad Alexander Archer is an American-born Australian musician. Archer is best known for his violin work in the Fremantle based Alt country/rock band The Kill Devil Hills.

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27/05/1969

Todd Hundley, American baseball player

Todd Randolph Hundley is an American former Major League Baseball catcher and outfielder. He was a two-time All-Star who played for 14 seasons with the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs.

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Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver

Jeremy Allen Mayfield is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver. He drove cars for the Sadler brothers, T.W. Taylor, Cale Yarborough, Michael Kranefuss, Roger Penske, Ray Evernham, Bill Davis, and Gene Haas. In 2009, he drove for his own team, Mayfield Motorsports.

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Craig Federighi, American computer scientist and engineer

Craig Federighi is an American engineer and business executive who is the senior vice president (SVP) of software engineering at Apple Inc. He oversees the development of Apple's operating systems. His teams are responsible for delivering the software of Apple's products, including the user interface, applications, and frameworks.

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27/05/1968

Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player and coach

Jeffrey Robert Bagwell is an American former professional baseball player and coach. A first baseman, he spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Houston Astros.

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Rebekah Brooks, English journalist

Rebekah Mary Brooks is a British media executive and former journalist and newspaper editor. She has been chief executive officer of News UK since 2015. She was previously CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011 and was the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World, from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun, from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.

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Harun Erdenay, Turkish basketball player and coach

Hakkı Harun Erdenay is a Turkish former professional basketball player, and he is a Vice President of the Turkish Basketball Federation. As a player, he was famous for his spectacular 3-point shooting. At a height of 1.91 m tall, he played in shooting guard and small forward positions.

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Frank Thomas, American baseball player and sportscaster

Frank Edward Thomas Jr., nicknamed "the Big Hurt," is an American former baseball designated hitter and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for three American League (AL) teams from 1990 to 2008, all but the last three years with the Chicago White Sox. A five-time All-Star, he is the only player in major league history to have seven consecutive seasons (1991–1997) with at least a .300 batting average, 100 runs batted in (RBI), 100 runs scored, 100 walks, and 20 home runs. Thomas also won the AL batting title in 1997 with a .347 mark. Thomas is a two-time AL MVP and won a World Series in 2005 although he was injured during the regular season and World Series. Thomas is widely considered one of the greatest right-handed hitters in MLB history.

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27/05/1967

Paul Gascoigne, English international footballer, coach, and manager

Paul John Gascoigne, nicknamed Gazza, is an English former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Regarded as one of the best playmakers of his generation and one of the best English footballers of all time, Gascoigne is described by the National Football Museum as "widely recognised as the most naturally talented English footballer of his generation". Gascoigne was immensely popular during his playing career, with television broadcaster Terry Wogan calling him "probably the most popular man in Britain today" in September 1990, and public interest in and adoration for him came to be known as "Gazzamania".

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Eddie McClintock, American actor

Edward Theodore McClintock is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Secret Service agent Pete Lattimer on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. McClintock's other television roles include the sitcom Stark Raving Mad and the action thriller Shooter. In 2023, he made his film directorial debut with Miracle at Manchester, in which he also starred.

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27/05/1966

Heston Blumenthal, English chef and author

Heston Marc Blumenthal is an English celebrity chef, television personality and food writer. His restaurants include the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, a three-Michelin-star restaurant that was named the world's best by the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2005.

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27/05/1965

Todd Bridges, American actor

Todd Anthony Bridges is an American actor. He portrayed Willis Jackson on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and had a recurring role as Monk on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. Bridges worked as a commentator on the television series World's Dumbest... from 2008 to 2013.

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Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster

Patrick Hart Cash is an Australian former professional tennis player and coach. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. Upon winning the 1987 singles title at Wimbledon, Cash climbed into the stands to celebrate, starting a tradition that has continued ever since.

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27/05/1964

Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Adam Carolla is an American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast.

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27/05/1963

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer

Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a Cuban jazz pianist and composer.

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Maria Walliser, Swiss skier

Maria Walliser is a Swiss former alpine skier.

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27/05/1962

Marcelino Bernal, Mexican footballer

Marcelino Bernal Pérez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Ray Borner, Australian basketball player

Raymond Helmut Borner OAM is an Australian basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Ballarat Miners of the NBL1 South. He played 22 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL), earning the NBL Most Valuable Player Award in 1985 and winning an NBL championship in 1989, both as a member of the Coburg / North Melbourne Giants. He also played for the Illawarra/Wollongong Hawks, Geelong Supercats and Canberra Cannons.

