Birthdays of Personalities on March 27
1554 : Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1665 : Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1746 : Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1760 : MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 : Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1780 : August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 : Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1809 : Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1813 : Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1823 : Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 : Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 : Wilhelm Konrad Rntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 : Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 : Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy, Paris, comp (Symphonie Cvenole)
1857 : Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
1857 : Pearson, mathematician
1863 : Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1871 : Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 : Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 : Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1886 : Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1891 : Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Arar t/Sd a nap)
1892 : Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 : Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 : Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 : William Harrigan, NYC
1897 : ... Hartree, mathematician
1897 : Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1901 : Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 : Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 : Wilhelm Conrad von Rntgen, physicist (Nobel)
1902 : Mary Armour, artist
1905 : ... Kalm r, mathematician
1909 : Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 : Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1912 : James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1914 : Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1915 : Richard Sharp, civil servant
1917 : Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 : Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 : Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 : Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 : Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1921 : Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1922 : Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1923 : Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 : Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1925 : Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 : R P Cohan, choreographer
1926 : Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 : Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 : Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 : Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 : Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 : Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 : Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 : R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1933 : DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 : Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 : J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 : Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 : David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1935 : Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1938 : A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 : Jock Slater, admiral
1938 : P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Assn)
1939 : Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 : Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 : Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 : Lord Lyell
1939 : Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1941 : Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1942 : Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1943 : M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1947 : Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 : Dough Wilkerson, football
1949 : Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 : Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1955 : Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 : Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 : Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 : Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 : Nicholas Hawkins, MP
1958 : Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1960 : Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1961 : Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 : Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1963 : Dave Koz, saxophonist
1968 : Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
1972 : Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
1975 : B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1986 : Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby