Anniversaries 27 March

Birth

Кэролайн Холланд1

1723–1774

Michael Bruce3

Scottish poet and hymnist 1746–1767

Alfred De Vigny11

French poet, playwright, and novelist 1797–1863

William Hepworth Thompson1

British classical philologist 1810–1886

Charles Mackay22

British writer 1814–1889

Henri Murger2

novelist and poet from France 1822–1861

Wilhelm Röntgen6

German physicist 1845–1923

Karl Pearson65

English mathematician and biometrician 1857–1936

Фредерик Генри Ройс1

1863–1933

Henry Royce4

English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce 1863–1933

Heinrich Mann1

German poet 1871–1950

Albert Marquet12

French artist 1875–1947

Edward Steichen2

American photographer, artist and curator 1879–1973

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe6

German architect 1886–1969

Thorne Smith1

an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction 1892–1934

Karl Mannheim28

Hungarian sociologist 1893–1947

Wilhelm Busch (pastor)14

German pastor and writer 1897–1966

Gloria Swanson1

American actress 1899–1983

Carl Barks1

American cartoonist, author, and painter 1901–2000

Golo Mann3

German historian 1909–1994

Hugh Nibley3

Religious scholar 1910–2005

James Callaghan37

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979 1912–2005

Budd Schulberg1

American novelist and screenwriter 1914–2009

Charlotte Joko Beck1

US American Zen Teacher 1917–2011

Alex Agase1

American football player and coach, college athletics admin… 1922–2007

Dick King-Smith2

English writer of children's books 1922–2011

Louis Simpson6

Jamaican poet 1923–2012

Shūsaku Endō7

author from Japan 1923–1996

Sarah Vaughan8

American jazz singer 1924–1990

Frank O'Hara28

American poet, art critic and writer 1926–1966

Anthony Lewis13

American journalist 1927–2013

François Furet12

French historian 1927–1997

David L. Norton13

American philosopher 1930–1995

Walter Hooper1

literary advisor of the estate of C.S. Lewis 1931

Eisuke Sakakibara4

Japanese economist and critic 1941

Art Evans (actor)3

American actor 1942

Miguel Enríquez5

Chilean politician 1944–1974

Paul Offit1

American immunologist 1951

Dana Stabenow4

American writer 1952

Patricia C. Wrede15

author 1953

Gerard Batten8

British politician 1954

Susan Neiman11

American academic 1955

Mariano Rajoy33

Spanish politician 1955

Kevin J. Anderson1

American science fiction author 1962

Quentin Tarantino20

American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor 1963

Pascale Machaalani1

Lebanese singer 1969

Mariah Carey16

American singer-songwriter 1970

Fergie2

singer from the United States 1975

Maddox69

American internet writer 1978

Mia Ikumi1

Japanese manga artist 1979

Caitlin Upton1

American model 1989

Death

Jorge Manrique1

Spanish poet 1440–1479

James I of England9

king during union of English and Scottish crowns 1566–1625

Henry Taylor33

English playwright and poet 1800–1886

Edward Norris Kirk5

American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist … 1802–1874

John Bright55

British Radical and Liberal statesman 1811–1889

Syed Ahmed Khan16

Indian educator and politician 1820–1898

Henry Adams311

journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838–1918

Leslie Stuart2

British composer 1863–1928

Arnold Bennett12

English novelist 1867–1931

Henry Hamilton Beamish1

British antisemite (1873-1948) 1873–1948

B. Traven1

German novelist 1890–1969

Kiichiro Toyoda5

Japanese businessman 1894–1952

Shirley Graham Du Bois1

American composer and writer 1896–1977

Lloyd Goodrich1

American art historian 1897–1987

M. C. Escher32

Dutch graphic artist 1898–1972

Wang Ming3

Chinese politician 1904–1974

Christopher Vokes16

Canadian general 1904–1985

Billy Wilder23

American filmmaker 1906–2002

Milton Berle9

American comedian and actor 1908–2002

Henry Schriver10

American politician 1914–2011

David C. McClelland16

American psychological theorist 1917–1998

Arnold Meri1

Estonian soldier allied with the Soviet Union 1919–2009

Stanisław Lem74

Polish science fiction author 1921–2006

Ian Hamilton Finlay2

Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener 1925–2006

Adrienne Rich51

American poet, essayist and feminist 1929–2012

Yuri Gagarin11

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space 1934–1968

Dudley Moore2

English actor, comedian, composer and musician 1935–2002

Paul Zindel1

American dramatist and children's writer 1936–2003

Ayaz Mutallibov5

Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan 1938–2022

Ian Dury2

English musician 1942–2000

Timo K. Mukka3

Finnish writer 1944–1973