Born on Saturday, 27th September – Famous Birthdays

27/09/2002

Jenna Ortega, American actress

Jenna Marie Ortega is an American actress. Known for her work in horror, Ortega has been dubbed "Gen Z's scream queen" by media publications. She has also been featured on the Power 100 list from The Hollywood Reporter in 2023 and the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2024.

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27/09/2001

Caleb Love, American basketball player

Caleb Khristopher Love is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Rip City Remix of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Arizona Wildcats.

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David Malukas, American race car driver

David Joseph Malukas is an American racing driver who competes in the IndyCar Series driving the No. 12 Chevrolet for Team Penske. He previously drove for A.J. Foyt Racing in 2025, Meyer Shank Racing in 2024, and Dale Coyne Racing in 2022 and 2023.

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27/09/1998

Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player

Ioana Mincă is a Romanian tennis player.

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27/09/1997

Jaiden Animations, American YouTuber and animator

Jaiden Dittfach is an American YouTuber and animator known for her story-time animations channel, Jaiden Animations. She makes videos on a variety of topics, spanning from personal life experiences to video game stories. Her main channel was founded in 2014, and as of March 2026, has over 15 million subscribers and 3.1 billion views. Nominated for a total of six Streamy Awards, she won in the Animated category in 2020.

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27/09/1995

Kwon Eun-bi, South Korean singer and musical actress

Kwon Eun-bi is a South Korean singer and actress signed under Woollim Entertainment. She debuted as a member of the short lived girl group Ye-A under the stage name Kazoo. She participated in the Mnet reality competition series Produce 48, where she finished in 7th place and became a member of the South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*One on August 31, 2018.

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Christian Wood, American basketball player

Christian Marquise Wood is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels. He has also played in the NBA for the Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, New Orleans Pelicans, Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks.

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27/09/1994

Dylan Walker, Australian rugby league player

Dylan Walker is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a lock forward for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League, and has played for Australia and the New Zealand Māori at international level.

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Sayak Chakraborty, Indian television actor

Sayak Chakraborty is a Bengali actor and YouTuber who works in Bengali cinema. He is known for his portrayal of Krishna in the mythological television soap Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya and his role in Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni, a historical drama soap aired on Zee Bangla. He is currently working in television soaps Chirosokha on Star Jalsha as Fidel, Tui Amaar Hero on Zee Bangla and Raj Rajeshwari Rani Bhabani on Star Jalsha as Raja Rajballabh Sen. In 2025 he became the brand ambassador of Texllo Technology and Joarder Saree House.

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27/09/1993

Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer

Lisandro Magallán is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Vélez Sarsfield.

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Ryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan James Murray is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Murray was drafted second overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Murray won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022.

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Monica Puig, Puerto Rican-American tennis player

Monica Puig Marchán is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win a gold medal at the Olympics while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in 2016 at the women's singles event. She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist.

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Vinnie Sunseri, American football player

Vincent Salvatore Sunseri is an American football coach and former player who is the next safeties coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He played professionally as a safety in the National Football League (NFL).

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27/09/1992

Lachlan Burr, Australian rugby league player

Lachlan Burr is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a lock and prop for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL.

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Sam Lerner, American actor

Sam Lerner is an American actor, who is most known for his role as Geoff Schwartz on The Goldbergs and as Quinn Goldberg in Project Almanac. His voice roles include the lead role of Zak Saturday in The Secret Saturdays and Charles "Chowder" Peterson in Monster House.

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Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer-songwriter and actor

Ryan O'Shaughnessy is an Irish singer and former actor from Loughshinny, Skerries, County Dublin. He portrayed Mark Halpin in the popular TV series Fair City for nine years (2001–2010). In January 2012, he appeared in the inaugurative season of The Voice of Ireland and in May 2012, he took part in sixth series of Britain's Got Talent making it to the final and finishing in fifth place. He represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Together" finishing 16th.

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Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer

Granit Xhaka is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Sunderland and the Switzerland national team.

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27/09/1991

Ousmane Barry, Guinean footballer

Elhadj Ousmane Barry, also known as Pato, is a Guinean international footballer who plays as a centre forward for Al-Bukiryah.

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Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player

Simona Halep is a Romanian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 64 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018. Halep won 25 WTA Tour–level titles, including two majors at the 2018 French Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships.

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Thomas Mann, American actor

Thomas Mann is an American actor. After making his film debut with a supporting role in It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Mann had his breakout with a lead role in the found footage teen comedy film Project X (2012).

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Anete Paulus, Estonian footballer

Anete Paulus is an Estonian football player who plays as a defender for Naiste Meistriliiga club Pärnu. She represented the Estonia national team from 2008 to 2017.

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Rio Uchida, Japanese model and actress

Rio Uchida is a Japanese actress and gravure idol who is affiliated with LesPros Entertainment. She is best known for her role as Kiriko Shijima, the main heroine of the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Drive.

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27/09/1990

Dion Lewis, American football player

Dion John Lewis is an American football coach and former running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning second-team All-American honors in 2009. Lewis was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL draft. He is currently the assistant running backs coach for the University of Albany.

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27/09/1989

Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer

Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean retired competitive swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. He has four Olympic medals, five world titles, and 20 Asian Games medals. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle and a silver in the 200-meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle. He is the first Asian swimmer to claim a gold medal in the men's 400-meter freestyle, and the first-ever South Korean swimmer to win any Olympic medal in swimming. He also holds 3 Asian Records, all in Men's Freestyle. He is best known for his impressive range and versatility, as he is able to compete at international level in 100-, 200-, 400- and 1,500-meter freestyle.

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27/09/1988

Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter

Elizaveta Ryzih is a German pole vault athlete. Two times an Olympian, she placed 6th in the London and 10th in Rio Olympic Games. She was described by one athletics commentator as a "tall, fast and athletic" pole vaulter, and she has seen good success in European Championships, as well as being a constant presence in the world yearly rankings of pole vaulters, placing among the top 10 vaulters in recent years.

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27/09/1987

Ádám Bogdán, Hungarian footballer

Ádám Bogdán is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Austin Carlile, American singer-songwriter

Austin Robert Carlile is an American singer who achieved prominence as the former lead vocalist of Attack Attack! and Of Mice & Men. After leaving Of Mice & Men, he began coaching youth baseball in Costa Rica. A high school athlete, multiple surgeries from Marfan syndrome during his teenage years turned him towards music. In December 2016, Carlile departed from Of Mice & Men due to his Marfan syndrome and the effects that his vocal performances were having on his body.

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Vanessa James, French figure skater

Vanessa James Amoros is a Canadian retired pair skater. Representing France with her former skating partner, Morgan Ciprès, she is the 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World bronze medallist, the 2017 European bronze medallist, the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time French national champion. They have also won medals in Grand Prix and Challenger Series competitions. James and Ciprès competed at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Olga Puchkova, Russian tennis player

Olga Alekseyevna Puchkova is a Russian former professional tennis player. As a junior, she played for Belarus, and was sometimes listed as Belarusian professional.

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27/09/1986

Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player

Vincent Michael Mazzaro is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Miami Marlins, and San Francisco Giants.

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Ricardo Risatti, Argentinian race car driver

Ricardo Caíto Risatti is an Argentine racing driver. He was the 2006 Spanish Formula Three champion and now competes in the Argentine touring car series, TC 2000.

