On This Day — February 27
4060 noted people were born and 1949 died on February 27 in our archive, including Denny Vrandečić, Joseph Leo Doob and Roger Scruton.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 27
Denny Vrandečić
b. 1978
Joseph Leo Doob
1910 – 2004
Roger Scruton
1944 – 2020
Sara Blakely
b. 1971
Yulii Khariton
1904 – 1996
Alan Guth
b. 1947
Anne Treisman
1935 – 2018
August Chełkowski
1927 – 1999
Bernard Lyot
1897 – 1952
Cecil Spring-Rice
1859 – 1918
Charles Herbert Best
1899 – 1978
David H. Hubel
1926 – 2013
Eemil Nestor Setälä
1864 – 1935
Ernest Renan
1823 – 1892
Fritz Laves
1906 – 1978
Grady Booch
b. 1955
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff
1860 – 1942
Gustavo Suárez Pertierra
b. 1949
Henry Chandler Cowles
1869 – 1939
Hubert Parry
1848 – 1918
Irving Fisher
1867 – 1947
Jean Mounet-Sully
1841 – 1916
John Connally
1917 – 1993
John P. White
1937 – 2017
Jony Ive
b. 1967
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
b. 1969
Juan E. Gilbert
b. 1969
Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand
1907 – 2000
Kenzō Takada
1939 – 2020
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
1881 – 1966
Mary R. Dawson
1931 – 2020
Mary-Claire King
b. 1946
Paddy Ashdown
1941 – 2018
Samuel Dash
1925 – 2004
Tatiana Gitel
b. 1960
Thomas Pesquet
b. 1978
Vakhtang Chabukiani
1910 – 1992
Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala
b. 1962
Afshin Ellian
b. 1966
Albert Mkrtchyan
1937 – 2018
Albertus van Naamen van Eemnes
1828 – 1902
Alfred Einhorn
1856 – 1917
Alfred Hrdlicka
1928 – 2009
Alice Hamilton
1869 – 1970
Allison Danzig
1898 – 1987
Amanda Heitmann
b. 1998
Anatoly Lesun
b. 1959
Anda-Louise Bogza
1965 – 2025
Andrea Mitchell
1956 – 2020
Andreas Loewe
b. 1973
Andy Orchard
b. 1964
Antonio Maria Rinaldi
b. 1955
Arthur William Radford
1896 – 1973
Avangard Leontiev
b. 1947
Barry Curtis
1939 – 2026
Ben Joseph Green
b. 1977
Boris Snetkov
1925 – 2006
Brian O'Brien
1934 – 2020
Carl A. Anderson
b. 1951
Carte Goodwin
b. 1974
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
b. 1942
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
1818 – 1903
Chelsea Clinton
b. 1980
Chen Geng
1903 – 1961
Christian Lange
b. 1964
Claude Lorius
1932 – 2023
Dalton Caldwell
b. 1980
Daniel Tobin
b. 1997
Dave Fanning
b. 1956
David Hume
1757 – 1838
David Nunes Nabarro
1874 – 1958
David Sarnoff
1891 – 1971
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
1932 – 2022
Denise Kandel
b. 1933
Didier Lombard
b. 1942
Dominique David
b. 1963
Don McKinnon
b. 1939
Donald Truhlar
b. 1944
Eleanor Antin
b. 1935
Elizabeth Taylor
1932 – 2011
Elmer Kraemer
1898 – 1943
Enrique Cerezo
b. 1948
Ernst G. Bauer
b. 1928
Eva Biaudet
b. 1961
F. M. Cornford
1874 – 1943
Fernand Gambiez
1903 – 1989
Frank Kolb
1945 – 2026
Frank McManus
1905 – 1983
Fred Oelßner
1903 – 1977
Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
1724 – 1767
Frédéric Durieux
b. 1959
Fyokla Tolstaya
b. 1971
Gavin Brown
1942 – 2010
Gavin Esler
b. 1953
George Frederic Still
1868 – 1941
George Herbert Mead
1863 – 1931
Graciela Fernández Meijide
b. 1931
Grigor Artsruni
1845 – 1892
Hanna Kosonen
b. 1976
Heaton Rhodes
1861 – 1956
Helena Wolińska-Brus
1919 – 2008
Helga Grebing
1930 – 2017
Helmut Hölzer
1912 – 1996
Hermon Atkins MacNeil
1866 – 1947
Howard Crosby
1826 – 1891
Ismail Berdiyev
1954 – 2024
J. Mordaunt Crook
b. 1937
Jaan Kiivit
