April 27th Birthdays
If you were born on April 27th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Ann Peebles
American songwriter, soul singer (I Can’t Stand the Rain; I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down; Part Time Love; I Pity the Fool; Breaking Up Somebody’s Home; [You Keep Me] Hangin’ On; Slipped, Tripped and Fell in Love; Somebody’s On Your Case), born April 27, 1947. (Ann Peebles 2007 Photo: Lindsey Turner)
Herb Murrell (“Herbie“)
American soul singer and Stylistics founding member (You Make Me Feel Brand New; I’m Stone In Love With You; You Are Everything; Break Up to Make Up; Betcha by Golly, Wow; Can’t Help Falling in Love; Can’t Give You Anything), born April 27, 1949. (Herb Murrell 1974 Soul Train Photo: Billboard)
Doug Sheehan (nee Douglas Stuart Sheehan)
American actor of stage, TV (Ben Gibson on Knots Landing; Joe Kelly on General Hospital; Day by Day; Mel Horowitz on Clueless; Edward Spellman on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch; Charlie’s Angels), and feature films (10; Cops n Roberts), born April 27, 1949. (Doug Sheehan 1981 Heaven on Earth Photo: NBC)
Kate Pierson (nee Catherine Elizabeth Pierson)
American musician, songwriter, singer and co-founder of the B-52’s (Rock Lobster; Love Shack; Roam; Deadbeat Club; Meet The Flintstones; Good Stuff; Private Idaho; Legal Tender), and restaurateur (Kate’s Lazy Desert; Kate’s Lazy Meadow), born April 27, 1948. (Kate Pierson 2013 Photo: monicanation)
Ace Frehley (nee Paul Daniel Frehley; “Spaceman“; “Space Ace“)
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter solo, and as a founding member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group Kiss (Rock and Roll All Nite; Shout It Out Loud; Beth; I Was Made for Lovin’ You; Calling Dr. Love; New York Groove; I Love It Loud), born April 27, 1951. (Ace Frehley 1975 Photo: Casablanca Records)
George Gervin (“The Iceman“)
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame American ABA & NBA basketball shooting guard (Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls), 1970s-1980s 9-time NBA All-Star, and 4-time scoring champ, born April 27, 1952. (George Gervin 1990s Photo: Jordi Bonhevi Castanyer)
Sheena Easton (nee Sheena Shirley Orr)
Grammy Award-winning Scottish-American singer (9 to 5 [Morning Train]; We’ve Got Tonight; For Your Eyes Only; Modern Girl; The Lover in Me; You Could Have Been With Me; Long Distance Love Affair) and actress (Miami Vice) born April 27, 1959. (Sheena Easton 1984 Photo: Harriet Wasserman / ICM)
James LeGros (son-in-law of Robert Loggia)
American actor of movies (Phantasm II; Drugstore Cowboy; Solarbabies; Point Break; Guncrazy; My New Gun; Hollywood Heartbreak; Singles; Blood and Concrete; Bad Girls; Just Looking; Boys) & TV (Ally McBeal; Mercy; Justified), born April 27, 1962. (James Le Gros 2006 Sherman’s Way Photo: Filmsaavy)
Schae Harrison (nee Deborah Schaeffer; partner of Mick Cain)
American fashion model, dancer (Seattle Seahawks cheerleader), host and actress of TV (Darla Einstein-Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful; General Hospital; Baby Talk; Search Party; Castle) & films (Savages; Interlocked: Thrilled to Death), born April 27, 1962. (Schae Harrison Painting: A. Hamilton)
Cali Timmins (nee Carolyn Timmins; sister Margo Timmins)
Canadian actress of TV (Maggie Shelby Coleridge on Ryan’s Hope; Paulina Cory on Another World; Maggie Davenport on Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop; Street Legal; Sweating Bullets) & movies (The Hotel New Hampshire; Space Hunter), born April 27, 1963. Granddaughter of Noah Timmins. (Cali Timmins 1986: ABC)
Maura West (nee Maura Jo Snyder; married Scott DeFreitas)
American actress of daytime TV / soap operas (Carly Tenney Snyder on As the World Turns; Ava Jerome / Cassadine & Denise DeMuccio on General Hospital; Diane Jenkins Newman on The Young and the Restless) and movies (Come Back to Me), born April 27, 1972. (Maura West 2010 Photo: Greg Hernandez)
(Jack Klugman 1972: ABC | Florence La Badie: Thanhouser)
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Anouk Aimée (nee Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus)
French movie actress (La Dolce Vita; 8 1/2; A Man and a Woman; Justine; Bethune: The Making of a Hero; Ready to Wear / Prêt-à-Porter; Lola; Second Chance; Model Shop; Sodom and Gomorrah; A Leap in the Dark; The Best Years of a Life; The Lovers of Verona) and model (born April 27, 1932 – died June 18, 2024; age 92). Ex of Albert Finney. (Anouk Aimée 1967 Photo)
Casey Kasem (nee Kemal Amin Kasem)
American TV and radio DJ & host (American Top 40; Casey’s Top 40; Casey’s Countdown), actor & voice artist of TV and movies (Shaggy on What’s New, Scooby Doo?; Josie and the Pussy Cats; Battle of the Planets) (born Apr. 27, 1932 – died June 15, 2014; age 82). Casey Kasem had Lewy body dementia before he died of sepsis. (Casey Kasem 1989 Emmy Awards Photo: Alan Light)
Coretta Scott King (nee Coretta Scott)
American women’s, LGBT, and civil rights activist and leader, author, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. (born Apr. 27, 1927 – died Jan. 30, 2006; age 78). Coretta Scott King had ovarian cancer and a stroke before she died of respiratory failure. (Coretta Scott King 1964 Photo: Herman Hiller / New York World-Telegram & Sun / US Library of Congress)
Jack Klugman (nee Jacob Klugman; ex of Brett Somers)
American Emmy Award-winning character actor of stage, TV (Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple; Quincy, M.E.; You Again?; The Greatest Gift; Harris Against the World), and movies (12 Angry Men; The Detective; Goodbye, Columbus; Days of Wine and Roses) (born Apr. 27, 1922 – died Dec. 24, 2012; age 90). Jack Klugman died of prostate cancer. (Jack Klugman 1956 Time Table)
Cuba Gooding Sr. (father of Cuba Gooding Jr.)
American singer solo and as lead singer for The Main Ingredient (Everybody Plays the Fool; Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely; Happiness is Just Around the Bend; Spinning Around {I Must Be Falling in Love]; Rolling Down a Mountainside; I’m So Proud) (born Apr. 27, 1944 – died Apr. 20, 2017; age 72). Cuba Gooding Sr. died of natural causes. (Cuba Gooding Sr. 2008 Photo: Phil Konstantin)
Kitty Kelly (nee Sue O’Neil)
American actress & host of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), radio, TV & movies (White Shoulders; Behind Office Doors; Men of Chance; Beginners Luck; Rhythm in the Air; Ladies of the Jury; Men With Wings; Grand Jury Secrets; She Was a Lady) (born Apr. 27, 1902 – died June. 29, 1968; age 66). Kitty Kelly died of cancer. (Kitty Kelly 1939 All Women Have Secrets Photo: Paramount Photos)
Austro-Hungarian-American 1954 Caldecott Medal winner, children’s book illustrator & writer (Rosebud; Madeline’s Rescue; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline’s Christmas) (born Apr. 27, 1898 – died Oct. 1, 1962; age 64). Ludwig Bemelmans died of pancreatic cancer. (Ludwig Bemelmans 1960: European Travel Commission)
Walter Lantz (married Grace Stafford)
American animated film producer & director (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), painter, illustrator & cartoonist, founder of Walter Lantz Productions and creator of cartoon characters Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Space Mouse, Homer Pigeon, Chilly Willy, & Wally Walrus (born Apr. 27, 1899 – died Mar. 22, 1994; age 94). Walter Lantz died of heart failure. (Walter Lantz 1948 Photo)