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Matt Shoemaker American baseball player

Matthew David Shoemaker is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, and Minnesota Twins and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). Shoemaker has also competed for the United States national baseball team.

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27/09/1985

Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete

Massimo Bertocchi is a male decathlete from Canada.

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Anthony Morrow, American basketball player

Anthony Jarrad Morrow is an American former professional basketball player and executive who was most recently an executive for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Georgia Tech. He went undrafted in the 2008 NBA draft but was later signed by the Golden State Warriors. He was best known for his three-point shooting.

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Daniel Pudil, Czech footballer

Daniel Pudil is a Czech former professional footballer who played for the Czech Republic national team and currently plays as a left back or left winger for Northern Counties East League Premier Division club Hallam.

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Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (died 2014)

Ibrahim Obyala Touré was an Ivorian professional footballer who played as a striker. He was the younger brother of former Manchester City midfielder Yaya Touré and former Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Touré.

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27/09/1984

Paul Bevan, Australian footballer

Paul Bevan is an Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Davide Capello, Italian footballer

Davide Ugo Capello is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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John Lannan, American baseball player

John Edward Lannan is an American former professional baseball pitcher who has served as the Major League mental performance coach for the Toronto Blue Jays since 2024. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is a key musician in popularizing pop-punk music, as she paved the way for female-driven, punk-influenced pop music in the early 2000s. Her accolades include ten Juno Awards and eight Grammy Awards nominations.

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Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (died 2011)

Wouter Weylandt was a Belgian professional cyclist for UCI ProTeam Quick-Step–Davitamon and later for Leopard Trek. His first major win was the 17th stage of the 2008 Vuelta a España. He also won the third stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia. He died in a crash during the third stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

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27/09/1983

Jay Bouwmeester, Canadian ice hockey player

Jay Daniel Bouwmeester is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A defenceman, he played seventeen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues. He was a first round selection, third overall, of the Panthers at the 2002 NHL entry draft. He was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 2003 and played seven seasons in the Panthers organization before being traded to the Calgary Flames in 2009, with which he played four seasons. Bouwmeester was then traded to the Blues in 2013. He held one of the longest iron man streaks in NHL history as he appeared in 737 consecutive regular season games between 2004 and 2014.

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Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer

Jeon Hye-bin, also known as BIN, is a South Korean actress, singer and model. In 2002, she began her career as singer of the short-lived, three-member girl group LUV. However, the group disbanded the following year due to individual goals.

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Chris Quinn, American basketball player and coach

Christopher James Quinn Jr. is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the top assistant coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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27/09/1982

Anna Camp, American actress

Anna Ragsdale Camp is an American actress. She portrayed the villainous Sarah Newlin in the HBO vampire drama True Blood, Aubrey Posen in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017), the dual role of Reagan and Maddie Lockwood in the Netflix thriller You (2025), and Jessica Bowden in the slasher film Scream 7 (2026).

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Jon McLaughlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Jonathan McLaughlin is an American pop rock singer-songwriter, record producer and pianist from Anderson, Indiana. His debut album Indiana was released on May 1, 2007, preceded by his first EP Industry, also known as Jon McL, in February 2007. His most successful song is the 2008 single "Beating My Heart", from his second album OK Now.

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Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer

Nils Markus Rosenberg is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He spent the majority of his career with his boyhood club Malmö FF, as well as a notable five-year stint with German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen. Rosenberg served as captain of Malmö from 2015 to 2019. Rosenberg won 33 caps for the Sweden national team, scoring 6 goals, and represented them at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008, and UEFA Euro 2012.

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Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper, singer and record producer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists of his generation, as well as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Born and raised in New Orleans, he was discovered by hometown rapper Birdman in 1993 and signed with his record label, Cash Money Records, at age eleven. He emerged as the label's flagship artist until his departure in 2018.

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Tan White, American basketball player

LaTanya Chantella White is a professional basketball player. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, White is 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall and weighs 154 pounds (70 kg). She received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association as the best senior player under 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) in 2005.

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Darrent Williams, American football player (died 2007)

Darrent Demarcus Williams was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). After attending high school in Fort Worth, Texas, Williams played football at Oklahoma State University. He was a second-round draft pick by the Broncos in 2005. Williams was killed in a drive-by shooting the day after he finished his second season with the Broncos.

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27/09/1981

Sophie Crumb, American author and illustrator

Sophia Violet "Sophie" Crumb is an American-French comics artist.

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Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer

Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand cricket coach and former player who is the head coach of the England men's cricket team in all formats. Representing New Zealand, he captained the team in all formats. McCullum was renowned for his quick scoring, notably setting a record for the fastest Test century. He is considered one of New Zealand's most successful batsmen and captained the team to the finals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup and 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. He is also an inductee of the New Zealand Cricket Hall of Fame.

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Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer

Lakshmipathy Balaji is an Indian cricket coach and former international cricketer. He was a right-arm fast medium bowler. He represented the Indian cricket team and was part of the Indian team that finished as runners-up in the 2004 Asia Cup. He played for Tamil Nadu and South Zone in domestic cricket.

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27/09/1980

Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna

Asashōryū Akinori is a Mongolian former professional sumo wrestler (rikishi). He was the 68th yokozuna in the history of the sport in Japan, and in January 2003 he became the first Mongolian to reach sumo's highest rank. He was one of the most successful yokozuna ever. In 2005, he became the first wrestler to win all six official tournaments (honbasho) in a single year. Over his entire career, he won 25 top division tournament championships, placing him fourth on the all-time list.

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Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter and producer

Ehron VonAllen is an American singer in the electronic pop genre, record producer, recording artist and remixer, currently based in Hollywood, California. Born Aaron Christopher Allen, VonAllen began music in a small town of 4,000 in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. VonAllen's first run in with music was a concert video by Depeche Mode entitled "101". After graduating from high school, he moved to Dallas, Texas, to pursue a music career instead of university or military, which were both seriously considered. While living in Texas, he played shows in the popular music district of Deep Ellum in downtown Dallas.

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27/09/1979

Jon Garland, American baseball player

Jon Steven Garland is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. After being drafted by the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1997, Garland played for the Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, and Colorado Rockies.

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Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model

Zita Görög is a Hungarian actress and model, often credited as Zita Gorog.

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Christian Jones, Australian race car driver

Christian Alan Jones is an Australian racing driver; he is the adopted son of 1980 Formula One World Champion Alan Jones.

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Michael Kosta, American comedian

Michael Kosta is an American stand-up comedian and former professional tennis player. He is an Emmy award-winning rotating host and senior correspondent of The Daily Show and was hired as a correspondent in 2017. He was the most-watched guest host in 2023. He has also hosted The Comment Section for the E! Network with producer Joel McHale as well as co-hosting Fox Sports 1's Crowd Goes Wild. His one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central debuted in 2020.

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Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league player

Steve Simpson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia international representative second-row, he could also play prop or lock and played his entire club career for the Newcastle Knights, with whom he won the 2001 NRL Premiership.

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27/09/1978

Brad Arnold, American singer-songwriter (died 2026)

Bradley Kirk Arnold was an American singer. In 1996, he co-founded the rock band 3 Doors Down with Todd Harrell and Matt Roberts, serving as its lead vocalist. The band rose to prominence with their 2000 single "Kryptonite", which Arnold wrote when he was fifteen years old.

