27 April: today's birthdays

• Frank Abagnale Jr. - Former American criminal and forger. The film Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was inspired by his life 
• Mary Adelaide Barron - Ex-wife of American entrepreneur Conrad Nicholson Hilton
• Chiang Ching-kuo - Taiwanese politician
• Didier Daeninckx - French writer. He wrote Murder in Memoriam (Meurtres pour Mémoire) and A Very Profitable War (Le Der des ders)
• Maria del Mar Bonet - Catalan singer
  
• Graziano Delrio - Italian politician
• Arielle Dombasle - American-born French actress, film director and singer
• Edward Gibbon - English historian and politician
• Fethullah Gülen - Turkish former imam, writer, and political figure. He is against every form of violence and states that "A Muslim can not be a terrorist, nor can a terrorist be a true Muslim."
• Sally Hawkins - English actress
• Luz Long - German athlete
• Samuel Morse - American painter, historian, and inventor, born Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He is known worldwide as the inventor, along with Alfred Vail, of the telegraph and the Morse code
• Herbert Spencer - English philosopher
• Patrick Stump - American singer and composer
• August Wilson - American dramatist, novelist and screenwriter
• Mary Wollstonecraft - English writer, philosopher, and activist. She was married to English philosopher William Godwin. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman