What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every July birthday · battle July 27 against another date · all rankings
Who shares July 27
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1972 · United States
Maya Rudolph is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1968–2025 · United States
Julian Dana William McMahon was an Australian and American actor. He was the only son of William McMahon, a former prime minister of Australia. He was known for his television roles as Ben Lucini in Home and Away, Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Dr.
Danny Casillas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1990 · India
Kriti Sanon is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. She is a recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award and two Filmfare Awards. Sanon was featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list of 2019.
Verghese TK, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur · Google DeepMind · software
1976 · United Kingdom
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs.
John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1835–1907 · Kingdom of Italy
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1881–1945 · Germany
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · TSR
1938–2008 · United States
Ernest Gary Gygax was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
Alan De Smet, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1922–2023 · United States
Norman Milton Lear was an American screenwriter and producer who wrote and produced more than 100 television shows during a career that lasted over 70 years.
Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · de Havilland Aircraft Company · aerospace
1882–1965 · United Kingdom
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer who founded the aircraft company de Havilland.
SDASM Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · The Ocean Cleanup Foundation
1994 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.
DWDD, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Branobel · energy
1831–1888 · Sweden
Ludvig Immanuel Nobel was a Swedish-Russian engineer, businessman and humanitarian. One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel and Andriette Nobel, and the older brother of Alfred Nobel.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1851–1915 · Peru
Guillermo Enrique Billinghurst Angulo was a Peruvian politician who served as the 37th president of Peru from 1912 until his overthrow in 1914.
Fernando murillo gallegos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
July 27 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1969 · United States
Paul Michael Levesque, also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, professional wrestling promoter, and retired wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer, its head of creative, and an executive producer.
Web Summit, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1977 · Ireland
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1970 · Kingdom of Denmark
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. His breakthrough role was in Denmark with the film Nightwatch in 1994.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1963 · United States
Donnie Yen Chi-tan is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and action director. His accolades include three Golden Horse Awards and five Hong Kong Film Awards.
Will629, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1304–1374 · Republic of Florence
Francis Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.
Altichiero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1984 · United States
Taylor Schilling is an American actress.
Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1929–2007 · France
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ayaleila, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1612–1640 · Ottoman Empire
Murad IV was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I and Kösem Sultan.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1965 · Paraguay
José Luis Félix Chilavert González is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Sportivo Luqueño, Guaraní, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Real Zaragoza, Vélez Sarsfield, RC Strasbourg, Peñarol and the Paraguay national team.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1824–1895 · France
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias, published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata, as well as numerous stage and film productions.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1987 · Slovakia
Marek Hamšík is a Slovak football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the team manager and assistant coach for the Slovakia national team.
Илья Хохлов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · India
Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, sports administrator and former rugby player who works in Hindi films. Bose serves as the president of Rugby India since 2021.
Sriya Sarkar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1870–1953 · France
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a French-English writer and political activist. Belloc was considered one of the most versatile authors of the 20th century, producing essays on history, politics and economics as well as poetry, travelogues and satire.
T. & R. Annan & Sons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1973 · United States
Judith Lewis, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.
Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1968 · Italy
Maria Grazia Cucinotta is an Italian actress who has featured in films and television series since 1990. Internationally she is best known for her roles in Il Postino and The World Is Not Enough.
nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · North Macedonia
Goran Pandev is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best Macedonian footballers of all time.
Новикова Юлия, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1882–1974 · United Kingdom
Donald William Crisp was an English film character actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s.
Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1979 · France
Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou is a French former professional footballer who played primarily as a left winger, but was occasionally deployed as a striker. He is most prominent for his lengthy playing career at Lyon where he won seven Ligue 1 titles.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1940–2009 · Germany
Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater.
Michaud, Fernand (1929-2012). Photographe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1917–1970 · France
André Robert Raimbourg, better known as André Bourvil, and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966).
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · Switzerland
Lorik Agim Cana is an Albanian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or midfielder.
Scientist
1740–1807 · France
Jeanne Baret was a French explorer, naturalist, and botanist who is recognised as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe, which she did aboard ship.
Unkwown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1867–1916 · Spain
Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of the modern Catalan school of piano, initiated by Pere Tintorer.
Desconegut, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1871–1953 · Germany
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German logician and mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory and his proof of the well-ordering theorem.
Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1962 · United States
Gigi Pritzker is an American billionaire and film producer who is a member of the Pritzker family.
Author
1801–1892 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir George Biddell Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1870–1926 · Soviet Union
Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France.
произведение создано до 1926 года, автор неизвестен, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1848–1919 · Hungary
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum.
Aladár Székely, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1910–2007 · France
Julien Gracq was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He was close to the surrealist movement, in particular its leader André Breton.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1853–1921 · Russian Empire
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on July 27, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on July 27. Read the full methodology.
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