1927: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Rabbit 🐇 · Born in 1927 turn 99 in 2026

The year in numbers

US population

2.03B

US president

Calvin Coolidge

Top song

"My Blue Heaven" — Gene Austin

Top film

Wings

In the news: Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic; The Jazz Singer premieres

What happened in 1927

1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.

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Born in 1927

114 people in our data · most viewed first

Cesar Chavez

1927–1993 · March 31

American civil rights activist

Harry Belafonte

1927–2023 · March 1

American singer and actor

Bob Fosse

1927–1987 · June 23

American choreographer, dancer, and director

Ferenc Puskás

1927–2006 · April 1

Hungarian footballer

Bhumibol Adulyadej

1927–2016 · December 5

King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016

Clint Walker

1927–2018 · May 30

American actor

Andy Williams

1927–2012 · December 3

American singer

Coretta Scott King

1927–2006 · April 27

American civil rights leader

Gina Lollobrigida

1927–2023 · July 4

Italian actress

Neil Simon

1927–2018 · July 4

American playwright, writer, and academic

Chandra Shekhar

1927–2007 · July 1

Prime Minister of India from 1990 to 1991

Barbara Rush

1927–2024 · January 4

American actress

Bernard Fox (actor)

1927–2016 · May 11

Welsh actor

Brock Peters

1927–2005 · July 2

American actor

Geoffrey Palmer (actor)

1927–2020 · June 4

British actor

Antônio Carlos Jobim

1927–1994 · January 25

Brazilian composer and musician

Edie Adams

1927–2008 · April 16

American actress

Al Martino

1927–2009 · October 7

American singer

Cleo Laine

1927–2025 · October 28

English jazz singer

Bob Keeshan

1927–2004 · June 27

Children's television personality & host

Alan King

1927–2004 · December 26

American comedian and actor

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

1927–1977 · February 5

Dutch pilot

Edward Abbey

1927–1989 · January 29

American author advocating Radical Environmentalism

Althea Gibson

1927–2003 · August 25

American tennis player

Died in 1927

Constance Markievicz1868–1927 · Irish revolutionary and suffragist
Charlotte of Belgium1840–1927 · Empress of Mexico from 1864 to 1867
Ashfaqulla Khan1900–1927 · Indian revolutionary
Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927 · English writer and humorist
Inayat Khan1882–1927 · Indian singer, poet and Sufi guide
Ahad Ha'am1856–1927 · Hebrew-language essayist, poet, and critic of early Zionism
Florence Mills1895–1927 · American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian
Arthur Achleitner1858–1927 · German writer
Eugène Atget1857–1927 · French photographer
Gustave Whitehead1874–1927 · 19/20th-century German-American aviator
Andranik1865–1927 · Armenian military leader
Carl Runge1856–1927 · German mathematician and physicist