Born on Monday, 27th October – Famous Birthdays

27/10/1999

Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Haruka Kudō is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. She is a former member of the pop group Morning Musume. Prior to joining Morning Musume, Kudō was a Hello! Pro Egg member. Kudō is the youngest member in history to join Morning Musume, at 11 years and 11 months old, surpassing Ai Kago's 12-year record. She is also known for playing the role of Umika Hayami/Lupin Yellow in the tokusatsu series Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger.

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27/10/1997

Lonzo Ball, American basketball player

Lonzo Anderson Ball is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, he played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins, earning consensus first-team All-American honors before the Los Angeles Lakers selected him with the second overall pick of the 2017 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2018.

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James TW, English singer-songwriter

James Taylor-Watts, better known as James TW, is an English singer-songwriter. His single "When You Love Someone" peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart.

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27/10/1996

Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player

Rasmus Andersson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 53rd overall by the Calgary Flames in the 2015 NHL entry draft.

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Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor

Kim Woo-seok, formerly known by the stage name Wooshin (우신), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actor. He debuted as a member of South Korean band Up10tion in 2015. In 2019, he rose to prominence after finishing second on Produce X 101, which made him a member of X1. He debuted as a solo artist with the release of his first extended play, 1st Desire (Greed), on May 25, 2020.

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27/10/1995

Leon Draisaitl, German ice hockey player

Leon Tim Draisaitl is a German professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2020, Draisaitl became the first German player to win the Art Ross Trophy as the leading point scorer in the NHL, the Hart Memorial Trophy as regular season MVP, and the Ted Lindsay Award for most outstanding player. He also won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the league-leading goal-scorer in 2025, while also being the runner-up for the award in 2019 and 2022 and being the Art Ross Trophy runner-up in 2021. These accolades have made Draisaitl become widely known as one of the best players in the NHL.

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27/10/1994

Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player

Rasmus Ristolainen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected eighth overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2013 NHL entry draft.

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27/10/1993

Troy Gentile, American actor

Troy Gentile is an American actor best known for his roles as Mark in Hotel for Dogs (2009) and Barry Goldberg on the comedy series The Goldbergs (2013–2023), and for playing young versions of Jack Black‘s characters in Nacho Libre and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. He is also known for his role in Bad News Bears (2005).

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Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player

Kiefer Isaac Crisologo Ravena is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Yokohama B-Corsairs of the B.League. Ravena played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles of the UAAP during his college days. He plays the point guard position. Ravena is known for being one of the first players to utilize the Pinoy step, which is increasingly being used by NBA players.

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27/10/1992

Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer

Stephan Kareem El Shaarawy is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Serie A club Roma and the Italy national team. He is nicknamed Il Faraone, as his father is Egyptian.

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Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Emily Hagins is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker.

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Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player

Brandon Saad is an American professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer

Daniel Richard Sams is an Australian international cricketer. Nicknamed "the Karate Kid", he made his international debut for the Australia cricket team in December 2020.

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27/10/1991

Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer

Shohei Takahashi is a Japanese footballer who plays as a centre-back for J3 League club Matsumoto Yamaga.

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27/10/1990

Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player

Alexandria Marie Bentley is an American professional basketball player. She played college basketball at Pennsylvania State University. She represents the Belarus national team internationally.

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Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer

Dimitris Gourtsas is a Greek footballer and manager. He currently plays for Serres FCA club Nigrita 2018.

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Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer

Oktovianus Maniani is an Indonesian football manager and former footballer who plays as a winger. He's currently the manager of Bumi Baliem. Popularly known simply as "Okto" or "Oman" he gained nationwide popularity in his early caps for the national team, mainly during the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup, where he is considered one of the contributing players along with teammate Irfan Bachdim. He is considered one of ten Asia players that could hit in Europe by ESPN Soccernet.

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27/10/1989

Mark Barron, American football player

Mark Barron is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was twice recognized as an All-American, and was a member of two BCS National Championship teams. He was selected as a strong safety by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft, where he played for two and a half seasons before being traded to the St. Louis Rams in 2014, where he moved to the linebacker position. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos.

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27/10/1988

Brady Ellison, American archer

Brady Ellison is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013. He earned his nickname "The Prospector" during the 2015 world championships due to his proclivity for 'finding gold'.

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Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer

Viktor Viktorov Genev is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Rilski Sportist Samokov.

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Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper

Illimar Pärn is an Estonian ski jumper. Pärn made his individual World Cup debut in Kuopio 2010. In 2005 he was a part of the Estonian World Cup team in Lahti.

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Evan Turner, American basketball player

Evan Turner is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted second overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2010 NBA draft.

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27/10/1987

Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer

Thelma Aoyama is a Japanese pop and R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.

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Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete

Björn Barrefors is a Swedish decathlete and heptathlete. He attended and competed for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barrefors was a four time first team NCAA All-America athlete, gaining the honor twice in the outdoor decathlon and twice for the indoor heptathlon.

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Andrew Bynum, American basketball player

Andrew Bynum is an American former professional basketball player. He played the majority of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After they selected him in the first round of the 2005 NBA draft with the 10th overall pick, the 7-foot (2.1 m) center won two NBA championships with the team in 2009 and 2010. He was named an All-Star and selected to the All-NBA Team in 2012.

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Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player

Guillaume Franke is a German international rugby union player, playing for RC Orléans in the Fédérale 1 and the German national rugby union team. He is the brother of Matthieu Franke, who has also played for Germany.

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27/10/1986

Chris Butler, American ice hockey player

Chris Butler is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames and hometown club, St. Louis Blues. Butler was a fourth round selection of the Sabres, chosen 96th overall at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He then played three seasons at the University of Denver before turning professional in 2008.

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Anna Cruz, Spanish basketball player

Anna Cruz Lebrato is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Barça CBS (F.C.Barcelona). She developed her professional career in several clubs in Spain, Russia, Turkey and the United States, and had 178 caps for the Spain's national basketball team from 2009 to 2019, winning a total of eight medals. She also won the 2015 WNBA, the 2017 EuroLeague and the 2017 and 2019 EuroBaskets.

