Anniversaries 27 May

Birth

Ibn Khaldun14

Arab historiographer and historian 1332–1406

Cornelius Vanderbilt2

American businessman, philanthropist, and tycoon 1794–1877

Julia Ward Howe40

American abolitionist, social activist, and poet 1819–1910

Zenas Ferry Moody1

American politician 1832–1917

Jay Gould10

American businessman 1836–1892

John Kendrick Bangs4

American author, editor and satirist 1862–1922

Arnold Bennett12

English novelist 1867–1931

Georges Rouault11

French painter 1871–1958

Isadora Duncan14

American dancer and choreographer 1877–1927

Rudolf Pannwitz1

German writer and philosopher 1881–1969

Max Brod2

author, composer, and journalist 1884–1968

Dashiell Hammett39

American writer 1894–1961

Louis-ferdinand Céline88

French writer 1894–1961

Peter Marshall3

American preacher 1902–1949

Rachel Carson42

American marine biologist and conservationist 1907–1964

W. W. Hansen2

American physicist 1909–1949

Hubert H. Humphrey18

Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson 1911–1978

Vincent Price1

American actor 1911–1993

John Cheever36

American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982

Herman Wouk12

Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include… 1915–2019

Caryl Chessman1

Convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist, writer 1921–1960

Christopher Lee3

British actor and singer 1922–2015

Henry Kissinger50

United States Secretary of State 1923–2023

Tony Hillerman2

Novelist 1925–2008

Bipan Chandra1

Indian historian 1928–2014

Charles Tilly1

American sociologist 1929–2008

John Barth8

American writer 1930

Philip Kotler13

American marketing author, consultant and professor 1931

Jeffrey Bernard8

British journalist 1932–1997

Harlan Ellison79

American writer 1934–2018

Lee Meriwether3

American actress, former model 1935

Frank Bidart1

American poet 1939

Sarah Caudwell2

English barrister and writer 1939–2000

Rick Rescorla4

War hero, victim and hero of 9/11 1939–2001

Max Velmans8

British psychologist 1942

Robert Axelrod15

American political scientist 1943

Bruce Cockburn8

Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter 1945

Peter DeFazio1

American politician 1947

Kenpachiro Satsuma17

Japanese actor 1947

David Rowlands1

British civil servant 1947–2014

Pauline Hanson10

Australian politician 1954

Lawrence M. Krauss21

American physicist 1954

Donna Strickland4

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner 1959

Kiyohiko Azuma1

Japanese manga artist 1968

José Luís Mumbiela Sierra2

Spanish bishop 1969

Trenton Lee Stewart27

Novelist 1970

Paul Bettany2

British actor 1971

Nicolai Dubinin1

Russian Roman Catholic bishop 1973

Marjorie Taylor Greene3

American politician and businesswoman from the state of Geo… 1974

Jamie Oliver2

British chef and media personality 1975

Mahela Jayawardene12

Former Sri Lankan cricketer 1977

Sam Van Rooy1

1985

Andrew Francis1

Canadian actor 1985

Chris Colfer24

actor, singer, book author 1990

Death

Anthony Fitzherbert5

English judge, scholar and legal author 1470–1538

Thomas Müntzer8

early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader … 1489–1525

John Calvin161

French Protestant reformer 1509–1564

Paul Gerhardt1

German hymn writer 1607–1676

François-Noël Babeuf23

French political agitator and journalist of the French Revo… 1760–1797

Arthur Mee4

British journalist and writer 1875–1943

Jawaharlal Nehru110

Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

Joseph Roth1

austrian novelist and journalist 1894–1939

Ernst Ruska2

German physicist 1906–1988

Luciano Berio3

Italian composer 1925–2003

Victor Kiam2

American businessman, American football executive 1926–2001

Juan José Cuadros Pérez2

Spanish writer 1926–1990

Massimo Vignelli3

Italian designer 1931–2014

George Klir16

American computer scientist 1932–2016

Peter Celestine Elampassery2

Indian priest 1938–2015

Gil Scott-Heron3

American musician, poet and author 1949–2011

Michael Talbot1

American Writer 1953–1992