March 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
• 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
• 1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• 1918 – Bessarabia is ceded to the Kingdom of Romania.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
• 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
• 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

Births

• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1196 – Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (d. 1252)
• 1306 – Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• 1416 – Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
• 1509 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck (d. 1575)
• 1588 – Celestyn Myślenta, Prussian-Polish theologian and academic (d. 1653)
• 1623 – Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach (d. 1658)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1632 – Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1677)
• 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (d. 1735)
• 1681 – Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1760)
• 1696 – Antoine Court, French minister (d. 1760)
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1709 – William Flackton, English organist, viola player, and composer (d. 1798)
• 1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1723 – James Madison, Sr., American colonel and planter (d. 1801)
• 1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist (d. 1766)
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English scholar and critic (d. 1786)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
• 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
• 1753 – Andrew Bell, Scottish priest, founded Madras College (d. 1832)
• 1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer, educator, and publisher (d. 1832)
• 1760 – Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer (d. 1842)
• 1761 – James Sykes, American physician and politician, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1767 – Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
• 1770 – Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, Swedish poet (d. 1835)
• 1770 – Sophie Mereau, German author (d. 1806)
• 1776 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French botanist and politician (d. 1854)
• 1781 – Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist (d. 1864)
• 1784 – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
• 1785 – Filippo Giudice Caracciolo, Italian cardinal (d. 1844)
• 1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• 1781 – Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats, English politician (d. 1871)
• 1791 – Reuben Uther, English-Australian businessman (d. 1894)
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
• 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1802 – Félix-Jacques Moulin, French photographer (d. 1875)
• 1804 – Giacomo Panizza, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1860)
• 1807 – James P. Kirkwood, American engineer (d. 1877)
• 1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer (d. 1891)
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English scholar and academic (d. 1886)
• 1810 – Adolf Glassbrenner, German humorist (d. 1876)
• 1811 – Charles Elliott, New Zealand politician (d. 1876)
• 1812 – Ivan Panaev, Russian journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Seymour Mills Spencer, American-New Zealand missionary (d. 1898)
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator, co-founded Currier and Ives (d. 1888)
• 1813 – David Monro, Scottish-New Zealand physician and politician, 2nd Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (d. 1877)
• 1814 – Diego Archuleta, American general (d. 1884)
• 1814 – Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist, author, and poet (d. 1889)
• 1818 – Erminia Frezzolini, Italian soprano (d. 1884)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Elias David Sassoon, Iraqi-Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1880)
• 1822 – Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
• 1824 – Virginia Minor, American activist (d. 1894)
• 1825 – Hubert de Castella, Swiss-Australian author and wine maker (d. 1907)
• 1827 – Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Johann Friedrich Horner, Swiss ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1886)
• 1832 – Mary Abigail Fillmore, American daughter of Millard Fillmore (d. 1854)
• 1832 – Benjamin Pâquet, Canadian priest (d. 1900)
• 1834 – Pierre Gaspard, French mountaineer (d. 1915)
• 1839 – John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1840 – George Fisher Baker, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1931)
• 1843 – George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (d. 1934)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1845 – Melville R. Hopewell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (d. 1911)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1845 – Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop and politician (d. 1899)
• 1847 – Richard Martin Meredith, Canadian judge and academic, founded University of Western Ontario (d. 1934)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1849 – Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat (d. 1910)
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (d. 1909)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1852 – Jim Connell, Irish journalist and activist (d. 1929)
• 1853 – John Edward Kelley, American journalist and politician (d. 1941)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1855 – James Alfred Ewing, Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1935)