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Jon Rauch, American baseball player

Jon Erich Rauch is an American former professional baseball pitcher. At 6 feet 11 inches (2.11 m), he is tied with Sean Hjelle as the tallest player in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He is also an Olympic Gold Medalist in baseball.

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Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (died 2012)

Mihaela Ursuleasa was a Romanian concert pianist. In 1995, she won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition.

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27/09/1977

Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower

Andrus Värnik is a retired Estonian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a World Champion, having won gold in 2005. His personal best throw of 87.83 m, set in 2003, was the Estonian record for 15 years.

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27/09/1976

Matt Harding, American video game designer and dancer

Matthew Harding is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity who is known as Dancing Matt, for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets, and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign in 2008.

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Jason Phillips, American baseball player and coach

Jason Lloyd Phillips is an American professional baseball player and coach. He is the bullpen coach for the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League. He played as a catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Toronto Blue Jays.

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Francesco Totti, Italian footballer

Francesco Totti is an Italian former professional footballer who played solely for Roma and the Italy national team. He was a technically gifted and creative offensive playmaker who could play as an attacking midfielder or as a forward, mainly a striker.

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27/09/1974

Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

Carrie Rachel Brownstein is an American musician, actress, writer, director, and comedian. She first came to prominence as a member of the band Excuse 17 before forming the rock trio Sleater-Kinney.

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27/09/1973

Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer

Vratislav Lokvenc is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward. After playing youth football for Náchod and Hradec Králové, he began his senior club career with the latter team. After moving to Sparta Prague he won five league titles and one cup, as well as the 1999–2000 league top scorer award. He subsequently played abroad, playing club football in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, VfL Bochum, Red Bull Salzburg, FC Basel and FC Ingolstadt 04. He retired in 2009.

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Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Russian fencer

Stanislav Alekseyevich Pozdnyakov is a Russian former fencer, five-time Olympian (1992–2008), and five-time Olympic medalist in individual and team sabre competitions who previously served as president of the Russian Olympic Committee from 2018 to 2024. He is also a ten-time individual and team world champion, in 1994–2007. In 2022, he was removed from his position as European Fencing Confederation (EFC) president at an Extraordinary Congress following a unanimous vote of no confidence in Pozdnyakov, due to his conduct in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Indira Varma, British actress

Indira Anne Varma is a British actress. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). She is known for her television roles, such as playing Niobe in the BBC and HBO series Rome (2005–07), Suzie Costello in the BBC series Torchwood (2006), Zoe Luther in the BBC series Luther (2010), Ilsa Pucci in Human Target (2010–11), Ellaria Sand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2014–2017), and The Bride in the DCU/Max adult animated series Creature Commandos (2024–present).

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27/09/1972

Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player and coach

Sylvia Crawley Spann is an American former professional basketball player and coach. She played for the Colorado Xplosion and Portland Power of the American Basketball League (ABL) and the Portland Fire and San Antonio Silver Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the head women's basketball coach of the Ohio Bobcats and Boston College Eagles. She played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels.

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Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist and speed skater

Clara Hughes is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the 1996 Summer Olympics and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics.

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Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and businesswoman. The daughter of filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, she established herself as a leading lady appearing in primarily mid-budget and period films during the 1990s and early 2000s, before transitioning to blockbusters and franchises. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Craig L. Rice, American politician

Craig Lamont Rice is an American politician and former member of the Montgomery County Council, serving from 2010 to 2022. Elected in 2006 to the Maryland House of Delegates, he served one four-year term and represented District 15 in western and northern Montgomery County.

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27/09/1971

Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator

Horacio Miguel Sandoval Pérez is a comic book artist, member of !Ka-Boom¡ Estudio.

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27/09/1970

Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player and author

Yoshiharu Habu is a professional shogi player and a chess FIDE Master. He is a former holder of the Ryūō, Meijin, Ōi, Ōza, Kiō, Ōshō and Kisei major titles. He was the first person to simultaneously hold seven major professional shogi titles at the same time and is the only person to qualify as a lifetime title holder for seven major titles. In January 2018, Habu became the first professional shogi player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award. Habu is also a former president of the Japan Shogi Association (JSA).

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Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress

Tamara Taylor is a Canadian actress. She appeared in the role of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, in the forensic crime drama Bones. She also appeared in season seven of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in which she played Sibyl, one of the two main antagonists. She also starred in the first two seasons of Law & Order: Organized Crime.

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27/09/1968

Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland

Mari Johanna Kiviniemi is a Finnish politician, who served as the 41st and second female Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011.

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Patrick Muldoon, American actor (died 2026)

William Patrick Muldoon III was an American actor, film producer, and musician.

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27/09/1967

Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer

Uchechukwu Alozie "Uche" Okechukwu, also known as Deniz Uygar, is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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27/09/1966

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician

Deborah Wasserman Schultz is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 25th congressional district, first elected to Congress in 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2011 until her resignation in 2016.

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Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut

Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions and is the second African American woman to go into space after Mae Jemison. As of 2026, her almost 43 days in space are the second most of any female African American astronaut, having been surpassed by Jessica Watkins in 2022.

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Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper

Lorenzo Cherubini, known professionally as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer-songwriter, rapper, and disc jockey.

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27/09/1965

Steve Kerr, American basketball player, coach and sportscaster

Stephen Douglas Kerr is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the head coach of the U.S. national team. Kerr is known as one of the most accurate three-point shooters in NBA history and holds the record for highest career three-point percentage. He is also a nine-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player and four as a head coach. Kerr was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History.

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Bernard Lord, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick

Bernard Lord is a Canadian lawyer, business executive and former politician. He served as the 30th premier of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006. Lord was appointed as board chair of Ontario Power Generation in 2014.

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Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice

Peter Gordon MacKay is a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served as Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay became the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada — he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.

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Alexis Stewart, American radio and television host

Alexis Gilbert Stewart is an American television and radio host presenter. She is the only child of Martha Stewart and her ex-husband Andrew Stewart. She was the co-host of Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer on Sirius Satellite Radio, and Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer on the Hallmark Channel alongside co-host Jennifer Hutt.

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27/09/1964

Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (died 2012)

Predrag "Peca" Brzaković was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Tracy Camp, American computer scientist and academic

Tracy Kay Camp is an American computer scientist noted for her research on wireless networking. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was the co-chair of CRA-W from 2011 to 2014 and she was the co-chair of ACM-W from 1998 to 2002. On July 1, 2022, she became the Executive Director of the Computing Research Association.

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Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (died 2013)

Johnny du Plooy was a South African former heavyweight boxer best known for his win over former WBA World Heavyweight champion Mike Weaver. He challenged once for the WBO World Heavyweight title in 1989.

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Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Stephan Douglas Jenkins is an American singer, guitarist, and the frontman of the alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. He began his musical career in 1992 as part of the short-lived rap duo Puck and Natty, alongside Detroit rapper Herman Anthony Chunn. Following the breakup of the duo, Jenkins and guitarist Kevin Cadogan formed Third Eye Blind in 1993. The band released their eponymous debut studio album in 1997, which went multi-platinum in the United States. Since then, they have released nine more albums: Blue (1999), Out of the Vein (2003), Ursa Major (2009), Dopamine (2015), We Are Drugs (2016), Thanks for Everything (2018), Screamer (2019), Our Bande Apart (2021), and Unplugged (2022). As part of Third Eye Blind, Jenkins has received one Billboard Music Award and eight California Music Awards.

