Famous People Born on April 27

Famous people born on April 27 include Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Ulysses S. Grant (1822) and Herbert Spencer (1820).

BORN ON THIS DAY

Mary Wollstonecraft

Born 1759 · Philosophy & Thought

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, feminist pioneer

MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

Ulysses S. Grant

1822–1885

Civil War general, U.S. president from 1869 to 1877

Herbert Spencer

1820–1903

English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)

Samuel Morse

1791–1872

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

Sergei Prokofiev

1891–1953

Russian composer and pianist (1891–1953)

Fethullah Gülen

1941–2024

Turkish scholar, theologian and dissident (1941–2024)

Mumtaz Mahal

1593–1631

Empress of the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631

Anouk Aimée

1932–2024

French actress (1932–2024)

Coretta Scott King

1927–2006

American civil rights leader (1927–2006)

Cory Booker

1969–present

American politician (born 1969)

Eric Schmidt

1955–present

American businessman and software engineer (born 1955)

Sally Hawkins

1976–present

British actress (born 1976)

Dinara Safina

1986–present

Russian former tennis player (born 1986)

Casey Kasem

1932–2014

American disc jockey and actor (1932–2014)

Chiang Ching-kuo

1910–1988

President of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988

Frank Abagnale

1948–present

American security consultant and convicted fraudster

DIED ON THIS DAY

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Died 1882 · Philosophy & Thought

Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance

Kwame Nkrumah

Died 1972 · Politics & Leadership

First President of Ghana

MORE FAMOUS DEATHS

Antonio Gramsci

1891–1937

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)

Edmund Husserl

1859–1938

Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician (1859–1938)

Pope Leo XI

1535–1605

Head of the Catholic Church in 1605

Alexander Scriabin

1872–1915

Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)

Mstislav Rostropovich

1927–2007

Russian-American cellist and conductor (1927–2007)

Carlos Castaneda

1925–1998

American anthropologist and writer (1925–1998)

Olivier Messiaen

1908–1992

French composer (1908–1992)

Karl Pearson

1857–1936

English eugenicist and polymath (1857–1936)

Ruth Handler

1916–2002

American business magnate and inventor (1916–2002)

Edward R. Murrow

1908–1965

American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)

Sources

April 27 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
Mary Wollstonecraft — Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths

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