• 1855 – William Russell Lane-Joynt, Irish target shooter and lawyer (d. 1921)
• 1855 – William Libbey, American target shooter, geologist, and geographer (d. 1927)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
• 1859 – Gerrit J. Diekema, American politician, 31st Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives (d. 1930)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American scholar (d. 1924)
• 1861 – Nikolay Demyanov, Russian chemist (d. 1938)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Italian nun and nurse (d. 1894)
• 1865 – Eugene Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1918)
• 1865 – Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
• 1865 – Konrad Grallert von Cebrów, Russian-Austrian commander (d. 1942)
• 1866 – John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
• 1866 – Andon Zako Çajupi, Albanian lawyer, poet, and playwright (d. 1830)
• 1867 – Karl Zsigmondy, Austrian-Hungarian mathematician (d. 1925)
• 1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
• 1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author (d. 1950)
• 1871 – Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and minister (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Edward George Turner, English businessman (d. 1962)
• 1873 – Christophorus III, Georgian patriarch (d. 1932)
• 1873 – Giannina Russ, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Austin Harrison, English journalist and author (d. 1928)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Italian cardinal (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Karl Fredrik Wilkama, Finnish general (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Konstantinos Skarlatos, Greek general and target shooter (d. 1969)
• 1879 – Catherine Carswell, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Sahan Dosova, Kazakhstani super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Izaak Reijnders, Dutch general (d. 1966)
• 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1880 – Ruth Hanna McCormick, American politician (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Horace Bonser, American target shooter (d. 1934)
• 1883 – Paul McCullough, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1883 – Margaret Cobb Ailshie, American publisher and activist (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English soldier and politician, Governor of Cyprus (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer, designed Großes Festspielhaus (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1932)
• 1887 – Chapman Grant, American herpetologist, historian, and publisher (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1888 – George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Leonard Mociulschi, Moldavian-Romanian general (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Jean-François Pouliot, Canadian lawyer, author, and politician (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
• 1891 – A. P. Elkin, Australian anthropologist and priest (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Vallance Jupp, English cricketer (d. 1960)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Thorne Smith, American author (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Swami Vipulananda, Sri Lankan author, poet, and critic (d. 1947)
• 1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
• 1893 – Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
• 1893 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Soeprapto, Indonesian lawyer and judge (d. 1964)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Juan Guzmán Cruchaga, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1895 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Wolfgang von Weisl, Austrian-Israeli journalist and author (d. 1974)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1897 – Cyril Slater, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Titina De Filippo, Italian actress (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Josef Müller, German lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Herb Stein, American football player (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Alma Tell, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1899 – Carl Aage Hilbert, Danish-Faroese jurist and politician (d. 1953)
• 1899 – Karim Mammadbeyov, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1938)
• 1899 – Francis Ponge, French poet (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentinian singer-songwriter, bandoneón player, and pianist (d. 1951)
• 1901 – George Dowty, English businessman, founded Dowty Group (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Nobuo Aoyagi, Japanese director and producer (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Betty Balfour, English actress (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Leif Tronstad, Norwegian soldier and scientist (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Hal Kemp, American saxophonist, clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1940)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Domenico da Cese, Italian monk (d. 1978)
• 1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Johnny Gill, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1905 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and educator (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Jack Patten, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1957)
• 1905 – Evaristo Sourdis Juliao, Colombian lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Cecil Purdy, Egyptian-Australian chess player and author (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1907 – George Pollock, English director (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Bernard Hügl, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Sol Leshinsky, Canadian-American mathematician and economist (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Veikko Larkas, Finnish architect, designed the Pielisensuu Church (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet (d. 1937)
