Born on Thursday, 27th November – Famous Birthdays

27/11/2003

Adéla Jergová, Slovak singer-songwriter

Adéla Jergová, known mononymously as Adéla, is a Slovak singer, songwriter, and dancer. She rose to prominence as a contestant in the 2023 reality show Dream Academy, which concluded with the formation of the girl group Katseye. Her debut single, "Homewrecked", was released independently in 2024. In 2025, she signed with Capitol Records and released her debut extended play (EP), The Provocateur.

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27/11/2001

Zoe Colletti, American actress

Zoe Margaret Colletti is an American actress and YouTuber. She made her acting debut in the television pilot of American Men (2006) and played her first major-film role in Annie (2014). Colletti appeared in 2018 films Wildlife and Skin before garnering critical praise in the lead role of Stella Nicholls in horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019). She achieved further recognition and plaudits as Dakota in the sixth season of horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead (2020–2021) and the Truth Pixie in fantasy film A Boy Called Christmas (2021). In 2022 she portrayed Lucy in the second season of Only Murders in the Building. She also starred in the Netflix series Boo, Bitch, and she featured in The Family Plan as well as its sequel.

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27/11/1996

Mike Williams, Dutch DJ and record producer

Mike Willemsen, better known by his stage name Mike Williams, is a Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, remixer and chef. He is best known for working with Tiësto and as an artist of Spinnin' Records, who recognised him as an "artist of the future". He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the future bounce genre, an emerging subgenre of future house, alongside Dutch DJs Brooks and Mesto and more.

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27/11/1995

Suliasi Vunivalu, Fijian rugby league player

Suliasi Bainiua Vunivalu is a professional rugby union footballer who plays for French club La Rochelle. He previously played for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby and the Australian national team. His regular playing position is wing.

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27/11/1993

Aubrey Peeples, American actress and singer

Aubrey Shea Peeples is an American actor and singer. They are best known for portraying Layla Grant in the ABC drama series Nashville. They also led Carrie Brownstein's pilot Search & Destroy for Hulu based on her band Sleater-Kinney. Peeples played the lead role in the musical film Jem and the Holograms (2015). Their directorial and screenwriting debut, Decadeless, premiered at the Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival in 2019.

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27/11/1992

Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter

Alicja Julia "Ala" Boratyn, born 27 November 1992), sometimes known as just Ala, is a Polish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2005 as one of the lead singers of Polish girl duo Blog 27. With Blog 27, Boratyn enjoyed success in her native Poland, Central Europe, and Japan. Having departed from the band in 2006, she embarked on a short-lived solo career before becoming member of the bands Wicked Giant, New People and Ala Zastary.

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Chanyeol, South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and model

Park Chan-yeol, better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo, its sub-group Exo-K and sub-unit Exo-SC, and debuted as soloist on August 28, 2024, with his first extended play (EP) Black Out. Apart from his group's activities, Chanyeol has also starred in various television dramas and movies such as So I Married an Anti-fan (2016), and Secret Queen Makers (2018).

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Bradley Zimmer, American baseball player

Bradley Clarke Zimmer is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He attended the University of San Francisco, and played college baseball for the San Francisco Dons baseball team. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft and made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with them in 2017. He also played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays.

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27/11/1990

Josh Dubovie, English singer

Josh James Dubovie is an English singer. He represented the United Kingdom at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010, after winning the national selection Eurovision: Your Country Needs You with "That Sounds Good to Me", a song by Mike Stock, Pete Waterman and Steve Crosby.

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27/11/1989

Michael Floyd, American football player

Michael Floyd Jr. is an American former professional football wide receiver who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 2008 to 2011, finishing with 271 catches for 3,686 yards and 37 touchdowns, all school records. He was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft, but was dismissed from the Cardinals during the 2016 season, after he was arrested on drinking and driving charges. He has also played for the New England Patriots, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins, and Baltimore Ravens.

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Freddie Sears, English footballer

Frederick David Sears is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Isthmian League North Division club Maldon & Tiptree.

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27/11/1987

Luigi Datome, Italian basketball player

Luigi "Gigi" Datome is an Italian former professional basketball player. Standing at 2.03 m, he played at the small forward and power forward positions. Datome was an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2016.

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Lashana Lynch, English actress

Lashana Lynch is a British actress. After various roles in film and television, she gained international recognition portraying Maria Rambeau in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films beginning with Captain Marvel (2019). She starred as the first Black female 007 agent in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021) going on to win the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2022.

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27/11/1986

Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer

Suresh Raina is an Indian former international cricketer. He played for the India national team and represented Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He was an aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and who occasionally bowled right-arm off-spin. Raina is the first Indian batsman to hit a century in all three formats of international cricket, and the first Indian to score a century in the T20 World Cup. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer

Steven Joseph Silva is a Filipino-American footballer from Team Socceroo FC in the UFL Second Division. He is also an actor, chef, radio disk jockey, and the Ultimate Male Survivor of the fifth season of StarStruck. He is half-Portuguese, one-fourth Chinese and one-fourth Filipino. He is the first Mindanao representative and the oldest male contestant to win the said title.

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Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer

Xavier "Xavi" Torres Buigues is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

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Oritsé Williams, English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer

Oritsé Jolomi Matthew Soloman Williams, professionally as Oritsé, is a British singer. He is best known as the founding member of the boy band JLS, who were runners-up to Alexandra Burke on the fifth series of The X Factor in 2008. JLS sold over 10 million records before disbanding in December 2013. Williams also won the ITV dancing competition Stepping Out in September 2013.

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27/11/1985

Park Soo-jin, South Korean singer

Park Soo-jin is a South Korean actress, singer and model. She was a member of K-pop girl group Sugar from 2001 to 2006, then she transitioned to acting in 2007. Park has also hosted Tasty Road from 2010 to 2016, a cable show that features trendy restaurants in Seoul.

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Alison Pill, Canadian actress

Alison Pill is a Canadian actress. A former child actress, she began her career at age 12, appearing in numerous projects before transitioning to adult roles with a breakthrough role in the television series The Book of Daniel (2006), a tv series on NBC. Also in 2006, she made her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2006) earning a nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Pill's other notable stage roles include being in Blackbird (2007), Mauritius (2007), The Miracle Worker (2010), The House of Blue Leaves (2011), and Three Tall Women (2018).

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Thilo Versick, German footballer

Thilo Versick is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made two appearances for Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga.

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27/11/1984

Leslie Dewan, American entrepreneur

Leslie Dewan is an American nuclear engineer. She was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Transatomic Power. Dewan was a member of the board of MIT and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

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Izumi Kitta, Japanese voice actress and singer

Izumi Kitta is a Japanese voice actress best known as the voice of Cordelia Glauca in the media franchise Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, the voice of Tomoko Kuroki in No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, and the voice of Rainbow Dash in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Her first maxi single, "Colorful Garden" was released on April 6, 2011. Kitta attended Dwango Creative School, a voice actor training school in 2007. After leaving Dwango Artist Production, she is now affiliated with Hibiki Cast. In 2017 she published her first manga, Liberty, in yuri magazine Galette, illustrated by Moto Momono.

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Domata Peko, American football player

Domata Uluaifaasau Peko Sr is an American-Samoan professional football coach and former nose tackle who is currently the defensive line coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Peko was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Pago Pago, American Samoa. He played college football at Michigan State and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL draft.

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27/11/1983

Professor Green, English rapper

Stephen Paul Manderson, better known by his stage name Professor Green or simply Pro Green, is an English rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, television personality and mental health activist from London.

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Henrik Karlsson, Swedish-Kazakhstani ice hockey player

Henrik Bjorn Karlsson is a Swedish-Kazakhstani former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 26 games in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames during the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2002 to 2021, was spent in Sweden and then in the Kontinental Hockey League. Internationally Karlsson, who was born in Sweden, played for the Kazakhstani national team at two World Championships.

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Donta Smith, American-Venezuelan basketball player

Donta Lamont Smith is an American-Venezuelan professional basketball player for Trotamundos de Carabobo of the Venezuelan Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). Playing for Maccabi Haifa, he was named the 2014 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP.

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27/11/1982

David Bellion, French footballer

David Bellion is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. His previous clubs include Cannes, Sunderland, Manchester United, West Ham United, Nice, Bordeaux and Red Star.

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Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian footballer

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kerzhakov is a Russian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker.

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Tommy Robinson, English activist, co-founded the English Defence League

Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right, anti-Islam activist. Described as "one of [the] UK's most prominent far-right activists", he co-founded the English Defence League (EDL), serving as its leader from 2009 to 2013.

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27/11/1981

Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer

Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He is currently sporting director of Primeira Liga club Rio Ave.

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Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (died 2016)

Ryan Jimmo was a Canadian mixed martial artist who competed in the light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He mostly fought in Canada and competed on the eighth season of The Ultimate Fighter. Jimmo was the former MFC Light Heavyweight Champion.

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Matthew Taylor, English footballer

Matthew Simon Taylor is an English former professional footballer who played in the Premier League for Portsmouth, Bolton Wanderers, West Ham United and Burnley and in the Football League for Luton Town, Northampton Town and Swindon Town. Taylor played as a full-back, wing-back and midfielder. He scored 84 goals in 658 league games in a 20-year career in English football.

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27/11/1980

Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jackie Greene is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has a solo career and became a member of The Black Crowes in 2013, though the band broke up in 2015 before he could contribute any studio work.

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Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor

Veronika Portsmuth is an Estonian conductor and singer.

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Michael Yardy, English cricketer

Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricket coach and former professional cricketer who played limited over internationals for the England cricket team between 2006 and 2011. He played as a left-handed batsman and captained Sussex County Cricket Club. He had an unusual batting technique which involved him taking guard outside leg stump before a pronounced shuffle across the crease immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowled slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action, and was used as a bowling all-rounder in England's One Day International and Twenty20 International teams. Yardy retired from professional cricket at the end of the 2015 season. Yardy was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

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27/11/1979

Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer

Richard Joseph Carmichael is an American former professional motocross and supercross racer. Carmichael won 15 AMA Motocross and Supercross championships, including a record-setting seven AMA Motocross 450cc championships and five AMA Supercross 450cc titles. He holds the record for the most overall motocross wins in AMA history and was twice undefeated in the outdoor motocross series. His dominance in the sport has earned him the nickname "The GOAT", standing for Greatest of All Time. He also represented Team USA in the Motocross des Nations three times, contributing to several victories.

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Hilary Hahn, American violinist

Hilary Hahn is an American violinist. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors, and as a recitalist. She is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music, and several composers have written works for her, including concerti by Edgar Meyer and Jennifer Higdon, partitas by Antón García Abril, two serenades for violin and orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara, and a violin and piano sonata by Lera Auerbach.

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Brendan Haywood, American basketball player

Brendan Todd Haywood is an American former professional basketball player who was a center in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. Following his playing career, Haywood became a college basketball announcer for CBS Sports and a co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Brendan Haywood also works as an analyst for the NBA Playoffs on NBATV.

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Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer

Teemu Mikael Tainio is a Finnish football coach and former player.

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27/11/1978

Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player

Eszter Molnár is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. In her career, she won a total of 11 ITF titles and reached a doubles ranking high of world No. 192 on 18 February 2002.

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Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player

James Calvin Rollins, nicknamed "J-Roll", is an American former professional baseball shortstop, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (2000–2014), Los Angeles Dodgers (2015), and Chicago White Sox (2016).

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Mike Skinner, English rapper and producer

Michael Geoffrey Skinner is an English rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Best known for the music project the Streets, Skinner has also released music as a solo artist, as part of the D.O.T. with frequent collaborator Rob Harvey, and under the pseudonym The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light.

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Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player

Radek Štěpánek is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 event finals and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, as well as winning the deciding match for Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012 and again in 2013. In doubles, he won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 Australian Open, along with Indian partner Leander Paes, defeating the Bryan Brothers in the final. Paes and Štěpánek also won the men's doubles title at the 2013 US Open, defeating Bruno Soares and Alexander Peya in the final. In November 2017, he became a coach of Novak Djokovic and in May 2019, he joined Andre Agassi as part of Grigor Dimitrov's coaching staff.

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27/11/1977

Willie Bloomquist, American baseball player

William Paul Bloomquist is an American baseball coach and former utility player, who is the current head baseball coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils. He played college baseball at Arizona State for coach Pat Murphy from 1997 to 1999 and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons from 2002 to 2015. In 2021, he returned to his alma mater, Arizona State.

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Bendor Grosvenor, British art historian

Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor is a British art historian, writer and former art dealer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. As a dealer, he specialised in Old Masters, with a particular interest in Anthony van Dyck.

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Andy Panko, American basketball player

Andrew John Panko III is an American former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) tall, he primarily played the small forward and power forward positions.

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27/11/1976

Jean Grae, South African-American rapper and producer

Tsidi Ibrahim, known professionally as Jean Grae, is a musician and writer. She emerged in New York City's underground hip-hop scene and developed an international following. Throughout her music career, her distinctive style and lyricism gained recognition, with artists such as Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, and Black Thought of The Roots expressing admiration for her work.

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Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player and firefighter

Chad William Lawrence Kilger is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played for several National Hockey League teams, most recently the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Jaleel White, American actor and screenwriter

Jaleel Ahmad White is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor while making guest appearances on dozens of television sitcoms before portraying Robert Richmond on the short-lived sitcom Charlie & Co (1985-1986), and also gained prominence for portraying Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters (1989–1998), where he was originally intended to make one appearance. White eventually became the main protagonist of the show.

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27/11/1975

Bad Azz, American rapper (died 2019)

Jamarr Antonio Stamps, better known by his stage name Bad Azz, was an American rapper and member of hip-hop collective D.P.G.C.

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Martín Gramática, Argentine-American football player

Martin Gramatica is an Argentine-American former American football player who was a kicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, and New Orleans Saints. He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats, winning the Lou Groza Award and twice earning All-American honors. He was selected by the Buccaneers in the third round of the 1999 NFL draft.

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Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer

Rain Vessenberg is a retired football (soccer) goalkeeper from Estonia. He played for several clubs in his native country, including JK Nõmme United and JK Viljandi Tulevik.

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27/11/1974

Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish racing cyclist

Wendy Louise Houvenaghel is a Northern Irish former racing cyclist from Upperlands, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, riding on both the road and track, but specialising in the latter. She has represented Great Britain in various World Cycling Championships and in the 2008 Olympic Games, most notably winning the silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games, and gold in the team pursuit at the 2008, 2009 and 2011 Track World Championships. She has also won many British national titles and represented England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and Northern Ireland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Houvenaghel is based in Cornwall, England.

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Alec Newman, Scottish actor

Alec Newman is a Scottish actor best known for portraying Paul Atreides in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. He voiced Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Cameron "Caz" McLeary in Still Wakes the Deep, for the latter of which he won the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Leading Role.

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27/11/1973

Sharlto Copley, South African actor

Sharlto Copley is a South African actor. His acting credits include lead roles in the Academy Award-nominated science fiction film District 9; the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team; the science fiction film Elysium; the science fiction horror film Europa Report; the 2014 dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent; and the 2022 thriller Beast. He also played the title character in the 2015 science fiction film Chappie; Jimmy in the 2015 science fiction action film Hardcore Henry, and starred in two seasons as Christian Walker of the TV series Powers (2015-16). In 2025 he played Leo Bonhart in season 4 of the Netflix TV series The Witcher.

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Samantha Harris, American model and television host

Samantha Harris is an American television presenter, model, and entertainment reporter and actress, known as the co-host of seasons two through nine of Dancing with the Stars with Tom Bergeron. From 2010–12, she was a correspondent at Entertainment Tonight. In September 2015, she returned to the program as a co-anchor for the weekend edition, remaining until 2016.

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Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor

Evan Karagias is an American retired professional wrestler and actor.

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Jin Katagiri, Japanese comedian, actor, sculptor, and potter

Jin Katagiri is a comedian, actor, sculptor, and potter from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Kasukabe High School and Tama Art University. Outside Japan, he is most well known for playing the PC in the "Get A Mac" advertising campaign in Japan. He is a member of the Rahmens owarai comedy duo.

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Jon Runyan, American football player and politician

Jon Daniel Runyan is an American athlete and politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. Before entering politics, he played football for 14 seasons as an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was a participant in the 2003 Pro Bowl following the 2002 NFL season.

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Twista, American rapper and producer

Carl Terrell Mitchell, better known by his stage name Twista, is an American rapper. He is best known for his chopper style of rapping and for once holding the title of fastest English-speaking rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds.

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27/11/1972

Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer

Shane Salerno is an American screenwriter, producer, New York Times bestselling author, and Chief Creative Officer of The Story Factory, which has placed 34 books on the New York Times bestseller list, with seven books reaching #1. His screenwriting credits include the films Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Armageddon, Savages, Shaft, and those films have grossed more than 4.5 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. He has written, co-written or rewritten seven films that debuted at #1 at the box office, two separate films that were the highest-grossing film of the year, two separate films that grossed over $1 billion and the third and fifteenth highest grossing films of all time.

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27/11/1971

Kirk Acevedo, American actor

Kirkland M. Acevedo is an American actor best known as Miguel Alvarez in Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers, and FBI Agent Charlie Francis on Fringe. His best-known films are The Thin Red Line, Dinner Rush and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He also was José Ramse on 12 Monkeys (2015–18), as well as Ricardo Diaz / The Dragon on Arrow (2017–19).

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Larry Allen, American football player (died 2024)

Larry Christopher Allen Jr. was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Butte Roadrunners and the Sonoma State Cossacks, and was selected by the Cowboys in the second round of the 1994 NFL draft. A player capable of using his speed against defenders, Allen was regarded as one of the strongest players to ever play in the NFL, and has been ranked as the best offensive lineman of all-time by Fox Sports.

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Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

Iván Rodríguez Torres, nicknamed "Pudge" and "I-Rod", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Washington Nationals. Rodríguez is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in MLB history and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Nick Van Exel, American basketball player and coach

Nickey Maxwell Van Exel is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last served as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Van Exel played for six NBA teams from 1993 through 2006. He was an NBA All-Star with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1998.

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27/11/1970

Kelly Loeffler, American politician and businesswoman

Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who has served as the 28th administrator of the Small Business Administration since February 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021.

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Han Kang, South Korean writer

Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

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Markus Vogl, Austrian politician

Markus Vogl is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Traunviertel from October 2013 to January 2021.

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27/11/1969

El Chombo, Panamanian singer-songwriter

Rodney Sebastián Clark Donalds, better known by his stage name El Chombo, is a Panamanian reggaeton record producer. He is best known for the hit songs "El Gato Volador", “Chacarron Macarron" and "Dame Tu Cosita", the latter two becoming viral Internet memes.

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Ruth George, English politician

Ruth Stephanie Nicole George is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak from 2017 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, she has been a Member of Derbyshire County Council since 2020.

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Damian Hinds, English politician

Damian Patrick George Hinds is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Hampshire since 2010. He previously served as Secretary of State for Education under Theresa May from 2018 to 2019; he has also held junior ministerial positions under four Prime Ministers.

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Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter

Myles Richard Bass, known professionally as Myles Kennedy, is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Alter Bridge and of Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators alongside guitarist Slash. A former guitar instructor from Spokane, Washington, Kennedy has worked as a session musician and songwriter, making both studio and live appearances with several artists, and has been involved with several projects throughout his career.

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Elizabeth Marvel, American actress

Elizabeth Marvel is an American actress. Her more prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln ; and The Meyerowitz Stories. She also had a recurring role in season 2 of the FX series Fargo and the Netflix miniseries Unbelievable. She also played "The Major" in the series Manifest, and has recurred as defense attorney Rita Calhoun on multiple episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between 2012 and 2025.

