April 27 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 27, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#329 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 27 birthdays
Ulysses S. Grant · president of the United States from 1869 to 18771822
Wallace Carothers · American organic chemist1896
Chiang Ching-kuo · 6th and 7th President of Republic of China1910
Coretta Scott King · American author1927
Casey Kasem · American voice actor1932
Anouk Aimée · French actress1932
Theo Angelopoulos · Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer1935
Sandy Dennis · American actress1937
João Bernardo Vieira · President of Guinea-Bissau1939
Fethullah Gülen · Turkish preacher and imam1941
Frank Abagnale · American security consultant1948
Eric Schmidt · software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO1955
Andrew Fire · American biologist1959
Edvard Moser · Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist1962
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands · King of the Netherlands1967
Cory Booker · American politician1969
Sally Hawkins · English actress1976
Dinara Safina · Russian tennis player1986
Lizzo · American singer and rapper1988
Lars Bender · German footballer1989
On this day in history
1777American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
1805First Barbary War: U.S. Marines engaged forces of the Barbary Coast at the Battle of Derna in Tripoli, marking the first recorded land battle by the United States on foreign soil.
2005The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
2006Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
1961Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
1967The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.
1978John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1985The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor.
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