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Actors Born on July 27

  • 1882 Donald Crisp, British actor and director (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana), born in Bow, London, England (d. 1974)
  • 1890 Judith Lowry, American actress (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma (d. 1976)
  • 1898 Lena Amsel, Russian actress (Love Tragedy), born in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
  • 1903 Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (Ivan the Terrible), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1966)
  • 1907 Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (Boulder Dam, Captain Blood), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1937)
  • 1910 Lupita Tovar, Mexican-born actress (Dracula), born in Matías Romero, Mexico (d. 2016)
  • 1916 Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), born in New York City (d. 1986)
  • 1917 Bourvil [André Robert Raimbourg], French actor and singer (Le Corniaud; La Grande Vadrouille), born in Prétot-Vicquemare, France (d. 1970)
  • 1920 (Henry) "Homer" Haynes, American country music comedian and guitarist (Homer & Jethro - "The Battle of Kookamonga"), born near Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 1971)
  • 1921 Émile Genest, French Canadian actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Les Plouffe), born in Quebec City, Canada (d. 2003)
  • 1922 Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue), born in Messina, Sicily (d. 1986)
  • 1922 Lillian Hayman, American actress (Leslie Uggams Show), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1994)
  • 1922 Norman Lear, American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer (All in The Family; One Day at a Time; The Jeffersons; Maude), and film director (Cold Turkey), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2023) [1] [2]
  • 1924 Vincent Canby, American movie critic (NY Times), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
  • 1928 Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico (d. 2007)
  • 1929 Marc Wilkinson, Australian-British conductor and film and theater composer ( Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu), born in Paris, France (d. 2022)
  • 1931 Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (My Mother the Car, Coach), born in Danville, Illinois (d. 2018)
  • 1937 Don Galloway, American actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside), born in Augusta, Kentucky (d. 2009)
  • 1939 Irv Cross, American football cornerback (Pro Bowl 1964, 65; Philadelphia Eagles) and broadcaster (CBS), born in Hammond, Indiana (d. 2021)
  • 1939 James Victor, Dominican-American actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA), born in Santiago Province, Dominican Republic (d. 2016)
  • 1942 Barbara Ferris, English actress (Nice Girl Like Me), born in London, England
  • 1942 John Pleshette, American actor and screenwriter (Knots Landing - "Richard"; 7th Avenue; The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald), born in New York City
  • 1943 Stu Gilliam, American actor and comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)
  • 1946 Gwynne Gilford, American actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1946 Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor (Taken 2), born in Bunić, Croatia
  • 1947 Betty Thomas [Neinhauser], American Emmy Award-winning actress (Hill Street Blues - "Sgt. Lucy Baines"), and director (The Late Show; The Brady Bunch Movie; Private Parts), born in St Louis, Missouri
  • 1949 Jeremy Thomas, British film producer and actor (Family Life), born in London
  • 1950 Simon Jones, English actor and comedian (News is the News), born in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England
  • 1951 Janet Eilber, American actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy), born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1953 Yahoo Serious [Greg Gomez Pead], Australian comedian, born in Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1956 Carol Leifer, American actress and comedian, born in East Williston, New York
  • 1957 Bill Engvall, American "Blue Collar" comedian ("Here's Your Sign"), born in Galveston, Texas
  • 1957 Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler, born in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2013)
  • 1963 Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and director (Ip Man, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), born in Guangzhou, China
  • 1967 Kellie Waymire, American actress (Six Feet Under), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2003)
  • 1967 Sasha Mitchell, American actor (Spike of Bensonhurst), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1968 Julian McMahon, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler), born in Sydney, New South Wales
  • 1968 Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress (Postman), born in Messina, Italy

Triple H (54 years old)

1969 American pro wrestler (14 x world champion; D-Generation X stable), born in Nashua, New Hampshire

  • 1970 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor (Game of Thrones), born in Rudkøbing, Denmark
  • 1972 Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian (Bridemaids), born in Gainesville, Florida
  • 1972 Takako Fuji, Japanese actress (The Grudge / Ju-on), born in Tokyo, Japan

Demis Hassabis (47 years old)

1976 British artificial intelligence researcher and computer game designer (Theme Park, DeepMind, AlphaGo), born in London

  • 1977 Jason Michael Zimbler, actor (Clarissa Explains it All), born in Queens, New York
  • 1980 Dolph Ziggler [Nicholas Theodore Nemeth], American professional wrestler, born in Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1980 Jessi Combs, American auto racer, television personality (women’s land speed class record [4 wheels] 2013, 16), born in Rockerville, South Dakota (d. 2019)
  • 1985 Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress, born in Porto, Portugal
  • 1985 Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor (Thumbsucker), born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey
  • 1989 Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress (Naturally, Sadie), born in Toronto, Ontario
  • 1990 Indiana Evans, Australian actress (Home and Away), born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1990 Nick Hogan, American reality TV star, born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1994 Winnie Harlow [born Chantelle Brown-Young], Canadian model with vitiligo (America's Next Top Model), born in Toronto, Ontario
  • 2000 Kali Rodriguez, American actress