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27/11/1968

Al Barrow, English bass guitarist

Al Barrow is an English bassist best known as the former member of the hard rock band Magnum.

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Michael Vartan, French-American actor

Michael Vartan is an American retired actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama Alias, his role on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, and his role on the E! drama The Arrangement as Terence Anderson. His film roles include The Pallbearer, Never Been Kissed, The Next Best Thing, One Hour Photo, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Monster-in-Law, Rogue, Colombiana, and Small Town Crime.

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27/11/1966

Andy Merrill, American television writer, producer and voice actor

Andy Merrill is an American voice actor, television writer and producer best known for his portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, and Cartoon Planet; as well as Oglethorpe on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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27/11/1965

Danielle Ammaccapane, American golfer

Danielle Ammaccapane is an American professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. Her daughter, with husband Rod Kesling, is child actor Laura Ann Kesling.

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27/11/1964

Robin Givens, American actress

Robin Givens is an American actress and director. Givens played Darlene Merriman in the ABC sitcom Head of the Class in 1986, and remained on the series for its five year duration. Her marriage to boxer Mike Tyson in 1988 drew considerable media attention, as did their divorce. She later went on to become a spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline for several years.

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Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and manager

Roberto Mancini is an Italian football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Qatar Stars League club Al-Sadd.

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Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (died 2013)

Hisayuki Sasaki was a Japanese professional golfer.

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27/11/1963

Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, and producer

Stephen Fisher, known professionally as Fisher Stevens, is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben Jabituya/Jahveri in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988). He is also a documentary filmmaker, having won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature as one of the producers of The Cove (2009). He also directed the documentaries Crazy Love (2007) and Before the Flood (2016).

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27/11/1962

Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter

Charles Lee Benante is an American musician, best known as the drummer for thrash metal band Anthrax and crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death. Known as one of the pioneers of double bass drumming and credited with popularizing the blast beat technique, he is Anthrax's main composer and has released eleven studio albums with the band. He also plays guitar on occasion. Benante has toured with the reunited Pantera since 2022.

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Mike Bordin, American drummer

Michael Andrew Bordin is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Faith No More. He has amicably been known as "Puffy", "Puffster" or "The Puff", in reference to the afro hairstyle he wore in the early 1980s. The nicknames were coined by Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin, and they stuck around even after he grew out his hair and tied it in dreadlocks, a trademark look he has worn for most of his career.

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Davey Boy Smith, English-Canadian wrestler (died 2002)

David Smith was an English professional wrestler best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names Davey Boy Smith and The British Bulldog.

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27/11/1961

Samantha Bond, English actress

Samantha Jane Bond is an English actress. She played Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the Pierce Brosnan era, and appeared in Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. On television, she played "Auntie Angela" in the sitcom Outnumbered and the villain Mrs Wormwood in the CBBC Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures. She also originated the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. She is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Steven Brent Oedekerk is an American filmmaker, actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his collaborations with actor and comedian Jim Carrey and director Tom Shadyac, his series of "Thumbmation" shorts and his film Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002), along with his films Santa vs. the Snowman 3D, Barnyard, and The Nutty Professor remake. For his film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Oedekerk was nominated for an Academy Award.

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27/11/1960

Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator

Kevin Henkes is an American author of children's books. He is known for writing and illustrating picture books, the most notable of which feature young anthropomorphic mice as their main characters. Henkes also writes middle-grade fiction. As an illustrator, he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of Henkes' books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards.

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Ken O'Brien, American football player and coach

Kenneth John O'Brien Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles. One of the six quarterbacks in the famed quarterback class of 1983, O'Brien was the first quarterback in the franchise history of the Jets to finish with the highest passer rating in a season. He held the team record for most consecutive pass completions (17) in a game. In 1997, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota

Timothy James Pawlenty is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served from 2003 to 2011 as the 39th governor of Minnesota. A member of the Republican Party, Pawlenty served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and as House Majority Leader from 1999 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 presidential election.

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Michael Rispoli, American actor

Michael Rispoli is an American character actor. He was a contender for the role of Tony Soprano in the HBO television series The Sopranos, but was ultimately cast as Jackie Aprile, a recurring character in the show's first season. Rispoli reunited with Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini in the 2009 thriller The Taking of Pelham 123. He was a series regular on the HBO series The Deuce.

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Maria Schneider, American composer and musician

Maria Lynn Schneider is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.

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Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She is a Candidate of Economic Sciences.

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Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and politician

Gianni Vernetti is a writer and Italian politician.

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27/11/1959

Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and songwriter

Charles Burchill is a Scottish musician and composer who is the guitarist for the rock band Simple Minds. He is recognized for his enduring partnership with lead singer Jim Kerr, with whom he has played since their school days. The two remain the only original members still performing with the group. Burchill is primarily known as a guitarist, but he is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays keyboards, saxophone, and violin.

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Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist

Viktoria Yurievna Mullova is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and others.

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27/11/1958

Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese singer-songwriter, and producer

Tetsuya Komuro is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and has introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the disco Velfarre located in Roppongi, Tokyo.

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Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager

Michael Lorri Scioscia, nicknamed "Sosh" and "El Jefe", is an American former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He managed the Angels from the 2000 season through the 2018 season, and was the longest-tenured manager in MLB and second-longest-tenured coach/manager in the "Big Four", behind only Gregg Popovich, at the time of his retirement. As a player, Scioscia made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980. He was selected to two All-Star Games and won two World Series over the course of his 13-year playing career, which was spent entirely with the Dodgers; this made him the only person in MLB history to spend his entire playing career with one team and entire managing career with another team with 10+ years in both organizations. He was signed by the San Diego Padres and Texas Rangers late in his career, but never appeared in a game for either team due to injury.

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27/11/1957

Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish race car driver

Kenneth Henry Acheson is a British former racing driver from Northern Ireland who competed for RAM Racing in the 1983 and 1985 Formula One seasons. He completed only one of his three race starts, finishing in 12th position in the 1983 South African Grand Prix. In 1985, he was a substitute for Manfred Winkelhock, who was killed in a sportscar race during the season.

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Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist (died 2016)

Edda Heiðrún Backman was an Icelandic actress, voice actress, singer, painter and director.

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Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist

Franciscus Johannes Maria (Frank) Boeijen is a Dutch singer and guitarist. His best known songs are "Kronenburg Park ", about a sex worker; "Zwart Wit", about the racist murder of Kerwin Duinmeijer in Amsterdam; and "Twee gezichten", about someone with a split personality. Having been in the music business for 25 years, he received the Edison award for his contributions to Dutch music in 2005.

