Anniversaries 27 February

Birth

Constantine the Great13

Roman emperor 274–337

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow202

American poet 1807–1882

Richard Garnett6

British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet 1835–1906

Ellen Terry2

English actress 1847–1928

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux1

Anglo-French writer 1857–1944

George Herbert Mead6

American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist 1863–1931

L. E. J. Brouwer2

Dutch mathematician and logician 1881–1966

Burton K. Wheeler2

American politician and lawyer 1882–1975

Max Beckmann52

German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer 1884–1950

Hugo Black26

U.S. Supreme Court justice 1886–1971

Roberto Assagioli1

Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974) 1888–1974

Arthur W. Radford1

United States naval aviator 1896–1973

Bernard Lyot1

French astronomer 1897–1952

Keiji Nishitani11

Japanese philosopher 1900–1990

Marino Marini11

Italian sculptor 1901–1980

Джон Эрнст Стейнбек1

1902–1968

John Steinbeck366

American writer 1902–1968

Joseph B. Soloveitchik11

American theologian 1903–1993

Peter de Vries11

American editor and novelist 1910–1993

Joan Bennett2

American actress 1910–1990

Лоренс Джордж Даррелл1

1912–1990

Lawrence Durrell52

British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990

Paul Ricoeur2

French philosopher 1913–2005

Irwin Shaw4

American politician 1913–1984

Julian Jaynes43

American psychologist 1920–1997

Theodore Van Kirk1

Recipient of the Silver Star 1921–2014

Jack Gibson20

Australian rugby league player and coach 1929–2008

Joanne Woodward1

Actress, producer 1930

Elizabeth Taylor33

British-American actress 1932–2011

Edward Lucie-Smith3

British art critic, writer and curator 1933

N. Scott Momaday5

American author 1934

Vincent Fourcade2

French artist 1934–1992

Ralph Nader36

American consumer rights activist and corporate critic 1934

Paddy Ashdown5

British politician and diplomat 1941–2018

Ken Grimwood5

American writer 1944–2003

Roger Scruton45

English philosopher 1944–2020

Alan Guth17

American theoretical physicist and cosmologist 1947

Lee Atwater2

American political consultant and strategist 1951–1991

Grady Booch35

American software engineer 1955

Wendy Liebman2

American comedian 1961

Robert Spencer20

American author and blogger 1962

Patrick Carman5

American writer 1966

Jonathan Ive17

English designer and VP of Design at Apple 1967

Paul Waldman4

American op-ed columnist and writer 1968

Roman Giertych1

Polish politician 1971

Derren Brown136

British illusionist 1971

Tony Gonzalez3

American football and basketball player 1976

James Wan2

Malaysian-born Australian film director, screenwriter and p… 1977

Chelsea Clinton3

daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton 1980

Josh Groban22

American musician and actor 1981

Kate Mara1

American actress 1983

Death

John Evelyn5

writer, gardener and diarist 1620–1706

Thomas Kibble Hervey7

British poet and critic 1799–1859

Alexander Borodin1

Russian composer, doctor and chemist 1833–1887

Ivan Pavlov6

Russian physiologist 1849–1936

Anna J. Cooper8

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar 1858–1964

Arthur MacManus4

British trade unionist 1889–1927

Lillian Gish11

American actress 1893–1993

Frank Buckles15

United States Army soldier and centenarian 1901–2011

Konrad Lorenz17

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology… 1903–1989

S. I. Hayakawa27

American politician 1906–1992

Robert Lee Scott Jr.1

Brigadier General in the United States Air Force 1908–2006

Paul Sweezy2

American economist 1910–2004

Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)9

American labor activist 1910–1995

Spike Milligan15

British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright,… 1918–2002

Linus Nirmal Gomes1

Roman Catholic Bishop 1921–2021

William F. Buckley Jr.43

American conservative author and commentator 1925–2008

Fred Rogers19

American television personality 1928–2003

Jacques Plante5

Canadian ice hockey player 1929–1986

Leonard Nimoy15

American actor, film director, poet, musician and photograp… 1931–2015

Julio César Strassera1

Argentine lawyer and jurist 1933–2015

Barbara Seaman2

American journalist 1935–2008

Linda Smith30

comedian 1958–2006

Aaron Allston4

American writer 1960–2014