Historical Figures Born in 1927 (Part 2)

Birthdays 201 - 303 of 303

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

Aug 9 American artificial intelligence computer scientist (MIT), born in NYC, New York

Aug 11 James Eaton, Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry
Aug 11 Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch politician (VVD)
Aug 14 Lord Whaddon, CEO (Daltrade & Skorimpex-Rind), born in Sale, Cheshire (d. 2005)
Aug 17 Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian American financier (Fund of Funds), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 1995)
Aug 18 Rosalynn Smith Carter, American 1st lady (1977-1981), born in Plains, Georgia
Aug 19 James Broyhill, American politician (Sen-R-NC, 1963-1986), born in Lenoir, North Carolina
Aug 21 Thomas Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2018)
Aug 23 Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (Miffy books), born in Utrecht (d. 2017)
Aug 23 Houari Boumédiènne, President of Algeria (1965-78), born in Clauzel, Algeria (d. 1978)
Aug 23 John Hoskyns, Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher (1979-82) (d. 2014)
Aug 24 David Ireland, Australian author (The Unknown Industrial Prisoner), born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia
Aug 24 Harry Markowitz, American economist (Nobel 1990), born in Chicago, Illinois
Aug 24 William V. Shannon, American journalist and ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), born in Worchester, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
Aug 26 B. V. [Balkrishna] Doshi, Indian architect (Pritzker Prize 2018), born in Pune, India (d. 2023) [1]
Aug 26 Sam Massell, American politician (1st Jewish Mayor of Atlanta), born in Atlanta, Georgia
Aug 27 Hugh Byatt, British diplomat, born in Edinburgh (d. 2011)
Aug 30 Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (8 Coty Awards), born in Haynesville, Louisiana (d. 2004)
Sep 4 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Matinchenko, Russian cosmonaut, born in Verhhyi Mamon, Voronezh Region, Russia (d. 1999)

John McCarthy (1927-2011)

Sep 4 American computer scientist (coined the term "artificial intelligence," created the Lisp programming language), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Paul Volcker (1927-2019)

Sep 5 American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), born in Cape May, New Jersey

Sep 6 Margaret Keane, American painter whose husband claimed credit for her work (Big Eyes paintings), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2022) [1]
Sep 7 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), born in Holloway, London (d. 2014)
Sep 7 François Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), born in Paris (d. 1991)
Sep 11 G. David Schine, American businessman, born in Gloversville, New York (d. 1996)
Sep 12 Ina Muller-van Ast, Dutch politician (PvdA), born in The Hague, Netherlands
Sep 14 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
Sep 15 David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
Sep 17 Theodore S. Weiss, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92), born in Gáva, Hungary (d. 1992)
Sep 18 Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso (Ciaculli massacre, 1963, 'Mafia! What is that? A kind of cheese'), born in Palermo, Sicily (d. 2012)
Sep 22 Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1965-97), born in Mercedes, Texas (d. 2017)
Sep 26 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), born in Kilkenny, Ireland (d. 1990)
Sep 26 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of Gatorade, born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2007)
Sep 27 Eli van der Merwe Louw, South African minister of Transport/Manpower
Sep 28 Thomas J.J. Altizer, US Radical theologian (God is Dead), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2018)
Sep 29 Paul McCloskey, American politician (Senator-R-California 1967-83), born in Loma Linda, California
Sep 30 W. S. Merwin, American poet (17th United States Poet Laureate), born in New York City (d. 2019)
Oct 3 Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist, born in Ikirasaqa, Baffin Island, Canada (d. 2013)
Oct 5 Al Hansen, American artist (Fluxus), born in NYC, New York (d. 1995)
Oct 7 R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1989)
Oct 8 César Milstein, Argentine biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984), born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina (d. 2002)
Oct 8 Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1956)
Oct 9 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russian Orthodox Priest, born in Novo-Mayachka, Russia (d. 1995)
Oct 10 John Eric Tieman, production manager (The Guardian) (d. 1995)
Oct 11 Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess of Belgium, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2005)
Oct 15 Mary Perot Nichols, American journalist, born in York, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
Oct 15 Oswald Moxley Gibbs, Grenadian diplomat (High Commissioners to the United Kingdom 1974-78), born in Grenada (d. 1995)

Günter Grass (1927-2015)

Oct 16 German writer, playwright (The Tin Drum) and Nobel Prize laureate (1999), born in the Free City of Danzig