Florence La Badie (nee Florence Russ; fiance of Daniel Carson Goodman)
American-Canadian silent movie star (The Man Without a Country; The Price of Her Silence; The Million Dollar Mystery; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Adventures of a Diplomatic Freelance; The Cat’s Paw; The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel; David Copperfield) (born Apr. 27, 1888 – died Oct. 13, 1917; age 29). Florence La Badie died after a car accident. (Florence La Badie 1915: Thanhouser)
Mary Wollstonecraft (married William Godwin; ex-partner of Gilbert Imlay)
English feminist, women’s rights advocate, & writer (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Thoughts on the Education of Daughters; A Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution) (born Apr. 27, 1759 – died Sept. 10, 1797; age 38). Mother of Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia after childbirth. (Mary Wollstronecraft c. 1797: John Opie)
Samuel Morse (son of Jedidiah Morse; brother of Sidney Edwards Morse)
American sculptor, fantasy & portrait painter (Dying Hercules; President John Adams; President James Monroe; Marquis de Lafayette; Eli Whitney; The House of Representatives), co-founder & President of the National Academy of Design, inventor & telegraphy pioneer (Morse Code) (born Apr. 27, 1791 – died Apr. 2, 1872; age 80). (Samuel Morse 1857: Mathew Benjamin Brady)
Ulysses S. Grant (nee Hiram Ulysses Grant)
American military officer (Mexican-American War; American Civil War Union Army General), statesman & politician (Secretary of War; 18th President of the United States), civil rights advocate (Reconstruction Acts enforcement; 15th amendment ratification) (born Apr. 27, 1822 – died July 23, 1885; age 63). (Ulysses S. Grant c. 1870: Mathew Brady)
Judy Carne (nee Joyce Audrey Botterill; ex of Burt Reynolds)
English actress of stage, TV (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Rag Trade, Love on a Rooftop; The Hollywood Squares; On the Brighter Side; Fair Exchange; The Baileys of Balboa; 12 O’Clock High; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), and movies (All the Right Noises) (born Apr. 27, 1939 – died Sept. 3, 2015; age 76). Cause of death for Judy Carne was pneumonia. (Judy Carne 1966 Photo: ABC TV)
Sandy Dennis (nee Sandra Dale Dennis; ex of Eric Roberts)
Tony & Academy Award-winning American actress of stage, movies (Up the Down Staircase; Sweet November; The Out of Towners; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Splendor in the Grass; The Four Seasons), and TV (Guiding Light; The Fugitive) (born Apr. 27, 1937 – died Mar. 2, 1992; age 54). Sandy Dennis died of ovarian cancer. (Sandy Dennis 1960 Face of a Hero Photo: Friedman-Abeles)
Cecil Day-Lewis (aka Nicholas Blake; father or Daniel Day-Lewis)
Irish-English poet, Oxford Professor of Poetry, & United Kingdom Poet Laureate, fiction writer (A Tangled Web; A Penknife in My Heart) & author of the Nigel Strangeways mystery novels (A Question of Proof; Thou Shell of Death; Minute for Murder), and WWII UK Home Guard volunteer (born Apr. 27, 1904 – died May 22, 1972; age 68). (Cecil Day-Lewis 1957)
Ceylonese-British actor of stage, TV, & films (The One That Got Away; The Green Man; Folly to Be Wise; The Pink Panther; The Big Day; Night of the Eagle; In the Doghouse; Life at Stake; Green Grow the Rushes; The Man in the White Suit; Our Virgin Island; The Day They Robbed the Bank of England), and WWII veteran (born Apr. 27, 1911 – died Oct. 4, 1972; age 61). (Colin Gordon 1953)
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