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Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to Australia, daughter of President John F. Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, diplomat, and attorney. She served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in literature, law, politics, education reform, and charity. She is a member of the Kennedy family and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Callie Khouri, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. She is best known for writing Thelma & Louise, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Thelma & Louise has since grown to be considered a classic, and was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in December 2016.

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Michael A. Stackpole, American game designer and author

Michael Austin Stackpole is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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27/11/1956

William Fichtner, American actor

William Edward Fichtner is an American actor. Born in New York, he started his career with supporting appearances in Virtuosity (1995), Heat and Strange Days. A prolific character actor in film, Fichtner is recognized for memorable performances in Contact (1997), Armageddon (1998), Go (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Crash (2004), and The Longest Yard (2005).

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John McCarthy, English journalist and author

John Patrick McCarthy, is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the longest-held British hostage in Lebanon, having been imprisoned for more than five years.

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Nazrin Shah of Perak, Sultan of Perak

Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-Lah is the current Deputy King of Malaysia and Sultan of Perak.

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27/11/1955

Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player

Joseph Pierre Mondou is a former Canadian ice hockey forward.

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Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host

William Sanford Nye is an American science communicator, television presenter, and former mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the science education television show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1999) and as a science educator in pop culture. Born in Washington, D.C., Nye began his career as a mechanical engineer for Boeing in Seattle, where he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747 airplanes. In 1986, he left Boeing to pursue comedy, writing and performing for the local sketch television show Almost Live!, where he regularly conducted wacky scientific experiments.

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27/11/1954

Arthur Smith, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Brian Arthur John Smith is an English alternative comedian, presenter and writer.

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27/11/1953

Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer, and producer

Curtis Johnathan Armstrong is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds films, Herbert Viola on the TV series Moonlighting, Miles Dalby in the film Risky Business, and record producer Ahmet Ertegun in the film Ray as well as for playing the role of Metatron on the TV series Supernatural.

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Steve Bannon, American media executive and political figure

Stephen Kevin Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Since 2019, Bannon has hosted the War Room podcast.

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Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov is a prominent member of the generation which is widely considered to be the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium which has been active since 1972. Grebenshchikov is frequently referred to as BG, after his initials.

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Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian admiral and politician

Tarmo Kõuts is an Estonian politician and former Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces.

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Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer (died 2020)

Lyle David Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards.

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Richard Stone, American composer (died 2001)

Richard Stone was an American composer. He played an important part in the revival of Warner Bros. animation in the 1990s, composing music and songs for Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, The Plucky Duck Show, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Histeria!, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Freakazoid!, and Road Rovers, as well as the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment fanfare. Many consider Stone to be an heir to the style of Carl W. Stalling.

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27/11/1952

Sheila Copps, Canadian journalist and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Sheila Maureen Copps is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps, was once mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.

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Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2022)

Bappi Aparesh Lahiri, also known as Bappi Da, was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s and 1990s with filmi soundtracks. He delivered major box office successes primarily in Hindi, Telugu, and Bengali films. His music was well received into the 21st century.

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Jim Wetherbee, American captain, engineer, and astronaut

James Donald Wetherbee, is a retired United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and is the only American to have commanded five spaceflight missions.

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27/11/1951

Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress, Miss Brasil 1969

Vera Fischer is a Brazilian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brazil 1969 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1969 where she placed Top 15.

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Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer and guitarist (died 2004)

Gunnar Graps-Grāfs was a popular Estonian musician and one of the pioneers of hard rock in Estonia and the former Soviet Union. He has sold hundreds of thousands of records all over the world and in 2004 Graps was given a lifetime award at Estonian Music Awards. He has been compared to Mick Jagger and Alice Cooper, both who were his own personal idols, and is often called Raudmees.

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27/11/1950

Gavyn Davies, English journalist and businessman

Gavyn Davies, is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004. On 28 January 2004 he announced that he was resigning his BBC post following the publication of the Hutton Inquiry report which heavily criticised the organisation.

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27/11/1949

Jim Price, American basketball player and coach

James E. Price is an American former professional basketball player and coach.

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Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver

Masanori Sekiya is a Japanese former racing driver, most famous for being the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 1995.

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27/11/1947

Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor

Neil Rosenshein is an American operatic tenor, who sang leading tenor roles in the major American and European opera houses. He created the roles of Aspern in Dominick Argento's The Aspern Papers and Léon in Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.

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27/11/1946

Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey (died 2026)

Richard James Codey was an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of New Jersey from 2004 to 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the New Jersey Senate from 1982 to 2024 and as the President of the Senate from 2002 to 2010. He represented the 27th Legislative District, which covered the western portions of Essex County and the southeastern portion of Morris County.

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Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Ethiopian-Djiboutian lawyer and politician, President of Djibouti

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, often referred to by his initials IOG, is a Djiboutian politician who has served as the President of Djibouti since 1999.

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27/11/1945

James Avery, American actor (died 2013)

James La Rue Avery was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Philip Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Judge Michael Conover on L.A. Law, Steve Yeager in The Brady Bunch Movie, and Dr. Crippen on The Closer (2005–2007); and as the voice actor for Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Haroud Hazi Bin in Aladdin.

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Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress

Phil Bloom is a Dutch artist, graphic designer and performer. She was the first person to appear completely nude on Dutch television broadcaster VPRO, on 28 July 1967 during the show Hoepla, which caused scandal and controversy at the time. Afterwards, she worked in painting, photography and performance art. She was a member of the Fluxus network in 1967. A notable performance of hers is "Lemniscaat" which takes place in Lapland.

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Randy Brecker, American trumpeter and flugelhornist

Randal Edward Brecker is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock, and R&B.

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Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver (died 2022)

Alain de Cadenet was an English television presenter and racing driver. He was noted for racing in 15 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans during the 1970s and 1980s, achieving one podium finish with third place in 1976.

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Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands

Benigno Repeki Fitial is a Northern Mariana Islander politician who served as the seventh governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from January 4, 2006 until his resignation on February 20, 2013.

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Simon Townsend, Australian journalist and television host (died 2025)

Simon Patrick Townsend was an Australian journalist and television presenter. He created and hosted the children's TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World which ran on Network 10 from 1979 to 1987.

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27/11/1944

Mickey Leland, American activist and politician (died 1989)

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III was an American politician and anti-poverty activist. He served as a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat.

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27/11/1943

Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet

Nicole Brossard is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.

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Jil Sander, German fashion designer

Heidemarie Jiline "Jil" Sander is a German minimalist fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house.

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27/11/1942

Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.

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Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1970)

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience; the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

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27/11/1941

Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (died 2015)

Henry Carr was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

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Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager

Aimé Étienne Jacquet is a French former professional football player and manager. He coached the France national team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, the country's first title.

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Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night", "Drivin' My Life Away" and "Every Which Way but Loose". His duets "Both to Each Other " with Juice Newton and "You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

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Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist (died 2020)

Louis van Dijk, also spelled Louis van Dyke, was a Dutch pianist.

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27/11/1940

Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (died 1973)

Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for his roles in five feature-length martial arts films, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.

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27/11/1939

Dave Giusti, American baseball player and manager

David John Giusti Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1962 to 1977 for the Houston Colt .45's / Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs. Giusti played for Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971.

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Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (died 2001)

Laurent-Désiré Kabila usually known as Laurent Kabila or Kabila the Father, was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassination in 2001.

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Buzz Cason, American singer and songwriter (died 2024)

James Elmore "Buzz" Cason was an American rock singer, songwriter, record producer and author.

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27/11/1938

John Ashworth, English biologist and academic

Sir John Ashworth was a British biochemist and educationalist.

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Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and politician, Prime Minister of Uganda (died 2019)

Apolo Robin Nsibambi was a Ugandan academic and politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of Uganda from 5 April 1999 until 24 May 2011, when Amama Mbabazi succeeded him.

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27/11/1936

Gail Sheehy, American journalist and author (died 2020)

Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character.

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27/11/1935

Les Blank, American director and producer (died 2013)

Les Blank was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.

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Daniel Charles, French musicologist and philosopher (died 2008)

Daniel Paul Charles was a French musician, musicologist and philosopher. He was born on 27 November 1935 in Oran (Algeria) and died on 21 August 2008 in Antibes (France).

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Willie Pastrano, American boxer (died 1997)

Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was an American former professional boxer who competed from 1951 to 1965. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring light heavyweight titles between 1963 and 1965.

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27/11/1934

Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager (died 2009)

Emmanuel Baba Dawud, better known as Ammo Baba, was an Iraqi football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.

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Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 1975)

Albert J. Jackson Jr. was an American drummer, producer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a group of session musicians who worked for Stax Records and produced their own instrumentals. Jackson was affectionately dubbed "The Human Timekeeper" for his drumming ability. He was posthumously inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s in 1992.

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Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and academic

William Gilbert "Gil" Strang is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught Linear Algebra, Computational Science, Engineering, Learning from Data, and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.

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27/11/1933

Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist, author, director, and screenwriter

Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (touche-à-tout), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.

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Gordon S. Wood, American historian and academic

Gordon Stewart Wood is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

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27/11/1932

Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (died 1983)

Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines (1967–1972) and governor of the province of Tarlac (1963–1967). Aquino was the husband of Corazon Aquino, who became the 11th president of the Philippines after his assassination, and father of Benigno Aquino III, who became the 15th president of the Philippines. Aquino, together with Gerry Roxas and Jovito R. Salonga, helped form the leadership of the Liberal Party-based coalition against ex-President Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was a significant emotional leader, who, together with the intellectual leader Sen. Jose W. Diokno, led the overall opposition.

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27/11/1930

Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist (died 2018)

Joseph William DeNardo was an American meteorologist and television weather forecaster based in Pennsylvania. He was known for his work in the Pittsburgh television market, particularly at WTAE-TV.

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Dick Poole, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2025)

Herbert Richard Poole was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He was a centre for the Australian national team. He played in ten Tests and three World Cup games between 1955 and 1957, as captain on three occasions. He was the oldest living Australian representative rugby league player at the time of his death in June 2025, at the age of 94.

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Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (died 2009)

Rex Anthony Shelley was a Singaporean author. A graduate of the University of Malaya in Malaysia and Cambridge trained in engineering and economics, Shelley managed his own business and also worked as member of the Public Service Commission (PSC) for over 30 years. For his service, he was conferred the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat by the Government of Singapore in 1978, and an additional Bar the next year.

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27/11/1929

Alan Simpson, English screenwriter and producer (died 2017)

Alan Francis Simpson was an English scriptwriter. He was best known as part of the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton. Together they devised and wrote the BBC sitcom Hancock's Half Hour (1954–1961), the first two series of Comedy Playhouse (1961–1963), and Steptoe and Son (1962–1974).

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27/11/1928

Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (died 2005)

Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer.

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Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (died 2001)

Ronald William "Josh" Kirby was a British commercial artist. Over a career spanning 60 years, he was the artist for the covers of many science fiction books including Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

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27/11/1927

Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 1987)

Carlos José Castilho was a Brazilian football goalkeeper. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and played for Fluminense from 1947 to 1964 and for Brazil. He was a member of the Brazil squad in four World Cups: 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962. Castilho has the all-time record of matches played in Fluminense FC history, with 699 appearances.

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William E. Simon, American soldier and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 2000)

William Edward Simon was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He became the Secretary of the Treasury on May 9, 1974, during the Nixon administration. After Nixon resigned, Simon was reappointed by President Gerald Ford and served until 1977 when President Jimmy Carter took office. Outside of government, he was a successful businessman and philanthropist. The William E. Simon Foundation carries on this legacy. He styled himself as a strong advocate of laissez-faire capitalism. He wrote, "There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system".

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27/11/1926

Chae Myung-shin, South Korean general (died 2013)

Chae Myung-shin was a South Korean army officer who commanded South Korean military forces in the Vietnam War. He was also the co-founder of the Korean Taekwondo Association.

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27/11/1925

Derroll Adams, American folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2000)

Derroll Adams was an American folk musician.

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John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (died 2009)

Sir John Royden Maddox, FRS was a Welsh theoretical chemist, physicist, and science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years, from 1966 to 1973 and 1980 to 1995.

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Marshall Thompson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992)

James Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.

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Ernie Wise, English actor, comedian, singer, and screenwriter (died 1999)

Ernest Wiseman, known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

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27/11/1923

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (died 2011)

Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. was an American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. A child prodigy, he attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13, becoming its youngest ever student. His graduation at a young age resulted in him being hailed as "the Negro Genius" in the national media.

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27/11/1922

Hall Bartlett, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993)

Hall Bartlett was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter, and a pioneer of independent filmmaking.

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Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (died 1977)

Nicholas Magallanes was a Mexican-born American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet. Along with Francisco Moncion, Maria Tallchief, and Tanaquil Le Clercq, Magallanes was among the core group of dancers with which George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed Ballet Society, the immediate predecessor of the New York City Ballet.

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27/11/1921

Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (died 2013)

Dora Jean Dougherty Strother was an American aviator best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.

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Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (died 1992)

Alexander Dubček was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution. He oversaw significant reforms to the communist system during a period that became known as the Prague Spring, but his reforms were reversed and he was eventually sidelined following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.