• 1909 – Wally Nelson, American activist (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Raymond Oliver, French chef (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Hugh Nibley, American author (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Viola Keats, Scottish actress (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Norman Livermore, American environmentalist (d. 2006)
• 1911 – Franc Rozman, Slovenian general (d. 1944)
• 1911 – Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Robert Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Paul Maitla, Estonian commander (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Ciril Praček, Slovenian skier (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Kris Sivara, Thai general and politician, Defence Minister of Thailand (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Wang Daohan, Chinese politician, Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Bernardo Poli, Italian footballer (d. 1944)
• 1916 – Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, German commander (d. 1945)
• 1916 – Frank Pitelka, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Mario Tonelli, American football player (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Joko Beck, American monk and educator (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Reva Gerstein, Canadian psychologist and academic
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Cornelius Rost, Austrian-German soldier (d. 1983)
• 1920 – William C. Conner, American judge (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Richard Hayman, American harmonica player, conductor, and composer (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Wallace McIntosh, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American historian, theorist, and academic (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Joe Tuminelli, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Hélène Berr, French holocaust victim and author (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Calvin Gotlieb, Canadian computer scientist and educator
• 1921 – Harry Järv, Finnish-Swedish lieutenant, historian and author (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Alex Agase, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Barnaby Conrad, American author (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Dan Kurzman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Murray Olderman, American illustrator
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gennadi Yudin, Russian actor (d. 1989)
• 1923 – Vladimír Zábrodský, Czech ice hockey and tennis player
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Hideko Takamine, Japanese actress (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician, 15th President of the European Parliament
• 1926 – Bill Bagnall, American publisher, founded Motorcyclist Magazine (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Louis Blom-Cooper, English lawyer, author, and academic
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
• 1926 – Jacques Villeglé, French illustrator
• 1927 – Ibrahim Abi-Ackel, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice for Brazil
• 1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Ernest Eastman, Liberian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liberia (d. 2011)
• 1927 – François Furet, French historian (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Lorenzo Miguel, Argentinian labor leader (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Mo Ostin, American record producer, co-founded Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records
• 1927 – Cornelius Pasichny, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jacek Sempoliński, Polish painter and critic (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Ralph Sorenson, Canadian politician
• 1927 – Gerald J. Wasserburg, American geologist, chemist, and astrophysicist
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Reg Evans, Welsh-Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Antonín Tučapský, Czech-English composer
• 1929 – Salvador Botella, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh-American actress and director (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Žarko Petan, Slovenian director and screenwriter
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer
• 1931 – Walter Hooper, American author and scholar
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1932 – Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, Mayor of Madrid (d. 1991)
• 1932 – Trevor Stubley, English painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Guido Bodrato, Italian politician
• 1933 – Robert Castel, French sociologist (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Vince Gibson, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Michel Guérard, French chef and author
• 1933 – Hazel Henderson, English economist and activist
• 1933 – Don Lassetter, American baseball player
• 1933 – Gino Pivatelli, Italian footballer and coach
• 1933 – Le Van Hung, Vietnamese general (d. 1975)
• 1934 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell, American dancer and choreographer
• 1934 – Ioannis Paleokrassas, Greek politician, 17th Minister of Finance for Greece
• 1934 – Peter Schamoni, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian author
• 1935 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1935 – John Henry Dowse, Australian rugby player
