27 September: today's birthdays

• Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - French theologian and writer
• Lorenzo Cherubini - Italian singer-songwriter and rapper, best known as Jovanotti
• ​Lhasa de Sela - American singer-songwriter of Mexican descent.
• Grazia Deledda - Italian writer, born Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. She wrote Reeds in the Wind and L'Edera
• Simona Halep - Romanian professional tennis player
• Miklós Jancsó - Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed the films The Round Up, The Red and the White and Red Psalm
• Jovanotti - Stage name of Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper
• Goro Kishitani - Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor
• Avril Lavigne - Canadian singer and songwriter, born Avril Ramona Lavigne. She is married to Canadian singer and guitarist Chad Kroeger
• Gwyneth Paltrow - American actress, born Gwyneth Kate Paltrow. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1999 for her role in the film Shakespeare in love, directed by John Madden
• Arthur Penn - American film director and producer
• Irvine Welsh - Scottish writer. He is the author of the novel Trainspotting, which has been adapted into the homonymous film directed by Danny Boyle