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27/09/1963

Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host

Marc David Maron is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, musician, and former radio presenter and podcaster.

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27/09/1962

Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster

Gavin Rolf Larsen is a former New Zealand international cricketer who specialised in the art of economical bowling. He was known playfully by his teammates as "The Postman". He is currently chief selector for the national side.

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27/09/1960

Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. He is best known for working on several films from Danish film director and frequent collaborator Lars von Trier since Europa (1991).

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27/09/1959

Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist

Elizabeth Lee Heiden Reid is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing, and bicycle racing. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She was a speedskating bronze medalist at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, where her brother Eric won five speedskating gold medals.

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27/09/1958

Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter

Shaun Paul Cassidy is an American singer, actor, television producer and screenwriter. He has created and/or produced a number of television series, including American Gothic, Roar, and Invasion. Cassidy was also an executive producer and writer for NBC's medical drama New Amsterdam.

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Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies; particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others.

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27/09/1957

Bill Athey, English cricketer, footballer, and coach

Charles William Jeffrey Athey is a retired English first-class cricketer, who played for England, and first-class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Sussex; he also played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire. His bulldog spirit was exemplified by the Union Jack tattooed on his arm. He played in 23 Test matches between 1980 and 1988, but scored more than 50 runs only five times in 41 innings. In 1990, Athey joined the rebel tour to South Africa. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup.

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27/09/1956

Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer and manager

Steven Archibald is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager. He played prominently as a forward for Aberdeen, winning the Scottish league in 1980, Tottenham Hotspur, winning two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup, and Barcelona, winning the Spanish league in 1985. He also played for several other clubs in Scotland, England, Spain and Ireland.

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Martin Handford, English children's author and illustrator

Martin Handford is a British children's author and illustrator from London who gained worldwide fame in the mid-1980s for his Where's Wally? book series.

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27/09/1954

Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and sportscaster

Raymond Morris Hadley is a retired Australian talkback radio broadcaster and a rugby league football commentator for Channel Nine. He presents 2GB Sydney's Monday to Friday morning show, and leads the Continuous Call Team, a rugby league-based talkback radio panel program.

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Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor

Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky is a Soviet and American violinist, conductor, and arranger.

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Larry Wall, American computer programmer and author

Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.

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27/09/1953

Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in 2024 became its longest-serving female MP, earning the title Mother of the House. A former Shadow Home Secretary and Privy Counsellor, Abbott has been a prominent figure on the Labour left and a vocal campaigner on issues of race and inequality. She was suspended from the Labour Party in 2023 over comments about racism, later apologised, and had the whip restored ahead of the 2024 general election. In July 2025, she was suspended again after reiterating those remarks in a BBC interview, and currently sits as an independent MP.

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Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint

Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī Devi, often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, godwoman, guru and humanitarian. She is the chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a multi-campus research university.

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Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager

Claudio Gentile is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (died 2012)

Gregory Norman Ham was an Australian musician, best known as a member of the 1980s band Men at Work. Besides singing and being occasional lead vocalist of the band, he played saxophone, flute, harmonica, guitar, organ, piano, and synthesizer.

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27/09/1952

Katie Fforde, English author

Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming, is a British romance novelist. Published since 1995, her novels are set in modern-day England.

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Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian pilot, engineer and cosmonaut

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.

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27/09/1951

Geoff Gallop, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Western Australia

Geoffrey Ian Gallop is an Australian academic and former politician who served as the 27th premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. He is a former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement; and is currently a professor and director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney.

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Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michel Rivard is a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec, born in Montreal. His father, Robert Rivard, was an actor. Michel began his career at an early age appearing in a Canadian television series and in TV commercials.

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Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator (died 2025)

James Charles Shooter was an American writer, editor and publisher in the comics industry. Beginning his career writing for DC Comics at the age of 14, he had a successful but controversial run as editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, and launched comics publishers Valiant, Defiant, and Broadway.

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27/09/1950

John Marsden, Australian writer (died 2024)

John Marsden was an Australian writer and teacher. He wrote more than 40 books in his career, including his young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, which began a series of seven books.

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist (died 2025)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a Japanese actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11. He appeared as Lt. A.J. Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges.

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27/09/1949

Graham Richardson, Australian politician (died 2025)

Graham Frederick Richardson was an Australian Labor Party politician who was a senator for New South Wales from 1983 to 1994 and served as a cabinet minister in both the Hawke and Keating governments. He was later a media commentator, public speaker and political lobbyist.

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Mike Schmidt, American baseball player

Michael Jack Schmidt is an American former professional baseball third baseman who spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1972 to 1989. Schmidt was a 12-time All-Star and a three-time winner of the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player award (MVP), and he was known for his combination of power hitting and strong defense. As a hitter, he compiled 548 home runs and 1,595 runs batted in (RBIs), and led the NL in home runs eight times and in RBIs four times. As a fielder, Schmidt won the National League Gold Glove Award for third basemen ten times. Schmidt was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995 in his first year of eligibility, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest third basemen in baseball history.

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Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Jahn Teigen was a Norwegian singer, musician and comedian. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest three times, in 1978, 1982 and 1983, From October 2006 until his death in February 2020, he lived in Sweden.

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27/09/1948

Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor, director, and producer

Tom Braidwood is a Canadian actor and director known for the role of Melvin Frohike, one of the conspiracy theorists known as The Lone Gunmen on the American television series The X-Files. Braidwood also served as an assistant director on the show from seasons one through five; was a second unit director on Millennium, another series from Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files; and a producer of the second season of the Canadian TV series Da Vinci's Inquest, on which he also directed some episodes.

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Les Chapman, English footballer and manager

Leslie Chapman, commonly known as Les and sometimes as Chappy, is an English former football player and manager. As a player, he made 747 appearances in the Football League in a career that spanned 22 seasons, playing for Oldham Athletic, Huddersfield Town, Stockport County, Bradford City, Rochdale and Preston North End, and also spent a season in the North American Soccer League with the San Jose Earthquakes. As a manager, he took charge of Stockport County and Preston North End. After his spell in club management he became a long-standing kit manager for Manchester City before moving to his current role as a presenter and content producer for the club's media department. He also had a brief cameo in the song "Parklife" by Blur.

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Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher is a Zimbabwean cricket coach and former cricketer, who has coached the England and Indian national teams. He led the Indian team to be the winners of the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, where the team was undefeated during the tournament.

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A Martinez, American actor

Adolfo Larrue Martínez III, credited as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer. He had roles in the daytime soap operas Santa Barbara, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Dark Winds. His feature films include The Cowboys (1972), Powwow Highway (1989), Curse of Chucky (2013), Ambulance (2022) and Far Haven (2023).

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27/09/1947

Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager and former player

Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat is a Dutch former football player and coach. He was most recently the manager of the Curaçao national football team.

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Richard Court, Australian politician, 26th Premier of Western Australia

Richard Fairfax Court is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He served as Premier of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and as Australian Ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented the Perth-area electorate of Nedlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2001. His father, Sir Charles Court, also served as state premier.

