page_title: 1927
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1927 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: Cast photo of characters from the television program Peyton Place.
context_page_description: 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer and director (d. 2007)
  Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel laureate
  January 2 – Robert Alt, Swiss bobsledder (d. 2017)
  January 4 – Barbara Rush, American actress
  January 10
  Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
  Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2012)
  January 13 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
  January 15 – Kirti Nidhi Bista, Nepali politician, three times prime minister (d. 2017)
  January 17 – Eartha Kitt, African-American singer, actress, activist and author (d. 2008)
  January 20 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian journalist and academic (d. 2007)
  January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)
  January 25 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
  January 26 – José Azcona del Hoyo, 26th President of Honduras (d. 2005)
  January 28
  Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
  Ronnie Scott, English jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
  Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
  January 29
  Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
  Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
  January 30 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
  February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (d. 2014)
  February 2 – Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
  February 3
  Kenneth Anger, American actor, director and screenwriter
  Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
  February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer, actress
  February 8 – George Taliaferro, American football player (d. 2018)
  February 10 – Leontyne Price, African-American soprano
  February 15 – Harvey Korman, American actor, comedian (d. 2008)
  February 17 – John Selfridge, American mathematician (d. 2010)
  February 18 – John Warner, American politician
  February 20
  Roy Cohn, American lawyer, anti-Communist (d. 1986)
  Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, film director
  February 21 – Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
  February 22
  Emil Bobu, Romanian Communist activist, politician (d. 2014)
  Guy Mitchell, American singer and actor (d. 1999)
  February 23
  Silvia Legrand, Argentine actress (d. 2020)
  Mirtha Legrand, Argentine actress and television presenter
  February 24 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (d. 2017)
  February 25 – Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass banjo player, vocalist (d. 2016)
  February 27 – Peter Whittle, New Zealand mathematician
caption: Barbara Rush
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