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Alan Cumming also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the West End production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1991).
Famous Birthdays on January 27
1965 — Alan Cumming
Scottish-American actor
January 27 has 200 recorded notable births across history, from 1365 to 2003. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on January 27
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- 1996 In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. Source
- 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. Source
- 1967 Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. Source
- 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras. Source
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Other film roles include Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.
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Tracy Lee Lawrence is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Soong Ching-ling entered the Communist government in 1949, and was the only female, non-Communist head of state of the People's Republic of China.
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Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
More major people born on January 27
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1964
Bridget Fonda
American actress
Bridget Jane Fonda is an American retired actress known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III (1990), Single White Female (1992), Singles (1992), Point of No Return (1993), It Could Happen to You (1994),…
1940
James Cromwell
American actor
James Oliver Cromwell is an American actor. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995).
1968
Tracy Lawrence
American country singer
Tracy Lee Lawrence is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer.
1893
Soong Ching-ling
Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (died 1981)
Soong Ch'ing-ling was a Chinese politician. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "Mother of Modern China".
1885
Jerome Kern
American composer and songwriter (died 1945)
Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
1958
Alan Milburn
English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Alan Milburn is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010.
1920
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
Japanese lieutenant and pilot (died 1944)
Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II.
1741
Hester Thrale
Welsh author (died 1821)
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a Welsh writer and socialite whose diaries, letters and other works made her an important source of information on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life.
1826
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian journalist and author (died 1889)
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century.
1968
Matt Stover
American football player
John Matthew Stover is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for 20 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Baltimore Ravens.
1981
Tony Woodcock
New Zealand rugby player
Tony Dale Woodcock is a New Zealand former rugby union player. His position was loosehead prop, and he played 118 tests for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.
1974
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Norwegian skier and biathlete
Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon".
1968
Mike Patton
American singer, composer, and voice artist
Michael Allan Patton is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock bands Faith No More and Mr. Bungle.
1930
Bobby Bland
American blues singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Robert Calvin Bland, known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B.
1869
Will Marion Cook
American violinist and composer (died 1944)
William Mercer Cook, better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer, pianist, orchestrator, lyricist, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák.
1901
Art Rooney
American football player, coach and owner (died 1988)
Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr., often referred to as "the Chief", was an American professional football executive.
1803
Eunice Hale Waite Cobb
American writer, public speaker, and activist (died 1880)
Eunice Hale Cobb was an American writer, public speaker, and activist. She wrote hymns, and occasional poems, and obituary lines; her poetry had a religious focus. As a public speaker, she was persuasive and convincing.
1826
Richard Taylor
American general, historian, and politician (died 1879)
Richard "Dick" Taylor was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general.
1832
Lewis Carroll
English novelist, poet, and mathematician (died 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and reluctant Anglican deacon.