• 1935 – Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, English politician
• 1935 – Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Race Mathews, Australian economist and politician
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1936 – Otmar Issing, German economist
• 1936 – Jerry Lacy, American actor
• 1937 – Johnny Copeland, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1937 – Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Brazilian author and academic
• 1938 – Aloizs Tumiņš, Latvian boxer (d. 2009)
• 1939 – José Bardina, Spanish-Venezuelan actor (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Lawrence Eugene Brandt, American bishop
• 1939 – Angelo Cifelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Ladislas de Hoyos, Belgian-French journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Bruce Johnston, American criminal (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Jay Kim, South Korean-American politician
• 1939 – Beba Selimović, Bosnian singer
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1940 – Silvano Bertini, Italian boxer
• 1940 – Christina Jutterström, Swedish journalist
• 1940 – Ullrich Libor, German sailor
• 1940 – June Wilkinson, English model and actress
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Derrick Morgan, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 – Per Abramsen, Dutch sculptor
• 1941 – Kurt Felix, Swiss television host (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Peter Göbel, German figure skater
• 1941 – Antonina Lazareva, Russian high jumper
• 1941 – Helmuth Orthner, Austrian-American computer scientist (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Chip Pashayan, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician (d. 2006)
• 1942 – John Adshead, English-New Zealand footballer and manager
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Wili Jønsson, Danish singer-songwriter and bass player (Gasolin')
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1943 – Keith Allan, English-Australian linguist
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player
• 1943 – Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Nicholas Humphrey, English psychologist
• 1943 – S. Barry Barnes, British sociologist
• 1943 – Grant McCune, American special effects designer (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Lorraine Michael, Canadian nun, educator, and politician
• 1943 – Duncan Paterson, Scottish rugby player (d. 2009)
• 1944 – Enrique Barón Crespo, Spanish economist, lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the European Parliament
• 1944 – Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean politician, physician and activist (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Judi Garman, American-Canadian softball player and coach
• 1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Bebu Silvetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Rolf M. Aagaard, Norwegian photographer
• 1945 – Anna Mae Aquash, Canadian-American tribal leader (d. 1975)
• 1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (d. 2004)
• 1945 – Harry Rowohlt, German author and translator
• 1945 – Brit Selby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Andy Bown, English bass player and songwriter (Status Quo, The Herd, and Judas Jump)
• 1946 – Boris Kopeikin, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1946 – Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Russian diplomat, 5th Russian Ambassador to Armenia
• 1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Craig Defoy, Welsh golfer
• 1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch footballer, manager, and coach
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author and poet
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist
• 1947 – John Mayhew, English-Australian drummer (Genesis) (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
• 1947 – Olavi Suomalainen, Finnish runner
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish politician
• 1948 – Dele Charley, Sierra Leonean author and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1948 – Rosemary Follett, Australian politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
• 1949 – Nadia Arslan, Lebanese actress (d. 2008)
• 1949 – Poul Ruders, Danish composer
• 1949 – Leigh Steinberg, American lawyer and agent
• 1949 – Nancy Sullivan, American educator and politician
• 1949 – Dubravka Ugrešić, Croatian-Dutch author
• 1950 – Julia Alvarez, American-Dominican author and poet
• 1950 – Markku Andersson, Finnish politician
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Genesis)
• 1950 – Modou Dia, Senegalese politician and diplomat
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician
• 1950 – David Edgar, American swimmer
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1950 – Madeleine Moon, English social worker and politician
• 1950 – Anton Ondruš, Czech-Slovak footballer
• 1950 – Matt Siegel, American radio host
• 1950 – Terry Yorath, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1951 – Nigel Cawthorne, American-English author
• 1951 – Marielle de Sarnez, French politician
• 1951 – Andrey Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1951 – Angelo Recchi, Italian footballer
• 1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
• 1952 – Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, Catalan lawyer and politician
• 1952 – Erwin Fuchsbichler, Austrian footballer
• 1952 – Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1952 – Joško Marušić, Croatian animator and illustrator
• 1952 – Arnold Morgado, American football player
• 1952 – Diosdado Peralta, Filipino lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author
