1927: Encyclopedia II - 1927 - Births

1927 - Births

1927 - January

• January 1 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 1 - Doak Walker, American Footballer (d.1998)
• January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
• January 10 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
• January 13 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
• January 13 - Sydney Brenner, British biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
• January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
• January 26 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
• January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director
• January 29 - Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
• January 29 - Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
• January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)

1927 - February

• February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
• February 3 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
• February 7 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
• February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
• February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
• February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian
• February 16 - June Brown, British actor
• February 16 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
• February 20 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. 1986)
• February 20 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
• February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist (d. 1996)
• February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
• February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)

1927 - March

• March 1 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
• March 1 - Robert Bork, American law professor
• March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
• March 6 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
• March 11 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985-1992) (d. 2005)
• March 13 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005}
• March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (d. 1967)
• March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
• March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
• March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
• March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
• March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
• March 29 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• March 31 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
• March 31 - William Daniels, American actor

1927 - April

• April 2 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer
• April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (d. 1980)
• April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
• April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
• April 16 - Pope Benedict XVI
• April 16 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
• April 20 - Phil Hill, American race car driver
• April 20 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader

1927 - May-June

• May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• May 11 - Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
• May 13 - Herbert Ross, American film director
• May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
• May 22 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
• May 30 - Clint Walker, American actor
• June 8 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
• June 12 - Al Fairweather, Scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
• June 21 - Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
• June 23 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer and director (d. 1987)
• June 24 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 28 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1927 - July-August

• July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
• July 6 - Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey
• July 6 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
• July 18 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
• July 31 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
• August 4 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
• August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S President Jimmy Carter
• August 8 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
• August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
• August 24 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 25 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
• August 26 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
• August 30 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)

1927 - September-November

• September 11 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster
• September 11 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
• September 16 - Peter Falk, American actor
• September 25 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
• September 20 - Lloyd Robinson, Australian speleologist
• October 1 - Tom Bosley, American actor
• October 8 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2002)
• October 14 - Roger Moore, English actor
• October 16 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 18 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
• November 18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
• November 24 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
• November 24 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
• November 27 - Vin Scully, baseball broadcaster
• November 28 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
• November 30 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)

1927 - December

• December 5 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
• December 7 - Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
• December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
• December 9 - Pierre Henry, French composer
• December 18 - Romeo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
• December 25 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
• December 26 - Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
• December 29 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)

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