Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 27

Births

• 272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882) (pictured)
• 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
• 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
• 1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist

Deaths

• 1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
• 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
• 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
• 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)