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Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Steven Brill is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote Little Nicky and directed Mr. Deeds, Without a Paddle, Heavyweights, and Drillbit Taylor. He has had cameo roles in all three Mighty Ducks movies, and appeared in The Wedding Singer, Mr. Deeds, and Knocked Up, although his role in the latter has been miscredited to Judd Apatow. He also appeared as the Barfly in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

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Anthony A. Hyman, Israeli-English biologist and academic

Anthony Arie Hyman is a British scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

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David Mundell, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

David Gordon Mundell, is a Scottish Conservative Party politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. He previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister, coming out in 2016.

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Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster

Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is an Indian cricket commentator, former professional cricketer and former head coach of the India national cricket team. As a player, he played for the India national cricket team between 1981 and 1992 in both Test matches and One Day Internationals. Although he started his career as a left arm spin bowler, he later transformed into a batting all-rounder. Shastri was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He won the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indian cricket team annual award show NAMAN in 2024.

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27/05/1961

José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian runner and coach

José Luíz Barbosa, known as Zequinha Barbosa is a Brazilian former middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. José participated in 4 Olympic Games: 1984 Los Angeles; 1988 Soul Korea; 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta. He is the 1987 World Indoor Champion, and a two-time World Championship medallist, winning silver in 1991 and bronze in 1987. 1995 Pan American gold medalist 800 m 1987 Silver medalist, 1983 Silver medalist 800 m and Silver 4 × 400 m. Jose was ranked number one in the world in the 800 m in 1991.

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Peri Gilpin, American actress

Peri Gilpin is an American actress who portrayed Roz Doyle in the NBC sitcom Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family drama series Make It or Break It.

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27/05/1960

Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Gaston Therrien is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 22 games in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques between 1981 and 1983. He works for Réseau des sports (RDS), a sportscasting channel in Quebec. Therrien was born in Montreal, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1973 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Rosemont, Quebec.

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27/05/1958

Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London

Nicholas John Anstee is the former Lord Mayor of the City of London; he was the 682nd person to serve as mayor and his term was from 2009 to 2010. He served as Alderman for the Ward of Aldersgate having previously been its representative in the City since his election as a Common Councilman in 1987.

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Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician

Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 until 2022. Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".

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Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (died 2012)

Jesus "Jesse" Manalastas Robredo was a Filipino politician who served as 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 until his death in 2012. Robredo was a member of the Liberal Party.

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27/05/1957

Dag Terje Andersen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Labour

Dag Terje Andersen is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. In addition to professional politics he has worked at a steel mill and as a lumberjack, something that has given him a reputation for politically representing the average citizen.

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Nitin Gadkari, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport

Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician who is serving as the 40th Minister of Road Transport & Highways since 2014. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways, currently in his tenure for over eleven years, and is the only person to serve under a single portfolio for three consecutive terms. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he served as the President of his party from 2009 to 2013.

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Eddie Harsch, Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (died 2016)

Eddie Harsch was a Canadian keyboardist and member of Detroit-based jam band Bulldog. Previous to that he was The Black Crowes' keyboardist from 1991 to 2006. Harsch was replaced on keyboards by Rob Clores and then Adam MacDougall. Harsch first joined Bulldog during The Black Crowes' hiatus, which lasted from early 2002 to early 2005. During that time, he also played bass in the Detroit Cobras. In the 1980s, Harsch was a member of James Cotton's band.

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Siouxsie Sioux, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

Susan Janet Ballion, known as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer and songwriter. She came to prominence as the singer and main lyricist of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. They released 11 studio albums from 1978 to 1995, and had several UK top twenty singles including "Hong Kong Garden" (1978), "Happy House" (1980) and "Peek-a-Boo" (1988), plus a top 25 single in the US Billboard Hot 100 with "Kiss Them for Me" (1991).

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27/05/1956

Cynthia McFadden, American journalist

Cynthia McFadden is an American television journalist who was the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. She was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who co-anchored Nightline, and occasionally appeared on ABC News special Primetime. She was with ABC News from 1994 to 2014 and NBC News from March 2014 to May 2024.

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Rosemary Squire, English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group

Dame Rosemary Anne Squire, DBE is a British commercial theatre owner and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) LTD, and co-founder of Trafalgar Entertainment.

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Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter

Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as Everybody's Fine, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. His most noted film is Cinema Paradiso, for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana.

