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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alice Adams
Novelist
14-Aug-1926 27-May-1999 Superior Women
Umberto Agnelli
Business
1-Nov-1934 27-May-2004 Chairman of Fiat, 2003-04
Luciano Berio
Composer
24-Oct-1925 27-May-2003 Italian Avant-garde composer
Edward Brophy
Actor
27-Feb-1895 27-May-1960 The Last Hurrah
Thomas Bulfinch
Author
15-Jul-1796 27-May-1867 Bullfinch's Mythology
Jesse Burkett
Baseball
4-Dec-1868 27-May-1953 The Crab, MLB Hall of Famer
John Calvin
Religion
10-Jul-1509 27-May-1564 French Protestant Reformation
Evans F. Carlson
Military
26-Feb-1896 27-May-1947 Carlson's Raiders
Gordon Coates
Head of State
3-Feb-1878 27-May-1943 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925-28
Jeff Conaway
Actor
5-Oct-1950 27-May-2011 Grease
Severn Darden
Actor
9-Nov-1929 27-May-1995 Second City
Truman B. Douglass
Religion
15-Jul-1901 27-May-1969 United Church of Christ
James Montgomery Flagg
Painter
18-Jun-1877 27-May-1960 I Want YOU for U.S. Army
Charles B. Fruit
Business
c. 1947 27-May-2008 Chief Marketing Officer at Coca-Cola, 2004-06
Paul Gleason
Actor
4-May-1939 27-May-2006 The Breakfast Club
Clive W.J. Granger
Economist
4-Sep-1934 27-May-2009 Granger causality
Jeffrey Hunter
Actor
25-Nov-1926 27-May-1969 King of Kings
Frederic Eugene Ives
Inventor
17-Feb-1856 27-May-1937 Halftone process
Victor Kiam
Business
7-Dec-1926 27-May-2001 Liked it so much, he bought the company
Robert Koch
Doctor
11-Dec-1843 27-May-1910 Germ theory of disease
Richard W. Lyman
Educator
18-Oct-1923 27-May-2012 President of Stanford University, 1971-80
Wiley Mayne
Politician
19-Jan-1917 27-May-2007 Congressman from Iowa, 1967-75
Ruth McDevitt
Actor
13-Sep-1895 27-May-1976 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Robert B. Meyner
Politician
3-Jul-1908 27-May-1990 Governor of New Jersey, 1954-62
Thomas Münzer
Religion
c. 1490 27-May-1525 German Protestant religious fanatic
Jawaharlal Nehru
Head of State
14-Nov-1889 27-May-1964 First Prime Minister of India
John H. Northrop
Chemist
5-Jul-1891 27-May-1987 Bacteriophages
Richard Nugent
Author
2-Jul-1906 27-May-1987 Harlem Renaissance writer
Niccolo Paganini
Violinist
27-Oct-1782 27-May-1840 Italian violinist and composer
John C. Porter
Politician
4-Apr-1872 27-May-1959 Mayor of Los Angeles, 1929-33
Chips Rafferty
Actor
26-Mar-1909 27-May-1971 Wake in Fright
Maurice Richard
Hockey
4-Aug-1921 27-May-2000 NHL Hall of Famer
Robert L. Ripley
Curator
25-Dec-1890 27-May-1949 Believe It or Not!
Kenneth C. Royall
Attorney
24-Jul-1894 27-May-1971 US Secretary of the Army, 1947-49
Ernst Ruska
Physicist
25-Dec-1906 27-May-1988 Inventor of the electron microscope
Gil Scott-Heron
Poet
1-Apr-1949 27-May-2011 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Religion
17-Aug-1887 27-May-1958 Archbishop of Chicago, 1939-58
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Physicist
31-Oct-1828 27-May-1914 Light bulb, photographic printing
Alex Toth
Cartoonist
25-Jun-1928 27-May-2006 Creator of Space Ghost


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