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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Sherman Adams
Government
8-Jan-1899 27-Oct-1986 Eisenhower's Chief of Staff
al-Razi
Doctor
c. 865 AD 27-Oct-925 AD Persian alchemist
Morey Amsterdam
Actor
14-Dec-1908 27-Oct-1996 The Dick Van Dyke Show
King Athelstan
Royalty
c. 895 AD 27-Oct-939 AD King of England, 924-39 AD
George Barker
Poet
26-Feb-1913 27-Oct-1991 Calamiterror
Lisa Blount
Actor
1-Jul-1957 27-Oct-2010 Box of Moon Light
James M. Cain
Novelist
1-Jul-1892 27-Oct-1977 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Lois Collier
Actor
21-Mar-1919 27-Oct-1999 Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie
Father Charles Coughlin
Religion
25-Oct-1891 27-Oct-1979 Radio opponent of FDR
Xavier Cugat
Musician
1-Jan-1900 27-Oct-1990 The Rumba King
André de Toth
Film Director
15-May-1912 27-Oct-2002 House of Wax
Frank De Vol
Musician
20-Sep-1911 27-Oct-1999 Happy Kyne on Fernwood 2 Nite
Jacques Demy
Film Director
5-Jun-1931 27-Oct-1990 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Hugh le Despenser
Aristocrat
1262 27-Oct-1326 Favorite of King Edward II
Akbar the Great
Head of State
15-Oct-1542 27-Oct-1605 Mughal Emperor, 1556-1605
Charles Hawtrey
Actor
30-Nov-1914 27-Oct-1988 Carry On...
Clifford Holland
Architect
13-Mar-1883 27-Oct-1924 Chief engineer, Holland Tunnel
Tsar Ivan III
Royalty
22-Jan-1440 27-Oct-1505 Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505
Charles S. Johnson
Sociologist
24-Jul-1893 27-Oct-1956 The Negro in Chicago
Ernest Just
Biologist
14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Head of State
20-Jan-1915 27-Oct-2006 President of Pakistan, 1988-93
Néstor Kirchner
Head of State
25-Feb-1950 27-Oct-2010 President of Argentina, 2003-07
Allan Lane
Actor
22-Sep-1909 27-Oct-1973 Voice of Mister Ed
Abba Lerner
Economist
28-Oct-1903 27-Oct-1982 The Economics of Control
Moira Lister
Actor
6-Aug-1923 27-Oct-2007 Seven Waves Away
Rudolph Maté
Cinematographer
21-Jan-1898 27-Oct-1964 When Worlds Collide
Lise Meitner
Physicist
7-Nov-1878 27-Oct-1968 Discovered nuclear fission
Robert L. Mills
Physicist
15-Apr-1927 27-Oct-1999 Subatomic particles
Lew Parker
Actor
29-Oct-1907 27-Oct-1972 Lew Marie on That Girl
Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier
Physicist
22-Feb-1785 27-Oct-1845 Peltier Effect
Owen B. Pickett
Politician
31-Aug-1930 27-Oct-2010 Congressman from Virginia, 1987-2001
Armand de Rancé
Religion
9-Jan-1626 27-Oct-1700 Trappist Movement
Gilles Personne de Roberval
Mathematician
8-Aug-1602 27-Oct-1675 Geometry of curves
John D. Ryan
Military
10-Dec-1915 27-Oct-1983 USAF Chief of Staff, 1969-73
Michael Servetus
Religion
c. 1511 27-Oct-1553 De Trinitatis Erroribus
Rex Stout
Novelist
1-Dec-1886 27-Oct-1975 Nero Wolf novels
Ugo Tognazzi
Actor
23-Mar-1922 27-Oct-1990 La cage aux folles
John H. van Vleck
Physicist
13-Mar-1899 27-Oct-1980 Quantum theory of paramagnetism
Brad Will
Journalist
14-Jun-1970 27-Oct-2006 American journalist murdered in Oaxaca




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