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Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress

Barbara Ruth Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress whose hits include "I Know Him So Well", "Answer Me" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums on the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976.

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Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter

Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniseries Bleak House (2005), the latter of which earned him BAFTA Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared in the television series The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984–1986), Holby City, and New Tricks (2012–2015), and reprised the role of Antilles in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). On the stage, he is a three-time Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical nominee, winning in 1983 for Mr Cinders.

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Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2022)

Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell album trilogy—Bat Out of Hell (1977), Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993), and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006)—has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The first album stayed on the charts for over nine years and is one of the best-selling albums in history, still selling an estimated 200,000 copies annually as of 2016.

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Liz Torres, Puerto Rican-American actress and comedian

Elizabeth Larrieu Torres is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), for which she received two Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. She is also known for her role as Patricia "Miss Patty" LaCosta in The WB family comedic drama series Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls (2000–07) starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. In the 1970s, she played Julie Erskine on Phyllis and also had a recurring role as Teresa Betancourt on All in the Family.

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27/09/1946

Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and politician, seventh President of Cyprus

Nicos Anastasiades is a Cypriot politician and businessperson, who served as the seventh president of Cyprus from 2013 to 2023. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally between 1997 and 2013 and served as Member of Parliament from Limassol between 1981 and 2013.

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T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor (died 1978)

Tommy Wayne Cannon was an important Native American artist of the 20th century. He was popularly known as T. C. Cannon. He was an enrolled member of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and had Caddo and French ancestry.

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27/09/1945

Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (died 2003)

Jack Goldstein was a Canadian born, California and New York-based performance and conceptual artist turned post-conceptual painter in the 1980s.

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27/09/1944

Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is an American-born Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as "La Novia de México", she began her career as a child actress in films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, such as Pecado (1951), Una mujer decente (1951), and Mi esposa y la otra (1952). During the 1960s, she rose to prominence as a teen idol through her roles in films and telenovelas, concurrently launching a successful music career. Her recordings of compositions by Armando Manzanero established her as a popular singer of rock and roll and pop ballads, with hit songs including the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks top 40-singles "El hombre de mi vida", "Reina y cenicienta", "Prohibido", and "El taconazo".

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Gary Sutherland, American baseball player and scout

Gary Lynn Sutherland, nicknamed "Sudsy", was an American professional baseball middle infielder. He player 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1966 to 1978 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, and St. Louis Cardinals. He played college baseball at the University of Southern California.

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27/09/1943

Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (died 2021)

Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the family which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until 7 July 2006, Amedeo was styled Duke of Aosta; on that date he declared himself Duke of Savoy, a title that was disputed between him and his third cousin, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, only son of King Umberto II of Italy.

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Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Randolph Charles Bachman is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of the bands the Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. He was the writer and singer of several hit rock songs, including, "Takin' Care of Business", and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". Bachman also recorded as a solo artist and was part of a number of short-lived bands such as Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse. He was a national radio personality on CBC Radio, hosting the weekly music show, Vinyl Tap. Bachman was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016.

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27/09/1942

Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (died 2008)

Dith Pran was a Cambodian-American photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and one of the subjects of the Academy Award–winning film The Killing Fields (1984), in which he was portrayed by Haing S. Ngor, a fellow survivor.

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Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (died 2014)

Bernard William Jewry, known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor. Performing first as Shane Fenton in the 1960s, Jewry had a moderately successful career in the pre-Beatles era, hitting the UK top 40 with four singles in 1961–62. However, he became better known for singles released in the 1970s and 1980s as Alvin Stardust, a character he began in the glam rock era, with hits including "My Coo Ca Choo", the UK singles chart-topper "Jealous Mind", as well as later hits such as "Pretend" and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly".

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27/09/1941

Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach (died 2020)

Peter Philip Bonetti was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Chelsea, the St. Louis Stars, Dundee United and England. He was known for his safe handling, lightning reflexes and his graceful style, for which he was given the nickname "The Cat". He was one of several goalkeepers who specialised in a one-armed throw which could achieve a similar distance to a drop kick.

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Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician

Serge Ménard is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1993 to 2003, and a member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. Outside politics he has been a lawyer, lecturer and professor.

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Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer

William Donald Nix was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. Nix, who was best known for his song "Going Down," was described by AllMusic as "one of the more obscure figures in Southern soul and rock."

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27/09/1940

Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress

Dame Josephine Clare Barstow, is an English operatic soprano.

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Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist

Benoni Beheyt is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who raced from 1962 to 1968. Beheyt won 22 races and is most famous for winning the 1963 World Cycling Championships Road Race and stage win of the 1964 Tour de France. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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27/09/1939

Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author

Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam is an English interior designer and socialite, and founder of the London-based interior design firm, Nicky Haslam Studio.

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Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright

Carol Lynn Wright Pearson is an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. She frequently addresses the topics of LGBT acceptance and the role of Latter-day Saint women.

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Kathy Whitworth, American golfer (died 2022)

Kathrynne Ann Whitworth was an American professional golfer. During her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else on the LPGA or PGA Tours. Whitworth was also a runner-up 93 times, giving her 181 top-two finishes. In 1981, she became the first woman to reach career earnings of $1 million on the LPGA Tour. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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27/09/1938

Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter (died 2020)

Jean-Loup Dabadie was a French journalist, writer, lyricist, screenwriter, novelist, author of sketches and songs, playwright, translator, and dialogue writer and member of the Académie Française.

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27/09/1937

Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, eighth Prime Minister of Ukraine

Major General Vasyl Vasylovych Durdynets is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine during a short period in July 1997.

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27/09/1936

Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (died 2012)

Donald Cortez Cornelius was an American television show host and producer widely known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train, which he hosted from 1970 until 1993. Cornelius sold the show to MadVision Entertainment in 2008. On November 3, 2023, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

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Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and author (died 2015)

Ronald Gordon Honeycombe was a British newscaster, author, playwright and stage actor.

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27/09/1935

Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)

Allister Wences MacNeil was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and executive. MacNeil played 524 games in the National Hockey League and was a four-time Stanley Cup winner. He was the first native of Atlantic Canada to serve as a head coach in the NHL. He won three Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, first as the team's rookie head coach in 1971, and then back-to-back championships as Director of Player Personnel in 1978 and 1979. He went back into coaching in 1979, becoming the last head coach of the Atlanta Flames and then the first one for the Calgary Flames in 1980. As an NHL head coach, with the Canadiens and Flames, his career win-loss-tie total was 160–134–55. The final time he won a Stanley Cup was as the assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames in 1989.

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27/09/1934

Wilford Brimley, American actor (died 2020)

Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s. He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), and Cocoon (1985). Brimley was known for playing characters at times much older than his age. He was the long-term face of American television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related television commercials for Liberty Medical, a role for which he became an Internet meme.

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Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and producer (died 2025)

Claude Miller Jarman Jr. was an American actor. He became a child star with his role as Jody Baxter in The Yearling (1946), for which he won an Academy Juvenile Award. Further roles in films like Intruder in the Dust (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired from acting in early adulthood and later served as executive director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco.

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Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and author (died 2001)

Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.

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27/09/1933

Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist and neuroscientist (died 2007)

Rodney Michael John Cotterill Order of the Dannebrog was an English-Danish physicist, and neuroscientist, who was educated at University College London, Yale (M.S.) and Cambridge University (Ph.D.). He spent most of his career as a professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, (1967-) after having spent five years as a researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory.

