On This Day — September 27
4185 noted people were born and 1830 died on September 27 in our archive, including Martin Ryle, Paul Appell and Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 27
Martin Ryle
1918 – 1984
Paul Appell
1855 – 1930
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
1818 – 1884
Aegidius Fauteux
1876 – 1941
Alberto Conti
b. 1966
Andrea Alù
b. 1978
Anna Seile
1939 – 2019
Anne-Marie Slaughter
b. 1958
Anthony Modderman
1838 – 1885
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
1824 – 1896
Charles Chilton
1860 – 1929
Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich
1899 – 1974
Donatien Laurent
1935 – 2020
Edwin H. Anderson
1861 – 1947
Ernest Becker
1924 – 1974
Fatema Mernissi
1940 – 2015
Fred Singer
1924 – 2020
Geoff Gallop
b. 1951
Hans Hahn
1879 – 1934
Henry Stommel
1920 – 1992
Hidetoshi Katori
b. 1964
Ian Jacob
1899 – 1993
Jacob Wallenberg
1892 – 1980
Jean de Gliniasty
b. 1948
Joseph Cogswell
1786 – 1871
Larry Wall
b. 1954
Liz Bacon
b. 1963
Marcia Neugebauer
b. 1932
Mary Jo White
b. 1947
Masaaki Shirakawa
b. 1949
Philip Hauser
1909 – 1994
Rait Maruste
b. 1953
Reginald Rudall
1885 – 1955
Richard Stagg
b. 1955
Robert Edwards
1925 – 2013
S. Yizhar
1916 – 2006
Ta-You Wu
1907 – 2000
Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
b. 1942
Thomas Offenberg Backer
1892 – 1987
Tim Harford
b. 1973
Ulrich Daldrup
b. 1947
Vasiliy Williams
1863 – 1939
Walter Riester
b. 1943
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
1719 – 1800
Adriano Espaillat
b. 1954
Albert Ellis
1913 – 2007
Alberto Ronchey
1926 – 2010
Aleksandr Polyakov
b. 1945
Alessandro Pavolini
1903 – 1945
Alev Korun
b. 1969
Alexander Shcherbakov
1901 – 1945
Alf Torp
1853 – 1916
Alfred Thayer Maan
1840 – 1914
Andrej Hlinka
1864 – 1938
Andrew John Lees
b. 1947
Andy Lau
b. 1961
Anne Borg
b. 1958
Antonella Mularoni
b. 1961
Arthur A. O'Leary
1887 – 1962
Arthur Penn
1922 – 2010
Asashōryū Akinori
b. 1980
Behdad Esfahbod
b. 1982
Bernard Lord
b. 1965
Bernard Miles
1907 – 1991
Bidyendu Mohan Deb
b. 1942
Bogdan Suceavă
b. 1969
Boris Marian
b. 1934
Bruno Freindlich
1909 – 2002
Budimir Metalnikov
1925 – 2001
Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
1920 – 1982
Charles Hyde Warren
1876 – 1950
Chris Quinn
b. 1983
Danilo Gentili
b. 1979
David C. Rowe
1949 – 2003
David Weiss Halivni
1927 – 2022
Dean Smith
1899 – 1987
Denis Auguste Affre
1793 – 1848
Des O'Neil
1920 – 1999
Diane Abbott
b. 1953
Do Jong-hwan
b. 1955
Dumitru Prunariu
b. 1952
Ed Case
b. 1952
Eero Tarasti
b. 1948
Elizabeth A. Clark
1938 – 2021
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
b. 1928
Elliotte Friedman
b. 1970
Elly Ney
1882 – 1968
Emily Gowers
b. 1963
Eric N. Olson
b. 1955
Francesco Totti
b. 1976
Francis Heylighen
b. 1960
François-Jules Pictet de la Rive
1809 – 1872
Georg Adam Struve
1619 – 1692
George John Robert Murray
1863 – 1942
Ghali Umar Na'Abba
1958 – 2023
Graham Richardson
1949 – 2025
Guillermo Fernández de Soto
b. 1953
Gwyneth Paltrow
b. 1972
Hassan Taqizadeh
1878 – 1970
Haïm Korsia
b. 1963
Heinrich Frauendorfer
1855 – 1921
Hennadii Zubko
b. 1967
Hjalmar Heiberg
1837 – 1897
Hope Jahren
b. 1969
Igor Lebedev
