List of Famous people who born in 1927

Carlos 'El Professor' Hank González (Politician)

First Name Carlos
Last Name (Politician)
Born on August 28, 1927
Died on August 11, 2001 (aged 73)

Carlos Hank González (1927–2001), nicknamed El Profesor, was a Mexican politician and influential businessman. Originally a teacher, he was an entrepreneur who built political contacts along with a business empire, leading to various government and political positions at the state and national level. He was prevented from seeking the presidency due to laws requiring both parents to be Mexicans by birth; his father was German. He has been involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption, and criminal threats.

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Roger Moore

Roger George Moore
First Name Roger
Last Name Moore
Born on October 14, 1927
Died on May 23, 2017 (aged 89)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Sir Roger George Moore was an English actor. He is best known for portraying fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. Moore was the third actor in the role, and his seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
First Name Gabriel
Last Name Márquez
Born on March 6, 1927
Died on April 17, 2014 (aged 87)

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958 he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

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Janet Leigh

Jeanette Helen Morrison
First Name Janet
Last Name Leigh
Born on July 6, 1927
Died on October 3, 2004 (aged 77)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author, whose career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh had her first formal foray into acting, appearing in radio programs before making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).

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Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme
First Name Olof
Born on January 30, 1927
Died on February 28, 1986 (aged 59)

Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.

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Simone Veil

Simone Annie Liline Jacob
First Name Simone
Last Name Veil
Born on July 13, 1927
Died on June 30, 2017 (aged 89)

Simone Veil was a French magistrate and stateswoman who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women’s legal rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as Loi Veil. From 1998 to 2007 she was a member of the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority.

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Benedict XVI

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
First Name Benedict
Last Name XVI
Born on April 16, 1927 (age 97)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Pope Benedict XVI is a retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict chose to be known by the title "pope emeritus" upon his resignation.

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Mort Sahl

First Name Mort
Last Name Sahl
Born on May 11, 1927
Died on October 26, 2021 (aged 94)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Morton Lyon Sahl is an American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop.

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Vladimir Naumov

First Name Vladimir
Last Name Naumov
Born on December 6, 1927
Died on November 29, 2021 (aged 93)
Born in Russia

Vladimir Naumovich Naumov is a Russian film director and writer. He was a schoolmate of Sergei Parajanov at the Soviet film school. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Peter Cundall

Peter Joseph Cundall
First Name Peter
Last Name Cundall
Born on April 1, 1927
Died on December 5, 2021 (aged 94)

Peter Joseph Cundall, was an English-born Australian horticulturalist, conservationist, author, broadcaster and television personality. He lived in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and until 2008, at the age of 81, presented the ABC TV program Gardening Australia. Starting in 1967, he presented what is believed to be the world's first gardening talkback radio segment. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007 "For service to the environment, particularly the protection of wilderness areas in Tasmania, and to horticulture as a presenter of gardening programs on television and radio."

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