• 1952 – Gheorghe Tadici, Romanian handball player and coach
• 1953 – Gary Wayne Alexander, American baseball player
• 1953 – Dennis Bevington, Canadian politician
• 1953 – George Copos, Romanian businessman and politician
• 1953 – Bairbre Dowling, Irish actress
• 1953 – Gabriele Gatti, Sanmarinese politician, Captain Regent of San Marino
• 1953 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1953 – Jørn Goldstein, Norwegian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Edwarda O'Bara, American coma patient (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
• 1953 – Ranjit Sinha, Indian police officer
• 1954 – Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Swiss-Australian painter
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English politician
• 1954 – Paul Bennett, Canadian football player
• 1954 – Robbie Haines, American sailor
• 1954 – Mauro Roman, Italian horse rider
• 1954 – Armando Vara, Portuguese politician
• 1954 – Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Brazilian diplomat
• 1955 – Yisrael Eichler, Israeli journalist and politician
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish author and playwright
• 1955 – Lefteris Pantazis, Uzbek-Greek singer
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcycle racer
• 1955 – Ion-Aurel Stanciu, Romanian general
• 1955 – Hana Sweid, Israeli politician
• 1956 – Dale Arnold, American sportscaster
• 1956 – Dave Debol, American ice hockey player
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist
• 1956 – Nora Volkow, Mexican-American physician
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish skier
• 1956 – Paul Wickens, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins, English lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Konstantin Kokora, Russian figure skater
• 1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1958 – Wim Hofkens, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1958 – Susan Molinari, American journalist and politician
• 1958 – Wendy Jacob, American sculptor
• 1958 – Parker Johnstone, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1958 – Ronald Keller, Dutch diplomat
• 1958 – Adrian Rawlins, English actor
• 1959 – Steve Crowley, American sergeant (d. 1979)
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian keyboard player and songwriter (INXS)
• 1959 – Tatyana Ivinskaya, Belarusian basketball player
• 1959 – Kid Congo Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Congo Norvell, The Cramps and Knoxville Girls)
• 1959 – Ivan Savvidis, Georgian-Russian businessman and politician
• 1959 – Oleksandr Sorokalet, Ukrainian volleyball player
• 1959 – Mariusz Strzałka, Polish fencer
• 1959 – Ivan Sunara, Croatian basketball player
• 1960 – Johannes Kerkorrel, South African singer-songwriter, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1960 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Heiki Vilep, Estonian poet and author
• 1960 – Tim Wrightman, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Mark Cohen, Irish cricketer
• 1961 – Nikita Dzhigurda, Russian actor and singer
• 1961 – Valery Kargin, Latvian banker
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (B'z and Tak Matsumoto Group)
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American author
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English author
• 1962 – Brad Wright, American basketball player
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian drummer (Soda Stereo)
• 1963 – Cory Blackwell, American basketball player
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
• 1963 – Pip Karmel, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist and radio host
• 1963 – Jörg Michael, German drummer (Stratovarius, Mekong Delta, Running Wild, and Rage)
• 1963 – Bedabrata Pain, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ed Pinckney, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1963 – Philippos Sachinidis, Canadian-Greek economist and politician, Minister of Finance for Greece
• 1963 – Mikhail Scherbakov, Russian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1963 – Gary M. Stevens, English footballer
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Tim Worstall, English author and blogger
• 1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer
• 1964 – Clark Datchler, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Johnny Hates Jazz)
• 1964 – Guy Guzzone, American politician
• 1964 – Pascale Machaalani, Lebanese singer
• 1964 – Kad Merad, Algerian-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Clive Rowe, English actor
• 1964 – Jessica Soho, Filipino journalist and broadcaster
• 1965 – Sonia Falcone, Bolivian painter
• 1965 – Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
• 1965 – Dina Talaat, Italian-Egyptian actress and dancer
• 1966 – Ramiro Castillo, Bolivian footballer (d. 1997)
• 1966 – Arthur H, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese illustrator
• 1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
• 1967 – Cathy Guetta, Senegalese-French businesswoman
• 1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese wrestler and rugby player
• 1967 – Bob Morgan, Welsh diver
• 1967 – Jaime Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
• 1967 – Heath Sherman, American football player
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American model and actress
• 1967 – Dean Starkey, American pole vaulter
• 1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
• 1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss actress
• 1968 – Stacey Kent, American singer
• 1968 – Piret Viirma, Estonian draughts player
• 1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
