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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mario Bava
Film Director
31-Jul-1914 27-Apr-1980 Black Sunday
Carlos Castaneda
Author
25-Dec-1925 27-Apr-1998 The Teachings of Don Juan
Turner Catledge
Journalist
17-Mar-1901 27-Apr-1983 New York Times editor
Hobart Cavanaugh
Actor
22-Sep-1886 27-Apr-1950 A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Colby
Spy
4-Jan-1920 27-Apr-1996 CIA Director, 1973-75
Hart Crane
Poet
21-Jul-1899 27-Apr-1932 Industrial and urban poet
Roy Del Ruth
Film Director
18-Oct-1893 27-Apr-1961 The Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon
Artist
4-Jan-1747 27-Apr-1825 Napoleonic archaeologist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
25-May-1803 27-Apr-1882 Essayist, wrote Nature
Joel West Flood
Judge
2-Aug-1894 27-Apr-1964 Virginia Congressman, Judge
Lynne Frederick
Actor
25-Jul-1954 27-Apr-1994 The Prisoner of Zenda
Jan Josephs van Goyen
Painter
13-Jan-1596 27-Apr-1656 Landscape painter at The Hague
Antonio Gramsci
Activist
23-Jan-1891 27-Apr-1937 Founder of the Italian Communist Party
Al Hirt
Jazz Musician
7-Nov-1922 27-Apr-1999 Dixieland trumpet player
Gerrit van Honthorst
Painter
4-Nov-1590 27-Apr-1656 Dutch painter at Utrecht
Pope Leo XI
Religion
2-Jun-1535 27-Apr-1605 Roman Catholic Pope, 1605
William Charles Macready
Actor
3-Mar-1793 27-Apr-1873 19th c. English actor and manager
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
1480 27-Apr-1521 Circumnavigated the globe
Konosuke Matsushita
Business
27-Nov-1894 27-Apr-1989 Founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
Marian Mercer
Actor
26-Nov-1935 27-Apr-2011 Nancy Beebe on It's a Living
Olivier Messiaen
Composer
10-Dec-1908 27-Apr-1992 Turangalîla-Symphonie
J. Sterling Morton
Government
22-Apr-1832 27-Apr-1902 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97
Edward R. Murrow
Journalist
25-Apr-1908 27-Apr-1965 The epitome of broadcast journalism
Kwame Nkrumah
Head of State
21-Sep-1909 27-Apr-1972 First President of Ghana
Sir Henry Parkes
Politician
27-May-1815 27-Apr-1896 Father of Australian confederation
Zebulon Pike
Military
5-Jan-1779 27-Apr-1813 Lent his name to Pike's Peak
Pauline Réage
Author
23-Sep-1907 27-Apr-1998 Histoire d'O
Mstislav Rostropovich
Cellist
27-Mar-1927 27-Apr-2007 Cellist and conductor
Maria Stader
Singer
5-Nov-1911 27-Apr-1999 Operatic soprano, specialty Mozart
Thomas Stothard
Painter
17-Aug-1755 27-Apr-1834 English subject painter
Sigismond Thalberg
Pianist
8-Jan-1812 27-Apr-1871 Virtuoso pianist
Alexander Trowbridge
Politician
12-Dec-1929 27-Apr-2006 US Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68
Tom Tully
Actor
21-Aug-1908 27-Apr-1982 Insp. Matt Grebb on The Lineup
Yvette Vickers
Actor
26-Aug-1928 27-Apr-2011 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Jerauld Wright
Military
4-Jun-1898 27-Apr-1995 US Atlantic Fleet Commander, 1954-60


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