People who died on February 27, 1992 (the exact day you were born) S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician People who died on February 27 (various years) 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian 2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author 2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher 2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor 2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian 1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor 1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress 1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer 1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director 1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player 1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician 1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician 1980 - George Tobias, American actor 1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer 1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer 1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets 1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist 1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer 1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer 1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize 1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher 1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer 1902 - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Boer War under controversial circumstances 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States 1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer 1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister 1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist 1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625) 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College geeeeeezzzzz