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Christine Evangelista, American actress

Christine Evangelista is an American actress. She is best known for her supporting role as Sherry in the AMC zombie apocalypse horror television series The Walking Dead, along with her later reprising her role in the spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead and her main role as Megan Morrison West in the E! drama television series The Arrangement.

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Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player

Crystal Allison Langhorne is an American former basketball player of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played for the University of Maryland Terrapins. In 2008 she was drafted by the Washington Mystics.

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Jon Niese, American baseball player

Jonathon Joseph Niese is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer

Matthew Joseph Pattison is a South African former soccer player. He earned five international caps for South Africa between 2010 and 2014.

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David Warner, Australian cricketer

David Andrew Warner is an Australian former international cricketer, captain of Big Bash League team Sydney Thunder and captain of Pakistan Super League team Karachi Kings. A left-handed opening batter, Warner was the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for the national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket. He captained Australia in ODIs and T20Is and served as a vice-captain across formats before his suspension and played his domestic cricket for New South Wales Cricket Team. Warner was a prominent member of the victorious Australian squad of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, the 2021 T20 World Cup, where he was the Player of the Tournament, the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship, and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. Warner also guided Indian Premier League team Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first and only IPL title, becoming the third Australian captain after Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne to do so. Warner holds the record of the most international centuries as an opening batsman across all international formats. He also holds the record for most 50+ scores in T20 cricket.

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Lou Williams, American basketball player

Louis Tyrone Williams is an American former professional basketball player. He was drafted directly out of high school by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 45th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. He is a 3-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year. As of March 2019, he is the NBA's career leader in points off the bench, and has played the most career games off the bench, surpassing Dell Curry's record in February 2022.

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27/10/1985

Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete

Sirli Hanni is a retired Estonian biathlete. She finished 18th in the 4×6 km relay and 84th in the 7.5 km sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Alex Soros, American investor and philanthropist

Alexander Soros is an American investor and philanthropist. One of the five children of billionaire George Soros, he chairs the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations and sits on the investment committee for Soros Fund Management. He was also named one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders of 2018.

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27/10/1984

Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player

Yi Jianlian, nicknamed "the Chairman" is a Chinese former professional basketball player who last played for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He also played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks, the New Jersey Nets, the Washington Wizards, and the Dallas Mavericks.

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Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer

Kostas Kapetanos is a Greek former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Kelly Osbourne, English television personality

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English television personality, singer, actress, and fashion designer. She came to prominence while appearing on the reality show The Osbournes (2002–2005) with her family, which won a 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program. She is the daughter of late heavy-metal musician Ozzy Osbourne and television personality Sharon Osbourne.

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Brady Quinn, American football player

Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he won the Maxwell Award. Quinn was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft. Following three seasons in Cleveland, he was traded to the Denver Broncos, where he played for two seasons. Quinn spent his last three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, the New York Jets, and the St. Louis Rams for one year each.

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Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress

Emilie Ullerup is a Danish actress. She is best known for playing Ashley Magnus on the television series Sanctuary and Bree O'Brien on the Hallmark Channel drama series Chesapeake Shores.

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27/10/1983

Brent Clevlen, American baseball player

Brent Aaron Clevlen is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played parts of four major league seasons with the Detroit Tigers and Atlanta Braves.

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Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player

Martín Manuel Prado Torcate is a Venezuelan former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees and Miami Marlins. During his time with the Braves, Prado played in the 2010 All-Star Game. Primarily a third baseman, second baseman, and left fielder, Prado started at every position during his MLB career except for pitcher, catcher, and center field.

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27/10/1982

Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer

Patrick Raymond Fugit is an American actor. His breakout role was William Miller in the comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

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Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer

Takashi Tsukamoto is a Japanese actor, singer, and model.

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27/10/1981

Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player

Lars Salem Al Fakir is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as the songwriting and production duo Vargas and Lagola. Together, they have worked with many artists, including Avicii, Axwell & Ingrosso, Madonna, Seinabo Sey, Lady Gaga and the Swedish band Ghost. In addition to his songwriting and production work, he releases alternative pop music as Vargas & Lagola.

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Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model

Sririta Jensen Narongdej is a Thai actress and model.

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Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer

Volkan Demirel is a Turkish football coach, pundit and former international goalkeeper who is head coach at Süper Lig club Gençlerbirliği. For many years, he was the starting goalkeeper of Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national team.

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Kristi Richards, Canadian skier

Kristi Richards is a Canadian freestyle skier from Summerland, British Columbia. She participates in moguls.

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27/10/1980

Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist

Sayuri Osuga is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games. Until 2006, she was a member of the professional Sankyoseiki speedskating team. She placed first and third in the Speedskating World Cup. She holds the Japanese records in the 500 m speed skating and the 500 m time trial event. From 2006 to 2011, she was sponsored by the construction company Daiwa House Industries Co. Ltd. She retired in 2011.

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Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer and songwriter. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999.

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Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author

Henriett Seth F., also known as Seth F. Henriett, is a Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer, musician, and artist.

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27/10/1979

Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer

Hiroyuki Yamamoto is a former Japanese footballer who played as a defender.

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27/10/1978

Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout

Sergei Viktorovich Samsonov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward who is now a scout for the Carolina Hurricanes. He played in the NHL with six teams from 1997 to 2011, most notably for the Boston Bruins. Internationally Samsonov played for the Russian national team in several tournaments, including the 2002 Winter Olympics, where he won a bronze medal.

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Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier

Vanessa-Mae, also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time. She is known for fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". This crossover style combines her classical violin training with electronic music influences like techno and synth-pop, as seen for example in the title track from her album Storm from 1997.

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27/10/1977

Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer

Jiří Jarošík is a Czech professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Kazakhstani club Shakhter Karagandy. In his playing career, he played as a defender and midfielder.

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Sheeri Rappaport, American actress

Sheeri Rappaport is an American actress. She is most famous for portraying lab technician Mandy Webster on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

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Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2015. A former captain for Sri Lanka in all formats. Born in Matale, Central Province, Sangakkara played first-class cricket for Nondescripts Cricket Club from 1997–98 to 2013–14 and for Surrey County Cricket Club from 2015 to 2017. He was a key part of the Sri Lankan squads which won the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship, 2002 ICC Champions Trophy and 2014 T20 World Cup.

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27/10/1976

Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler

Robert Anthony Fish is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW). He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed on the NXT brand and was a member of The Undisputed Era.

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Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author

Maneet Chauhan is an Indian American chef and television personality. Previously the executive chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on Chopped on the Food Network. She has appeared on The Next Iron Chef, on The View on ABC, Iron Chef America, the Today show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of Worst Cooks in America on Food Network. She has also won the 2021 and 2024 Food Network competition Tournament of Champions.

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Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer

Wilson Raimundo Júnior, known as Wilson Júnior, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current head coach of São Bento.

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27/10/1975

Predrag Drobnjak, Montenegrin basketball player

Predrag "Peđa" Drobnjak is a Montenegrin professional basketball scout and former player. At 2.11 m, he played at the power forward and center positions. Throughout his nineteen-year career, Drobnjak has spent three full seasons playing in the NBA.

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Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach

Nicola Mazzucato is a former Italian rugby union footballer and the former coach of the SMRUFC. He played as a wing achieving over 40 caps for Italy, playing in 2 world cups and 4 trips to the 6 nations.

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Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer

Aron Lee Ralston is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident in 2003 by cutting off part of his own right arm.

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27/10/1973

Jason Johnson, American baseball player

Jason Michael Johnson is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He throws and bats right-handed.

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Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist

Sem "Semmy" Schilt is a Dutch actor and former kickboxer, karateka and mixed martial artist. Schilt holds the distinction of being the only kickboxer to have won 5 major heavyweight tournaments, being a four-time K-1 World Grand Prix Champion and one time Glory Heavyweight Grand Slam Champion. He also held the K-1 Super Heavyweight Championship and the Glory Heavyweight Championship titles. He is the only fighter in K-1 history to win the world championship three times in a row, and also shares the record with Ernesto Hoost for most Grands Prix won, with four.

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27/10/1972

Lee Clark, English footballer and manager

Lee Robert Clark is an English former football manager and professional player. He is currently manager of EFL League One club Rotherham United.

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Elissa, Lebanese singer

Elissar Zakaria Khoury, commonly known as Elissa, is a Lebanese singer, television personality and businesswoman. Known for her romantic musical style and emotive vocal performances, she has been dubbed as the "Queen of Emotions" by fans and journalists alike. Her musical career began in 1992 when she was featured in the Lebanese talent show Studio El Fan; later being awarded the silver medal. In 1998, she released her debut studio album Baddy Doub through EMI Music Arabia, with the album achieving success. Her second album W'akherta Maak (2000) featured the single "Betghib Betrouh", a duet with Ragheb Alama which achieved commercial success and won accolades.

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Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Evan Coyne Maloney, is an inactive American documentary filmmaker, the editor of the now defunct website Brain Terminal and a video blogger. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said that Maloney "may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker." He has been described as the conservative answer to Michael Moore. Since 2013, Maloney has not been active in politics or filmmaking and his whereabouts and activities are unknown.

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Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach

Maria de Lurdes Mutola is a retired Mozambican female track and field who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games. She is a three-time world champion in this event and a one-time Olympic champion.

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Brad Radke, American baseball player

Brad William Radke is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire 12-season career with the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). Radke won 148 career games and was one of the most consistent pitchers in the Twins organization during the late 1990s.

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27/10/1971

Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer

Stefano Guidoni is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.

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Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer

Jorge Antonio Soto Gómez is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the current assistant manager of Sporting Cristal.

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Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician

Theodoros Zagorakis is a Greek politician and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was the captain of the Greece team that won UEFA Euro 2004, and was also captain and later president of PAOK. He was named the Greek Male Athlete of the Year in 2004.

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27/10/1970

Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Karl Backman, is a Swedish artist and musician.

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Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (died 1997)

Felix Bwalya was a Zambian boxer who won a gold medal at the 1991 All-Africa Games and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. As a professional, he became African champion and went 12–1 on his way to winning the Commonwealth belt. Nicknamed "The Hammer", he captured the African Boxing Union light welterweight and Commonwealth super lightweight titles in 1995 and 1997 respectively, the latter after a controversial victory over Briton Paul Burke in Lusaka. Bwalya subsequently died from head injuries sustained in the fight.

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Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer

Adrian Paul Erlandsson is a Swedish heavy metal drummer who is a member of At the Gates (1990–present), The Haunted, and Nemhain (2006–present).

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Jonathan Stroud, English author

Jonathan Anthony Stroud is a British writer of fantasy fiction, best known for the Bartimaeus young adult sequence and Lockwood & Co. children's series. His books have received note for their satire, and use of magic to reflect themes of class struggle. The Bartimaeus sequence is the recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Stroud's works have also been featured on ALA Notable lists of books for children and young adults. In 2020, Netflix announced a TV series based on Lockwood & Co., with filming initiated in July 2021.

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Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor

Ruslana Oleksiïvna Taran is a Ukrainian sailor.

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27/10/1969

Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer

Marek Napiórkowski is a Polish jazz guitarist and composer.

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Michael Tarnat, German footballer

Michael Tarnat is a German former professional footballer, currently employed by Bayern Munich as the leader of the U12–U16 youth teams. A left-footed full-back, he was also employed as a left wingback and occasionally as a defensive midfielder. His nickname is "Tanne", meaning "fir" in English. He ended his career with Hannover 96, having previously played for MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. A veteran of 19 caps for Germany, Tarnat also participated in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He is renowned for his powerful free kicks and similar long-shots with his strong left foot.