• 1969 – Mickey Hardt, Swiss-Luxembourgian actor and martial artist
• 1969 – Mary Kiani, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Time Frequency)
• 1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (d. 1990)
• 1969 – Todd Raleigh, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1969 – Stuart Slater, English footballer
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian-American drummer and songwriter (Theory of a Deadman, Union, Econoline Crush, and Indigenous)
• 1970 – Damian Hampson, Australian footballer
• 1970 – Brendan Hill, English-American drummer (Blues Traveler and Stolen Ogre)
• 1970 – Goran Janus, Slovenian ski jumper and coach
• 1970 – Eleanor Maguire, Irish neuropsychologist
• 1970 – Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby player
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1970 – Niša Saveljić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1970 – Mauricio Vallina, Cuban-Belgian pianist
• 1971 – Kelvyn Alp, New Zealand politician
• 1971 – Thom Barron, German porn actor
• 1971 – Victor Bodiu, Moldovan economist and politician
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1971 – Santiago Herrero Amor, Spanish footballer
• 1971 – Roger Owensby, Jr., American sergeant and shooting victim (d. 2000)
• 1971 – Matt Pegg, English bass player (Procol Harum)
• 1972 – David Bain, New Zealand murderer
• 1972 – Ignacio Garrido, Spanish golfer
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American wrestler
• 1972 – Anne-Kat. Hærland, Norwegian comedian and television host
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and coach
• 1972 – Emily Kapnek, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Kieran Modra, Australian cyclist and swimmer
• 1972 – Van Phillips, English golfer
• 1972 – Simona Richter, Romanian martial artist
• 1972 – Kazimír Verkin, Slovak race walker
• 1972 – Serhan Yavaş, Turkish model and actor
• 1973 – Ade Adepitan, Nigerian-English basketball player
• 1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
• 1973 – Greg Lalas, Greek-American soccer player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Pablo Pozo, Chilean footballer and referee
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Luca Banti, Italian footballer and referee
• 1974 – Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Graham Clarke, Irish hurler
• 1974 – Andrea Conti, Italian basketball player
• 1974 – Bernard Curry, Australian actor
• 1974 – Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1974 – Aubrey Haynie, American fiddler, mandolin player, and songwriter
• 1974 – Joan Horrach, Spanish cyclist
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Aram Margaryan, Armenian wrestler
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Jason Narvy, American actor
• 1974 – Simon Terry, English archer
• 1974 – Dmitri Yemets, Russian author
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Black Eyed Peas and Wild Orchid)
• 1975 – Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva, Russian politician
• 1975 – Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Kim Felton, Australian golfer
• 1975 – Katsuaki Fujiwara, Japanese motorcycle racer
• 1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
• 1975 – Bruce Jacobs, South African field hockey player
• 1975 – Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
• 1975 – Hennadiy Moroz, Ukrainian footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Palmer, American-Argentinian porn actor
• 1975 – Stefán Þórðarson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 – Andrea Jennifer Shubert, American video game designer
• 1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, French-Algerian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Alexei Koledayev, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
• 1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong actor
• 1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1977 – Víctor Ávila, Mexican basketball player
• 1977 – Elías Larry Ayuso, American basketball player
• 1977 – Noname Jane, American porn actress
• 1977 – Malia Jones, American model and surfer
• 1977 – Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina, Kazakh skier
• 1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek gymnast
• 1977 – Juraj Minčík, Slovak canoe racer
• 1977 – Zed Seselja, Australian politician
• 1977 – Esther Wanjiru, Kenyan runner
• 1977 – Nils Winter, German long jumper
• 1978 – Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
• 1978 – Dee Brown, American baseball player
• 1978 – Kate Church, Australian swimmer
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1978 – Kahlil Joseph, Indian actor
• 1978 – Dorothea Lasky, American poet
• 1979 – Vidas Alunderis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Louise Brealey, English actress
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
• 1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
• 1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Martin Larsson, Swedish skier
• 1979 – Hayden Mullins, English footballer
• 1979 – Tom Palmer, English rugby player
• 1979 – Jermaine Phillips, American football player
• 1979 – Marcello Salazar, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Brook Silva-Braga, American director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1979 – Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
• 1979 – Jennifer Wilson, South African field hockey player
• 1979 – Jenny Wilson, South African field hockey player
• 1980 – Wilfred Bamnjo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (Lùnapop)
• 1980 – Nicolas Duvauchelle, French actor
• 1980 – Sean Ryan, American football player
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1980 – Terese Pedersen, Norwegian handball player
