27 October is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. On this day was born in the year: 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771) 1766 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817) 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840) 1811 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875) 1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys Brigade (d. 1914) 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) 1901 – Abbas Uddin, Bangladeshi singer (d. 1959) 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986) 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American historian, author, and anthropologist 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953) 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005) 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American activist and humanist 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998) 1925 – Warren Christopher, American politician and diplomat, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011) 1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993) 1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American pianist (d. 1997) 1935 – Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist 1939 – John Cleese, English actor, screenwriter, and producer 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter 1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist (Masqualero) 1945 – John Kane, Scottish actor and scriptwriter 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian politician, 35th President of Brazil 1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006) 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player and producer (E Street Band) 1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter (Judas Priest) 1951 – Éric Morena, French singer 1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher 1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer (Agents) (d. 2011) 1955 – Debra Bowen, American politician 1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer and guitarist 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter (Duran Duran and Arcadia) 1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009) 1958 – David Hazeltine, American jazz pianist 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger, founded the Drudge Report 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, The Wondergirls, and Camp Freddy) 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth, At the Gates, Nemhain, The Haunted, Nifelheim, and Brujeria)r 1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer 1972 – Marika Krook, Swedish singer and actress (Edea) 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer-songwriter and actress 1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer 1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
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