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)
- 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
notes
- 1807 - Fernando Ribeiro (Porto, November 11 1941 - Coimbra, February 27 1992) was a Portuguese intellectual, founder of countercultural publishing house Edições Afrodite
- 1807 - James Planché, French author of vampire fiction
- 1807 - Yvan Goll Yvan Goll, born Isaac Lange (Saint-Dié, March 29, 1891 - February 27, 1950) was a French-German poet who was perfectly bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties both to the German expressionism and to the French surrealism.
- 1807 - James Avati (December 14 1912, Bloomfield, USA – February 27 2005, Petaluma, CA, USA) was an American illustrator and paperback cover artist.
- 1807 - Edward Lucie-Smith
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