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27/05/1955

Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager, and producer

Eric Aaron Bischoff is an American television producer, professional wrestling booker, promoter, and performer. Currently, he is the chief media officer for Real American Freestyle. He is best known for serving as Executive Producer and later Senior Vice President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and subsequently, the on-screen General Manager of WWE's Raw brand. Bischoff has also worked with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where he served as Executive Producer of TNA iMPACT!. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.

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Richard Schiff, American actor, director, and producer

Richard Schiff is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his television directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode titled "Talking Points". He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. He had a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers. He had a leading role in ABC's medical drama The Good Doctor, as Dr. Aaron Glassman, and portrayed Odin in Santa Monica Studio's God of War: Ragnarök, released in 2022.

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Ian Tracey, English organist and conductor

Ian Graham Tracey DL is an English organist and choirmaster who has served as Organist of Liverpool Cathedral since 1980.

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27/05/1954

Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician

Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation. She has been a senator for Queensland since 2016, and was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Oxley from 1996 to 1998.

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Jackie Slater, American football player and coach

Jackie Ray Slater, nicknamed "Big Bad Jackie", is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 20 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career with the Rams franchise: 19 seasons in Los Angeles, from 1976 to 1994, and one game in St. Louis in 1995. Slater holds the record amongst all offensive linemen who have played the most seasons with one franchise.

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27/05/1951

John Conteh, English boxer

John Anthony Conteh, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980. He held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 1974 to 1977, and regionally the European, British and Commonwealth titles between 1973 and 1974. As an amateur, he represented England and won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. In 2017, Conteh was awarded an MBE for services to boxing at the Queen's Birthday Honours.

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27/05/1950

Dee Dee Bridgewater, American singer-songwriter and actress

Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American jazz singer and actress. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach (died 2015)

Gerasimos "Makis" Dendrinos was a Greek professional basketball player and basketball coach. He was a 1.80 m tall point guard. His nickname as a player was "Buddha".

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27/05/1949

Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, English politician (died 2021)

Hugh Clayton Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale was the eldest son of James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale, and the only son by his first wife Tuppina Cecily Bennet.

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Christa Vahlensieck, German runner

Christa Vahlensieck is a German former long distance runner and pioneer in the marathon for women. During her running career, from 1973 to 1989, she simultaneously achieved a world record in the 10,000 metres, in the 25k road race and the marathon; she holds 17 German championship titles.

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27/05/1948

Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant (died 2017)

Wubbo de Boer was a Dutch civil servant.

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Pete Sears, English bass player

Peter Roy Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than six decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues. He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.

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Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (died 2014)

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writer, and lecturer in Neopaganism, as well as a priestess of the Church of All Worlds. An advocate of polyamory, she is credited with coining the word. With her husband Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, she designed deity images.

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27/05/1947

Peter DeFazio, American politician

Peter Anthony DeFazio is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district from 1987 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. A native of Massachusetts and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserve, he previously served as a county commissioner in Lane County, Oregon. On December 1, 2021, DeFazio announced he would not seek reelection in 2022.

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Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Marty Kristian is a German-born, British-based musician. He grew up, and started his musical career, in Australia, as a solo artist. He is a singer-songwriter-guitarist and, in the 1970s, he became a heartthrob as a founding member of the New Seekers.

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Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach

Branko Oblak is a Slovenian football coach and former international player. He usually played as an attacking midfielder or deep-lying playmaker.

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Riivo Sinijärv, Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Riivo Sinijärv is an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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27/05/1946

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (died 2005)

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, also known by his abbreviated nickname NHØP, was a Danish jazz double bassist.

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John Williams, English motorcycle racer (died 1978)

John Glen Williams was an English motorcycle short-circuit road racer who also entered selected Grands Prix on the near-continent. He mostly raced as a "privateer" having a personal sponsor, Gerald Brown. Williams died in Northern Ireland, following an accident when racing at an event held on closed public roads near Dundrod.

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27/05/1945

Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bruce Douglas Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to folk- and jazz-influenced rock to soundscapes accompanying spoken stories. His lyrics reflect interests in spirituality, human rights, environmental issues, and relationships, and describe his experiences in Central America and Africa.

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27/05/1944

Christopher Dodd, American lawyer and politician

Christopher John Dodd is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.

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Karen Fladset, Norwegian handball player

Karen Fladset is a Norwegian former team handball player and coach. She played for the club IL Vestar and the Norway women's national handball team. With Vestar she became Norwegian Champion both as player and coach, and she was top scorer in the Norwegian league for four seasons. After her playing career she was head coach for the national team for two years, and later coach for various clubs. She was a Norway champion in discus throw three times.

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Ingrid Roscoe, English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (died 2020)

Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, was a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 to 2018.

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Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Alain Souchon is a French singer-songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films.

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27/05/1943

Cilla Black, English singer and actress (died 2015)

Priscilla Maria Veronica Willis, known professionally as Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and television presenter.

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Bruce Weitz, American actor

Bruce Peter Weitz is an American actor, best known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the TV series Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981 until 1987. For his role in the series, he received six nominations for Emmy Awards and two for Golden Globe Awards, winning the 1984 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He is also known for playing Stuart Caley, MSNBC boss, in Deep Impact.

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27/05/1942

Lee Baca, American police officer

Leroy David "Lee" Baca is a former American law enforcement officer and convicted felon who served as the 30th Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California from 1998 to 2014. In 2017, he was convicted of felony obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.

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Piers Courage, English racing driver (died 1970)

Piers Raymond Courage was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1967 to 1970.

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Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, PC was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major from 1995 to 1997. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Kettering from the 1983 general election until his defeat in 1997. He was made a life peer in 1997.

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Robin Widdows, English racing driver

Robin Michael Widdows is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Three and sportscars including Le Mans.

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27/05/1940

Mike Gibson, Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2015)

Mike Gibson, often also known by the nickname "Gibbo", was an Australian sports journalist, columnist, commentator, and radio and television presenter.

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27/05/1939

Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman

Simon Dallas Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns,, styled Viscount Garmoyle between 1946 and 1989, is a British businessman.

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Yves Duhaime, Canadian captain and politician

Yves Duhaime is a former politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Cabinet Member and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.

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Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman

Sokratis Kokkalis is a Greek businessman, founder and principal shareholder of Intracom Holdings.

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Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist

Sir Gerald Maurice Ronson is a British businessman, philanthropist, and convicted criminal. In the 1980s, he was one of the 'Guinness Four' involved in a trading fraud, for which he served six month in prison. He is a long-time supporter of Jewish charities, and was knighted for this charitable work in the UK's 2024 New Years Honours List.

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Lionel Sosa, Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive

Lionel Sosa is a Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive.

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Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

Donald Ray Williams was an American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number-one country hits. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and imposing build earned him the nickname "The Gentle Giant". In 1975, Williams starred in a movie with Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed called W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings.

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27/05/1937

Allan Carr, American playwright and producer (died 1999)

Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. He was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.

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27/05/1936

Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral (died 2025)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Benjamin Bathurst, was a British Royal Navy officer. After training as a pilot and qualifying as a helicopter instructor, Bathurst commanded a naval air squadron and then two frigates before achieving higher command in the navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1993 to 1995: in that capacity he advised the British Government on the deployment of naval support including Sea Harriers during the Bosnian War.

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Louis Gossett Jr., American actor and producer (died 2024)

Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. was an American actor. He made his stage debut at age 17. Shortly thereafter, Gossett successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. He continued acting onstage in critically acclaimed plays including A Raisin in the Sun (1959), The Blacks (1961), Tambourines to Glory (1963), and The Zulu and the Zayda (1965). In 1977, Gossett appeared in the popular miniseries Roots, for which he won Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards.

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Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2014)

Marcel Masse was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.

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27/05/1935

Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (died 2014)

Daniel Mametta Colchico was an American athlete who played defensive end in the National Football League (NFL).

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Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles (died 1976)

Malcolm Frederick Evans was an English road manager and personal assistant employed by the Beatles from 1963 until their break-up in 1970.

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Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach (died 2017)

Gerald Donald Kindall was an American professional baseball player and college baseball player and coach. He was primarily a second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who appeared in 742 games played over nine seasons for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians (1962–64), and Minnesota Twins (1964–65). After his playing career, he became the head baseball coach of the University of Arizona Wildcats, winning 860 games and three College World Series (CWS) championships over 24 seasons (1973–1996). Kindall batted and threw right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg).

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Ramsey Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2022)

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. was an American jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality. Lewis recorded over 80 albums and received five gold records and three Grammy Awards in his career. His album The In Crowd earned Lewis critical praise and the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance. His best known singles include "The 'In' Crowd", "Wade in the Water", and "Sun Goddess". Until 2009, he was the host of the Ramsey Lewis Morning Show on the Chicago radio station WNUA.

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Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955

Lee Ann Meriwether is an American retired actress and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She has appeared in many films and television shows, notably as Betty Jones, the title character's secretary and daughter-in-law in the 1970s crime drama Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in 1975 and 1976, and an Emmy Award nomination in 1977. She is also known for her portrayal of Catwoman, replacing Julie Newmar in the theatrical film Batman (1966), and for a co-starring role on the science-fiction series The Time Tunnel. Meriwether had a recurring role as Ruth Martin on the daytime soap opera All My Children until the end of the series in September 2011.

