Famous people born on 27 October

• Theodore Roosevelt26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 · 1858–1919
  60 yrs
• James CookBritish explorer, cartographer and naval officer · 1728–1779
  50 yrs
• Sylvia PlathAmerican poet and writer · 1932–1963
  30 yrs
• Niccolò PaganiniItalian violinist and composer · 1782–1840
  57 yrs
• Pius IIPope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 · 1405–1464
  58 yrs
• Dylan ThomasWelsh poet and writer · 1914–1953
  39 yrs
• Nawal El SaadawiEgyptian feminist writer · 1931–2021
  89 yrs
• K. R. Narayanan ↗President of India from 1997 to 2002 · 1920–2005
  85 yrs
• Teresa Wright ↗American actress · 1918–2005
  86 yrs
• Roy Lichtenstein ↗American pop artist · 1923–1997
  73 yrs
• Isaac Singer ↗American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine · 1811–1875
  63 yrs
• Ivan Michurin ↗Russian botanist · 1855–1935
  79 yrs
• Fritz Sauckel ↗German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal · 1894–1946
  51 yrs
• Giovanni Giolitti ↗Italian statesman · 1842–1928
  85 yrs
• Ivan Reitman ↗Slovak–Canadian filmmaker · 1946–2022
  75 yrs
• James Macpherson ↗British writer, poet, translator and politician · 1736–1796
  59 yrs
• Lidia Ruslanova ↗Russian-Soviet singer · 1900–1973
  72 yrs
• Oliver Tambo ↗South African anti-apartheid activist and politician · 1917–1993
  75 yrs
• John Gotti ↗American crime boss · 1940–2002
  61 yrs
• Carlos Andrés Pérez ↗President of Venezuela · 1922–2010
  88 yrs
• Michel Galabru ↗French actor · 1922–2016
  93 yrs
• Carrie Snodgress ↗American actress · 1945–2004
  58 yrs
• Cristofano Allori ↗Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school · 1577–1621
  43 yrs
• Ruby Dee ↗American actress · 1922–2014
  91 yrs
• Lee Krasner ↗American abstract expressionist painter · 1908–1984
  75 yrs
• Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle ↗Swiss botanist · 1806–1893
  86 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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