Famous people born on 27 March

• Wilhelm RöntgenGerman physicist · 1845–1923
  77 yrs
• James CallaghanFormer prime minister of the United Kingdom · 1912–2005
  92 yrs
• Gloria SwansonAmerican actress · 1899–1983
  84 yrs
• Ludwig Mies van der RoheGerman architect · 1886–1969
  83 yrs
• Eisaku SatōPrime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972 · 1901–1975
  74 yrs
• Heinrich MannGerman writer · 1871–1950
  78 yrs
• Toyotomi HideyoshiJapanese samurai and daimyo · 1537–1598
  61 yrs
• Alfred de VignyFrench poet, playwright, and novelist · 1797–1863
  66 yrs
• Otto WallachGerman chemist · 1847–1931
  83 yrs
• Mstislav Rostropovich ↗Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor · 1927–2007
  80 yrs
• Sergei Kirov ↗Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary · 1886–1934
  48 yrs
• Louis XVII of France ↗Heir of the French throne · 1785–1795
  10 yrs
• Georges-Eugène Haussmann ↗French official and politician · 1809–1891
  81 yrs
• Mary Tudor ↗Queen of France from 1514 to 1515 · 1496–1533
  37 yrs
• Karl Pearson ↗English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist · 1857–1936
  79 yrs
• Dubravka Ugrešić ↗Croatian writer · 1949–2023
  73 yrs
• John Sulston ↗British biologist and Nobel laureate · 1942–2018
  75 yrs
• Maria Schneider ↗French actress · 1952–2011
  58 yrs
• Karl Mannheim ↗Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist · 1893–1947
  53 yrs
• Marie Under ↗Estonian poet · 1883–1980
  97 yrs
• Sarah Vaughan ↗American jazz and classical singer · 1924–1990
  66 yrs
• Carl Barks ↗American cartoonist · 1901–2000
  99 yrs
• Shūsaku Endō ↗Author from Japan · 1923–1996
  73 yrs
• Henry Royce ↗English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce · 1863–1933
  70 yrs
• Cyrus Vance ↗United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 · 1917–2002
  84 yrs
• Golo Mann ↗German-Swiss historian · 1909–1994
  85 yrs
• Filippo Juvarra ↗Italian architect and stage set designer · 1678–1736
  57 yrs
• Al-Muntasir ↗11th Abbasid caliph from 861 to 862 · AD 838–862
  24 yrs
• Vincent d'Indy ↗French composer and teacher · 1851–1931
  80 yrs
• Anne Ramsey ↗American actress · 1929–1988
  59 yrs
• Edward Steichen ↗American photographer, artist and curator · 1879–1973
  93 yrs
• Henri Murger ↗Novelist and poet from France · 1822–1861
  38 yrs

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