1906 – 1971
Jackie Lacey
b. 1957
Jacob Bigelow
1787 – 1879
Jacques Charon
1920 – 1975
James A. Robinson
b. 1960
James Barrett
1862 – 1945
James Ho
b. 1973
Jean Joubert
1928 – 2015
Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin
1732 – 1804
Jeffrey Scott Flier
b. 1948
Jeffrey Skidmore
b. 1951
JoAnn Falletta
b. 1954
Joaquín Sorolla
1863 – 1923
John Buckley Bradbury
1841 – 1930
John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute
1933 – 1993
Jonas Hafström
b. 1948
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga
b. 1953
Kakha Kaladze
b. 1978
Karl Ludwig Lautenschlaeger
1888 – 1962
Katharina Fegebank
b. 1977
Kazimierz Sabbat
1913 – 1989
Keiji Nishitani
1900 – 1990
Kelly Johnson
1910 – 1990
Kendall Houk
b. 1943
Luisa Durán
b. 1941
Maggie Hassan
b. 1958
Manuel Gómez Morín
1897 – 1972
Marian de Forest
1864 – 1935
Mary Alice Blair
1880 – 1962
Maureen McTeer
b. 1952
Max Beckmann
1884 – 1950
Michael Hoskin
1930 – 2021
Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov
1897 – 1942
Miloš Vasić
1859 – 1935
Moosa Raza
1937 – 2024
Morten Lauridsen
b. 1943
Murat Kumpilov
b. 1973
Mustafa Mardanov
1894 – 1968
N. Scott Momaday
1934 – 2024
Nicholas Lydon
b. 1957
Nick Champion
b. 1972
Nikolay Petrunin
1976 – 2022
Olga Bas
b. 1964
Patricia J. Bauer
b. 1957
Patrick Francis Healy
1834 – 1910
Paul Collins
b. 1953
Paul Ricœur
1913 – 2005
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
1930 – 2014
Péter Somogyi
b. 1950
Ralph Linton
1893 – 1953
Ralph Nader
b. 1934
Rex E. Lee
1935 – 1996
Richard Kenyon
b. 1964
Robert H. Grubbs
1942 – 2021
Robert Holzmann
b. 1949
Robert Siohan
1894 – 1985
Robert Willis
1800 – 1875
Roger Boutry
1932 – 2019
Roger Mahony
b. 1936
Roman Giertych
b. 1971
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
1919 – 1994
Rudolf Jelínek
1935 – 2024
Salvador Mas i Conde
b. 1951
Samella Lewis
1924 – 2022
Seretse Khama Ian Khama
b. 1953
Silvia Radu
b. 1972
Sofie Falck Villadsen
b. 1994
Sonia Johnson
b. 1936
Stefan Kudelski
1929 – 2013
Stelios Kouloglou
b. 1953
Stuart L. Pimm
b. 1949
Stuart R. Schram
1924 – 2012
Susan P. Crawford
b. 1963
Sveinn Björnsson
1881 – 1952
Theodor Hoffmann
1935 – 2018
Viktor Ivannikov
1940 – 2016
Wang Liming
b. 1960
William Peel
1875 – 1945
Yuri Shafranik
b. 1952
Zrinka Stahuljak
b. 1969
Abba Seraphim
1948 – 2025
Abraham Lansing
1835 – 1899
Abraham Ruchat
1680 – 1750
Abulhasan
1906 – 1986
Adam Baldwin
b. 1962
Adam Kinzinger
b. 1978
Addison James
1850 – 1947
Adnan Hussein
b. 1954
Adriana Delpiano
b. 1947
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
1857 – 1944
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
b. 1958
Akira Jimbo
b. 1959
Alba Rohrwacher
b. 1979
… and 3,860 more
Died on February 27
Hertha Sponer
1895 – 1968
Stéphane Hessel
1917 – 2013
Albert Tavkhelidze
1930 – 2010
David Keilin
1887 – 1963
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky
1904 – 1986
George H. Hitchings
1905 – 1998
Günther Ramin
1898 – 1956
John Rothenstein
1901 – 1992
Konrad Lorenz
1903 – 1989
Mieczysław Jagielski
1924 – 1997
Moritz von Jacobi
1801 – 1874
Paul Fiset
1922 – 2001
Richard H. Truly
1937 – 2024
Ronald G. Douglas
1938 – 2018
Samuel Langley
1834 – 1906
Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet
1753 – 1822
Suthep Wongkamhaeng
1934 – 2020
Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout
1885 – 1979
William F. Buckley Jr.