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27/05/1934

Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball player (died 2020)

Raymond Joseph Robert Daviault was a Canadian professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher, a native of Montreal, Quebec, had an 11-season (1953–63) professional career, but spent only part of one season in the Major Leagues, appearing in 36 games for the 1962 New York Mets, the first season in that expansion team's history. He stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).

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Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter (died 2018)

Harlan Jay Ellison was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic-book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media.

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27/05/1933

Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian businessman (died 2008)

Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers Jr., was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who served as the president and CEO of Rogers Communications. He was the fifth-richest person in Canada in terms of net worth.

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Manfred Sommer, Spanish author and illustrator (died 2007)

Manfred Sommer was a Spanish comics artist, best known for the reporter comics series Frank Cappa.

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27/05/1931

André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist (died 1986)

André Barbeau, was a French Canadian neurologist. He was known for his research into Parkinson's disease and Friedreich's ataxia and taurine research.

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John Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 2022)

Field Marshal Sir John Lyon Chapple, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, from 1988 to 1992. Early in his military career he saw action during the Malayan Emergency and again during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and later in his career he provided advice to the British government during the Gulf War.

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Bernard Fresson, French actor (died 2002)

Bernard Fresson was a French actor who primarily worked in film.

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Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (died 2015)

Faten Ahmed Hamama was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress. Later revered as an icon in Egyptian cinema. In 1996, nine of the films she starred in were included in the Top hundred films in the history of Egyptian cinema by the cinema critics of Cairo International Film Festival.

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Philip Kotler, American author and professor

Philip Kotler is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus. He was the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (1962–2018). He is known for popularizing the concept of the marketing mix. He is the author of over 80 books, including Marketing Management, Principles of Marketing, Kotler on Marketing, Marketing Insights from A to Z, Marketing 4.0, Marketing Places, Marketing of Nations, Chaotics, Market Your Way to Growth, Winning Global Markets, Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, My Adventures in Marketing, Up and Out of Poverty, and Winning at Innovation. Kotler has described strategic marketing as "the link between society's needs and its pattern of industrial response."

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27/05/1930

John Barth, American novelist and short story writer (died 2024)

John Simmons Barth was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories. He was co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera.

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William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2020)

William Steele Sessions was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and the fourth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sessions served as FBI director from 1987 to 1993, when he was dismissed by President Bill Clinton. After leaving the public sector, Sessions represented Semion Mogilevich, international leader of the Russian mafia. He is the father of Texas Congressman Pete Sessions.

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Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator (died 2010)

Eino Tamberg was an Estonian composer whose works are performed internationally. He composed operas such as Cyrano de Bergerac, four symphonies, and several concertos. He taught composition for decades at the Estonian Academy of Music.

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27/05/1928

Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator

Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.

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27/05/1927

Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (died 1996)

Jüri Randviir was an Estonian chess player and journalist, who four times won the Estonian Chess Championship.

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27/05/1925

Tony Hillerman, American journalist and author (died 2008)

Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds.

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27/05/1924

Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (died 2014)

Jaime Ramón Lusinchi was the president of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the external debt, populist policies, currency depreciation, inflation and corruption that exacerbated the crisis of the political system established in 1958.

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John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (died 2013)

John Hackman Sumner was an English and Australian theatre director, producer and impresario. He was the founder and artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, gathering a group of later internationally famous stars including Ray Lawler, Zoe Caldwell, Barry Humphries and Fred Parslow.

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27/05/1923

Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. He served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, followed by being the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. He served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

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Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2020)

Sumner Murray Redstone was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom, chairman of CBS Corporation, and the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain.

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27/05/1922

Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (died 2015)

Otto Carius was a German tank commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He fought on the Eastern Front in 1943 and 1944 and on the Western Front in 1945. Carius is considered a "panzer ace", some sources credited him with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, although Carius, in an interview claims he had around 100 kills or less. This was also due to the fact that he did not count kills as a commander, and rather only as a gunner. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films. Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in June 2009 by King Charles III, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013.

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John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (died 2013)

John David Vanderhoof was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Vanderhoof served as the 37th Governor of Colorado from 1973 to 1975, assuming the office from John Arthur Love, who was appointed to the National Energy Policy Office by President Richard Nixon. Vanderhoof served out the remainder of Love's term, but failed to win a term in his own right, being defeated by Democrat Richard Lamm in the 1974 election.

