27 May: today's birthdays

• Arnold Bennett - English writer
• Heston Blumenthal - English chef
  
• Louis Ferdinand Céline - Pen name of French author Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
• Lily-Rose Depp - French actress and model. She is the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis
• Isadora Duncan - American dancer
• Chelsea Field - American actress
• Joseph Fiennes - English actor
• Paul Gascoigne - Former English soccer player
• Dashiell Hammett - American writer
• ​Jonas Hector - German professional footballer 
• Henry Kissinger - German-born American politician and diplomat. He received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
• Jules Lachelier - French philosopher
• Edward Lee - American writer
• Christopher Lee - English actor
• Jamie Oliver - English chef
• Donna Strickland - Canadian physicist, born Donna Theo Strickland. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin. They are considered the pioneers of lasers
• Cornelius Vanderbilt - American entrepreneur