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Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
Bhumibol Adulyadej
former King of Thailand (1927–2016)
Sidney Poitier
Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022)
Roger Moore
English actor (1927–2017)
Gina Lollobrigida
Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician (1927–2023)
Ferenc Puskás
Hungarian association football player (1927–2006)
Olof Palme
Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
Turgut Özal
8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)
Ram Narayan
Indian classical sarangi player (1927–2024)
Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927–2008)
Eartha Kitt
American singer and actress (1927–2008)
Martin Lewis Perl
American scientist (1927–2014)
Harry Mulisch
Dutch writer (1927–2010)
Harry Belafonte
American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)
Rosalynn Carter
First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Sydney Brenner
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Simone Veil
French politician (1927–2017)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Manfred Eigen
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Raúl Alfonsín
Argentine politician
Mstislav Rostropovich
Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)
Peter Falk
American actor (1927–2011)
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994)
Janet Leigh
American actress (1927–2004)
George C. Scott
American actor, film director and producer (1927–1999)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (1927-2016)
Vladimir Komarov
Soviet cosmonaut (1927–1967)
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
F. Sherwood Rowland
American chemist (1927–2012)
Coretta Scott King
American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alan MacDiarmid
New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)
Bob Fosse
American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Polish politician and prime minister (1927-2013)
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
R. D. Laing
unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
Maurice Béjart
French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)
Albert Uderzo
French comic book artist (1927–2020)
Robert Ludlum
American novelist (1927–2001)
Mary Higgins Clark
American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)
Patti Page
American country-pop singer (1927–2013)
Emmanuelle Riva
French actress (1927-2017)
Harry Markowitz
American economist (1927–2023)
John Vane
English pharmacologist (1927-2004)
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British-American author (1927-2013)
Stan Getz
American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)
Vernon L. Smith
American economist
Megumu Tamura
Japanese association football player (1927-1986)
Andy Williams
American singer (1927–2012)
Niklas Luhmann
German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)
Phil Hill
American race car driver (1927-2008)
Althea Gibson
American tennis player (1927-2003)
Abdul Halim of Kedah
5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Sultan of Kedah
Neil Simon
American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)
Leontyne Price
African-American soprano
Hubert de Givenchy
French fashion designer (1927-2018)
Cesar Chavez
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.