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27/11/1920

Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (died 1985)

Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch footballer and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, Heerenveen. Known for his exceptional dribbling skills, creativity, and goal-scoring ability, Lenstra was considered one of the best forwards of his generation He earned 47 caps for the Netherlands national team, scoring 33 goals, and played a crucial role in the team's success during his era. In addition to his national fame, Lenstra was beloved in Friesland, where his contributions to both Heerenveen and regional football left a lasting legacy.

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Buster Merryfield, English actor (died 1999)

Harry "Buster" Merryfield was an English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses.

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Cal Worthington, Automobile dealer and television personality (died 2013)

Calvin Coolidge Worthington was an American car dealer, best known in Southern California and other parts of the West Coast of the United States for his offbeat radio and television advertisements for the Worthington Dealership Group. At its peak, the dealership chain spanned the western and southwestern United States. He also made minor appearances and was parodied in various films and television programs.

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27/11/1918

Stephen Elliott, American actor (died 2005)

Elliott Pershing Stitzel, better known by his stage name Stephen Elliott, was an American actor. His best known roles were that of the prospective father-in-law, Burt Johnson, in the hit 1981 film Arthur and as Chief Hubbard in the 1984 blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop.

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27/11/1917

Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor and television host (died 1998)

Robert Emil Schmidt, nicknamed Buffalo Bob, was an American radio and television personality and presenter; he was well known as the host of the children's show Howdy Doody.

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27/11/1916

Chick Hearn, American sportscaster and actor (died 2002)

Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 41 years, as well as the team's assistant general manager for seven years beginning in 1972. Hearn was the first broadcaster named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Hearn is remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, associated with colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular. Hearn broadcast 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Most of Hearn's games in the television era were simulcast on both radio and television, even after most teams chose to use different announcers for the different media.

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27/11/1912

Connie Sawyer, American actress (died 2018)

Connie Sawyer was an American stage, film, and television actress, affectionately nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy". She had over 140 film and television credits to her name, but was best known for her appearances in Pineapple Express, Dumb and Dumber, and When Harry Met Sally.... At the time of her death at age 105, she was the oldest working actress in Hollywood, with a career spanning 85 years, and was the oldest member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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27/11/1911

Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (died 2011)

Fe Villanueva del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and helped shape the country's modern child healthcare system. Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines spanned eight decades.

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David Merrick, American director and producer (died 2000)

David Merrick was an American theatrical producer who won a number of Tony Awards.

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27/11/1909

James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 1955)

James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.

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Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1967)

Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted for his work on the decidability of various algebraic groups. Malcev algebras, as well as Malcev Lie algebras are named after him.

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27/11/1907

Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (died 2003)

Harivansh Rai Bachchan was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. Bachchan is best known for his early work Madhushala. He was the father of Amitabh Bachchan, and grandfather of Shweta Bachchan Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan. His wife Teji Bachchan was a social activist. In 1976, he received the Padma Bhushan for his service to Hindi literature.

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L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (died 2000)

Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.

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27/11/1905

Astrid Allwyn, American actress (died 1978)

Astrid Allwyn was an American stage and film actress.

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27/11/1903

Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.

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27/11/1901

Ted Husing, American sportscaster (died 1962)

Edward Britt Husing was an American sports commentator. He was among the first to lay the groundwork for the structure and pace of modern sports reporting on radio and television.

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27/11/1900

Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host (died 1981)

Marie-Angèle "Jovette" Alice Bernier was a journalist and writer in Quebec. Because of extensive exposure in the print media and on radio, she was often referred to simply as Jovette.

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27/11/1898

Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (died 1981)

Fredric John Warburg was a British publisher, who in 1935 founded the company Secker & Warburg. He is best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971, Warburg published Orwell's major books Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), as well as works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Other notable publications included The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa, Pierre Boulle's The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

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27/11/1894

Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (died 1989)

Kōnosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan.

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Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (died 1977)

Katherine Milhous (1894–1977) was an American artist, illustrator, and writer. She is known best as the author and illustrator of The Egg Tree, which won the 1951 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration. Born into a Quaker family active in the printing industry in Philadelphia, Milhous is also known for her graphic designs for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work has been exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (died 1971)

Amphilochius of Pochayiv was a 20th-century Ukrainian Orthodox saint from Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine.

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27/11/1888

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 1956)

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar popularly known as Dadasaheb, was an Indian politician and independence activist who served as the President of the Central Legislative Assembly, then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India, and later the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. His son Purushottam Mavalankar was later elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Gujarat.

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27/11/1887

Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (died 1946)

Masaharu Homma was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March. After the war, Homma was convicted of war crimes relating to the actions of troops under his direct command and executed by firing squad on April 3, 1946.

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27/11/1886

Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese–French painter and printmaker (died 1968)

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese-French painter. After studying Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighbourhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from both Japanese and European artistic traditions.

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27/11/1885

Daniel Mendaille, French actor (died 1963)

Daniel Mendaille was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years.

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Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (died 1944)

Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.

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27/11/1878

Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian poet and critic (died 1948)

Jatindramohan Bagchi was a Bengali poet and editor best known for his poem 'Kajla Didi'.

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Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (died 1969)

Charles Edward Dvorak was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the pole vault. He attended the University of Michigan where he competed for the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team from 1900 to 1904. He participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics where he was a favorite in the pole vault. However, he missed the competition after being told by officials that the finals would be held on a Sunday. He won a special silver medal in a consolation competition. In 1903, he set a world's record in the pole vault with a jump of 11 feet, 11 inches.(This mark doesn't appear in the progression of World or American Records). Dvorak returned to international competition and won the gold medal in the pole vault at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Dvorak later served as a high school football, basketball and track coach in Seattle, Washington, where he died in 1969 at age 91.

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27/11/1877

Katharine Anthony, American biographer (died 1965)

Katharine Susan Anthony, sometimes also spelled Katherine, was a US biographer best known for The Lambs (1945), a controversial study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb.

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27/11/1875

Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (died 1962)

Julius Lenhart was an Austrian gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals and one silver medal, making him the most successful Austrian competitor ever at the Summer Olympic Games.

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27/11/1874

Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (died 1948)

Charles Austin Beard was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. A history professor at Columbia University, Beard's influence is primarily due to his publications in the fields of history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the Founding Fathers of the United States, whom he believed to be more motivated by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication. While it has been frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of early American history.

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Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (died 1952)

Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.

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27/11/1871

Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (died 1950)

Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI).

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27/11/1870

Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland (died 1956)

Juho Kusti Paasikivi was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously served as senator, member of parliament, envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941), and Prime Minister of Finland. He also held several other positions of trust, and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.

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27/11/1867

Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (died 1950)

Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin, commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star who were popular at the time of the piece's writing (1933).