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Greg Morris, American actor (died 1996)

Francis Gregory Alan Morris was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Barney Collier on the television series Mission: Impossible and Lieutenant David Nelson on Vega$.

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27/09/1932

Geoff Bent, English footballer (died 1958)

Geoffrey Bent was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Bent only made twelve first-team appearances for Manchester United, who already had an international-quality left back in Roger Byrne. Modern writers speculate that at most other teams Bent would have been a regular starter, and he was the subject of interest from fellow First Division clubs, but Busby refused to let him leave. He was one of eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster, when their aircraft crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport after a European Cup match in Belgrade.

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Michael Colvin, English captain and politician (died 2000)

Michael Keith Beale Colvin was a British Conservative Party politician. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West at the 1979 general election. From 1983 onwards, he was the MP for Romsey and Waterside constituency in Hampshire, which later became the constituency of Romsey.

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Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician

Gabriel Loubier was a Canadian politician in Quebec. He served as leader of the Union Nationale party from 1971 to 1974, and as leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1971 to 1973.

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Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)

Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.

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Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist

Marcia Neugebauer is an American geophysicist who made contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's research was among the first that yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets.

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27/09/1931

Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor

Freddy Quinn is a former Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends. His father was long believed to be a supposed merchant named Johann Quinn (1912–1943), who was of Irish descent and was said to have been married to Quinn's mother for a few months in 1934. However, in his 2025 autobiography, Freddy Quinn wrote that this man never existed and that he never met his actual father; furthermore, he had adopted his Irish last name from an American soldier he had met in his early twenties. His mother, Edith Henriette Nidl, was an Austrian journalist. He is often associated with the Schlager scene.

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27/09/1930

Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (died 2013)

Paul Reichmann was a Canadian businessman and member of the Reichmann family. He is best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York real estate development company.

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27/09/1929

Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2004)

Calvin James Jones, Sr. was an American jazz and blues trombonist, bassist, pianist, composer, and educator. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1970s, and remained there until his death from a heart attack in October 2004.

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Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (died 1995)

Bruno Junk was an Estonian race walker. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won bronze medals on both occasions. He set a world record in the 15 km in 1951 (1:08:08.0), and had world's best times in the 20 km in 1956 (1:30:00.8) and in the 3 km in 1952 (11:51.4). Domestically he won four Soviet titles: in 1951 and 1956 in the 20 km, and in 1952 and 1953 in the 10 km, and eight Estonian titles: in 1949–50 and 1956–59 in the 20 km, in 1958 in the 10 km, and in 1959 in the 30 km.

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Barbara Murray, English actress (died 2014)

Barbara Ann Murray was an English actress.

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27/09/1928

Margaret Rule, English archaeologist and historian (died 2015)

Margaret Helen Rule was a British archaeologist. She is most notable for her involvement with the project that excavated and raised the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982.

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27/09/1927

Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (died 2007)

Chrysostomos I, born Christoforos Aristodimou, was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 1977 to 2006.

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Red Rodney, American trumpet player (died 1994)

Robert Roland Chudnick, known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Romano Scarpa, Italian author and illustrator (died 2005)

Romano Scarpa was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

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Sada Thompson, American actress (died 2011)

Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress. Though best known to television audiences as Kate Lawrence in Family (1976–1980), for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1978, Thompson originally won acclaim as a theater actress on Broadway winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Twigs in 1972.

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27/09/1926

Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 2006)

Steve Atanas Stavro, was a Macedonian-Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist.

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27/09/1925

Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".

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George Gladir, American author (died 2013)

George Gladir was an American comics writer. Primarily known as a scripter for Archie Comics, he co-created that publisher's character Sabrina Spellman, with artist Dan DeCarlo.

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27/09/1924

Ernest Becker, American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (died 1974)

Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death.

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Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (died 1966)

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris.

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Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (died 2020)

Siegfried Fred Singer was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia, trained as an atmospheric physicist. He was known for rejecting the scientific consensus on several issues, including climate change, the connection between UV-B exposure and melanoma rates, stratospheric ozone loss being caused by chlorofluoro compounds, often used as refrigerants, and the health risks of passive smoking.

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Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (died 2012)

Josef Škvorecký was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.

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27/09/1922

Sammy Benskin, American pianist and bandleader (died 1992)

Samuel Benskin was an American pianist and bandleader.

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Arthur Penn, American director and producer (died 2010)

Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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27/09/1921

Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (died 2014)

Miklós Jancsó was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including The Round-Up, The Red and the White, and Red Psalm.

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Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (died 1991)

Milton Subotsky was an American film and television writer and producer. In 1964, he founded Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg. Amicus means "friend" in Latin. The partnership produced low-budget science fiction and horror films in the United Kingdom.

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Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (died 2013)

Bernard Waber was an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962), Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series.

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27/09/1920

William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (died 1994)

William Conrad was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television.

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Alan A. Freeman, English record producer (died 1985)

Alan Albert Freeman, known professionally as Alan A. Freeman was an English record producer who worked with Petula Clark, Max Miller, Tony Hancock, Nöel Coward, Morecambe and Wise, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, and Lonnie Donegan, producing UK singles chart number 1 hits by Donegan. Freeman founded the independent Polygon label, which ran from 1950 to 1955, and continued to work for its successor companies, Pye Nixa and Pye, in the 1960s and 70s. He achieved fame as a panellist on the ITV talent show New Faces in the 1970s, and his production career on various other labels lasted into the 1980s.

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27/09/1919

Jayne Meadows, American actress and author (died 2015)

Jayne Meadows was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the wife of original Tonight Show host Steve Allen. She is the elder sister of actress, banker, and memoirist Audrey Meadows.

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Charles H. Percy, American lieutenant and politician (died 2011)

Charles Harting Percy, also known as Chuck Percy, was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964, and served as a Republican U.S. senator from Illinois from 1967 until 1985, following a defeat to Paul Simon. He was mentioned as a Republican presidential hopeful from 1968 through 1988. During his Senate career, Percy concentrated on business and foreign relations.

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James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (died 1986)

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. In 1970 he won the ACM Turing Award.

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27/09/1918

Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)

Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy in the University of Cambridge and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was the twelfth Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982. Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research. In the 1970s, Ryle turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent. He was also an enthusiastic amateur radio operator.

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Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (died 2001)

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, Baron Shepherd of Spalding, was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

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Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader (died 2001)

Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik was a Russian military officer who served in the Red Army and a program manager in the former Soviet space program. He was Colonel-General of the Soviet Army, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences of Russia, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and the second head of the Baikonur Cosmodrome (1958–1961).

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27/09/1917

Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (died 2010)

Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.

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Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (died 2009)

Carl Ballantine was an American magician, comedian and actor. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine", "The Amazing Ballantine" or "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician", his vaudeville-style comedy routine involved transparent or incompetent stage magic tricks, which tended to flop and go "hilariously awry" to the wisecracking Ballantine's mock chagrin. He has been credited with creating comedy magic and has influenced comedians and magicians alike.

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William T. Orr, American actor and producer (died 2002)

William T. Orr was an American actor and television producer associated with various Western and detective programs of the 1950s-1970s. In most of his Warner Bros. series, he was billed as "Wm. T. Orr." Orr began his career as an actor; his film credits included The Mortal Storm, The Gay Sisters, and The Big Street.

