Birthday twins
September 27 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, entrepreneurs and historical figures, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur · The Home Depot · retail
1942 · United States
$11.4Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Arthur Morris Blank is an American businessman. He co-founded the home improvement retailer The Home Depot.
Reported estimate as of 2025: $11.4B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every September birthday · battle September 27 against another date · all rankings
The September 27 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1941–2023 · United States
$5.2Bolder estimate, as of April 2023 · Forbes
Samuel Zell was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist primarily engaged in real estate investment. Companies founded by or controlled by Zell include Vivmark Residential, Equity International, EQ Office, Covanta, Tribune Media, and Anixter.
TheStreet, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares September 27
Share of the 41 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
Entrepreneur
1972 · United States
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and businesswoman.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
2002 · United States
Jenna Marie Ortega is an American actress. Known for her work in horror, Ortega has been called "Gen Z's scream queen" by media publications. She was featured on The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 list in 2023 and the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2024.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1984 · Canada
Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is credited with boosting the popularity of pop-punk music, in particular for female-driven, punk-influenced pop music in the early 2000s. Her accolades include 10 Juno Awards and eight Grammy Awards nominations.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1947–2022 · United States
Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows.
Ronden Talent Management, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1992 · Switzerland
Granit Xhaka is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Sunderland and the Switzerland national team.
@cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1925–2013 · United Kingdom
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular.
Susannny, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1965 · United States
Stephen Douglas Kerr is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the head coach of the U.S. national team.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · Yash Raj Films
1932–2012 · India
Yash Raj Chopra was an Indian film director and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of the film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chopra was the recipient of several awards, including 6 National Film Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1981 · United States
Cytherea is an American pornographic film actress and model. She is known for her ability to ejaculate while performing sex acts.
Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1943–2021 · Italy
Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the family which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946.
Giorgio Lotti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1978 · Russia
Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek, known as Ani Lorak, is a Ukrainian-born Russian singer.
Okras, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Seagate Technology
1930–2006 · United States
Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
September 27 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Athlete
1976 · Italy
Francesco Totti is an Italian former professional footballer who played for Roma and the Italy national team.
Photojournalist Roberto Vicario derivative work: Clarus The Dogcow (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934–2020 · United States
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s.
Marc Majcher, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1947 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is the manager of the Curaçao national team. A successful player and manager, he is nicknamed "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels.
Новикова Юлия, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
2004 · Portugal
João Pedro Gonçalves Neves is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Portugal national team. Primarily a central midfielder, Neves is also able to play as a defensive midfielder and occasionally a right-back.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1722–1803 · United States
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.
John Singleton Copley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1990 · United States
Mitski Miyawaki, known professionally as Mitski, is an American musician and singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · Romania
Simona Halep is a Romanian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 64 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018.
si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1961 · People's Republic of China
Andy Lau Tak-wah, is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He was named one of the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1980s as well as one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the 1990s.
Actor
1970 · Canada
Tamara Taylor is a Canadian actress. She appeared in the role of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, in the forensic crime drama Bones. She also appeared in season seven of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in which she played Sibyl, one of the two main antagonists.
watchwithkristin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1958 · United Kingdom
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
TimDuncan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1874–1947 · Russian Empire
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, better known as Nicholas Roerich, was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1922–2010 · United States
Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Distributed by PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1840–1914 · United States
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1696–1787 · Kingdom of Naples
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1871–1936 · Kingdom of Italy
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1953 · Italy
Claudio Gentile is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender in the 1970s and 1980s.
Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934–2025 · United States
Claude Miller Jarman Jr. was an American actor. He became a child star with his role as Jody Baxter in The Yearling (1946), for which he won an Academy Juvenile Award. Further roles in films like Intruder in the Dust (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) followed.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1979 · Japan
Shinji Ono is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
norio nakayama, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1954 · United States
Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
Randal Schwartz from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1627–1704 · France
Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was a French Catholic prelate and theologian who served as Bishop of Meaux from 1681 until his death in 1704. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and literary stylist of the French language.
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1921–2014 · Hungary
Miklós Jancsó was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including The Round-Up, The Red and the White, and Red Psalm.
Scientist
1932–2020 · United States
Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.
Prolineserver (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1918–1984 · United Kingdom
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF Photographer Woodruff T. Sullivan III Photo Credit NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1821–1881 · Switzerland
Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.
Jean-François Artus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1978 · France
Franky Zapata is a French personal watercraft pilot who is the inventor of the Flyboard and Flyboard Air, and founder of Zapata Racing. Since 2012, Zapata's efforts have been focused on the development and manufacture of personal flyers for land and aquatic applications.
gérard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1818–1884 · Kingdom of Prussia
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1859–1942 · Sweden
Swedish politician (1859-1942)
Unknown, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 41 people born on September 27, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. 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 September 27. Read the full methodology.
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