| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alice Adams |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1926 |
27-May-1999 |
Superior Women |
| Umberto Agnelli |
Business |
1-Nov-1934 |
27-May-2004 |
Chairman of Fiat, 2003-04 |
| Luciano Berio |
Composer |
24-Oct-1925 |
27-May-2003 |
Italian Avant-garde composer |
| Edward Brophy |
Actor |
27-Feb-1895 |
27-May-1960 |
The Last Hurrah |
| Thomas Bulfinch |
Author |
15-Jul-1796 |
27-May-1867 |
Bullfinch's Mythology |
| Jesse Burkett |
Baseball |
4-Dec-1868 |
27-May-1953 |
The Crab, MLB Hall of Famer |
| John Calvin |
Religion |
10-Jul-1509 |
27-May-1564 |
French Protestant Reformation |
| Evans F. Carlson |
Military |
26-Feb-1896 |
27-May-1947 |
Carlson's Raiders |
| Gordon Coates |
Head of State |
3-Feb-1878 |
27-May-1943 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925-28 |
| Jeff Conaway |
Actor |
5-Oct-1950 |
27-May-2011 |
Grease |
| Severn Darden |
Actor |
9-Nov-1929 |
27-May-1995 |
Second City |
| Truman B. Douglass |
Religion |
15-Jul-1901 |
27-May-1969 |
United Church of Christ |
| James Montgomery Flagg |
Painter |
18-Jun-1877 |
27-May-1960 |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army |
| Charles B. Fruit |
Business |
c. 1947 |
27-May-2008 |
Chief Marketing Officer at Coca-Cola, 2004-06 |
| Paul Gleason |
Actor |
4-May-1939 |
27-May-2006 |
The Breakfast Club |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Jeffrey Hunter |
Actor |
25-Nov-1926 |
27-May-1969 |
King of Kings |
| Frederic Eugene Ives |
Inventor |
17-Feb-1856 |
27-May-1937 |
Halftone process |
| Victor Kiam |
Business |
7-Dec-1926 |
27-May-2001 |
Liked it so much, he bought the company |
| Robert Koch |
Doctor |
11-Dec-1843 |
27-May-1910 |
Germ theory of disease |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Wiley Mayne |
Politician |
19-Jan-1917 |
27-May-2007 |
Congressman from Iowa, 1967-75 |
| Ruth McDevitt |
Actor |
13-Sep-1895 |
27-May-1976 |
Pistols 'n' Petticoats |
| Robert B. Meyner |
Politician |
3-Jul-1908 |
27-May-1990 |
Governor of New Jersey, 1954-62 |
| Thomas Münzer |
Religion |
c. 1490 |
27-May-1525 |
German Protestant religious fanatic |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
| John H. Northrop |
Chemist |
5-Jul-1891 |
27-May-1987 |
Bacteriophages |
| Richard Nugent |
Author |
2-Jul-1906 |
27-May-1987 |
Harlem Renaissance writer |
| Niccolo Paganini |
Violinist |
27-Oct-1782 |
27-May-1840 |
Italian violinist and composer |
| John C. Porter |
Politician |
4-Apr-1872 |
27-May-1959 |
Mayor of Los Angeles, 1929-33 |
| Chips Rafferty |
Actor |
26-Mar-1909 |
27-May-1971 |
Wake in Fright |
| Maurice Richard |
Hockey |
4-Aug-1921 |
27-May-2000 |
NHL Hall of Famer |
| Robert L. Ripley |
Curator |
25-Dec-1890 |
27-May-1949 |
Believe It or Not! |
| Kenneth C. Royall |
Attorney |
24-Jul-1894 |
27-May-1971 |
US Secretary of the Army, 1947-49 |
| Ernst Ruska |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1906 |
27-May-1988 |
Inventor of the electron microscope |
| Gil Scott-Heron |
Poet |
1-Apr-1949 |
27-May-2011 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
| Samuel Cardinal Stritch |
Religion |
17-Aug-1887 |
27-May-1958 |
Archbishop of Chicago, 1939-58 |
| Sir Joseph Wilson Swan |
Physicist |
31-Oct-1828 |
27-May-1914 |
Light bulb, photographic printing |
| Alex Toth |
Cartoonist |
25-Jun-1928 |
27-May-2006 |
Creator of Space Ghost |