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Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (died 2010)

Benjamin Rubin was an American microbiologist, known as the inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle, which played an important role in the eradication of smallpox. Rubin invented this device by taking the eyelet of a sewing machine needle and grinding it down.

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27/09/1916

S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (died 2006)

Yizhar Smilansky, known by his pen name S. Yizhar, was an Israeli writer and politician. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent figures in Israeli literature, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1959 for fine literature. He was also awarded several other prizes of national distinction. In his political life, Yizhar served in the Knesset under Mapai almost continuously from 1949–1967.

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27/09/1913

Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (died 2007)

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.

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27/09/1911

Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer (died 2009)

Marcella "Marcey" Jacobson was an American photographer who moved to Chiapas, Mexico in the 1950s, and was best known for her photographs of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico.

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27/09/1907

Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1991)

Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the City of London since the 17th century.

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Bhagat Singh, Indian socialist revolutionary (disputed with 28 September) (died 1931)

Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and, after his execution at age 23, a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, the charismatic Bhagat Singh electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent, and eventually successful, campaign for India's independence.

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27/09/1906

William Empson, English poet and critic (died 1984)

Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930.

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Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter (died 1977)

James Myers Thompson was an American novelist and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.

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Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (died 1980)

Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky (Russian: Сергéй Пeтрóвич Варшáвский, was a Russian writer and art collector.

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27/09/1905

Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and manager (died 1994)

Conrad "Conny" Heidkamp was a German footballer who played as a defender for Düsseldorfer SC 99 and Bayern Munich.

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27/09/1904

Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (died 1981)

Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.

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27/09/1898

Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (died 1946)

Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.

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27/09/1896

Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (died 1981)

Gilbert Ashton MC was an English cricketer who played 62 first-class matches between the wars, mostly for Cambridge University and Worcestershire. His obituary in Wisden called him "a fine, aggressive stroke-player" and praised his fielding ability at cover point. His bowling was of the occasional variety, and after he left Cambridge became essentially non-existent.

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Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (died 1985)

Samuel James Ervin Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A Southern Democrat, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl. During his Senate career, Ervin was at first a staunch defender of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. However, unexpectedly, he became a liberal hero for his support of civil liberties. He is remembered for his work in the investigation committees that brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and especially for his leadership of the Senate committee's investigation of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

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27/09/1894

Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1922)

Lothar Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 40 victories. He was a younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen and a distant cousin of Luftwaffe Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, who also became a flying ace.

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27/09/1892

George Bambridge, English diplomat (died 1943)

George Louis St Clair Bambridge was a British diplomat. His wife, Elsie, was the daughter of the author Rudyard Kipling.

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27/09/1885

Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (died 1965)

Harry Bouton Blackstone was a famed stage magician and illusionist of the 20th century. Blackstone was born Harry Bouton in Chicago, Illinois. He began his career as a magician in his teens and was popular through World War II as a USO entertainer. He was often billed as The Great Blackstone. His son Harry Blackstone Jr. also became a famous magician. Blackstone Sr. was aided by his younger brother, Pete Bouton, who was the stage manager in all his shows. Blackstone Sr. was married three times. Blackstone Jr. was his son by his second wife.

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Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1964)

Charles Benjamin Howard was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was known for his eloquence in English and French.

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27/09/1882

Dorothy Greenhough-Smith, English figure skater and tennis player (died 1965)

Dorothy Greenhough-Smith was a British figure skater. She won the bronze medal in women's singles at the 1908 Summer Olympics and was the 1912 World silver medalist, as well as a two-time British champion.

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27/09/1879

Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1934)

Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. In philosophy he was among the main logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.

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Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach (died 1962)

Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams at the University of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1901 and at the University of Michigan in 1904. He was also a member of the undefeated 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 565 to 6.

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Cyril Scott, English poet and composer (died 1970)

Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health.

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27/09/1873

Vithalbhai Patel, Indian legislator and political leader (died 1933)

Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party and elder brother of Sardar Patel.

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27/09/1871

Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.

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27/09/1866

Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (died 1932)

Eurosia Fabris, TOSF, also known as "Mamma Rosa",, was an Italian member of the Third Order of Saint Francis in the Roman Catholic Church. She was beatified in 2005. She is regarded as a model of holiness in the daily life of a Catholic family. Besides her own nine children, she had two adopted ones.

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27/09/1864

Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician (died 1938)

Andrej Hlinka was a Slovak Roman Catholic priest and politician who was one of the most important Slovak public activists in Czechoslovakia before World War II. He was the leader of the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, a papal chamberlain, inducted papal protonotary, member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia, and chairman of the St. Vojtech Fellowship.

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27/09/1861

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and author (died 1933)

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was also the younger sister of President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt.

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27/09/1843

Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (died 1913)

Gaston Tarry was a French mathematician. Born in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, he studied mathematics at high school before joining the civil service in Algeria. He pursued mathematics as an amateur.

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27/09/1842

Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer (died 1903)

Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was educated for the church of Rome, and from 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent at the college de la Paix, Namur.

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27/09/1840

Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (died 1914)

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with the publication of its 1892 successor, The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812, he affirmed his status as a globally-known and regarded military strategist, historian, and theorist. Mahan's works encouraged the development of large capital ships—eventually leading to dreadnought battleships—as he was an advocate of the 'decisive battle' and of naval blockades.

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Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (died 1902)

Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".

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27/09/1838

Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (died 1898)

Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross was the 19th governor of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the 4th president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A&M University.

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27/09/1830

William Babcock Hazen, American general (died 1887)

William Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. His most famous service was defending "Hell's Half Acre" at the Battle of Stones River in 1862, and seizing Fort McAllister, Georgia, in December 1864, which allowed William Sherman to capture Savannah at the end of his March to the Sea.

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27/09/1824

William "Bull" Nelson, American general (died 1862)

William "Bull" Nelson was a United States naval officer who became a Union general during the American Civil War.

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27/09/1821

Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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27/09/1818

Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (died 1884)

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical context, and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory. This was done via modifications to the idea of "radicals" and accurate prediction of the existence of secondary and tertiary alcohols, and to the emerging array of organic reactions through his Kolbe electrolysis of carboxylate salts, the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction in the preparation of aspirin and the Kolbe nitrile synthesis. After studies with Wöhler and Bunsen, Kolbe was involved with the early internationalization of chemistry through work in London. He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and won the Royal Society of London's Davy Medal in the year of his death. Despite these accomplishments and his training important members of the next generation of chemists, Kolbe is best remembered for editing the Journal für Praktische Chemie for more than a decade, in which his vituperative essays on Kekulé's structure of benzene, van't Hoff's theory on the origin of chirality and Baeyer's reforms of nomenclature were personally critical and linguistically violent. Kolbe died of a heart attack in Leipzig at age 66, six years after the death of his wife, Charlotte.

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27/09/1805

George Müller, German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage (died 1898)

George Müller was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was called the Open Brethren.

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27/09/1803

Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (died 1865)

Samuel Francis Du Pont was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent du Pont family. In the Mexican–American War, Du Pont captured San Diego, and was made commander of the California naval blockade. Through the 1850s, he promoted engineering studies at the United States Naval Academy, to enable more mobile and aggressive operations. In the American Civil War, he played a major role in making the Union blockade effective, but was controversially blamed for the failed attack on Charleston, South Carolina in April 1863.