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27/11/1865

Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician (died 1917)

Janez Evangelist Krek was a Slovene Christian Socialist politician, priest, journalist, and author.

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27/11/1862

Katherine Sleeper Walden, American environmental activist (died 1949)

Katherine Sleeper Walden was an American environmental conservationist and community activist in Wonalancet, New Hampshire. Before moving to New Hampshire in 1890, Katherine was an active community member and among the first female journalists in Massachusetts.

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27/11/1859

William Bliss Baker, American painter (died 1886)

William Bliss Baker was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas. He later maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York, and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors. He completed more than 130 paintings, including several in black and white.

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27/11/1857

Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons, and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated. Sherrington himself coined the word "synapse" to define the connection between two neurons. His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906) is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932.

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27/11/1853

Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (died 1928)

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

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27/11/1845

Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (died 1918)

Frederic Crowninshield (1845–1918) was an American artist and author.

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27/11/1843

Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (died 1899)

Cornelius "Corneil" Vanderbilt II was an American business man, chairman and president of railroad lines. A socialite and philanthropist, he was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.

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27/11/1841

Nikoline Harbitz, Norwegian author (died 1898)

Nikoline Anette Harbitz was a Norwegian author.

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27/11/1833

Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (died 1897)

Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, later known as the Duchess of Teck, was a member of the British royal family. She was one of the first royals to patronise a wide range of charities and was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.

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27/11/1823

James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria (died 1899)

James Service, an Australian colonial politician, was the 12th premier of Victoria, Australia.

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27/11/1820

Rachel Brooks Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (died 1905)

Rachel Brooks Gleason was an American physician, the fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

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27/11/1814

Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (died 1886)

Charles François Frédéric de Montholon-Sémonville was a French senator, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1864 to 1866.

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27/11/1809

Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (died 1893)

Frances Anne Kemble was an English actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre. She lived for many years in the United States, primarily in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lenox, Massachusetts.

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27/11/1804

Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (died 1885)

Sir Julius Benedict was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career.

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27/11/1798

Andries Pretorius, Boer leader after whom Pretoria was named, Prime Minister of the Natalia Republic (died 1853)

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in present-day South Africa. The large city of Pretoria, executive capital of South Africa, is named after him.

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27/11/1779

Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1865)

Aimé-Marie-Gaspard, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre was a French general and statesman.

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27/11/1759

Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer (died 1831)

Franz Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven, whom he knew. Today he is mostly known for his clarinet and double clarinet concertos.

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27/11/1754

Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (died 1794)

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster, was a German-Polish geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work. As a result of the report, Forster, who was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two, came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

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27/11/1746

Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (died 1813)

Robert Robert Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman, but was recalled by the state of New York before he could sign the document. Livingston administered the oath of office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency April 30, 1789. Livingston was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801.

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Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1799)

Increase Sumner was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts. He was the fifth governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1797 to 1799. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. Appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the same year, he served there as an associate justice until 1797.

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27/11/1710

Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (died 1787)

Robert Lowth was an English clergyman and academic who served as the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of St Davids, Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.

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27/11/1701

Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1744)

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 proposed the centigrade temperature scale, which was later renamed Celsius in his honour.

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27/11/1640

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (died 1709)

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled. Barbara was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely.

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27/11/1635

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (died 1719)

Françoise d'Aubigné, known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon, was a French noblewoman and the second wife of King Louis XIV from 1683 until his death in 1715. Although she was never considered queen of France, as the marriage was carried out in secret, Madame de Maintenon had considerable political influence as one of the King's closest advisers and the governess of the royal children.

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27/11/1630

Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (died 1665)

Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Further Austria was the ruler of Further Austria including Tyrol from 1662 to 1665.

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27/11/1586

Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter (died 1655)

Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

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27/11/1582

Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (died 1651)

Pierre Dupuy, otherwise known as Puteanus, was a French scholar, the son of the humanist and bibliophile Claude Dupuy.

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27/11/1576

Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (died 1638)

Shimazu Tadatsune was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom. As lord of Satsuma, he was among the most powerful lords in Japan at the time, and formally submitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1602, to prove his loyalty, being rewarded as a result with the name Matsudaira Iehisa; Matsudaira being a branch family of the Tokugawa, and "Ie" of "Iehisa" being taken from "Ieyasu", this was a great honor. As of 1603, his holdings amounted to 605,000 koku.

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27/11/1558

Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma (died 1593)

Mingyi Swa was heir apparent of Burma from 1581 to 1593. The eldest son of King Nanda of the Toungoo Dynasty led three out of the five Burmese invasions of Siam between 1584 and 1593, all of which ended in complete failure. He died in action during the fifth invasion in 1593. In prevailing Thai history, he was killed in single combat by King Naresuan. However no other accounts, including the earliest Siamese records and European accounts, mention a formal elephant duel between the two. The Burmese chronicles say Swa was felled by a Siamese mortar round.

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27/11/1548

Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)

Jacopo Mazzoni was an Italian philosopher, a professor in Pisa, and friend of Galileo Galilei. His first name is sometimes reported as Giacomo.

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27/11/1422

Gaston IV, Count of Foix, French nobleman (died 1472)

Gaston IV was the sovereign Viscount of Béarn and the Count of Foix and Bigorre in France from 1436 to 1472. He also held the viscounties of Marsan, Castelbon, Nébouzan, Villemeur and Lautrec and was, by virtue of the county of Foix, co-prince of Andorra. From 1447, he was also Viscount of Narbonne. Through his marriage to Eleanor, heiress of the Kingdom of Navarre, he also held the title of Prince of Navarre.

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27/11/1380

King Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)

Ferdinand I named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominally) Corsica and king of Sicily, duke (nominal) of Athens and Neopatria, and count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdanya (1412–1416). He was also regent of Castile (1406–1416). He was the first Castillian ruler of the Crown of Aragon.

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27/11/1127

Emperor Xiaozong of Song (died 1194)

Emperor Xiaozong of Song, personal name Zhao Shen, courtesy name Yuanyong, was the 11th emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the second emperor of the Southern Song dynasty. He started his reign in 1162 when his adoptive father and predecessor, Emperor Gaozong, abdicated and passed the throne to him. Even though Emperor Gaozong became a Taishang Huang after his abdication, he remained the de facto ruler, so Emperor Xiaozong only took full power in 1187 after Emperor Gaozong's death. After ruling for about a year, Emperor Xiaozong followed in his predecessor's footsteps and abdicated in favour of his third son Zhao Dun, while he became Taishang Huang and still remained in power until his death in 1194.

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27/11/0111

Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (died 130)

Year 111 (CXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Bolanus. The denomination 111 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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