February 27 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 27, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#265 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 27 birthdays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · American poet and educator1807
George Herbert Mead · American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist1863
John Steinbeck · American writer1902
Joan Bennett · American actress1910
Lawrence Durrell · British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer1912
Irwin Shaw · American writer1913
Paul Ricœur · French philosopher1913
Dexter Gordon · American jazz saxophonist1923
Joanne Woodward · American actress1930
Elizabeth Taylor · British-American actress1932
Ralph Nader · American lawyer and activist1934
Robert H. Grubbs · Nobel prize winning American chemist1942
Roger Scruton · English conservative philosopher and writer1944
Alan Guth · American theoretical physicist and cosmologist1947
Ian Khama · Botswana politician1953
Maggie Hassan · American politician1958
Adam Baldwin · American actor1962
Chelsea Clinton · American author and global health advocate1980
Josh Groban · American singer and actor1981
Kate Mara · American actress1983
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the following days.
1988The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target of a violent pogrom (memorial pictured).
1991Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1996The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the video games Pocket Monsters Red and Green.
1933The Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in Berlin, was set on fire in a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime.
1951The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1972The Sunday People revealed that James Humphreys, a notorious pornographer, had bribed a senior London police officer with a holiday to Cyprus and Beirut.
1982The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, known for its performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas, gave its final performance.
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