Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. |
Business |
27-May-1835 |
20-May-1915 |
President of Union Pacific, 1884-90 |
André 3000 |
Musician |
27-May-1975 |
|
The skinny half of OutKast |
Ramani Ayer |
Business |
27-May-1947 |
|
CEO of The Hartford, 1997-2009 |
Jeff Bagwell |
Baseball |
27-May-1968 |
|
Former 1st Baseman, Houston Astros |
John Barth |
Novelist |
27-May-1930 |
|
Lost in the Funhouse |
Arnold Bennett |
Novelist |
27-May-1867 |
27-Mar-1931 |
Five Towns novels |
Willie Best |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
27-Feb-1962 |
Sleep 'n' Eat |
Paul Bettany |
Actor |
27-May-1971 |
|
A Knight's Tale |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer |
Activist |
27-May-1818 |
30-Dec-1894 |
Bloomers |
Todd Bridges |
Actor |
27-May-1965 |
|
Diff'rent Strokes |
Max Brod |
Novelist |
27-May-1884 |
20-Dec-1968 |
The Redemption of Tycho Brahe |
Rebekah Brooks |
Editor |
27-May-1968 |
|
CEO of News International, 2009-11 |
Raymond Burghardt |
Diplomat |
27-May-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam, 2002-04 |
Adam Carolla |
Radio Personality |
27-May-1964 |
|
Loveline, The Man Show |
Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
Pat Cash |
Tennis |
27-May-1965 |
|
Winner, 1987 Wimbledon |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
Novelist |
27-May-1894 |
1-Jul-1961 |
Voyage au bout de la nuit |
John Cheever |
Author |
27-May-1912 |
18-Jun-1982 |
The Enormous Radio |
Bruce Cockburn |
Singer/Songwriter |
27-May-1945 |
|
Rocket Launcher |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Chris Colfer |
Actor |
27-May-1990 |
|
Kurt Hummel on Glee |
Lewis Collins |
Actor |
27-May-1946 |
|
Bodie on The Professionals |
Harry Crookshank |
Politician |
27-May-1893 |
17-Oct-1961 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55 |
Peter DeFazio |
Politician |
27-May-1947 |
|
Congressman, Oregon 4th |
Chris Dodd |
Politician |
27-May-1944 |
|
US Senator from Connecticut, 1981-2011 |
Louis Durey |
Composer |
27-May-1888 |
3-Jul-1979 |
Carillons |
Harlan Ellison |
Author |
27-May-1934 |
|
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream |
Ben Feldman |
Actor |
27-May-1980 |
|
Fred on Drop Dead Diva |
Chelsea Field |
Actor |
27-May-1957 |
|
Masters of the Universe |
Joseph Fiennes |
Actor |
27-May-1970 |
|
Shakespeare in Love |
Neil Finn |
Musician |
27-May-1958 |
|
Split Enz and Crowded House |
Kam Fong |
Actor |
27-May-1918 |
18-Oct-2002 |
Chin Ho Kelly on Hawaii 5-O |
Steve Franken |
Actor |
27-May-1932 |
|
Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. on Dobie Gillis |
Paul Gascoigne |
Soccer |
27-May-1967 |
|
There's no crying in football |
John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
Peri Gilpin |
Actor |
27-May-1961 |
|
Rosalinda on Frasier |
John Goode |
Politician |
27-May-1829 |
14-Jul-1909 |
Congressman from Virginia, 1875-81 |
Lou Gossett, Jr. |
Actor |
27-May-1936 |
|
Drill Sgt. in An Officer and a Gentleman |
Jay Gould |
Business |
27-May-1836 |
2-Dec-1892 |
Railroad baron owned Union Pacific |
Joseph Grew |
Diplomat |
27-May-1880 |
25-May-1965 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41 |
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane |
Author |
27-May-1862 |
24-Dec-1937 |
Descartes: His Life and Times |
Fromental Halévy |
Composer |
27-May-1799 |
17-Mar-1862 |
La Juive |
Dashiell Hammett |
Author |
27-May-1894 |
10-Jan-1961 |
The Maltese Falcon |
Jo Ann Harris |
Actor |
27-May-1949 |
|
The Beguiled |
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. |
Business |
27-May-1933 |
|
CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001 |
Wild Bill Hickok |
Actor |
27-May-1837 |
2-Aug-1876 |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show |
Tony Hillerman |
Novelist |
27-May-1925 |
26-Oct-2008 |
Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation |
Dolores Hope |
Musician |
27-May-1909 |
19-Sep-2011 |
Widow of Bob Hope |
Julia Ward Howe |
Activist |
27-May-1819 |
17-Oct-1910 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic |
Hubert Humphrey |
Politician |
27-May-1911 |
13-Jan-1978 |
US Vice President, 1965-69 |
Thomas M. Hunt |
Business |
27-May-1923 |
11-Nov-2008 |
President of Hunt Oil, 1955-90 |
Jadakiss |
Rapper |
27-May-1975 |
|
Why? |