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27/09/1783

Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (died 1824)

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu, commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was the first Emperor of Mexico from 1822 until his abdication in 1823. An officer in the royal Spanish army, during the Mexican War of Independence he initially fought insurgent forces rebelling against the Spanish crown before changing sides in 1820 and leading a coalition of former royalists and long-time insurgents under his Plan of Iguala. The combined forces under Iturbide brought about Mexican independence in September 1821. After securing the secession of Mexico from Spain, Iturbide was proclaimed president of the Regency in 1821; a year later, he was proclaimed Emperor, reigning from 19 May 1822 to 19 March 1823, when he abdicated. In May 1823 he went into exile in Europe. When he returned to Mexico in July 1824, he was arrested and executed.

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27/09/1772

Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children (died 1836)

Martha "Patsy" Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.

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27/09/1765

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (died 1794)

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoïlle, Prince of Talmont was a French noble and royalist notable for his military involvement against the French Revolution.

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27/09/1739

Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, Irish politician (died 1767)

Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock was a British politician and heir apparent to the dukedom of Bedford until his death in 1767.

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27/09/1729

Michael Denis, Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (died 1800)

Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.

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27/09/1722

Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, fourth Governor of Massachusetts (died 1803)

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. He founded the Sons of Liberty.

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27/09/1719

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and epigrammatist (died 1800)

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a mathematician and epigrammatist from the Holy Roman Empire.

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27/09/1696

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (died 1787)

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November 1732.

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27/09/1677

Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian violinist and composer (died 1754)

Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari was an Italian musical composer and maestro di cappella (chapel-master) at Pistoia. He was born at Pisa. He gained his initial grounding in musical education from his father, a violinist originally from Rome who was employed in the service of the church of the Cavalieri di S. Stefano in Pisa.

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27/09/1657

Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (died 1704)

Sophia Alekseyevna was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, to install herself during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter I. She carried out her regency with a firm hand. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna", as Sergey Solovyov called her, was all the more extraordinary, as upper-class Muscovite women were confined to the upper-floor terem, veiled and guarded in public, and invariably kept aloof from any open involvement in politics.

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27/09/1643

Solomon Stoddard, American pastor and librarian (died 1729)

Solomon Stoddard was the pastor of the First Church of Christ in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather, and later married his widow around 1670. Stoddard significantly liberalized church policy while promoting more power for the clergy, decrying drinking and extravagance, and urging the preaching of hellfire and the Judgment. The major religious leader of what was then the frontier, he was known as the "Puritan Pope of the Connecticut River valley" and was concerned with the lives of second-generation Puritans. The well-known theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was his grandson, the son of Solomon's daughter, Esther Stoddard Edwards. Stoddard was the first librarian at Harvard University and the first person in American history known by that title.

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27/09/1627

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (died 1704)

Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and literary stylist of the French language.

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27/09/1601

Louis XIII of France (died 1643)

Louis XIII was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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27/09/1598

Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)

Robert Blake was an English naval officer who served as general at sea and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1656 to 1657. Blake served under Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War and Anglo-Spanish War, and as the commanding Admiral of the State's Navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War. Blake is recognised as the "chief founder of England's naval supremacy", a dominance subsequently inherited by the British Royal Navy well into the early 20th century. Despite this, due to deliberate attempts to expunge the Parliamentarians from historical records following the Stuart Restoration, Blake's achievements tend to remain relatively unrecognised. Blake's successes, however, are considered to have "never been excelled, not even by Nelson" according to one biographer, while Blake is often compared with Nelson by others.

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27/09/1552

Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (died 1624)

Flaminio Scala, commonly known by his stage name Flavio, was an Italian stage actor of commedia dell'arte, scenario writer, playwright, director, producer, manager, agent, and editor. Considered one of the most important figures in Renaissance theatre, Scala is remembered today as the author of the first published collection of commedia scenarios, Il Teatro delle Favole Rappresentative, short comic plays that served as inspiration to playwrights such as Lope de Vega, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Molière.

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27/09/1544

Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)

Takenaka Shigeharu , who was also known as Hanbei (半兵衛), was a Japanese samurai during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. Hanbei was the castle lord in command of Bodaiyama Castle. He was a chief strategist and adviser of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His father was Takenaka Shigemoto, a local samurai. He initially served the Saitō clan of Mino Province, but later plotted an uprising and took over the Saitō clan's Gifu Castle.

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27/09/1533

Stefan Batory, King of Poland (died 1586)

Stephen Báthory was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as well as Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), after previously being Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576).

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27/09/1507

Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)

Guillaume Rondelet, also known as Rondeletus/Rondeletius, was Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He achieved renown as an anatomist and a naturalist with a particular interest in botany and ichthyology. His major work was a lengthy treatise on marine animals, which took two years to write and became a standard reference work for about a century afterwards, but his lasting impact lay in his education of a roster of star pupils who became leading figures in the world of late-16th century science.

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27/09/1496

Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (died 1542)

Hieronymus Jarosław Laski, Lasky, Laszki, Laszky, Laskó, Jeromos, Jerome, Hieronym, Hieronim, was a Polish diplomat born of an illustrious Polish family. Laski was the nephew of Archbishop John Laski and served as palatine of Inowrocław and of Sieradz.

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27/09/1442

John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1491)

John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG, was a major magnate in 15th-century England. He was the son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer. His youth was blighted, in 1450, by the political fall and subsequent murder of his father, who had been a favourite of king Henry VI but was increasingly distrusted by the rest of the nobility. Although the first duke of Suffolk had made himself rich through trade and – particularly – royal grants, this source of income dried up on his death, so John de la Pole was among the poorest of English dukes on his accession to the title in 1463. This was a circumstance which John felt acutely; on more than one occasion, he refused to come to London due to his impoverishment being such that he could not afford the costs of maintaining a retinue.

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27/09/1433

Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (died 1489)

Stanisław Kazimierczyk was a Polish Catholic priest and a professed member of the Canons Regular of the Lateran. He became noted for his ardent devotions to both the Eucharist and to his personal patron saint, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, as well as for his charitable dedication to the ill and poor of Kraków.

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27/09/1389

Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1464)

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici was an Italian banker and politician who became the de facto first ruler of Florence during the Italian Renaissance, establishing the Medici family as its effective leaders for generations. His power derived from his wealth as a banker and intermarriage with other rich and powerful families. He was a patron of arts, learning, and architecture. He spent over 600,000 gold florins on art and culture, including Donatello's David, the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity.

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27/09/1300

Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1327)

Adolf of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach was formally Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1319 to 1327.

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27/09/1275

John II, Duke of Brabant (died 1312)

John II, also called John the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312). He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders.

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27/09/1271

Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Poland (died 1305)

Wenceslaus II Přemyslid was King of Bohemia (1278–1305), Duke of Cracow (1291–1305), and King of Poland (1296–1305).

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27/09/0830

Ermentrude of Orléans, Queen of the Franks (probable year; d. 869)

Ermentrude of Orléans was the Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles II. She was the daughter of Odo, count of Orleans and Engeltrude de Fézensac.

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27/09/0808

Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (died 850)

Year 808 (DCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 808th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 808th year of the 1st millennium, the 8th year of the 9th century, and the 9th year of the 800s decade.

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