Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 27

Births

• 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744) (pictured)
• 1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
• 1955 - Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American writer and diplomat

Deaths

• 1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
• 1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)