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27/05/1921

Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (died 2013)

Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE, known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974), Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976–77) and Henry's Cat (1983–1993) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film, Great (1975), a humorous biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971), Dream Doll (1979), with Zlatko Grgic, and Small Talk (1994) with animator Kevin Baldwin.

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27/05/1918

Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2019)

Yasuhiro Nakasone was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, pursuing a hawkish and pro-United States foreign policy and his rejection of Keynesianism and his support of neoliberalism.

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27/05/1917

Harry Webster, English engineer (died 2007)

Henry George Webster, CBE was a British automotive engineer. He is best known for his work at the Triumph Motor Company throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

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27/05/1915

Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (died 1996)

Ester Soré was the main singer of Chilean melodies of the 20th century. She recorded for the first time, the successful one "Chile Lindo" ("Pretty Chile"), of Clara Solovera, and did not only contribute to enriching the way to interpret those songs thanks to a voice recognized among the clearest and expressive of her time. Besides she was a popular artist in an extensive sense: on the radio, recordings, tours and movies.

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Herman Wouk, American novelist (died 2019)

Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.

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27/05/1912

John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (died 1982)

John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).

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Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster (died 2002)

Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for the better part of four decades and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Snead was awarded a record 94 gold medallions, for wins in PGA of America Tour events and later credited with winning a record 82 PGA Tour events tied with Tiger Woods, including seven majors. He never won the U.S. Open, though he was runner-up four times. Snead was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.

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Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1995)

Terry Bluford Moore was an American professional baseball center fielder, manager, and coach. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1935 to 1948, and later coached for them from 1949 to 1958. Moore also briefly managed the 1954 Philadelphia Phillies, taking the reins from Steve O’Neill, for the second half of the season.

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27/05/1911

Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978. As a senator, he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.

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Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (died 2007)

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993.

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Vincent Price, American actor (died 1993)

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor, known to film audiences for his work in the horror genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.

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27/05/1909

Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (died 2011)

Dolores Hope, DC*SG was an American singer, entertainer, philanthropist, and wife of American actor and comedian Bob Hope.

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Juan Vicente Pérez, Venezuelan supercentenarian, oldest living man, last man born in 1900s decade (died 2024)

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022.

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27/05/1907

Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (died 1988)

Nicolas Calas was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris, a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos and M. Spieros.

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Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)

Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.

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27/05/1906

Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993)

Buddhadasa was a Thai Buddhist monk. Known as an innovative reinterpreter of Buddhist doctrine and Thai folk beliefs, he fostered a reformation in conventional religious perceptions in his home country, Thailand, as well as abroad. He developed a personal view that those who have penetrated the essential nature of religions consider "all religions to be inwardly the same", while those who have the highest understanding of dhamma feel "there is no religion". Buddhadasa was also known for his political engagement and developed a form of Buddhist socialism he called "Dhammic socialism".

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Harry Hibbs, English footballer (died 1984)

Henry Edward Hibbs was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Birmingham and England in the 1920s and 1930s. His uncle Hubert Pearson and cousin Harold Pearson were also professional players.

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Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (died 2009)

Antonio Rosario Mennonna was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At the time of his death at the age of 103, he was the second-oldest bishop in the Church, behind Antoine Nguyên Van Thien.

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27/05/1900

Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (died 1964)

Lotte Toberentz, born Maria Charlotte Toberentz was a German concentration camp overseer in Nazi Germany. She was tried in the Third Ravensbrück Trials but was acquitted of crimes due to lack of evidence.

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Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (died 1933)

Uladzimir Zhylka was a Belarusian poet.

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27/05/1899

Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (died 1993)

Johannes Türn was an Estonian chess player.

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27/05/1898

David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer (died 1976)

David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. was an African-American mechanical and electrical engineer, inventor, and writer. Crosthwait's expertise was on air ventilation, central air conditioning, and heat transfer systems. He was responsible for creating heating systems for larger buildings such as Rockefeller Center and New York's Radio City Music Hall. He was granted an honorary doctoral degree in 1975 from Purdue University. In 1971, Crosthwait was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), making him the first African American fellow. Crosthwait was also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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27/05/1897

John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and weapons.

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Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach (died 1962)

Robert Lyman "Dink" Templeton was an American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist in rugby union, college football player, and track coach.

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27/05/1895

Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (died 1995)

Douglas Lloyd Campbell was a Canadian politician in Manitoba. He served as the 13th premier of Manitoba from 1948 to 1958. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for 47 years, longer than anyone in the province's history.

