On This Day — March 27
4165 noted people were born and 1983 died on March 27 in our archive, including Alfred Ewing, Douglas Hartree and Giovanni Battista Grassi.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 27
Alfred Ewing
1855 – 1935
Douglas Hartree
1897 – 1958
Giovanni Battista Grassi
1854 – 1925
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
1901 – 2000
Andrei Kozyrev
b. 1951
Anthony Lewis
1927 – 2013
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
1776 – 1854
Constantin von Höfler
1811 – 1897
Cyrus Vance
1917 – 2002
Eisaku Satō
1901 – 1975
Esther Benbassa
b. 1950
Hans Clevers
b. 1957
Ivan Gašparovič
b. 1941
Jean-François Bohnert
b. 1961
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
1824 – 1914
John A. Peacock
b. 1956
John Sulston
1942 – 2018
Jutta Limbach
1934 – 2016
Karl Pearson
1857 – 1936
Klaudzi Duzh-Dusheuski
1891 – 1959
Ladislas Joseph Meduna
1896 – 1964
Liese Prokop
1941 – 2006
Lydia Yu-Jose
1944 – 2014
Mstislav Rostropovich
1927 – 2007
Nicolò Zanon
b. 1961
Otto Wallach
1847 – 1931
Paolo Maddalena
b. 1936
Richard Pfeiffer
1858 – 1945
Thomas Fletcher
b. 1975
Vladimir Gutenev
b. 1966
Wilhelm Röntgen
1845 – 1923
Yelena Afanasyeva
b. 1975
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
1937 – 2025
Aleh Lukashevich
b. 1972
Aleksey Bespalikov
1948 – 2021
Alex Agase
1922 – 2007
Alexander Kabanov
b. 1962
Alexis Nikole Nelson
b. 1992
Alfred de Vigny
1797 – 1863
Alistair Carns
b. 1980
Alma Levant Hayden
1927 – 1967
Andrei Nikolayev
1938 – 2023
Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond
1927 – 2001
Avery Lipman
b. 1966
Banwari Lal Joshi
1936 – 2017
Bertrand Flornoy
1910 – 1980
Budd Schulberg
1914 – 2009
Buster Posey
b. 1987
Carlo Masala
b. 1968
Carlos A. Nobre
b. 1951
Charles Ailleret
1907 – 1968
Charles Kemball
1923 – 1998
Charles-Mathias Simons
1802 – 1874
Clemens Holzmeister
1886 – 1983
Csaba Pál
b. 1975
Cécile Vogt
1875 – 1962
Daniel Bromley
b. 1940
Daniel Sperling
b. 1951
David Coulthard
b. 1971
David Monro
1813 – 1877
Den Kenjirō
1855 – 1930
Diosdado Peralta
b. 1952
Dubravka Ugrešić
1949 – 2023
Edgar Tinel
1854 – 1912
Eleanor A. Maguire
1970 – 2025
Enrique Barón Crespo
b. 1944
Erik Blumenfeld
1915 – 1997
Ernest Nys
1851 – 1920
Florentine Mulsant
b. 1962
Genpei Akasegawa
1937 – 2014
Georges Chapouthier
b. 1945
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
1809 – 1891
Giorgos Katroúgkalos
b. 1963
Golo Mann
1909 – 1994
Hana Sweid
b. 1955
Hans Svane
1606 – 1668
Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb
1925 – 2022
Henryka Krystyna Krzywonos-Strycharska
b. 1953
Horst Sachs
1927 – 2016
Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas
1904 – 1966
Igor Sokolov
b. 1954
Ihar Shunyevich
b. 1967
Ilyas Umakhanov
b. 1957
Ioánnis Paleokrassás
1934 – 2021
István Csurka
1934 – 2012
Ivan Savvidi
b. 1959
Izaak Reijnders