Oct 20 Joyce Brothers, American pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), born in NYC, New York (d. 2013)
Oct 20 Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German writer (Oulipo), born in Sibiu (d. 2006)
Oct 22 Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of South African Labour Party
Oct 22 Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
Oct 23 Edward Kienholz, American sculptor (Roxy), born in Fairfield, Washington (d. 1994)
Oct 23 Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil), born in Radom, Poland (d. 2009)
Oct 25 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (2000-2005), born in Montevideo (d. 2016)
Oct 27 Edward Keinholz, American artist and sculptor, born in Fairfield, Washington (d. 1994)
Oct 29 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish lawyer and politician, born in Borsbeek, Belgium (d. 2006)
Nov 2 John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and billionaire
Nov 2 Steve Ditko, American comic artist (The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)
Nov 3 Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods Limited), born in Florenceville, New Brunswick
Nov 8 Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., American magazine publisher (Parade, Vogue, Vanity Fair), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
Nov 9 Carel Boshoff, South African activist and chairman (Broederbond/Volkswag), born in Nylstroom, Transvaal South Africa (d. 2011)
Nov 10 Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery, 8th earl of Radnor and art collector (d. 2008)
Nov 11 Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, English businessman and multi-millionaire
Nov 11 Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morocco (1979-83), born in Casablanca, Morocco (d. 1996)
Nov 12 Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
Nov 13 Billy Klüver, American scientist and engineer, born in Monaco (d. 2004)
Nov 14 Sir Lawrence "Lawrie" Barratt, British businessman and housing developer (Barratt Developments), born in England (d. 2012)
Nov 15 Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
Nov 20 Erhard Schnell, German automotive designer 'Father of the Opel GT', born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 2020)
Nov 23 Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar, born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 2005)
Nov 24 Agustín Edwards, Chilean media tycoon (El Mercurio), born in Paris (d. 2017)
Nov 24 Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
Nov 26 Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian children's entertainer (Mr. Dressup), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 2001)
Nov 27 William E. Simon, American businessman, US Secretary of Treasury under Nixon, born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 2000)
Nov 30 Odvar Nordli, 21st Prime Minister of Norway (Labour: 1976-81), born in Tangen, Norway (d. 2018)
Dec 8 Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10), born in Petropavlovsk, Kazakh SSR
Dec 9 Helmut Maucher, German businessman, CEO of Nestlé (1990-97), born in Eisenharz, Germany (d. 2018)
Dec 10 Harvey Glatman, American rapist and serial killer, born in The Bronx, New York City (d. 1959)
Dec 11 Glen Tuckett American college basbeall coach (Brigham Young University, 1959-76) and administrator (BYU athletic director, 1976-94), born in Murray, Utah (d. 2021)
Dec 11 John Buscema, American comics artist (Conan the Barbarian), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
Dec 12 Robert Noyce, American inventor (co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968), born in Burlington, Iowa (d. 1990)
Dec 14 Koss Rietkerk, Dutch internal minister (VVD) (1982-86), born in Boskoop, Netherlands (d. 1986)
Dec 16 G Randall P D Garrett, American sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)
Dec 16 Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease)
Dec 18 Ramsey Clark, American lawyer, US Attorney General (1967-69) and activist, born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2021)
Dec 18 Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (1995-99), born in Memramcook, New Brunswick (d. 2009)
Dec 18 Sterling Lanier, American writer (Hiero's Journey), born in New York City (d. 2007)
Dec 20 Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician and democratic activist (President of South Korea 1993-98), born in Geojedo, Geoje, South Korea (d. 2015)
Dec 21 Alex d'Arbeloff, Georgian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Teradyne, born in Paris, France (d. 200 [1]
Dec 24 Mary Higgins Clark, American suspense novelist (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch), born in The Bronx, New York
Dec 27 Antony Gardner, British politician
Dec 28 Anne Armstrong, US ambassador and first female counsel to the President, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, (d. 2008)
Dec 28 Simon Raven, English playwright and critic (Alms for Oblivion)
Dec 30 M Lawrence Antouin, college president (Emeritis)
Dec 31 Dieter Noll, German writer (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt), born in Riesa, Saxony (d. 2008)

On This Day

Historical Figures Born in 1927 (Part 2)

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

John McCarthy (1927-2011)

Paul Volcker (1927-2019)

Günter Grass (1927-2015)

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