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27/10/1968

Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator

Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of bandes dessinées and is best known for his comics albums Willy Grunch, Marcel, and ROBI.

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Dileep, Indian actor and producer

Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan, known by his moniker Dilieep or Dileep, is an Indian film actor, producer, and entrepreneur who predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema. He has acted in over 150 films and won several awards, including four Kerala State Film Awards and a Filmfare Awards South.

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Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager

Vincent Samways is an English former professional footballer and manager who played as a central midfielder from 1986 until 2006.

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27/10/1967

Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot

Simone Moro is an Italian mountaineer and alpinist who is known for making first winter ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders, which were: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016. No other climber has made more first winter ascents of an eight-thousander in history. He has summited Everest four times, in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2010.

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Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager

Dejan Raičković is a Montenegrin football manager and former player.

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Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Scott Richard Weiland was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from 1989 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2013, recording six albums with them. Weiland is also known for being the lead vocalist of the rock supergroup Velvet Revolver from 2003 to 2008. He also released one album with rock supergroup Art of Anarchy in 2015, as well as four solo studio albums and several collaborations with other musicians throughout his career.

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27/10/1966

Steve Almond, American author and educator

Steve Almond is an American short-story writer, essayist, and author of fifteen books, four of which are self-published.

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Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician

Christopher Laurie Malthouse is a British Conservative Party politician and businessman who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire since 2015. He served as Secretary of State for Education from 6 September to 25 October 2022, and previously served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July to September 2022.

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Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2007)

Hege Nerland was a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.

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Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor

Masanobu Takashima is a Japanese film and television actor.

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27/10/1965

Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor

Mohan Kapur is an Indian actor, television host, and voice artist who works predominantly in Hindi films and television. He is best known for his role as Yusuf Khan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) projects Ms. Marvel (2022), The Marvels (2023), and Daredevil: Born Again (2025), as well as for hosting the game show Saanp Seedi on Zee TV.

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27/10/1964

Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer

Mary Terstegge Meagher Plant is an American former competition swimmer, who swam for U.California Berkeley, a three-time 1984 Olympic champion, and a world record-holder. In 1981 she bettered her own existing world records in the 100-meter butterfly (57.93) and 200-meter butterfly (2:05.96). These times would stand as the world records for 18 and 19 years, respectively, and are considered by many swimming historians to be among the all-time greatest sports performances by a competitive swimmer.

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Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Mark Anthony Taylor is a former Australian cricketer and current Nine Network commentator. He was the captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1996 Cricket World Cup.

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Ian Wells, English footballer (died 2013)

Ian Michael Wells was an English professional footballer who played as a forward.

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27/10/1963

David Hall, Australian horse trainer

David Joseph Hall is an Australian horse trainer.

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Marla Maples, American model and actress

Marla Ann Maples is an American singer, television personality, model, actress and presenter. She was the second wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. They married two months after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany, in 1993. Donald and Marla separated in 1997 and divorced in 1999.

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Tom McKean, Scottish runner

Thomas McKean is a Scottish former middle-distance runner representing Great Britain and Scotland internationally. He was European champion over the 800 metres in 1990, and a world (1993) and European (1990) indoor champion over the 800 metres, one of the few athletes to be both indoor and outdoor European champion in the event simultaneously. He won the IAAF World Cup 800 metres in 1989.

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27/10/1960

Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Thomas Andrew Nieto was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, and Philadelphia Phillies. Nieto was past manager of the manager of the Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Rochester Red Wings, the Twins’ Triple-A affiliate. He previously served in various coaching capacities for the New York Yankees and New York Mets. A native of Artesia, California, Nieto attended Gahr High School then went on to Cerritos College and Oral Roberts University.

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27/10/1959

Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach

Rick Preston Carlisle is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks, winning the 2011 NBA Finals with the latter. As a player, Carlisle played for the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and New Jersey Nets. He is one of only 14 people to win an NBA championship as both a player and a coach, and is one of only 11 head coaches in NBA history to win 1,000 games.

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27/10/1958

Gordon Cowans, English footballer

Gordon Sidney Cowans is an English retired football player and coach.

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David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer

David Perry Hazeltine is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.

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Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter

Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. He also received an MBE from Charles III in 2024.

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Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro

Jonathan Shapiro, known professionally as Zapiro, is a South African political cartoonist whose work has appeared in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally. He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, the director of Marvin's Magic.

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Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (died 2009)

Felix Wurman was an American cellist and composer.

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Donnell Thompson, American football player (died 2024)

Larry Donnell Thompson was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). Thompson played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels.

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27/10/1957

Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager

Glenn Hoddle is an English former football player and manager. He works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and TNT Sports.

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Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer

Peter Marc Jacobson is an American television writer, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the executive producer of the popular sitcom The Nanny, which he created and produced with his then-wife, Fran Drescher, who also starred in the series. He was often credited as Peter Marc in his early acting roles.

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27/10/1956

Patty Sheehan, American golfer

Patty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player

Charalambos (Babis) Tsertos is a Greek musician. His sister is the singer Nadia Karagianni and his father was also a musician who played the mandolin. At the age of 17, he settled permanently in Athens and in 1974, he entered the Faculty of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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27/10/1955

Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California

Debra Lynn Bowen is a former American attorney and politician who served as the Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015. Previously, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2006. In March 2008, she was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

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27/10/1954

Jan Duursema, American illustrator

Jan Duursema is an American comics artist known for her work on the Star Wars comics franchise. She is the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos.

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Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (died 2012)

Michael Kelley was an American artist whose work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance, photography, sound and video. He also worked on curatorial projects; collaborated with many other artists and musicians; and left a formidable body of critical and creative writing. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and John Miller. Writing in The New York Times, in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion."

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Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist

Christopher James Tavaré is a retired English international cricketer who played in 31 Test matches and 29 One Day Internationals between 1980 and 1989. His style of play was characterised by long periods at the crease and a relatively slow rate of run-scoring.