Sean Kinney |
Drummer |
27-May-1966 |
|
Drummer for Alice In Chains |
Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
Teddy Kollek |
Politician |
27-May-1911 |
2-Jan-2007 |
Mayor of Jerusalem, 1965-93 |
Hans Heinrich Lammers |
Government |
27-May-1879 |
4-Jan-1962 |
Chief of the Reich Chancellery |
Katherine Lanpher |
Radio Personality |
27-May-1959 |
|
Al Franken's sidekick on Air America |
Christopher Lee |
Actor |
27-May-1922 |
|
The Face of Fu Manchu |
Ramsey Lewis |
Jazz Musician |
27-May-1935 |
|
Ramsey Lewis Trio |
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes |
Singer |
27-May-1971 |
25-Apr-2002 |
Member of TLC |
Jack McBrayer |
Actor |
27-May-1973 |
|
30 Rock |
Michael B. McCallister |
Business |
27-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Humana |
Cynthia McFadden |
Journalist |
27-May-1956 |
|
Primetime Live |
Lee Meriwether |
Actor |
27-May-1935 |
|
Miss America 1955 |
Edmund Morris |
Author |
27-May-1940 |
|
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
Yasuhiro Nakasone |
Head of State |
27-May-1918 |
|
Prime Minister of Japan, 1982-87 |
Ann Nelson |
Actor |
27-May-1916 |
2-Jun-1992 |
Mrs. Gertrude Berg on Fame |
Barney Oliver |
Astronomer |
27-May-1916 |
23-Nov-1995 |
SETI researcher |
Jamie Oliver |
Chef |
27-May-1975 |
|
The Naked Chef |
Denise van Outen |
Actor |
27-May-1974 |
|
UK television celebrity |
Richard N. Palmer |
Judge |
27-May-1950 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
Sir Henry Parkes |
Politician |
27-May-1815 |
27-Apr-1896 |
Father of Australian confederation |
Frank H. Pearl |
Business |
27-May-1943 |
4-May-2012 |
CEO of Perseus LLC |
David Plouffe |
Government |
27-May-1967 |
|
Senior Advisor to Barack Obama |
Vincent Price |
Actor |
27-May-1911 |
25-Oct-1993 |
Master of the macabre |
Linnea Quigley |
Actor |
27-May-1958 |
|
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama |
Sumner Redstone |
Business |
27-May-1923 |
|
Chairman and CEO of Viacom |
Rick Rescorla |
Victim |
27-May-1939 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Anticipated both WTC attacks, died in 9/11 |
RJD2 |
Disc Jockey |
27-May-1976 |
|
Dead Ringer |
Absalom Willis Robertson |
Politician |
27-May-1887 |
1-Nov-1971 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1946-66 |
Harold Rome |
Composer |
27-May-1908 |
26-Oct-1993 |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
Georges Rouault |
Painter |
27-May-1871 |
13-Feb-1958 |
Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs |
Richard Schiff |
Actor |
27-May-1955 |
|
The West Wing |
David Hans Schmidt |
Business |
27-May-1960 |
28-Sep-2007 |
Celebrity porn broker |
Bruce M. Selya |
Judge |
27-May-1934 |
|
1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-2006 |
William Sessions |
Government |
27-May-1930 |
|
Director of FBI, 1987-93 |
Sue Simmons |
TV Personality |
27-May-1943 |
|
WNBC-TV News Anchor, 1980-2012 |
Siouxsie Sioux |
Musician |
27-May-1957 |
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees |
Michele J. Sison |
Diplomat |
27-May-1959 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon |
Sam Snead |
Golf |
27-May-1912 |
23-May-2002 |
Winner of 82 PGA tournaments |
Alain Souchon |
Singer |
27-May-1944 |
|
Foule Sentimentale |
Franklin A. Thomas |
Attorney |
27-May-1934 |
|
President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96 |
Linden Travers |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
23-Oct-2001 |
No Orchids for Miss Blandish |
Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Business |
27-May-1794 |
4-Jan-1877 |
Robber baron, richest man in the United States |
John D. Vanderhoof |
Politician |
27-May-1922 |
|
Governor of Colorado, 1973-75 |
Lucile Watson |
Actor |
27-May-1879 |
24-Jun-1962 |
Watch on the Rhine |
Bruce Weitz |
Actor |
27-May-1943 |
|
Sgt. Belker on Hill Street Blues |
Dondre Whitfield |
Actor |
27-May-1969 |
|
All My Children |
Wayne Williams |
Criminal |
27-May-1958 |
|
Atlanta child murders |
James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
William H. Woodin |
Business |
27-May-1868 |
3-May-1934 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1933 |
Herman Wouk |
Novelist |
27-May-1915 |
|
The Caine Mutiny |
Danny Wuerffel |
Football |
27-May-1974 |
|
Winner, 1996 Heisman Trophy |