1925 – 2008
Adam Sedgwick
1854 – 1913
Adolf Kirchhoff
1826 – 1908
Adriano Olivetti
1901 – 1960
Alexander Gorchakov
1798 – 1883
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
1847 – 1920
Alexandru Rosetti
1895 – 1990
Algirdas Greimas
1917 – 1992
Antoine Wehenkel
1910 – 1992
Antonius Hulsius
1615 – 1685
Basti Bagirova
1906 – 1962
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
1914 – 2007
Boris Nemtsov
1959 – 2015
Carlos Humberto Romero
1924 – 2017
Carlos Montemayor
1947 – 2010
Cecilia Berdichevski
1926 – 2010
Charles Badham
1813 – 1884
Charles Hoadley
1887 – 1947
Charles Le Roux
1814 – 1895
Chester Borrows
1957 – 2023
Chuner Taksami
1931 – 2014
Colman McCarthy
1938 – 2026
David Botstein
1942 – 2026
Diego López Pacheco, 7th Duke of Escalona
1599 – 1653
Ed Weber
1931 – 2023
Edward Hitchcock
1793 – 1864
Erich Regener
1881 – 1955
Ernest Aderman
1894 – 1968
Fedor Nikolics
1836 – 1903
Francis Charles Robert Jourdain
1865 – 1940
Georg Waaler
1895 – 1983
George Carter
1889 – 1969
George Pomeroy Colley
1835 – 1881
Gustaf Hellström
1882 – 1953
Hanna Havrylets
1958 – 2022
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
1902 – 1985
Hubert Murray
1861 – 1940
Hubert Ponscarme
1827 – 1903
Ingerid Dal
1895 – 1985
Isaac López Mendizábal
1879 – 1977
Ivan Obolensky
1853 – 1910
Ivan Pavlov
1849 – 1936
James Prendergast
1826 – 1921
Jan Hoet
1936 – 2014
Jean-Pierre Soisson
1934 – 2024
John Arbuthnot
1667 – 1735
John Ernest Greaves
1847 – 1945
Jose W. Diokno
1922 – 1987
Joseph Wright
1855 – 1930
Juan Giné y Partagás
1836 – 1903
Katharine Luomala
1907 – 1992
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
1900 – 1973
Manea Mănescu
1916 – 2009
Marcel Conche
1922 – 2022
Marius Barbeau
1883 – 1969
Nadezhda Krupskaya
1869 – 1939
Nanaji Deshmukh
1916 – 2010
Necmettin Erbakan
1926 – 2011
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
1908 – 1983
Norman Talbot
1914 – 1979
Pierre Joris
1946 – 2025
Robert Kühner
1903 – 1996
Robert William Chapman
1866 – 1942
Robin M. Hochstrasser
1931 – 2013
Robin Weiss
1940 – 2026
Ryōkichi Inada
1874 – 1950
S. I. Hayakawa
1906 – 1992
Sainte-Anne Auguste Louzier
1848 – 1925
Seiei Tōyama
1906 – 2004
Selwyn Toogood
1916 – 2001
Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet
1813 – 1893
Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1st Baronet
1876 – 1964
Sir Malcolm Stewart, 1st Baronet
1872 – 1951
Svend Hammershøi
1873 – 1948
Theodoros Pangalos
1878 – 1952
Theotônio dos Santos
1936 – 2018
Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish
1962 – 2023
Thomas Ignatius Gasson
1859 – 1930
Vasily Safonov
1852 – 1918
William Harpur
1496 – 1574
William Henry White
1845 – 1913
William I, Elector of Hesse
1743 – 1821
William Montagu Manning
1811 – 1895
Yi Cheol-seung
1922 – 2016
Émile Vallin
1833 – 1924
Adolfo Zaldívar
1943 – 2013
Adolphus Ypey
1749 – 1822
Afanasy Shchapov
1831 – 1876
Albert Decrais
1838 – 1915
Aleksey Letnikov
1837 – 1888
Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont
1675 – 1740
Alwin Seifert