1879 – 1966
Jacek Sempoliński
1927 – 2012
Jan Buzek
1874 – 1940
Jay Kim
b. 1939
Jean Beetz
1927 – 1991
Jesse Brown
1944 – 2002
Jessica Soho
b. 1964
Jock Slater
b. 1938
John R. Pierce
1910 – 2002
Josef Müller
1898 – 1979
Joyce Aryee
b. 1947
Karl Mannheim
1893 – 1947
Karl Zsigmondy
1867 – 1925
Kathalijne Buitenweg
b. 1970
Kiyoura Keigo
1850 – 1942
Liliana Colanzi
b. 1981
Lionel Naccache
b. 1969
Lorenzo Zambrano
1944 – 2014
Louis Adolphe Bonard
1805 – 1867
Luca Zaia
b. 1968
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1886 – 1969
Luiza Helena de Bairros
1953 – 2016
Lute Pease
1869 – 1963
László Kalmár
1905 – 1976
Léo Figuères
1918 – 2011
Marcel Conche
1922 – 2022
Mariano Rajoy
b. 1955
Matias Aires
1705 – 1763
Matt Cohler
b. 1977
Maude C. Davison
1885 – 1956
Meredith Blackwell
b. 1940
Milton Robert Carr
1943 – 2024
Nicholas Humphrey
b. 1943
Nikolay Dobrokhotov
1889 – 1963
Nora Volkow
b. 1956
Ole Peder Arvesen
1895 – 1991
Olga Fernández Latour de Botas
1935 – 2025
Oliver Friggieri
1947 – 2020
Otmar Issing
b. 1936
Paul A. Offit
b. 1951
Paul Syverson
b. 1958
Peter Elkin
1891 – 1979
Pierre Carbonnier
1829 – 1883
Piet Aalberse
1871 – 1948
Quentin Tarantino
b. 1963
Race Mathews
1935 – 2025
Raisa Berg
1913 – 2006
Raymie Stata
b. 1968
Richard Hayman
1920 – 2014
Robert A. LeVine
1932 – 2023
Rosemary Follett
b. 1948
Samuel Hulse
1746 – 1837
Scott Lingamfelter
b. 1951
Seiroku Kajiyama
1926 – 2000
Serhii Osyka
1955 – 2026
Shimoyama Jun'ichirō
1853 – 1912
Shūsaku Endō
1923 – 1996
Stanley Alexander de Smith
1922 – 1974
Stephen Fox
1627 – 1716
Susan Molinari
b. 1958
Susan Neiman
b. 1955
Swami Vipulananda
1892 – 1947
Sylvie Paycha
b. 1960
Thomas Ethelbert Page
1850 – 1936
Thomas Graham Brown
1882 – 1965
Thomas Tyrwhitt
1730 – 1786
Tom Parry Jones
1935 – 2013
Tommy Bonnesen
1873 – 1935
Vincent d'Indy
1851 – 1931
Wang Daohan
1915 – 2005
William Hepworth Thompson
1810 – 1886
William Mitchell
1861 – 1962
Wojciech Saługa
b. 1969
Yoshinobu Shimamura
b. 1934
Yuri Bryushkov
1903 – 1971
Ștefan Buchiu
b. 1953
'Abd al-Ahad Khan
1859 – 1910
Abdullahi Bala
b. 1967
Abelardo Castillo
1935 – 2017
Ade Adepitan
b. 1973
Adolphus Greely
1844 – 1935
Ai Qing
1910 – 1996
Aimar Altosaar
b. 1959
Akejan Kajegeldin
b. 1952
Akira Mitsutake
1931 – 2025
Alastair Bellingham
1938 – 2017
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin
1893 – 1964
Alexander Barrow
1801 – 1846
Alexander Clutterbuck
1897 – 1975
Alexander Nosatov
b. 1963
Alexander Turgenev
1784 – 1845
Alexandre Besredka
1870 – 1940
Alice Wong
1974 – 2025
Alika Smekhova
b. 1968
Amancio Alcorta
1842 – 1902
Anchen Dreyer
b. 1952
Andrea Gnassi
b. 1969
Andrew Bell
1753 – 1832
Andrew Farriss
b. 1959
András Jeles
b. 1945
Anna Sobecka
b. 1951
Anna Weber-van Bosse
1852 – 1942
Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou
b. 1967
Antanas Šurna