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27/05/1894

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."

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Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.

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27/05/1891

Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (died 1965)

Claude Champagne was a French Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, and violinist.

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Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (died 1958)

Jaan Kärner was an Estonian poet and writer. He is known especially for his nature poetry. Many of his poems were set to music by Estonian composers of choral music. Kärner also wrote numerous novels, plays, works of literary criticism, and scientific literature and historical treatises. He translated works from German and Russian, most notably the poems of Heinrich Heine into Estonian in 1934.

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27/05/1888

Louis Durey, French composer (died 1979)

Louis Edmond Durey was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers.

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27/05/1887

Frank Woolley, English cricketer (died 1978)

Frank Edward Woolley was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and represented the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder, Woolley was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler. He was also an outstanding close-in fielder and remains the only non-wicket-keeper to have taken more than 1,000 catches in a first-class career. His aggregate of runs scored is the second-highest in first-class cricket history, while his total number of wickets places him 27th overall.

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27/05/1884

Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (died 1968)

Max Brod was an Israeli author, composer and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček.

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27/05/1883

Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (died 1971)

Jessie Hazel Arms Botke was an Illinois and California painter noted for her bird images and use of gold leaf highlights.

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27/05/1879

Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist (died 1963)

Karl Ludwig Bühler was a German psychologist and linguist. In psychology he is known for his work in Gestalt psychology, and he was one of the founders of the Würzburg School of psychology. In linguistics he is known for his organon model of communication and his treatment of deixis as a linguistic phenomenon.

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Hans Lammers, German judge and politician (died 1962)

Hans Heinrich Lammers was a German jurist and prominent Nazi Party politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler. In 1937, he additionally was given the post of Reichsminister in the cabinet. During the 1948–1949 Ministries Trial, Lammers was found guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in a criminal organization. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in April 1949, but this was later reduced to 10 years and he was released early.

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27/05/1878

Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (died 1972)

Anna Kristina Cervin was a Swedish artist, primarily known for her painting work.

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27/05/1876

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (died 1945)

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anticommunist political activist. He is known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War in which he participated.

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William Stanier, English engineer (died 1965)

Sir William Arthur Stanier was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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27/05/1875

Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (died 1942)

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

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Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviator (died 1914)

Jorge Alejandro Newbery Malagarie was an Argentine aviator, civil servant, engineer and scientist. He died in an airplane crash on 1 March 1914, at the age of 38.

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27/05/1871

Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (died 1958)

Georges-Henri Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.

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27/05/1868

Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (died 1924)

Aleksa Šantić was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing national awareness of Bosnian Serbs, social injustice, nostalgic love, and the unity of the South Slavs. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zora (1896–1901). Šantić was one of the leading persons of Serbian literary and national movement in Mostar. In 1914 Šantić became a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.

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27/05/1867

Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (died 1931)

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.

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27/05/1863

Arthur Mold, English cricketer (died 1921)

Arthur Webb Mold was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire as a fast bowler between 1889 and 1901. A Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1892, he was selected for England in three Test matches in 1893. Mold was one of the most effective bowlers in England during the 1890s but his career was overshadowed by controversy over his bowling action. Although he took 1,673 wickets in first-class matches, many commentators viewed his achievements as tainted.

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27/05/1860

Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (died 1941)

Manuel Teixeira Gomes was a Portuguese politician who served as the president of Portugal from 1923 to 1925.

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Margrethe Munthe, Norwegian songwriter (died 1931)

Margrethe Aabel Munthe was a Norwegian teacher, children's writer, songwriter and playwright.

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27/05/1857

Theodor Curtius, German chemist (died 1928)

Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid. In 1882 he carried out the first ever peptide synthesis, creating the N-protected dipeptide, benzoylglycylglycine.

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27/05/1852

Billy Barnes, English cricketer (died 1899)

William Barnes was an English professional cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from 1875 to 1894, and in 21 Test matches for England from 1880 to 1890. He was born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and died at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.

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27/05/1837

Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer (died 1876)

James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation.

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27/05/1836

Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (died 1892)

Jay Gould was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late 19th century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial.

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27/05/1832

Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (died 1917)

Zenas Ferry Moody was the seventh governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887.

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27/05/1827

Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (died 1892)

Samuel Franklin Miller was a United States representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.

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27/05/1819

Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (died 1910)

Julia Ward Howe was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body," and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclamation. She was also an advocate for abolitionism and a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.

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27/05/1818

Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist (died 1894)

Amelia Jenks Bloomer was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy. In her work with The Lily, she became the first woman to own, operate and edit a newspaper for women.

