Anniversaries 27 March
Birth
![Michael Bruce photo]()
Scottish poet and hymnist
1746–1767
![Alfred De Vigny photo]()
French poet, playwright, and novelist
1797–1863
![William Hepworth Thompson photo]()
British classical philologist
1810–1886
![Henri Murger photo]()
novelist and poet from France
1822–1861
![Wilhelm Röntgen photo]()
German physicist
1845–1923
![Karl Pearson photo]()
English mathematician and biometrician
1857–1936
![Henry Royce photo]()
English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
1863–1933
![Edward Steichen photo]()
American photographer, artist and curator
1879–1973
![Ludwig Mies van der Rohe photo]()
German architect
1886–1969
![Thorne Smith photo]()
an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction
1892–1934
![Karl Mannheim photo]()
Hungarian sociologist
1893–1947
![Wilhelm Busch (pastor) photo]()
German pastor and writer
1897–1966
![Gloria Swanson photo]()
American actress
1899–1983
![Carl Barks photo]()
American cartoonist, author, and painter
1901–2000
![Golo Mann photo]()
German historian
1909–1994
![Hugh Nibley photo]()
Religious scholar
1910–2005
![James Callaghan photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
1912–2005
![Budd Schulberg photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1914–2009
![Charlotte Joko Beck photo]()
US American Zen Teacher
1917–2011
![Alex Agase photo]()
American football player and coach, college athletics admin…
1922–2007
![Dick King-Smith photo]()
English writer of children's books
1922–2011
![Shūsaku Endō photo]()
author from Japan
1923–1996
![Sarah Vaughan photo]()
American jazz singer
1924–1990
![Frank O'Hara photo]()
American poet, art critic and writer
1926–1966
![Anthony Lewis photo]()
American journalist
1927–2013
![François Furet photo]()
French historian
1927–1997
![David L. Norton photo]()
American philosopher
1930–1995
![Walter Hooper photo]()
literary advisor of the estate of C.S. Lewis
1931
![Eisuke Sakakibara photo]()
Japanese economist and critic
1941
![Miguel Enríquez photo]()
Chilean politician
1944–1974
![Paul Offit photo]()
American immunologist
1951
![Kevin J. Anderson photo]()
American science fiction author
1962
![Quentin Tarantino photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
1963
![Mariah Carey photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1970
![Fergie photo]()
singer from the United States
1975
![Maddox photo]()
American internet writer
1978
![Mia Ikumi photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1979
Death
![James I of England photo]()
king during union of English and Scottish crowns
1566–1625
![Henry Taylor photo]()
English playwright and poet
1800–1886
![Edward Norris Kirk photo]()
American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist …
1802–1874
![John Bright photo]()
British Radical and Liberal statesman
1811–1889
![Syed Ahmed Khan photo]()
Indian educator and politician
1820–1898
![Henry Adams photo]()
journalist, historian, academic, novelist
1838–1918
![Leslie Stuart photo]()
British composer
1863–1928
![Arnold Bennett photo]()
English novelist
1867–1931
![Henry Hamilton Beamish photo]()
British antisemite (1873-1948)
1873–1948
![B. Traven photo]()
German novelist
1890–1969
![Kiichiro Toyoda photo]()
Japanese businessman
1894–1952
![Shirley Graham Du Bois photo]()
American composer and writer
1896–1977
![Lloyd Goodrich photo]()
American art historian
1897–1987
![M. C. Escher photo]()
Dutch graphic artist
1898–1972
![Wang Ming photo]()
Chinese politician
1904–1974
![Christopher Vokes photo]()
Canadian general
1904–1985
![Billy Wilder photo]()
American filmmaker
1906–2002
![Milton Berle photo]()
American comedian and actor
1908–2002
![Henry Schriver photo]()
American politician
1914–2011
![David C. McClelland photo]()
American psychological theorist
1917–1998
![Arnold Meri photo]()
Estonian soldier allied with the Soviet Union
1919–2009
![Stanisław Lem photo]()
Polish science fiction author
1921–2006
![Ian Hamilton Finlay photo]()
Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
1925–2006
![Adrienne Rich photo]()
American poet, essayist and feminist
1929–2012
![Yuri Gagarin photo]()
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
1934–1968
![Dudley Moore photo]()
English actor, comedian, composer and musician
1935–2002
![Paul Zindel photo]()
American dramatist and children's writer
1936–2003
![Ayaz Mutallibov photo]()
Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan
1938–2022
![Ian Dury photo]()
English musician
1942–2000
