List of Famous people who born in 1927

Pilar Prades Expósito or Santamaría was a Spanish maid, sentenced to death for murder through arsenic poisoning. She was the last woman executed in Spain.

Joan Jara is a British-Chilean dancer, activist, and widow of Chilean icon, communist and folksinger Víctor Jara. Since his death, she dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of him, his work, and his values. She wrote An Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara in 1984, and founded the Víctor Jara Foundation.

Johan Martin Ferner was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Elisabeth X at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with Finn Ferner, Erik Heiberg, Tor Arneberg and Carl Mortensen. He was married to Princess Astrid, the sister of King Harald V of Norway. He was also the brother-in-law of Princess Ragnhild.

Herbert Lichtenfeld was one of the most successful television screenplay writers in Germany. He wrote over 300 film scripts. Many of his scripts were successful in Germany.

Wolfgang Grönebaum was a German actor. He appeared in 26 films and television shows between 1968 and 1998.

David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Yutaka Taniyama was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.

Pierre Cahuzac was a French football midfielder. After retiring he became a manager, and led SC Bastia to the 1978 UEFA Cup Final.

Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten was a Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. As captain of the KLM Boeing 747, he died in the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history.

Lev Samuilovich Kleyn, better known in English as Leo Klejn, was a Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist.