Anniversaries 27 February
Birth
![Richard Garnett photo]()
British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
1835–1906
![Ellen Terry photo]()
English actress
1847–1928
![Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux photo]()
Anglo-French writer
1857–1944
![George Herbert Mead photo]()
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
1863–1931
![L. E. J. Brouwer photo]()
Dutch mathematician and logician
1881–1966
![Burton K. Wheeler photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1882–1975
![Max Beckmann photo]()
German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
1884–1950
![Hugo Black photo]()
U.S. Supreme Court justice
1886–1971
![Roberto Assagioli photo]()
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
1888–1974
![Arthur W. Radford photo]()
United States naval aviator
1896–1973
![Bernard Lyot photo]()
French astronomer
1897–1952
![Keiji Nishitani photo]()
Japanese philosopher
1900–1990
![Marino Marini photo]()
Italian sculptor
1901–1980
![John Steinbeck photo]()
American writer
1902–1968
![Joseph B. Soloveitchik photo]()
American theologian
1903–1993
![Peter de Vries photo]()
American editor and novelist
1910–1993
![Joan Bennett photo]()
American actress
1910–1990
![Lawrence Durrell photo]()
British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
1912–1990
![Paul Ricoeur photo]()
French philosopher
1913–2005
![Irwin Shaw photo]()
American politician
1913–1984
![Julian Jaynes photo]()
American psychologist
1920–1997
![Theodore Van Kirk photo]()
Recipient of the Silver Star
1921–2014
![Jack Gibson photo]()
Australian rugby league player and coach
1929–2008
![Elizabeth Taylor photo]()
British-American actress
1932–2011
![Edward Lucie-Smith photo]()
British art critic, writer and curator
1933
![Ralph Nader photo]()
American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
1934
![Paddy Ashdown photo]()
British politician and diplomat
1941–2018
![Ken Grimwood photo]()
American writer
1944–2003
![Roger Scruton photo]()
English philosopher
1944–2020
![Alan Guth photo]()
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
1947
![Lee Atwater photo]()
American political consultant and strategist
1951–1991
![Grady Booch photo]()
American software engineer
1955
![Robert Spencer photo]()
American author and blogger
1962
![Jonathan Ive photo]()
English designer and VP of Design at Apple
1967
![Paul Waldman photo]()
American op-ed columnist and writer
1968
![Tony Gonzalez photo]()
American football and basketball player
1976
![James Wan photo]()
Malaysian-born Australian film director, screenwriter and p…
1977
![Chelsea Clinton photo]()
daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
1980
![Josh Groban photo]()
American musician and actor
1981
Death
![John Evelyn photo]()
writer, gardener and diarist
1620–1706
![Thomas Kibble Hervey photo]()
British poet and critic
1799–1859
![Alexander Borodin photo]()
Russian composer, doctor and chemist
1833–1887
![Ivan Pavlov photo]()
Russian physiologist
1849–1936
![Anna J. Cooper photo]()
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar
1858–1964
![Arthur MacManus photo]()
British trade unionist
1889–1927
![Lillian Gish photo]()
American actress
1893–1993
![Frank Buckles photo]()
United States Army soldier and centenarian
1901–2011
![Konrad Lorenz photo]()
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology…
1903–1989
![S. I. Hayakawa photo]()
American politician
1906–1992
![Robert Lee Scott Jr. photo]()
Brigadier General in the United States Air Force
1908–2006
![Paul Sweezy photo]()
American economist
1910–2004
![Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) photo]()
American labor activist
1910–1995
![Spike Milligan photo]()
British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright,…
1918–2002
![Linus Nirmal Gomes photo]()
Roman Catholic Bishop
1921–2021
![William F. Buckley Jr. photo]()
American conservative author and commentator
1925–2008
![Fred Rogers photo]()
American television personality
1928–2003
![Jacques Plante photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1929–1986
![Leonard Nimoy photo]()
American actor, film director, poet, musician and photograp…
1931–2015
![Julio César Strassera photo]()
Argentine lawyer and jurist
1933–2015
![Barbara Seaman photo]()
American journalist
1935–2008
![Aaron Allston photo]()
American writer
1960–2014