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27/10/1953

Peter Firth, English actor

Peter Macintosh Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One programme Spooks ; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episode of the programme's ten-series lifespan. He has given many other television and film performances, most notably as Alan Strang in Equus (1977), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination.

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Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Robert Alphonse Picardo is an American actor. He is best known for playing The Doctor in the Star Trek franchise, starting on Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared as Richard Woolsey in the Stargate franchise, the Cowboy in Innerspace, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years, and Captain Dick Richard on the ABC series China Beach. He is a frequent collaborator with Joe Dante and is a member of The Planetary Society's board of directors.

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27/10/1952

Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter

Roberto Remigio Benigni is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing, and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non-English language performance.

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Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author

Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar. He is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which controversially argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and Western free-market capitalism may represent the final step in humanity's sociocultural evolution and political struggle and the final form of human government.

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Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer

Atsuyoshi Furuta is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (died 2011)

Pekka Erkki Juhani Tammilehto, better known by his stage name Topi Sorsakoski, was a Finnish singer. His father was Finnish tango singer Yrjö Johannes "Tapio" Tammilehto.

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27/10/1951

K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter

Kenneth Keith Downing Jr. is an English guitarist and a former member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest and current member of KK's Priest.

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Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic

Carlos Silvestre Frenk is a Mexican-British cosmologist. He has been Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University since 2001 and was director of the university’s Institute for Computational Cosmology from 2001 to 2020. Frenk is known for his work on galaxy formation, dark matter, and cosmological simulations.

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Nancy Jacobs, American politician

Nancy Jacobs is a former Maryland State Senator representing District 34.

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Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster

Jayne Kennedy Overton is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, and sports broadcaster.

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27/10/1950

Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic

Michael John Driscoll is a British economist. He was Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities in the UK and from 1996 to 2015 was Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University in London. In 2016, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University in Malaysia.

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Fran Lebowitz, American author

Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.

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Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach

Július Šupler is a Slovak ice-hockey coach. Šupler has been coach of HC Dukla Trenčín and Riga 2000 and was the first coach of Slovakia national team.

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A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author

Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He has written more than 30 books of non-fiction and more than 20 works of fiction. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail, and a former columnist and literary editor for the London Evening Standard. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.

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27/10/1949

Garry Tallent, American bass player and record producer

Garry Wayne Tallent, sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the bass player and a founding member of the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972. As of 2025, Tallent is the only remaining original member of the E Street Band besides Springsteen.

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27/10/1948

Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter

Kevin Nicholas Borich is a New Zealand-born Australian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a key member of the La De Da's, the founder and frontman of the Kevin Borich Express, and a founding member of the Party Boys. Borich has also worked extensively as a session musician for numerous Australian artists.

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27/10/1947

Terry A. Anderson, American journalist (died 2024)

Terry Alan Anderson was an American journalist and combat veteran. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until 1991. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio State Senate.

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27/10/1946

Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer

Peter Martins is a Danish former ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he was responsible for artistic leadership of City Ballet.

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Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2014)

Steven Ray Nagel, , was an American astronaut, aeronautical and mechanical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. In total, he logged 723 hours in space. After NASA, he worked at the University of Missouri College of Engineering as an instructor in its Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.

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Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (died 2022)

Ivan Reitman was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.

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27/10/1945

Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer

Arild Andersen is a Norwegian jazz musician bassist, known as the most famous Norwegian bass player in the international jazz scene.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as the 39th president of Brazil since 2023. A member of the Workers' Party, Lula previously was the 35th president from 2003 to 2011.

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Carrie Snodgress, American actress (died 2004)

Caroline Louise Snodgress was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award as well as winning two Golden Globes and two Laurel Awards.

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27/10/1944

J. A. Jance, American author and poet

Judith Ann Jance is an American author of mystery novels. She writes three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department Detective J. P. Beaumont, Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady, and former Los Angeles news anchor turned mystery solver Ali Reynolds. The Beaumont and Brady series intersect in the novel Partner in Crime, which is both the 16th Beaumount mystery and the 10th Brady mystery. They intersect again in Fire and Ice.

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27/10/1943

Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Carmen Antimo Argenziano was an American actor who appeared in over 73 movies and around 100 television movies or episodes. He was best known for playing Jacob Carter on Stargate SG-1. He had recurring roles on Booker, L.A. Law, Melrose Place, and The Young and the Restless, as well as minor roles in The Godfather Part II, Angels & Demons, and The Accused.

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Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach (died 2019)

Jerry G. Rook was an American basketball player, best known for his success at Arkansas State University. He played one season for the New Orleans Buccaneers in the American Basketball Association (ABA).

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27/10/1942

Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter

Melvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music singer. Active since 1962, he won a Grammy Award and he has charted 33 singles on the Hot Country Songs with seven singles reaching the number one. He has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.

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Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician

Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke, also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right (KNP), which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union, which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. He was the chairman of the party New Hope until his resignation on 15 October 2022, and from 2019 to 2023 a member of the Sejm, elected from the electoral list of Confederation Liberty and Independence. In 2024, he founded KORWiN.

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27/10/1941

Dave Costa, American football player (died 2013)

David Joseph Costa was an American professional football defensive tackle. He played college football at the University of Utah and Northeastern Junior College, was selected to play in three college all-star games after his senior season at Utah, and was the first person to receive the Western Athletic Conference's Lineman of the Year award. He played in the American Football League (AFL) with the Oakland Raiders from 1963 through 1965, Buffalo Bills in 1966, and Denver Broncos from 1967 through 1969. He was an AFL All-Star four times in seven years; first in 1963 for the Raiders, and in 1967, 1968 and 1969 for the Broncos. He was second-team All-AFL three times. He also played in the American Football Conference of the National Football League (NFL) for the Broncos, San Diego Chargers, and Bills.

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Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster

Warren Redman Ryan is an Australian former professional rugby league football coach and player. He is considered one of the most influential rugby league coaches of the 20th century. Ryan also played in the NSWRFL Premiership for the St George Dragons and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

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Dick Trickle, American race car driver (died 2013)

Richard Leroy Trickle was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC.

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27/10/1940

Arthur Blessitt, American Christian preacher (died 2025)

Arthur Owen Blessitt was an American traveling Christian preacher who was known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world.

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Julius Eastman, American composer (died 1990)

Julius Eastman was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music as in some experimental music. He thus created what he called "organic music". In compositions like Stay On It (1973), his melodic motifs were not unlike the catchy refrains of then pop music.

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John Gotti, American mob boss (died 2002)

John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as the most powerful crime syndicate in the United States.

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Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic

Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated in 1962 with a B.A. degree in English. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.

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27/10/1939

John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983).

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Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (died 2007)

Suzy Covey (Shaw) was an American comics scholar, whose work examined intersections of comics, technology, and sound, including Internet studies and studies of the Comic Book Markup Language. In honor of her work with its comic collections, the Smathers Libraries renamed them the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in Special Collections in 2007.

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Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2022)

Dallas Frazier was an American country musician and songwriter who had success in the 1950s and 1960s.

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27/10/1938

Lara Parker, American actress and author (died 2023)

Mary Lamar Rickey, better known as Lara Parker, was an American actress and writer known for her role as the witch Angelique Bouchard Collins on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971.

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27/10/1937

Alma Powell, American audiologist (died 2024)

Alma Vivian Powell was an American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, to whom she was married from August 25, 1962 until his death in 2021.

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27/10/1936

Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (died 2021)

Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication.

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27/10/1935

Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist

Mauricio Araújo de Sousa, known artistically as Mauricio de Sousa or mononymously just as Mauricio, is a Brazilian cartoonist and businessman who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books named Turma da Mônica.

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Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (died 2017)

Charlie Tagawa was a Japanese-born American musical entertainer and banjoist. In a music career spanning seven decades, he was regarded as one of the best contemporary four-string banjo players. He performed regularly across the U.S. and in Japan, where he was known professionally as "Japan's Harry Reser". A 2003 inductee into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, Tagawa often performed as the headline act at banjo jazz festivals and shows. He was also the international goodwill ambassador for the Peninsula Banjo Band.

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27/10/1934

Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter

Giorgos Konstadinou is a Greek actor, writer, and director. He is the son of actress Nitsa Filosofou. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s. He has written and acted in several plays and TV series.

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27/10/1933

Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (died 1997)

Floyd Cramer was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic "whole-step" attacks. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His signature playing style was a cornerstone of the pop-oriented "Nashville sound" of the 1950s and 1960s. Cramer's "slip-note" or "bent-note" style, in which a passing note slides almost instantly into or away from a chordal note, influenced a generation of pianists. His sound became popular to the degree that he stepped out of his role as a sideman and began touring as a solo act. In 1960, his piano instrumental solo, "Last Date" went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and sold over one million copies. Its follow-up, "On the Rebound", topped the UK Singles Chart in 1961. As a studio musician, he became one of a cadre of elite players dubbed the Nashville A-Team and he performed on scores of hit records.

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Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (died 2002)

Ryō Hanmura was a Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. His name is alternatively transliterated as Ryō Hammura. While he wrote books as Ryō Hanmura his real name was Heitarō Kiyono .

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27/10/1932

Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (died 2007)

Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic actor, and accrued over 200 film and television credits in a career spanning over 50 years.

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Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2020)

Henry Gregg was a Northern Irish professional footballer and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Manchester United during the reign of Sir Matt Busby, with a total of 247 appearances for the club. He was a survivor of the Munich air disaster in 1958. Gregg also played for Doncaster Rovers and Stoke City, as well as making 25 appearances for the Northern Ireland national team between 1954 and 1963, including at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He later went into management with Carlisle United, Crewe Alexandra, Shrewsbury Town and Swansea City.

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Dolores Moore, American baseball player (died 2000)

Dolores Moore ["Dee"] was an infielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 153 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.

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Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.

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27/10/1931

Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (died 2021)

Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of women in the Global South pertaining to sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism.

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Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2012)

Anatoliy Zayaev was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. Merited Coach of Ukraine.

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27/10/1930

Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (died 2017)

Joseph Leo Baxendale was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best-known creations are the Beano strips Little Plum, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, and The Three Bears.

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Barry Supple, English historian and academic

Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.

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27/10/1929

Myra Carter, American actress (died 2016)

Myra Carter was an American stage, screen and television actress.

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Bill George, American football player (died 1982)

William J. George was an American professional football linebacker who played for the Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL).

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Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire

Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, was a British Army officer. He served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff from 1981 to 1982, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1996 to 2004.

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27/10/1928

Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet

Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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27/10/1927

Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (died 2019)

Dominick Argento was an American composer best known for his operatic and choral music. His compositions include the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. His song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. Argento spent most of his time in Minnesota, where he taught at the University of Minnesota. Critics have described his style as blending tonal and atonal elements, sometimes incorporating twelve-tone technique.

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27/10/1926

Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (died 2010)

Boris Alexandrovitch Chetkov was a Russian painter and glass artist whose works ranged across genres but can be loosely aligned with Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism. His theories on art and use of colour also align him broadly with Modernism and Kandinsky though in his painting he worked largely in isolation from his peers and remained disconnected from the international art community until the end of Communism. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.

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Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (died 1943)

Henri Claude Fertet was a French schoolboy and resistance fighter who was executed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded several national honours. He is known for the letter he wrote to his parents on the morning of his execution, and he has become one of those who symbolise the French Resistance.

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H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (died 1993)

Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.

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Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (died 2010)

Takumi Shibano was a Japanese science-fiction translator and author. He was a major figure in fandom in Japan and contributed to establishing the Japanese science fiction genre.

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27/10/1925

Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (died 2011)

Warren Minor Christopher was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, and United States Navy officer who served as the 63rd United States secretary of state from 1993 to 1997.

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Jane Connell, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Jane Sperry Connell was an American actress and singer.