1940 – 2014
Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch
1836 – 1900
Antònia Vicens
b. 1941
Anzhelika Terliuha
b. 1992
Aoi Yūki
b. 1992
Arnold Zadikow
1884 – 1943
Arthur H
b. 1966
Arthur Mitchell
1934 – 2018
Asuman Baytop
1920 – 2015
Austin Pendleton
b. 1940
Ayelet Zussman
b. 1979
… and 3,965 more
Died on March 27
Carl Jacob Löwig
1803 – 1890
Carl Neumann
1832 – 1925
Kiichirō Toyoda
1894 – 1952
Alain Decaux
1925 – 2016
Aleksi Lehtonen
1891 – 1951
Alfred Verdross
1890 – 1980
Cecil Harcourt Smith
1859 – 1944
Gregorio Marañón
1887 – 1960
James Dewar
1842 – 1923
James E. Webb
1906 – 1992
Jaroslav Heyrovský
1890 – 1967
Joe Lieberman
1942 – 2024
José María Albareda
1902 – 1966
Józef Sebastian Pelczar
1842 – 1924
Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett
1901 – 1979
Neil D. Jones
1941 – 2023
Paul Lauterbur
1929 – 2007
Peter Fox
1959 – 2021
René Cagnat
1852 – 1937
Victor Kalashnikov
1942 – 2018
Victor Stern
1885 – 1958
Walter Parratt
1841 – 1924
William Healey Dall
1845 – 1927
Yuri Gagarin
1934 – 1968
Adrienne Rich
1929 – 2012
Aimée Iacobescu
1946 – 2018
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
1835 – 1910
Alexandru Bădărău
1859 – 1927
Alfred Hassner
1930 – 2024
Alfred Hirschmeier
1931 – 1996
Anatoly Savin
1920 – 2016
Andreas Anagnostakis
1826 – 1897
Andrii Antonyshchak
1969 – 2024
Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1633 – 1714
Arnold Meri
1919 – 2009
Arthur Bliss
1891 – 1975
Arthur Engberg
1888 – 1944
Ayaz Mutallibov
1938 – 2022
Cecil Hurst
1870 – 1963
Charles N. Sims
1835 – 1908
Constantin Brodzki
1924 – 2021
Crystal Bird Fauset
1894 – 1965
Daniel Kahneman
1934 – 2024
David Josiah Brewer
1837 – 1910
David McClelland
1917 – 1998
Dmitry Golitsyn
1771 – 1844
Désiré Nisard
1806 – 1888
Edgar Quinet
1803 – 1875
Edwin Carr
1926 – 2003
Einar Tufte-Johnsen
1915 – 1985
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
1871 – 1955
Fernando Alessandri
1897 – 1982
Frans Beelaerts van Blokland
1872 – 1956
Friedrich Achleitner
1930 – 2019
Fyodor Trepov
1854 – 1938
Georg Herbert zu Münster
1820 – 1902
Georg-August Zinn
1901 – 1976
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes
1555 – 1629
George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway
1882 – 1943
George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway
1768 – 1834
Gyula Kautz
1829 – 1909
Hans Albrecht
1919 – 2008
Harry Barron
1847 – 1921
Henry Adams
1838 – 1918
Henry Lee
1938 – 2026
Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny
1755 – 1843
Hryhoriy Piatachenko
1932 – 2022
Jakob Ackeret
1898 – 1981
James R. Schlesinger
1929 – 2014
James VI and I
1566 – 1625
James Vaupel
1945 – 2022
James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
1855 – 1949
Janet L. Norwood
1923 – 2015
Jean François Orcel
1896 – 1978
John H. Burrus
1849 – 1917
John W. Wilcox, Jr.