b. 1972
Iiro Viinanen
b. 1944
Ira Noel Gabrielson
1889 – 1977
Ivan Demchenko
b. 1960
Ivan Yumashev
1895 – 1972
J. William Schopf
b. 1941
Jacques Wallage
1946 – 2026
Jaime Lissavetzky
b. 1951
James Murdoch
1856 – 1921
Jean-Loup Dabadie
1938 – 2020
Jeffrey W. Talley
b. 1959
Jim Ross Lightfoot
b. 1938
Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr
1677 – 1750
Johannes Vahlen
1830 – 1911
Jorge Briz Abularach
b. 1955
Josef Škvorecký
1924 – 2012
Joseph J. Allaire
b. 1969
Joseph Lafont
1874 – 1961
Josiah Symon
1846 – 1934
José Solís
1913 – 1990
Joyce Johnson
b. 1935
Jørn Rattsø
b. 1952
Kamchybek Tashiev
b. 1962
Kelly Townsend
b. 1968
Kenneth Binmore
b. 1940
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
1838 – 1898
Lazar Dokić
1845 – 1893
Leander Schnerr
1836 – 1920
Lodewijk Asscher
b. 1974
Lorna Slater
b. 1975
Louis Lévy-Garboua
b. 1945
Louise Grandjean
1870 – 1934
Luca Parmitano
b. 1976
Luigi Federzoni
1878 – 1967
Magdalena Valerio Cordero
b. 1959
Marc Fontecave
b. 1956
Marc Oliver Opresnik
b. 1969
Margaret Rule
1928 – 2015
Mari Kiviniemi
b. 1968
Marian Dąbrowski
1878 – 1958
María Celeste Arrarás
b. 1960
María Emma Mejía Vélez
b. 1953
Masashi Adachi
b. 1959
Maya Fernández
b. 1971
Michael O'Connor
1810 – 1872
Miklós Jancsó
1921 – 2014
Mirjam Weichselbraun
b. 1981
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
b. 1940
Mykhailo Kravchuk
1892 – 1942
Mykola Riabchuk
b. 1953
Naiyyum Choudhury
1946 – 2019
Nikolaos Zorbas
1844 – 1920
Nikos Anastasiades
b. 1946
Oleksandr Fedoruk
1938 – 2025
Olga Ravn
b. 1986
Oliver E. Williamson
1932 – 2020
Omran al-Zoubi
1959 – 2018
Paavo Virkkunen
1874 – 1959
Paul Grabowsky
b. 1958
Paul J. Selva
b. 1958
Peter Sellars
b. 1957
Peter Shergold
b. 1946
Philip Gossett
1941 – 2017
Pier Ruggero Piccio
1880 – 1965
Pierre-François Audry de Puyraveau
1773 – 1852
Prineha Narang
b. 1989
Rafael Rubio Núñez
b. 1973
Raymond Moley
1886 – 1975
Raúl Silva Henríquez
1907 – 1999
Richard Court
b. 1947
Rita Tamašunienė
b. 1973
Robert E. Kelly
b. 1972
Robert Groves
b. 1948
Robert H. Bahmer
1904 – 1990
Robin Cormack
b. 1938
Roger Gale
1672 – 1744
Sam Ervin
1896 – 1985
Samuel Adams
1722 – 1803
Samuel S. Stratton
1916 – 1990
Seema Verma
b. 1970
Serge Ménard
b. 1941
Sergey Manukhin
1856 – 1922
Sergey Yudin
1891 – 1954
Sigrid Bazán
b. 1990
Stan Arthur
b. 1935
Stanisław Pigoń
1885 – 1968
Suzanne Stanik
b. 1954
Syed Adnan Kakakhail
b. 1975
Sylvester Turner
1954 – 2025
Takeharu Yamanaka
b. 1972
Tanaka Yoshio
1838 – 1916
Tankut Öktem
1940 – 2007
Thelma Aldana
b. 1955
Thomas van der Hammen
1924 – 2010
Tiit Matsulevitš
b. 1958
Tracy Camp
b. 1964
… and 3,985 more
Died on September 27
Nicolai Rygg
1872 – 1957
Philip Rosenthal
1916 – 2001
Albert Bernhard Frank
1839 – 1900
Augusto de Vasconcelos
1867 – 1951
Charles Schultze
1924 – 2016
Dick Geijskes
1907 – 1985
Ellsworth Bunker
1894 – 1984
Frank Burr Mallory
1862 – 1941
Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside
1898 – 1992
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1857 – 1940
Melvin Ember
1933 – 2009
Mikhail Kheraskov
1733 – 1807
Mohammad Najibullah
1947 – 1996
Piero Calamandrei
1889 – 1956
Ralph B. D'Agostino Sr.
1940 – 2023
Susan Ryan
1942 – 2020
William Hume-Rothery
1899 – 1968
Adib Shishakli
1909 – 1964
Albert Auguste Perdonnet
1801 – 1867
Amadou Ali
1943 – 2022
Andreas Frederik Krieger
1817 – 1893
Anna Murià
1904 – 2002
Auguste Michel-Lévy
1844 – 1911
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
1908 – 1994
Caspar Wistar Hodge, Sr.
1830 – 1891
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
1818 – 1903
Christoffer Urne
1593 – 1663
Conrad Theodor van Deventer
1857 – 1915
Dick Stenberg
1921 – 2004
Diego de Covarubias y Leyva
1512 – 1577
Dorothy Maharam
1917 – 2014
Eduardo Jozami
1939 – 2024
Engelbert Humperdinck
1854 – 1921
Frank Tyson
1930 – 2015
Georg Stefan Troller
1921 – 2025
Georgi Kulishev
1885 – 1974
Hans-Heinrich Jescheck
1915 – 2009
Haruko Wakita
1934 – 2016
Hilla von Rebay
1890 – 1967
Hubert Schardin
1902 – 1965
Hugh Hefner
1926 – 2017
Ioannis Kapodistrias
1776 – 1831
James G. March
1928 – 2018
James Main Dixon
1856 – 1933
Jan Oostenbrink
1936 – 2025
Jaswant Singh
1938 – 2020
John Halliday Croom
1847 – 1923
John Silber
1926 – 2012
Joseph C. Wilson
1949 – 2019
Julian Horodecki
1907 – 1969
Julián Besteiro
1870 – 1940
Kaspar von Zumbusch
1830 – 1915
Kazimierz Moczarski
1907 – 1975
Li Tianyou
1914 – 1970
Mahbubey Alam
1949 – 2020
Marc-Antoine Jullien
1744 – 1821
Marian Dąbrowski
1878 – 1958
Mykhailo Stelmakh
1912 – 1983
Niels Trolle
1599 – 1667
Nigel Bowen
1911 – 1994
Oswald Heer
1809 – 1883
Paul Albert Laurens
1870 – 1934
Petro Poga
1850 – 1944
Pierre-Christian Taittinger
1926 – 2009
Pietro Ingrao
1915 – 2015
Rasmus Malling-Hansen
1835 – 1890
Raúl Porras Barrenechea
1897 – 1960
Remy de Gourmont
1858 – 1915
Robert Montgomery
1904 – 1981
Russell M. Nelson
1924 – 2025
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
1928 – 2023
S. R. Ranganathan
1892 – 1972
Sylvia Pankhurst
1882 – 1960
Tetsuzō Tanikawa
1895 – 1989
Thomas Miller
1717 – 1789
Valentin Magnan
1835 – 1916
Vladimir Lidin
1894 – 1979
Wang Wenxing
1939 – 2023
Wolfgang Clement
1940 – 2020
Władysław Byrka
1878 – 1945
Yuri Orlov
1924 – 2020
Émile Eddé
1883 – 1949
Étienne Bézout
1730 – 1783
Štefan Osuský
1899 – 1973
A. C. Lyles
1918 – 2013
Abdul Gofur
1929 – 2024
Adolfo Salazar
1890 – 1958
Aleksandr Gorelik
1945 – 2012
Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov
1733 – 1811
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
1810 – 1868
Alexandru Nicolau
1889 – 1937
Alfred Mathias Grønneberg
1879 – 1963
Alonso Manso
1460 – 1539
Amanda Crowe
1928 – 2004
Ambrose
1708 – 1771
Andrea Argoli
1570 – 1657
Anna Morpurgo Davies
1937 – 2014
Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn
1774 – 1848
Aristide Maillol
1861 – 1944
Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly
1843 – 1890
Arthur Forwood
1836 – 1898
Arthur Marwick
1936 – 2006
Avraham Shapira
1910 – 2007
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1911 – 1956
Balaji Sadasivan
1955 – 2010
Barton Warren Evermann
1853 – 1932
Benjamin Thomas