1890 – 1972
Andrew Joseph Thynne
1847 – 1927
Andrzej Trautman
1933 – 2026
Anna J. Cooper
1858 – 1964
Anne Clough
1820 – 1892
Annibale Pastore
1868 – 1956
Antonio Tróccoli
1925 – 1995
Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa
1872 – 1943
Arthur MacManus
1889 – 1927
Assad Kotaite
1924 – 2014
Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton
1935 – 2026
Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg
1783 – 1853
Aulay MacAulay Morrison
1863 – 1942
Battiscombe Gunn
1883 – 1950
Bob Benmosche
1944 – 2015
Bob Widlar
1937 – 1991
Bronisław Grąbczewski
1855 – 1926
Bryan Donkin
1768 – 1855
Byun Hui-su
1998 – 2021
Camillo Pasquali
1909 – 1956
Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld
1865 – 1940
Carl Schmidt
1822 – 1894
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo
1819 – 1874
Charles A. Talcott
1857 – 1920
Charles Csuri
1922 – 2022
Charles E. King
1874 – 1950
Charles Hawley
1792 – 1866
Charles Mason
1804 – 1882
Charles de Salaberry
1778 – 1829
Chester Noyes Greenough
1874 – 1938
Christian Morgenstern
1805 – 1867
Christoph Moufang
1817 – 1890
Claude Parent
1923 – 2016
Claude-Anne de Rouvroy de Saint Simon
1743 – 1819
Clyde Fenton
1901 – 1982
Constantin Budeanu
1886 – 1959
Constantine V of Constantinople
1833 – 1914
Dale Robertson
1923 – 2013
Daniel Nordlander
1829 – 1890
Darío Lopérfido
1964 – 2026
Dawson Williams
1854 – 1928
Desmond Luke
1935 – 2021
Eco Bijker
1924 – 2012
Edmund Root
1881 – 1961
Edward Thomas Devine
1867 – 1948
Eero Yrjö Pehkonen
1882 – 1949
Eli Fischer-Jørgensen
1911 – 2010
Elijah Olaniyi
1999 – 2025
Ely Bielutin
1925 – 2012
Enrique Cood
1826 – 1888
Ernest W. Roberts
1858 – 1924
Evan Henry Llewellyn
1846 – 1914
France-Albert René
1935 – 2019
Francis MacKinnon
1848 – 1947
Frank Theodore Woods
1874 – 1932
Franklin M. Drew
1837 – 1925
Franz Ulrich von Kinsky
1634 – 1699
François Cantagrel
1810 – 1887
François Chaumette
1923 – 1996
Fred Basolo
1920 – 2007
Fred Rogers
1928 – 2003
Fred Williams
1896 – 1937
Frederick M. Combellack
1906 – 2002
Frederick Robert St John
1831 – 1923
French Laurence
1757 – 1809
Frédéric Reiset
1815 – 1891
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
1888 – 1956
George Haven Putnam
1844 – 1930
George Melly
1830 – 1894
George S. Boutwell
1818 – 1905
Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow
1911 – 1978
Gerrit Berkhoff
1901 – 1996
Glikeriya Fedotova
1846 – 1925
Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr
1749 – 1821
Gustaw Paszkiewicz
1892 – 1955
Gérard Latortue
1934 – 2023
Hadi Khosroshahi
1939 – 2020
Harold Acton
1904 – 1994
Helen Gregory MacGill
1864 – 1947
Helga Vlahović
1945 – 2012
Henri, Duke of Montpensier
1573 – 1608
Henrietta Bell Wells
1912 – 2008
Hermann Lindrath
1896 – 1960
Hornell Hart
1888 – 1967
Hugh Toland
1806 – 1880
Hugo von Habermann
1849 – 1929
Iain Moncreiffe
1919 – 1985
Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl
1931 – 1996
Ivan Rebroff
1931 – 2008
J. Scott Wolff
1878 – 1958
Jack Pimm
1920 – 2016
… and 1,749 more