1882 – 1942
Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan
1802 – 1873
Joseph Rank
1816 – 1896
Joseph-Marie Vien
1716 – 1809
Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal
1769 – 1843
Kawasaki Takukichi
1871 – 1936
Lanny D. Schmidt
1938 – 2020
Louis Kilzer
1951 – 2024
Louis-Édouard Cestac
1801 – 1868
Martin Pope
1918 – 2022
Mary Jeanne Kreek
1937 – 2021
Mieczysław Centnerszwer
1874 – 1944
Mother Angelica
1923 – 2016
Nick Galifianakis
1928 – 2023
Oleksandr Rzhavskyy
1959 – 2022
Paul Zindel
1936 – 2003
Philippe-Auguste Guye
1862 – 1922
Pierre Bourguignon
1942 – 2019
Prideaux John Selby
1788 – 1867
Pyotr Vershigora
1905 – 1963
Ragnar Josephson
1891 – 1966
Richard N. Frye
1920 – 2014
Robert Best
1856 – 1946
Robert Parr
1921 – 2017
Rupert Brabner
1911 – 1945
Shirley Graham Du Bois
1896 – 1977
Stanford Parris
1929 – 2010
Sukenari Yokoyama
1884 – 1963
Thomas H. Green
1889 – 1971
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath
1765 – 1837
Vasily Grinevetsky
1871 – 1919
Victor Gustav Bloede I
1849 – 1937
Walter Weston
1860 – 1940
Wang Ming
1904 – 1974
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
1768 – 1854
William Fitzjames Oldham
1854 – 1937
Xie Yuyuan
1924 – 2021
Yvonne Brill
1924 – 2013
Édouard Richard
1844 – 1904
A. P. Hamann
1909 – 1977
Aaron Burt Grosh
1803 – 1884
Aldo Carpi
1886 – 1973
Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres
1752 – 1825
Alfred Earle
1907 – 1990
Alfred F Johnson
1884 – 1972
Alonso Manrique de Lara y Silva
1672 – 1737
Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma
1706 – 1767
Anatole, baron Brénier de Renaudière
1807 – 1885
Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
1902 – 1981
Antonio Mazzarosa
1780 – 1861
António Xavier Pereira Coutinho
1851 – 1939
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
1776 – 1849
Armando Nieto
1931 – 2017
Arnold Bennett
1867 – 1931
Arun Sarma
1931 – 2017
Arístides Martínez
1847 – 1908
Avraham Grossman
1936 – 2024
Azadeh Namdari
1984 – 2021
Benjamin K. Focht
1863 – 1937
Benno Premsela
1920 – 1997
Berthe Cerny
1868 – 1940
Billy Wilder
1906 – 2002
Byron Edmund Walker
1848 – 1924
Carl Säve
1812 – 1876
Charles Brent
1862 – 1929
Charles Colville
1770 – 1843
Charles Hill
1936 – 2021
Charles J. Thompson
1862 – 1932
Charles Kingsley Meek
1885 – 1965
Charles Petre Eyre
1817 – 1902
Charles Stetson
1801 – 1863
Christina McKelvie
1968 – 2025
Christopher Vokes
1904 – 1985
Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel
1774 – 1848
Clément Rosset
1939 – 2018
Colin Jamieson
1923 – 1990
Daniel Wardwell
1791 – 1878
David A. Clarke
1943 – 1997
David Kelly
1891 – 1959
Dezydery Chłapowski
1790 – 1879
Dick Giordano
1932 – 2010
Dimitri Venediktov
1929 – 2021
Dudley Moore
1935 – 2002
Edgar Richardson
1902 – 1985
Edit Doron
1951 – 2019
Edward B. Thomas
1848 – 1929
Edward Stillingfleet
1635 – 1699
Edwin Kagin
1940 – 2014
Eiler Hagerup the Younger
1718 – 1789
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
1893 – 1993
Emile-Robert Blanchet
1877 – 1943
Ephraim R. Eckley
1811 – 1908
Eric Engberg
1941 – 2016
Ernest Sargent Barnard
1874 – 1931
Estela Beatriz Cols
1965 – 2010
Ettore Majorana
1906 – 1938
Eugène Carrière
1849 – 1906
Farley Granger
1925 – 2011
Fay Kanin
1917 – 2013
Fazlur Khan
1929 – 1982
Ferry Porsche
1909 – 1998
Francesco Faà di Bruno
1825 – 1888
Francesco Zola
1796 – 1847
Francis C. Hammond
1931 – 1953
Francis William Reitz
1844 – 1934
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
1619 – 1676
Francisco Prat
1948 – 2024
Frank Howe Bradley
1838 – 1879
Frank M. Ramey
1881 – 1942
Franz, Count of Meran
1839 – 1891
François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
1747 – 1827
François-Réal Angers
1812 – 1860
Fritz Loewe
1895 – 1974
Gabriel Bibron
1805 – 1848
Gary Allan Polis
1946 – 2000
George Folsom
1802 – 1869
George Gilbert Scott
1811 – 1878
George Keith
1639 – 1716
George Rex
1817 – 1879
George Tooker
1920 – 2011
Gianni Minà
1938 – 2023
Gideon J. Mellenbergh
1938 – 2021
Grant Johannesen
1921 – 2005
Gregory XI
1329 – 1378
Grigory Bahchivandzhi
1909 – 1943
… and 1,783 more