The 117th day of the year, the 118th in a leap year
Born on 27 April
Every 27 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 27 April in any year.
Which weekday 27 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 27 April falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 27 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,798 babies were born on 27 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 209th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 27 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1822–1885 | president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | 1759–1797 | English writer and intellectual |
| Herbert Spencer | 1820–1903 | English philosopher and political theorist |
| Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | 1967– | King of the Netherlands |
| Samuel Morse | 1791–1872 | American inventor and painter |
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891–1953 | Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor |
| Fethullah Gülen | 1941–2024 | Turkish preacher and imam |
| Mumtaz Mahal | 1593–1631 | Mughal empress |
| Anouk Aimée | 1932–2024 | French actress |
| Coretta Scott King | 1927–2006 | American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Cory Booker | 1969– | American politician |
| Eric Schmidt | 1955– | software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO |
| Sally Hawkins | 1976– | English actress |
| Dinara Safina | 1986– | Russian tennis player |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | 1910–1988 | President of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988 |
| Casey Kasem | 1932–2014 | American voice actor |
| Theo Angelopoulos | 1935–2012 | Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| Frank Abagnale | 1948– | American author and security consultant |
Died on 27 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1480–1521 | Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain |
| Kwame Nkrumah | 1909–1972 | Ghanaian politician |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803–1882 | American philosopher |
| Antonio Gramsci | 1891–1937 | Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician |
| Edmund Husserl | 1859–1938 | German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology |
| Pope Leo XI | 1535–1605 | pope of the Catholic Church in April 1605 |
| Alexander Scriabin | 1872–1915 | Russian composer and pianist |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | 1927–2007 | Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor |
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908–1992 | French composer, organist and ornithologist |
| Carlos Castaneda | 1925–1998 | Peruvian-American author |
| Kōnosuke Matsushita | 1894–1989 | Founder of Panasonic |
| Karl Pearson | 1857–1936 | English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist |
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