Notable Birthdays for February 27
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this day include:
- Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1807
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in 1886
- David Sarnoff, RCA board chairman and father of American television, in 1891
- Actor William Demarest in 1892
- Soprano Marian Anderson in 1897
- Novelist John Steinbeck and golf legend Gene Sarazen, both in 1902
- Actor Joan Bennett in 1910
- Former Texas Gov. John Connally in 1917
- Actors Joanne Woodward in 1930 (age 82), Elizabeth Taylor in 1932, Barbara Babcock in 1937 (age 75)
- Howard Hesseman in 1940 (age 72) and Mary Frann in 1943
- Consumer activist Ralph Nader in 1934 (age 78)
- Physicist Alan Guth in 1947 (age 68)
- Actors Timothy Spall in 1957 (age 55) and Adam Baldwin in 1962 (age 50)
- Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton in 1980 (age 32)
- And singer Josh Groban in 1981 (age 31).
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