1813 – 1878
Benoît Chassériau
1780 – 1844
Boris Moiseev
1954 – 2022
Brian A. Joyce
1962 – 2018
Brigham Henry Roberts
1857 – 1933
Bronisław Malinowski
1951 – 1981
Carmelo Arden Quin
1913 – 2010
Cecilia Lindqvist
1932 – 2021
Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh
1791 – 1850
Chang Chun-hsiung
1938 – 2025
Charles Lane Poor
1866 – 1951
Charles Snead Houston
1913 – 2009
Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel
1777 – 1860
Chen Tanqiu
1896 – 1943
Clara Bow
1905 – 1965
Claude Pajon
1626 – 1685
Cyrus Wesley Peck
1871 – 1956
Dave Hill
1937 – 2011
David Croft
1922 – 2011
David Grant Colson
1861 – 1904
Delia Vaccarello
1960 – 2019
Denis O'Leary
1863 – 1943
Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov
1877 – 1937
Djovi Gally
1955 – 2023
Doak Walker
1927 – 1998
Donal McLaughlin
1907 – 2009
Donald J. Mitchell
1923 – 2003
Donald O'Connor
1925 – 2003
Douglas Albert Munro
1919 – 1942
Douglas Veale
1891 – 1973
Dumitru Dămăceanu
1896 – 1978
Duncan Cameron Fraser
1845 – 1910
Dwight Ross
1907 – 1981
Ebenezer J. Hill
1845 – 1917
Edmund H. Driggs
1865 – 1946
Edmund Otis Hovey
1862 – 1924
Edward Carter
1822 – 1883
Egil Lillestøl
1938 – 2021
Elijah B. Stoddard
1826 – 1903
Ellen Willmott
1858 – 1934
Elvin R. Heiberg III
1932 – 2013
Erik Nygren
1923 – 1999
Eryk Lipiński
1908 – 1991
Eugenio Ortega
1940 – 2013
Ezra L'Hommedieu
1734 – 1811
Felix Yusupov
1887 – 1967
Fern P. Rathe
1930 – 2013
Fernando C. Beaman
1814 – 1882
Fletcher D. Proctor
1860 – 1911
Franz Grundheber
1937 – 2025
François Dollier de Casson
1636 – 1701
François Florent
1937 – 2021
Fraser MacPherson
1928 – 1993
Fyodor Kostyayev
1878 – 1925
George Blanda
1927 – 2010
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.
1841 – 1913
George M. Robeson
1829 – 1897
George Smalridge
1662 – 1719
George Thesiger
1868 – 1915
Georgios Kartalis
1908 – 1957
Georgios Stanotas
1888 – 1965
Gian Luca Pallavicini
1697 – 1773
Gil Aldema
1928 – 2014
Gilbert Burrell Spencer Follett
1878 – 1918
Graham Drinkwater
1875 – 1946
Guillaume-Michel-Jérôme Meiffren
1772 – 1843
H.P. Prior
1866 – 1936
Hans Grimm
1875 – 1959
Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay
1905 – 1982
Harlan J. Bushfield
1882 – 1948
Hasan Nasrallah
1960 – 2024
Henri Gautier
1660 – 1737
Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre
1599 – 1681
Hensley Henson
1863 – 1947
Hermann Neuberger
1919 – 1992
Horatio Walker
1858 – 1938
Hugh Boulter
1672 – 1742
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
1937 – 2021
Ida Fink
1921 – 2011
Ignaz Feigerle
1795 – 1863
Imre Makovecz
1935 – 2011
Innocent XII
1615 – 1700
István Apáthy
1863 – 1922
Jack Edwards
1928 – 2019
Jack Lang
1876 – 1975
Jacobo Bucaram
1947 – 2024
Jacques-Paul Martin
1908 – 1992
James C. Alvord
1808 – 1839
James Cable
1920 – 2001
James Clark
1779 – 1839
James Dowling
1787 – 1844
James Franklin Battin
1925 – 1996
James Holt Clanton
1827 – 1871
James Traficant
1941 – 2014
… and 1,630 more