Famous Births on 27 Feb

Famous Births on 27 Feb

1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1779 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
1831 - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
1862 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
1877 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
1878 - Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1886 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
1888 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
1888 - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
1890 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1891 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
1892 - William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1899 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
1902 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
1904 - James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
1904 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1905 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1910 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)
1910 - Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
1910 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
1912 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1913 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
1913 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
1917 - John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)
1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
1934 - Van Williams, American actor
1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
1936 - Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
1937 - David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
1939 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor
1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
1943 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
1944 - Roger Scruton, British philosopher
1944 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1953 - Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
1958 - Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
1958 - Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1960 - Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1961 - James Worthy, American basketball player
1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
1962 - Grant Show, American actor
1963 - Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
1964 - Todd Bodine, American race car driver
1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
1968 - Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
1970 - Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
1970 - Matthias Lechner, German art director
1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
1973 - Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
1973 - Peter André, Australian singer - Husband to Katie Price, Glamour model
1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
1975 - Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
1976 - Tony Gonzalez, American football player
1977 - James Wan, Australian film director
1977 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor
1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
1981 - Elodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
1983 - Devin Harris, American basketball player
1983 - Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
1983 - Kate Mara, American actress
1984 - David Noel, American basketball player
1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
1984 - Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
1985 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
1985 - Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian Footballer
1989 - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
1991 - Azeem Rafiq, Yorkshire CCC & English U15 captain
272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)

Famous Births on 26 Feb

Famous Births on 26 Feb

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
1746 - Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English jurist (d. 1832)
1786 - François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
1808 - Nathan Kelley,American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d.1871)
1814 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943 )
1857 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
1858 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1861 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)
1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1887 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
1902 - Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1908 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1909 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - George Barker, English poet (d. 1991)
1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
1918 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician (Indiana Governor) and physician
1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
1926 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
1931 - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
1943 - Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
1945 - Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
1945 - Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
1949 - Elizabeth George, American novelist
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British early music singer
1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1950 - Jonathan Cain, American musician (Journey, Bad English, The Babys)
1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer
1954 - Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
1958 - Karen Berger, American comic book editor
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
1962 - Kelly Gruber, former Major League Baseball player
1964 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1967 - Currie Graham, Canadian actor
1968 - Tim Commerford, American bass player (Rage Against the Machine)
1968 - Ed Quinn, American Actor
1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer
1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football player
1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian retired footballer
1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
1976 - Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
1976 - Chad Urmston, American musician
1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
1977 - Josh Towers, Major League Baseball player
1977 - Greg Rikaart, American actor
1977 - Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
1978 - Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and "Muppeteer"
1979 - Shalim Ortiz, Puerto Rican singer/actor
1979 - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
1980 - Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
1981 - Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
1983 - Kara Monaco, American model
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
1986 - Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
1986 - Makelele, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Julia Bond, American porn star
1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress