27 March: today's birthdays

• Mariah Carey - American singer and record producer
• Marielle de Sarnez - French politician, born Marielle Lebel de Sarnez
• Fergie - Stage name of Stacy Ann Ferguson, American singer, songwriter and actress
• Georges Eugène Haussmann - French urban planner, politician and prefect
• Dick King-Smith - English writer of children's books. He wrote The Sheep-Pig, which was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) 
• Karl Mannheim - Hungarian-born German sociologist
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German architect and designer
• Nicolas N'Koulou - Cameroonian professional footballer, born Nicolas Alexis Julio N'Koulou N'Doubena 
• Manuel Neuer - German footballer
• Francis Ponge - French poet
  
• Mariano Rajoy - Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - German physicist
• Maria Schneider - French actress
• Edward Steichen - Luxembourger-born American photographer and painter
• Gloria Swanson - American actress, born Gloria May Josephine Swanson. Former silent film star, she became famous worldwide for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder
• Quentin Tarantino - American film director, screenwriter and actor, born Quentin Jerome Tarantino. He won two Oscars for Writing Original Screenplay, in 1995, for Pulp Fiction and, in 2013, for Django Unchained
• Giuseppe Tornatore - Italian film director. He won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990
• Dubravka Ugrešić - Croatian author. She wrote the novel Steffie in the Jaws of Life
• Sarah Vaughan - American singer
• Alfred de Vigny - French novelist, playwright and poet