The 147th day of the year, the 148th in a leap year
Born on 27 May
Every 27 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 27 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 27 May falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 27 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,803 babies were born on 27 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 196th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Khaldun | 1332–1406 | historiographer and historian |
| Henry Kissinger | 1923–2023 | United States Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 |
| Christopher Lee | 1922–2015 | English actor and singer |
| Rachel Carson | 1907–1964 | American marine biologist and conservationist |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894–1961 | French writer |
| John Cockcroft | 1897–1967 | British physicist |
| Hubert Humphrey | 1911–1978 | vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969 |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894–1961 | American writer |
| Yasuhiro Nakasone | 1918–2019 | Japanese politician |
| Vincent Price | 1911–1993 | American actor |
| Giuseppe Tornatore | 1956– | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| Paul Bettany | 1971– | British actor |
| Richard Schiff | 1955– | American actor |
| Paul Gascoigne | 1967– | English association football player and manager |
| João Cancelo | 1994– | Portuguese footballer |
| Max Brod | 1884–1968 | Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist |
| Gervinho | 1987– | Ivorian association football player |
| Lily-Rose Depp | 1999– | French-American actress |
Died on 27 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889–1964 | Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 |
| John Calvin | 1509–1564 | French Protestant reformer |
| Robert Koch | 1843–1910 | German physician, bacteriologist |
| Niccolò Paganini | 1782–1840 | Italian violinist and composer |
| Ernst Ruska | 1906–1988 | German physicist |
| John Howard Northrop | 1891–1987 | American biochemist |
| Joseph Roth | 1894–1939 | Austrian novelist and journalist |
| Simeon I of Bulgaria | 864–927 | Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927 |
| Thomas Müntzer | 1489–1525 | early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War |
| François-Noël Babeuf | 1760–1797 | French political agitator and journalist |
| False Dmitry I | died 1606 | Tsar of Russia; died 27 May in the Gregorian calendar, 17 May in the Julian |
| Clive Granger | 1934–2009 | British economist |
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