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27/05/1815

Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (died 1896)

Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has been referred to as the "Father of Federation" due to his early promotion for the federation of the six colonies of Australia, as an early critic of British convict transportation and as a proponent for the expansion of the Australian continental rail network.

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27/05/1814

John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (died 1885)

John Rudolph Niernsee was an American architect. He served as the head architect for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Rudolph also largely contributed to the design and construction of the South Carolina State House located in Columbia, South Carolina. Along with his partner, James Crawford Neilson, Rudolph established the standard for professional design and construction of public works projects within Baltimore and across different states in the United States.

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27/05/1812

George K. Teulon, English-Texian journalist and freemason (died 1846)

George Knight Teulon was a 19th-century English-Texian journalist and freemason who was a cofounder and the editor of The Austin City Gazette, the first newspaper published in Austin, the capital of the Republic of Texas, and the publisher of The Western Advocate.

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27/05/1794

Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1877)

Cornelius Vanderbilt, nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. After working with his father's business, he worked his way into leadership positions in inland and coastal shipping, then invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry, which transformed the geography of the United States.

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27/05/1774

Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (died 1857)

Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.

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27/05/1756

Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (died 1825)

Maximilian I Joseph was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.

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27/05/1738

Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress (died 1796)

Nathaniel Gorham was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Massachusetts. He was a delegate from the Bay Colony to the Continental Congress and for six months served as the presiding officer of that body under the Articles of Confederation. He also attended the Constitutional Convention, served on its Committee of Detail, and signed the United States Constitution.

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27/05/1652

Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (died 1722)

Madame Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, also known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a German member of the House of Wittelsbach who married into the French royal family. She was the second wife of Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. By Philippe, Liselotte was the mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and Élisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Lorraine. Philippe II was France's ruler during the Regency. Liselotte gained literary and historical importance primarily through preservation of her correspondence, which is of great cultural and historical value due to her sometimes very blunt descriptions of French court life and is today one of the best-known German-language texts of the Baroque period.

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27/05/1651

Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (died 1729)

Louis Antoine de Noailles, Cardinal de Noailles, second son of Anne de Noailles, 1st Duke of Noailles, was a French bishop and cardinal. His signing of the Unigenitus bull in 1728 would end the formal Jansenist controversy.

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27/05/1626

William II, Prince of Orange (died 1650)

William II was sovereign Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, Overijssel and Groningen in the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March 1647 until his death three years later on 6 November 1650. His death marked the beginning of the First Stadtholderless Period, leading to the rise of Johan De Witt, who stayed in power for the next 22 years.

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27/05/1601

Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary and saint (died 1648)

Antoine Daniel was a French Jesuit missionary in North America, at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.

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27/05/1584

Michael Altenburg, German theologian and composer (died 1640)

Michael Altenburg was a German theologian and composer.

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27/05/1576

Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar (died 1649)

Caspar Schoppe was a German Catholic polemicist, philosopher and scholar.

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27/05/1537

Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (died 1604)

Landgrave Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg was the son of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and his wife Christine of Saxony. After the death of his father in 1567, Hesse was divided among his sons and Louis received Hesse-Marburg including Marburg and Giessen.

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27/05/1519

Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist (died 1594)

Girolamo Mei was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama. He was born in Florence, and died in Rome and also used the pseudonym Decimo Corinella da Peretola.

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27/05/1378

Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (died 1448)[citation needed]

Zhu Quan, the Prince of Ning, was a Chinese historian, military commander, musician, and playwright. He was the 17th son of the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty. During his life, he served as a military commander, feudal lord, historian, and playwright. He is also remembered as a great tea connoisseur, a zither player, and composer.

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27/05/1332

Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (died 1406)

Ibn Khaldun was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.

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27/05/0742

Emperor Dezong of Tang (died 805)

Emperor Dezong of Tang, personal name Li Kuo, was an emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty. He was the oldest son of Emperor Daizong. His reign of 26 years was the third longest in the Tang dynasty. Emperor Dezong started out as a diligent and frugal emperor and he tried to reform the governmental finances by introducing new tax laws. His attempts to destroy the powerful regional warlords and the subsequent mismanagement of those campaigns, however, resulted in a number of rebellions that nearly destroyed him and the Tang dynasty. After those events, he dealt cautiously with the regional governors, causing warlordism to become unchecked, and his trust of eunuchs caused the eunuchs' power to rise greatly. He was also known for his paranoia about officials' wielding power, and late in his reign, he did not grant much authority to his chancellors.

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