February 27
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Births
- 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
- 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
- 1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician, video director and designer
- 1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
- 1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician
- 1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
Deaths
- 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
- 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
- 1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
- 2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
- 2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
- 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
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Derren Brown
Joakim Sundström
Lawrence Durrell
John Steinbeck
Peter Christopherson
Ivan Pavlov
Fernando Ribeiro
James Planché
Yvan Goll
Lillian Gish
James Avati
Spike Milligan
Edward Lucie-Smith
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