1927 births

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)

former King of Thailand (1927–2016)

Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022)

English actor (1927–2017)

Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician (1927–2023)

Hungarian association football player (1927–2006)

Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)

8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)

Indian classical sarangi player (1927–2024)

American political scientist (1927–2008)

American singer and actress (1927–2008)

American scientist (1927–2014)

Dutch writer (1927–2010)

American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

French politician (1927–2017)

American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)

German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)

American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)

Argentine politician

Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)

American actor (1927–2011)

Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994)

American actress (1927–2004)

American actor, film director and producer (1927–1999)

German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (1927-2016)

Soviet cosmonaut (1927–1967)

Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)

American chemist (1927–2012)

American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)

American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)

American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)

Polish politician and prime minister (1927-2013)

Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)

unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist

French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)

French comic book artist (1927–2020)

American novelist (1927–2001)

American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)

American country-pop singer (1927–2013)

French actress (1927-2017)

American economist (1927–2023)

English pharmacologist (1927-2004)

American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)

German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)

American economist

Japanese association football player (1927-1986)

American singer (1927–2012)

German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)

American race car driver (1927-2008)

American tennis player (1927-2003)

5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Sultan of Kedah

American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)

African-American soprano

French fashion designer (1927-2018)

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.