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Paul Fox, English broadcaster (died 2024)

Sir Paul Leonard Fox was a British television executive, who spent much of his broadcasting career working for BBC Television, most prominently as the Controller of BBC1 between 1967 and 1973.

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Monica Sims, English radio host and producer (died 2018)

Monica Louie Sims was a British BBC Radio producer who became Head of Children's Programmes, BBC Television, and then Controller of BBC Radio 4. She was also a vice-president of the British Board of Film Classification, and Director of the Children's Film Foundation.

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27/10/1924

Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Mary Joan Okum, known by her performing name Bonnie Lou, was an American musical pioneer, recognized as one of the first female rock and roll singers. She is also one of the first artists to gain crossover success from country music to rock and roll. She was the "top name" on the first country music program regularly broadcast on a national TV network. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female co-hosts of a successful syndicated television talk show, and a regular musical performer on popular shows in the 1960s and 1970s. She "was a prime mover in the first days of rockabilly," and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

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27/10/1923

Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (died 1997)

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, he is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Lichtenstein's art is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and he remains one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the 20th century.

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Ned Wertimer, American actor (died 2013)

Edward "Ned" Wertimer was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Ralph Hart, the doorman on the sitcom The Jeffersons.

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27/10/1922

Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (died 1998)

Poul Arne Bundgaard was a Danish actor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen-banden films.

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Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (died 2014)

Ruby Dee was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2000, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.

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Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (died 2016)

Michel Louis Edmond Galabru was a French actor.

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Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2014)

Ralph McPherran Kiner was an American professional baseball left fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) and later a broadcaster. Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians from 1946 through 1955.

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27/10/1921

Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (died 2017)

Warren Allen Smith was an American writer, humanist and gay rights activist. A World War II veteran and an outspoken atheist, he dubbed himself as "the atheist in a foxhole".

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27/10/1920

Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2018)

Nanette Fabray was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes (1947) and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life. In the mid-1950s, she served as Sid Caesar's comic partner on Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmy Awards, and appeared with Fred Astaire in the film musical The Band Wagon. From 1979 to 1984, she played Katherine Romano, the mother of lead character Ann Romano, on the TV series One Day at a Time. She also appeared as the mother of Christine Armstrong in the television series Coach.

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K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (died 2005)

Kocheril Raman Narayanan was an Indian diplomat, academician, and statesman who served as the president of India from 1997 to 2002 and vice president of India from 1992 to 1997.

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27/10/1918

Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (died 2003)

Mihkel Mathiesen was an Estonian statesman.

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Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (died 2005)

Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

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27/10/1917

Augustine Harris, English bishop (died 2007)

Bishop Augustine Harris was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough and former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.

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Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (died 1993)

Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and activist who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.

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27/10/1915

Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (died 1994)

Herschel "Harry" Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer. He is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. Apart from a ten-year stint living in St. Petersburg, Florida, he lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.

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27/10/1914

Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (died 1979)

Ahmet Kireççi, also known as Ahmet Mersinli, was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the Olympic medal twice, the bronze medal in the Middleweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1936 Olympics and the gold medal in the Heavyweight class of Men's Greco-Roman category at the 1948 Olympics.

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Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (died 1953)

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".

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27/10/1913

Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (died 2016)

Joseph Medicine Crow was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.

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Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)

Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points.

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27/10/1911

Leif Erickson, American actor (died 1986)

Leif Erickson was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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27/10/1910

Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1963)

John Elmer Carson, known as Jack Carson, was a Canadian-born American film actor. Carson often played the role of comedic friend in films of the 1940s and 1950s, including The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with James Cagney and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) with Cary Grant. He appeared in such dramas as Mildred Pierce (1945), A Star Is Born (1954), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He worked for RKO and MGM, but most of his notable work was for Warner Bros.

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Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (died 2000)

Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau was an American chemical engineer who contributed to the first commercial penicillin production plant. She was instrumental in the development of high-octane aviation fuel and was a pioneer in chemical production plant design, performing an impactful role as the fledgling chemical industry expanded rapidly during World War II.

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27/10/1908

Lee Krasner, American painter (died 1984)

Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American painter and visual artist active primarily in New York whose work has been associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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27/10/1906

Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (died 1992)

Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, Precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.

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Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (died 1975)

Earle Cabell was an American politician who served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Cabell was mayor at the time of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy and was later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a conservative Democrat.

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Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (died 2010)

Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soars through the Sky, Dessin, Words of Workshop, and Food for the Soul. The latter two were published in English as Kazuo Ohno's World: From Without & Within (2004).

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27/10/1904

Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (died 1995)

Riho Lahi was an Estonian writer, journalist and cartoonist, probably best known by his fictional character Kihva Värdi.

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27/10/1894

Agda Helin, Swedish actress (died 1984)

Agda Helin was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1912 and 1968.

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Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (died 1978)

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during both the world wars. He commanded XXX Corps in North Africa and Sicily, serving under General Sir Bernard Montgomery, before going on to command the Eighth Army in the Italian Campaign throughout most of 1944.

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Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)

Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he oversaw the mobilization of forced labour for the benefit of the German war effort.

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Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (died 1988)

Ye Shengtao also known as Ye Shaojun, was a Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician. He was a founder of the Association for Literary Studies (文學研究會), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. He served as the Vice-Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

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27/10/1890

Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (died 1974)

Toshinari Shōji was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific campaign in World War II.

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27/10/1885

Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (died 1948)

Sigrid Maria Hjertén was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for thirty years before dying of complications from a lobotomy, after having been diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1932.

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27/10/1884

Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (died 1944)

Admiral Shirō Takasu was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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27/10/1877

Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (died 1949)

Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.

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George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (died 1943)

George Joseph Thompson was the mainstay of the Northamptonshire county cricket eleven for a long period encompassing both its days as a minor county and its earliest years in the County Championship.

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27/10/1868

William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (died 1928)

William Neal Gillies was an Australian Labor politician in Queensland who served as premier of Queensland from February to October 1925.

