Famous people born on 27 August

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGerman philosopher and theologian · 1770–1831
  61 yrs
• Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969 · 1908–1973
  64 yrs
• Ivan FrankoUkrainian poet and writer · 1856–1916
  59 yrs
• Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist · 1871–1945
  74 yrs
• Cesária ÉvoraCape Verdean singer-songwriter · 1941–2011
  70 yrs
• Charles G. DawesVice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 · 1865–1951
  85 yrs
• Carl BoschGerman chemical engineer · 1874–1940
  65 yrs
• Man RayAmerican and French visual artist · 1890–1976
  86 yrs
• Norman Foster Ramsey ↗American physicist · 1915–2011
  96 yrs
• Giuseppe Peano ↗Italian mathematician · 1858–1932
  73 yrs
• Osamu Shimomura ↗Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist · 1928–2018
  90 yrs
• Vincent Auriol ↗16th President of the French Republic · 1884–1966
  81 yrs
• Paul Reubens ↗American actor and comedian · 1952–2023
  70 yrs
• Pyotr Wrangel ↗Russian army general of Baltic German origin · 1878–1928
  49 yrs
• Chinmoy Kumar Ghose ↗Indian writer and spiritual teacher · 1931–2007
  76 yrs
• Hannibal Hamlin ↗Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 · 1809–1891
  81 yrs
• Faina Ranevskaya ↗Soviet actress · 1896–1984
  87 yrs
• Baal Shem Tov ↗Polish founder of Hasidic Judaism · 1698–1760
  61 yrs
• Ed Gein ↗American murderer and human trophy collector · 1906–1984
  77 yrs
• Karl Haushofer ↗German philosopher · 1869–1946
  76 yrs
• Johann Georg Hamann ↗German philosopher · 1730–1788
  57 yrs
• Sōsuke Uno ↗75th Prime Minister of Japan · 1922–1998
  75 yrs
• Charles De Coster ↗Belgian novelist · 1827–1879
  51 yrs
• Ira Levin ↗American novelist, playwright · 1929–2007
  78 yrs
• Charles Rolls ↗Motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce · 1877–1910
  32 yrs
• Georg Wilhelm Pabst ↗Austrian film director · 1885–1967
  81 yrs
• Kenji Miyazawa ↗Japanese poet and author of children's literature · 1896–1933
  37 yrs
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr ↗Danish-German statesman and historian · 1776–1831
  54 yrs
• James Henry Breasted ↗American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian · 1865–1935
  70 yrs
• Leon Theremin ↗Russian inventor, physicist, and musician · 1896–1993
  97 yrs
• Lester Young ↗American jazz saxophonist · 1909–1959
  49 yrs
• Marko Marulić ↗Croatian national poet and European humanist · 1450–1524
  73 yrs
• Kristen Nygaard ↗Computer scientist, Mathematician · 1926–2002
  75 yrs

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