• 1980 – Greg Puciato, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Error, and Soulfly)
• 1980 – Basil Shaaban, Lebanese race car driver
• 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
• 1981 – Martin Abentung, Austrian sled racer
• 1981 – Cesilie Carlton, American diver
• 1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
• 1981 – Sione Faumuina, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Hilda Kibet, Kenyan-Dutch runner
• 1981 – JJ Lin, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Brian Miner, American comedian
• 1981 – Tobias Schenke, German actor
• 1981 – Gavin Skelton, English footballer
• 1981 – Banky W., American-Nigerian singer-songwriter, founded Empire Mates Entertainment
• 1981 – Chen Yan, Chinese swimmer
• 1982 – Radoslav Banga, Czech rapper (Gipsy.cz)
• 1982 – Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
• 1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese model, Miss Universe Japan 2006
• 1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor and dancer
• 1982 – Luke Guttridge, English footballer
• 1982 – Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1982 – Admiral P, Zambian-Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Tracy Phillips, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1982 – Jhon Valencia, Colombian footballer and coach
• 1983 – Alina Devecerski, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Robert Guerrero, American boxer
• 1983 – Joshua Hill, Australian baseball player
• 1983 – Yunus İçuz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Vasiliy Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Marc Marzenit, Spanish DJ and producer
• 1983 – Ibezito Ogbonna, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 – Igor Picuşceac, Moldovan footballer
• 1983 – Jacques Riparelli, Cameroonian-Italian sprinter
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Nesar Ahmad Bahave, Afghan martial artist
• 1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
• 1984 – Laura Critchley, English singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Kylie Cronk, Australian softball player
• 1984 – Ben Franks, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Emily Ann Lloyd, American actress
• 1984 – Raffaele Nolè, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Salvis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Jon Paul Steuer, American actor
• 1984 – Fernando Usero, Spanish footballer
• 1984 – Jonathan Wade, American football player
• 1985 – Khadzhimurat Akkayev, Russian weightlifter
• 1985 – Aman Ali, American comedian and journalist
• 1985 – Anton Amelchenko, Belarusian footballer
• 1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Luis Bolaños, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1985 – Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Alison Carroll, English model, actress, and gymnast
• 1985 – Ram Charan, Indian actor
• 1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Oren Eizenman, Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jéssica Guillén, Venezuelan model, Miss Venezuela 2009
• 1985 – Vitaly Gurkov, Belarusian kick-boxer
• 1985 – Guillaume Joli, French handball player
• 1985 – Terry Kennedy, American skateboarder
• 1985 – Blake McIver Ewing, American actor and singer
• 1985 – David Navara, Czech chess player
• 1985 – Tobias Salmelainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1985 – Sabrina Seara, Venezuelan actress
• 1985 – Nadezhda Skardino, Belarusian biathlete
• 1985 – Karina Vnukova, Lithuanian high jumper
• 1985 – Danny Vuković, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish model and actress
• 1985 – Jeremy Yasasa, Papua New Guinean footballer
• 1986 – Titus Brown, American football player
• 1986 – Dan Bull, English rapper
• 1986 – Sébastien Regy, French rugby player
• 1986 – Boris Grachev, Russian chess player
• 1986 – Darren Gribben, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Chris Lofton, American basketball player
• 1986 – Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (at17)
• 1986 – Xavier Marshall, Jamaican cricketer
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1986 – Marcus Pode, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Garrett Raboin, American ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrés Silva, Uruguayan hurdler and sprinter
• 1986 – Pedro Solberg Salgado, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1986 – SoCal Val, American wrestling manager and ring announcer
• 1986 – Monica Vera, Spanish porn actress
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Alejandro Castro, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Lene Egeli, Norwegian model, Miss Norway 2008
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1987 – Anthony Levine, American football player
• 1987 – Florencio Morán, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Alex Pledger, New Zealand basketball player
• 1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
• 1987 – Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 – José Fernando Viana de Santana, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Shin Young-Rok, South Korean footballer
• 1987 – Alexander Weckström, Finnish footballer
• 1987 – Charonda Williams, American sprinter
• 1988 – Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1988 – Rodrigo Eduardo Costa Marinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Anatoli Pulyayev, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Mohamed Sbihi, English rower
• 1988 – Darren Smith, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Nana Attakora, Canadian soccer player
• 1989 – Curtis Hargrove, German-Canadian humanitarian and runner
• 1989 – Matthew Harvey, American baseball player
