Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 27

Births

• 1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923) (pictured)
• 1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
• 1899 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
• 1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer

Deaths

• 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
• 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (b. 1934)
• 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)