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Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist.
Famous Birthdays on September 27
1907 — Bhagat Singh
Indian socialist revolutionary (disputed with 28 September) (died 1931)
September 27 has 258 recorded notable births across history, from 808 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1996 The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established. Source
- 1422 After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania. Source
- 1941 The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. Source
- 1941 World War II: The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader. Source
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Stephan Jenkins began his musical career in 1992 as part of the short-lived rap duo Puck and Natty, alongside Detroit rapper Herman Anthony Chunn.
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Diane Abbott was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in 2024 became its longest-serving female MP, earning the title Mother of the House.
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Schmidt was a 12-time All-Star and a three-time winner of the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player award (MVP), and he was known for his combination of power hitting and strong defense.
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John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG, was a major magnate in 15th-century England.
More major people born on September 27
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1964
Stephan Jenkins
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Stephan Douglas Jenkins is an American singer, guitarist, and the frontman of the alternative rock band Third Eye Blind.
1953
Diane Abbott
English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987.
1949
Mike Schmidt
American baseball player
Michael Jack Schmidt is an American former professional baseball third baseman who spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1972 to 1989.
1442
John de la Pole
2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1491)
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG, was a major magnate in 15th-century England. He was the son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer.
1896
Sam Ervin
American soldier and politician (died 1985)
Samuel James Ervin Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974.
1932
Geoff Bent
English footballer (died 1958)
Geoffrey Bent was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s.
1989
Park Tae-hwan
South Korean swimmer
Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean retired competitive swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. He has four Olympic medals, five world titles, and 20 Asian Games medals.
1931
Freddy Quinn
Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor
Freddy Quinn is a former Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s.
1818
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist and academic (died 1884)
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig.
1918
Martin Ryle
English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
1935
Al MacNeil
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)
Allister Wences MacNeil was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and executive. MacNeil played 524 games in the National Hockey League and was a four-time Stanley Cup winner.
1934
Wilford Brimley
American actor (died 2020)
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s.
1983
Jay Bouwmeester
Canadian ice hockey player
Jay Daniel Bouwmeester is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A defenceman, he played seventeen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues.
1944
Angélica María
American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is a Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as "La Novia de México", she began her career as a child actress in films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, such as Pecado (1951), Una mujer…
1981
Brendon McCullum
New Zealand cricketer
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand cricket coach and former player who is the head coach of the England men's cricket team in T20s and ODIs, and formerly Test matches until his sacking as England Test coach in…
1929
Bruno Junk
Estonian race walker (died 1995)
Bruno Junk was an Estonian race walker. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won bronze medals on both occasions.
1947
Denis Lawson
Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniseries Bleak House (2005), the latter of…
1947
Meat Loaf
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2022)
Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows.
1840
Alfred Thayer Mahan
American captain and historian (died 1914)
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History,…