• 1989 – Nolan Kasper, American skier
• 1989 – Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
• 1989 – Fábio Freire Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Caitlin Upton, American model, Miss Teen USA 2007
• 1989 – Šarūnas Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1990 – Joselu, German-Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Kimbra, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Taylor Benjamin, Canadian-Guyanese footballer
• 1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Leandro Chichizola, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Maksim Dobroshtanov, Russian footballer
• 1990 – Elena Gjorgjievska, Macedonian handball player
• 1990 – Michelle Karvinen, Danish-Finnish ice hockey player
• 1990 – Junior Lake, Dominican baseball player
• 1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Jake Odorizzi, American baseball player
• 1990 – Meelis Peitre, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Natalia Sánchez, Spanish actress and singer (Santa Justa Klan)
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Pholien Systermans, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Chloe Marshall, English model
• 1992 – Cameron Edwards, Australian footballer
• 1992 – Mark Gillespie, English footballer
• 1992 – Emma Maembong, Malaysian model and actress
• 1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Nino Sutidze, Georgian footballer
• 1992 – Max Veloso, Portuguese-Swiss footballer
• 1992 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese voice actress
• 1993 – Dariya Derkach, Ukrainian-Italian hurdler and long jumper
• 1993 – Fraser Fyvie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 – Lucia Mokrášová, Slovak heptathlete
• 1994 – Wesley Vázquez, Puerto Rican runner
• 1996 – Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, American-Italian actress
• 1997 – Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal of Jordan
• 1997 – Princess Sara bint Al Faisal of Jordan
• 1999 – Natasha Calis, Canadian actress
• 2000 – Sophie Nélisse, Canadian teen actress
• 2004 – Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer

Deaths

• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian saint (b. 660)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535)
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523)
• 1625 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English-American politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1778 – Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, French sculptor (b. 1705)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French reformer (b. 1747)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American colonel (b. 1804)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (b. 1800)
• 1873 – Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician (b. 1811)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 – Andreas Papagiannakopoulos, Greek judge and politician (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English organist and composer (b. 1841)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Timo K. Mukka, Swedish-Finnish author (b. 1944)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Eve Meyer, American model, actress, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, English actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, Sr., American bridge player and author (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian businessman (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, English actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Swiss-Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American author and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Adán Sánchez, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor and producer (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, Scottish typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian educator and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Lawrence Elion, Canadian-English actor (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Hugo Biermann, South African admiral (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Larry Haws, American educator and politician (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Harold G. Hillam, American religious leader (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American academic and critic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Garry Walberg, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Alfredo De Gasperis, Italian-Canadian businessman, founded ConDrain (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Roosevelt Jamison, American songwriter and manager (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Paul Williams, American journalist and publisher, founded Crawdaddy! (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Kent Cochrane, Canadian medical patient (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Jeffery Dench, English actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Per Lillo-Stenberg, Norwegian actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Derek Martinus, English actor and director (b. 1931)
• 2014 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day or Tatmadaw nei (Burma)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
  • Amador of Portugal
  • Augusta of Treviso
  • Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Gelasius
  • John of Egypt
  • Philetus and companies
  • Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
  • Rupert of Salzburg
  • Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
  • March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• World Theatre Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada