May 27 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 27, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#345 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 27 birthdays
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · French writer1894
John Cockcroft · British physicist1897
Rachel Carson · American marine biologist and conservationist1907
Vincent Price · American actor1911
Hubert Humphrey · Vice president of the United States from 1965 to 19691911
John Cheever · American novelist and short story writer1912
Herman Wouk · American writer1915
Yasuhiro Nakasone · Japanese politician1918
Christopher Lee · English actor and singer1922
Henry Kissinger · American diplomat and geopolitical advisor1923
John Barth · American writer1930
Philip Kotler · American marketing author, consultant, and professor1931
Harlan Ellison · American writer1934
Louis Gossett Jr. · American actor1936
Lawrence Krauss · American particle physicist and cosmologist1954
Richard Schiff · American actor1955
Giuseppe Tornatore · Italian film director and screenwriter1956
Donna Strickland · Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate1959
Paul Bettany · British actor1971
Lily-Rose Depp · French-American actress1999
On this day in history
1954The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of Project Y, was revoked.
1958The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.
1963American singer Bob Dylan released The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his first album to include a significant number of original songs.
1995American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
1930Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building 11 months later.
1935The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
1937The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
2016Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
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