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27/10/1865

Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (died 1958)

Charles Spencelayh was an English genre painter and portraitist in the Academic style.

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27/10/1858

Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (died 1935)

Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton.

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Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1936)

Viscount Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1932 to 1934. Upon distinguishing himself during his command of two cruisers in the First Sino-Japanese War, Saitō rose rapidly to the rank of rear admiral by 1900. He was promoted to vice admiral during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. After serving as Minister of the Navy from 1906 to 1914, Saitō held the position of Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and again from 1929 to 1931. When Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in May 1932, he took his place as prime minister and served one term in office. Saitō returned to public service as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal in February 1935 but was assassinated only a year later during the February 26 Incident. Saitō along with Takahashi Korekiyo were the last former prime ministers of Japan to be assassinated until 2022, with the assassination of Shinzo Abe.

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Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt served as vice president under William McKinley for six months, and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. Upon assuming the office, he was 42 years old, making him the youngest person to serve as president. Roosevelt was popular as a driving force for antitrust legislation, which earned him the nickname "trust buster".

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27/10/1854

William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (died 1914)

Sir William Alexander Smith, the founder of the Boys' Brigade, was born in Pennyland House, Thurso, Scotland. He was the eldest son of Major David Smith and his wife Harriet. He had one sister and two brothers.

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27/10/1844

Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)

Klas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 with Fredrik Bajer. He was a founding member of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society and a Member of Parliament in the second Chamber of 1882–1887.

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27/10/1842

Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1928)

Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman who was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in Italian history, and the second-longest serving overall after Benito Mussolini. A prominent leader of the Historical Left and the Liberals, he is widely considered one of the most wealthy, powerful and important politicians in Italian history; due to his dominant position in Italian politics, Giolitti was accused by critics of being an authoritarian leader and a parliamentary dictator.

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27/10/1838

John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1915)

John Davis Long was an American lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was the 32nd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1880 to 1883. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1902, a period that included the primarily naval Spanish–American War.

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27/10/1814

Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (died 1891)

Daniel Hanmer Wells was an American religious leader and politician. He was an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the 3rd mayor of Salt Lake City.

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27/10/1811

Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (died 1843)

Stevens Thomson Mason was an American politician who served as the first governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. Coming to political prominence at an early age, Mason was appointed his territory's acting territorial secretary by Andrew Jackson at age 19, becoming the acting territorial governor soon thereafter in 1834 at age 22. As territorial governor, Mason was instrumental in guiding Michigan to statehood, which was secured in 1837. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected as Michigan's first state governor in 1835, where he served until 1840. Elected at 23 and taking office at 24, Mason was and remains the youngest state governor in American history.

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Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (died 1875)

Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

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27/10/1806

Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (died 1890)

Juan Nepomuceno Seguín was a Spanish-Tejano political and military figure of the Texas Revolution who helped to establish the independence of Texas, and also fought against those same soldiers, serving under Santa Anna in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. Numerous places and institutions are named in his honor, including the county seat of Seguin in Guadalupe County, the Juan N. Seguin Memorial Interchange in Houston, Juan Seguin Monument in Seguin, World War II Liberty Ship SS Juan N. Seguin, Seguin High School in Arlington.

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27/10/1782

Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)

Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.

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27/10/1765

Nancy Storace, English soprano (died 1817)

Anna Selina Storace, known professionally as Nancy Storace, was an English operatic soprano. The role of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro was written for and first performed by her.

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27/10/1760

August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (died 1831)

August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.

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27/10/1744

Mary Moser, English painter and academic (died 1819)

Mary Moser was an English painter who was one of the most celebrated female artists in 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers.

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27/10/1703

Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (died 1771)

Johann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two.

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27/10/1661

Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (died 1728)

Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin was one of the first Russian admirals, governed Estonia and Karelia from 1712 to 1723, was made general admiral (1708), presided over the Russian Admiralty from 1717 to 1728 and commanded the Baltic Fleet from 1723.

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27/10/1615

Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (died 1691)

Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg, was the first duke of Saxe-Merseburg and a member of the House of Wettin.

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27/10/1572

Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (died 1578)

Marie Elisabeth of France was a French princess and member of the House of Valois. She was the only child of King Charles IX of France and Elisabeth of Austria.

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27/10/1561

Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (died 1621)

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in John Bodenham's verse miscellany Belvidere. Her play Antonius is widely seen as reviving interest in soliloquy based on classical models and as a likely source of Samuel Daniel's closet drama Cleopatra (1594) and of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1607). She was also known for translating Petrarch's "Triumph of Death", for the poetry anthology Triumphs, and above all for a lyrical, metrical translation of the Psalms.

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27/10/1401

Catherine of Valois (died 1437)

Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England and was the mother of King Henry VI. Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and perhaps end what is now known as the Hundred Years' War. But, although her son Henry VI was later crowned in Paris, the war continued.

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27/10/1335

Taejo of Joseon (died 1408)

Taejo, personal name Yi Sŏnggye, later changed to Yi Tan, was the founder and first monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. After overthrowing the Goryeo dynasty, he ascended to the throne in 1392 and abdicated six years later during a strife between his sons. He was honored as Emperor Ko following the establishment of the Korean Empire.

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27/10/1156

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (died 1222)

Raymond VI was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. Raymond's conflicts with Pope Innocent III over his tolerance of the Cathars led into his excommunication and the beginning of the Albigensian Crusade.

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27/10/0921

Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (died 959)

Chai Rong, later known as Guo Rong (郭榮), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou, was the second emperor of the Later Zhou dynasty of China, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He reigned from 954 until his death in 959. He succeeded his uncle-in-law Guo Wei, whose surname he had adopted.

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27/10/0892

Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (died 908)

Emperor Ai of Tang, also known as Emperor Zhaoxuan of Tang (唐昭宣帝), born Li Zuo, later known as Li Chu, was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty of China. He reigned—as a puppet ruler—from 904 to 907. Emperor Ai was the son of Emperor Zhaozong. He was murdered by Zhu Wen.

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