Born on April 27?

Andrea Aguilera

Andrea Victoria Aguilera Paredes is an Ecuadorian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Supranational 2023 on July 14, 2023. She is the first Ecuadorian to have won Miss Supranational.

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Lars Bender

German footballer who played as a midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen

Did you know? He played alongside his identical twin brother, Sven, for both the German national team and Bayer Leverkusen.

Lars Bender (German pronunciation:; born 27 April 1989) is a German professional football coach and former player who played as a right-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the head coach of the under-17 team of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.

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Lizzo

Grammy-winning American singer, rapper, and flautist

Did you know? She is a classically trained flute player and even gave her favourite instrument its own popular social media account.

Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her family at the age of 10.

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Jérémy Florès

Jérémy Florès (born 27 April 1988) is a French professional surfer. He is widely considered to be the most successful European surfer of all time.

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Dinara Safina

Russian former professional tennis player and world number one

Did you know? She and her brother, Marat Safin, are the first siblings to both reach the top of the professional world tennis rankings.

Dinara Mubinovna Safina (Russian: Динара Мубиновна Сафина, pronounced; Tatar: Динара Мөбин кызы Сафина, romanized: Dinara Möbin kızı Safina; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

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Jenna Coleman

Blackpool-born actress who played companion Clara Oswald in Doctor Who and the young Queen Victoria in ITV's Victoria

Did you know? She began her career on the soap Emmerdale.

Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale (2005–2009), Clara Oswald in Doctor Who (2012–2015, 2017) and Queen Victoria in Victoria (2016–2019).

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Sally Hawkins

Oscar-nominated British actress known for starring in The Shape of Water

Did you know? Before her film breakthrough, she appeared in a television advertisement for a well-known brand of potato crisps.

Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress of stage and screen. She began her career on stage and then moved into film, for which she has received several accolades.

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Cory Booker

United States Senator and former Mayor of Newark

Did you know? While serving as mayor, he famously rescued a neighbour from a burning house and suffered smoke inhalation.

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.

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William Alexander of the Netherlands

King of the Netherlands since the abdication of his mother in 2013

Did you know? He is a qualified pilot and spent over two decades working part-time as a guest flyer for KLM to maintain his commercial licence.

Willem-Alexander (Dutch:; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands, reigning since 30 April 2013. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht during the reign of his maternal grandmother, Queen Juliana, as the eldest child of Princess Beatrix (later Queen) and Prince Claus.

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Edvard Moser

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist who discovered the brain's GPS system

Did you know? He shared his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his then-wife, making them a rare husband-and-wife winning duo.

Edvard Ingjald Moser (pronounced; born 27 April 1962) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who as of May 2024 is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

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Andrew Fire

Biologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering RNA interference

Did you know? His ground-breaking research into how genes are controlled was conducted using a tiny species of transparent soil-dwelling worm.

Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi).

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Eric Schmidt

Long-serving chief executive of Google and chairman of Alphabet

Did you know? Before joining Google, he held high-level positions at Sun Microsystems and served as the chief executive officer of software company Novell.

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc.

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Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Former con artist whose life inspired the film Catch Me If You Can

Did you know? Following his prison sentence, he became a highly respected security consultant for the FBI, helping to catch other fraudsters.

Frank William Abagnale Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is an American-French con man, convicted felon, author, and security consultant whose documented crimes consist primarily of cheque fraud and petty theft targeting individuals and small businesses.

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Valeri Polyakov

Russian cosmonaut who set the record for the longest spaceflight

Did you know? As a trained physician, he stayed in orbit for over four hundred days to prove humans could survive a journey to Mars.

Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, IPA:; born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov; 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut.

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Fethullah Gülen

Turkish scholar who led a global social and religious movement

Did you know? He lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for over twenty years and became the subject of an unsuccessful extradition request.

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (27 April 1941 – 20 October 2024) was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement, which as of 2010 had 8-10 million of followers globally and had established a network of over 2,000 STEM focused schools in more than 150 countries.

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João Bernardo Vieira

Long-serving President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated while in office

Did you know? He held power for nearly twenty years before being killed by soldiers just hours after a bomb killed the head of the army.

João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (Portuguese pronunciation:; 27 April 1939 – 2 March 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician and military officer who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.

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Thodoros Angelopoulos

Acclaimed Greek filmmaker known for his slow-paced and poetic style

Did you know? He won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his 1998 film Eternity and a Day.

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.

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Anouk Aimée

French actress known for roles in La Dolce Vita

Did you know? She was given her stage surname by a screenwriter who noted that everyone loved her.

Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (French pronunciation:; 27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), known professionally as Anouk Aimée (French:) or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019.

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Casey Kasem

Radio presenter and actor who hosted the American Top 40

Did you know? He provided the distinctive voice for Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise for over forty years, starting with the original series.

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem ( KAY-səm; April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40, as well as the weekly syndicated television series America's Top 10.

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Coretta Scott King

Civil rights activist and wife of Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Did you know? She was an accomplished singer and often used her musical talents to raise funds for the civil rights movement.

Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.

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Chiang Ching-kuo

Former President of Taiwan who initiated the country's move to democracy

Did you know? He spent over a decade living and working in the Soviet Union before returning home to follow his father into politics.

Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat. He served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988, and acted as a de facto leader of the country by serving as Premier from 1972 to 1978.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Union general who won the American Civil War and became the 18th US President, fighting the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction

Did you know? His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but a clerical error at West Point resulted in the middle initial he used thereafter.

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory in the American Civil War in 1865.

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Herbert Spencer

English philosopher who applied evolution to society and coined the phrase survival of the fittest

Did you know? He was a self-taught polymath who never earned a university degree or held a formal academic post.

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Inventor who co-developed Morse code and the telegraph system

Did you know? Before his scientific breakthroughs, he was a highly regarded painter known for his portraits and historical scenes.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

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