Famous birthdays by year
Famous People Born in 1927
Born in 1927? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
Turning 99 in 2026 · Chinese zodiac: Year of the Rabbit
The 1920s
The most famous people born in 192750
1927–2014Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian Nobel laureate who popularised magical realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
LiteratureWould be 99
View profile Photo: Jose Lara · CC BY-SA 2.0
1927–2022Benedict XVI
German theologian who led the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013, when he became the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years
ReligionWould be 99
View profile Photo: Kancelaria Prezydenta RP · GFDL 1.2
1927–2016Bhumibol Adulyadej
King of Thailand for 70 years, known as Rama IX, one of the longest-reigning monarchs in history
RoyaltyWould be 98
View profile Photo: Harry Pot / Anefo · CC0
1927–2015Günter Grass
German novelist of The Tin Drum, a confronting look at the Nazi era, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
LiteratureWould be 99
View profile Photo: Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland · CC BY 2.0
1927–2022Sidney Poitier
First Black performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
FilmWould be 99
View profile Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain
1927–2023Gina Lollobrigida
Golden Age Italian actress and international screen icon
MediaWould be 99
View profile Photo: United Artists · Public domain
1927–2017Roger Moore
English actor best known for playing James Bond
FilmWould be 99
View profile Photo: Allan warren · CC BY-SA 3.0
1927–2006Ferenc Puskás
Hungarian footballer and star goalscorer for Real Madrid
SportsWould be 99
View profile Photo: Unknown · Public domain
Born in 1927, month by month
- January
- Megumu Tamura (January 10) · Post-war Japanese international footballer who played as a defender
- Sydney Brenner (January 13) · Nobel Prize-winning biologist who pioneered research on the worm C. elegans
- Eartha Kitt (January 17) · American singer and actress who recorded the hit song Santa Baby
- Antônio Carlos Jobim (January 25) · Brazilian composer and musician who co-created the bossa nova style
- Olof Palme (January 30) · Former Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party
- February
- Sidney Poitier (February 20) · First Black performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
- March
- Harry Belafonte (March 1) · American singer and activist who popularised calypso music
- Gabriel García Márquez (March 6) · Colombian Nobel laureate who popularised magical realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
- Raúl Alfonsín (March 12) · Argentine president who led the country's transition back to democracy
- Vladimir Komarov (March 16) · Soviet cosmonaut and first person to die during a space mission
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher (March 21) · Influential German statesman who played a key role in national reunification
- Mstislav Rostropovich (March 27) · Renowned Russian cellist and conductor who commissioned many new works
- April
- Ferenc Puskás (April 1) · Hungarian footballer and star goalscorer for Real Madrid
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10) · Biochemist who helped crack the genetic code
- Alan MacDiarmid (April 14) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who co-discovered conductive polymers
- Benedict XVI (April 16) · German theologian who led the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013, when he became the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years
- Chandra Shekhar (April 17) · Indian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of India
- Samuel P. Huntington (April 18) · Political scientist known for The Clash of Civilizations
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki (April 18) · First non-communist Prime Minister of Poland after the Cold War
- Karl Alexander Müller (April 20) · Physicist who received the Nobel Prize for discovering high-temperature superconductivity
- Albert Uderzo (April 25) · Illustrator and co-creator of the Asterix comic book series
- Coretta Scott King (April 27) · Civil rights activist and wife of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
- May
- Manfred Eigen (May 9) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who measured extremely fast chemical reactions
- George Andrew Olah (May 22) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who researched carbocations and superacids
- Robert Ludlum (May 25) · Best-selling American author who created the Jason Bourne spy novels
- June
- Bob Fosse (June 23) · Influential choreographer and director known for his distinct jazz style
- Martin Lewis Perl (June 24) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the tau lepton subatomic particle
- F. Sherwood Rowland (June 28) · Chemist who discovered the hole in the ozone layer
- July
- Gina Lollobrigida (July 4) · Golden Age Italian actress and international screen icon
- Janet Leigh (July 6) · Actress best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
- Simone Veil (July 13) · French politician and first female President of the European Parliament
- Harry Mulisch (July 29) · Dutch novelist known for his masterpiece The Discovery of Heaven
- August
- Marvin Minsky (August 9) · Mathematician and cognitive scientist considered a founding father of artificial intelligence
- Rosalynn Carter (August 18) · Former First Lady of the United States and humanitarian activist
- Houari Boumédiène (August 23) · Military leader who served as the second President of independent Algeria
- September
- John McCarthy (September 4) · Computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence
- Peter Falk (September 16) · Actor famous for playing the detective Lieutenant Columbo
- October
- R. D. Laing (October 7) · Scottish psychiatrist who challenged traditional views on mental illness
- César Milstein (October 8) · Nobel Prize-winning scientist who developed techniques for producing monoclonal antibodies
- Turgut Özal (October 13) · Politician who served as the Prime Minister and President of Turkey
- Roger Moore (October 14) · English actor best known for playing James Bond
- Günter Grass (October 16) · German novelist of The Tin Drum, a confronting look at the Nazi era, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- George C. Scott (October 18) · Academy Award-winning actor famous for his role in Patton
- Leszek Kołakowski (October 23) · Polish philosopher and leading historian of Marxist thought
- November
- Patti Page (November 8) · Prolific American singer known for her hit song Tennessee Waltz
- Eldar Ryazanov (November 18) · Prominent Soviet film director known for his popular satirical comedies
- Mikhail Ulyanov (November 20) · Renowned Soviet and Russian actor of stage and cinema
- December
- Bhumibol Adulyadej (December 5) · King of Thailand for 70 years, known as Rama IX, one of the longest-reigning monarchs in history
- Kim Young-sam (December 20) · First civilian president of South Korea following decades of military rule
- Ram Narayan (December 25) · Virtuoso musician who made the sarangi a solo Hindustani concert instrument