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Brenda Song starred in the Disney Channel original film The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000), which won her a Young Artist Award.
Famous Birthdays on March 27
1988 — Brenda Song
American actress
March 27 has 283 recorded notable births across history, from 1401 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 27
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- 1866 President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9. Source
- 2014 Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. Source
- 1999 Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. Source
- 1901 Philippine–American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans. Source
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Stephen Dillane's television work has additionally garnered him BAFTA and International Emmy Awards for best actor.
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Jessica Ellen Cornish, known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter.
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Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman, and The Last Days of Krypton, telling the story of how Superman's planet Krypton came to be destroyed.
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Karl Pearson founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics.
More major people born on March 27
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1957
Stephen Dillane
English actor
Stephen John Dillane is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2015) and Thomas Jefferson in the…
1988
Jessie J
English singer-songwriter
Jessica Ellen Cornish, known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter.
1962
Kevin J. Anderson
American science fiction writer
Kevin James Anderson is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequel series.
1857
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (died 1936)
Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.
1905
Elsie MacGill
Canadian-American author and engineer (died 1980)
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was a Canadian engineer.
1784
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (died 1842)
Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book.
1679
Domenico Lalli
Italian poet and librettist (died 1741)
Sebastiano Biancardi, known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist.
1901
Erich Ollenhauer
German politician (died 1963)
Erich Ollenhauer was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1952 until 1963. He was a key leader of the opposition to Konrad Adenauer in the Bundestag.
1951
Andrei Kozyrev
Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev is a Russian politician and businessman who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Boris Yeltsin, during the Russian SFSR from 1990 and during the Russian Federation from 1992,…
1936
Malcolm Goldstein
American violinist and composer
Malcolm Goldstein is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A.
1947
Oliver Friggieri
Maltese author, critic, poet and philosopher (died 2020)
Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher.
1845
Jakob Sverdrup
Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899)
Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup was a Norwegian bishop and politician.
1878
Kathleen Scott
British sculptor (died 1947)
Edith Agnes Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS was a British sculptor. Trained in London and Paris, Scott was a prolific sculptor, notably of portrait heads and busts and also of several larger public monuments.
1894
René Fonck
French colonel and pilot (died 1953)
Colonel René Paul Fonck was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Entente fighter ace and, when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonck still holds…
1942
John Sulston
English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
Sir John Edward Sulston was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues…
1963
Georgios Katrougalos
Greek jurist and politician
Georgios Katrougalos is a Greek jurist and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from February to July 2019.
2000
Sophie Nélisse
Canadian actress
Marie-Sophie Nélisse is a Canadian actress. She made her film debut in the French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar (2011), for which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1859
George Giffen
Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927)
George Giffen was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia.
1921
Moacir Barbosa Nascimento
Brazilian footballer and coach (died 2000)
Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His career spanned 22 years.