Celebrity Birthdays for Oct. 27:
Actress Nanette Fabray is 97.
Quebec singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault is 89.
Actor-comedian John Cleese is 78.
Country songwriter-singer Dallas Frazier is 78.
Author Maxine Hong Kingston is 77.
Country singer Lee Greenwood is 75.
Producer-director Ivan Reitman is 71.
Actor-singer Tom Jackson is 69.
Country singer-guitarist Jack Daniels (Highway 101) is 68.
Bassist Garry Tallent of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is 68.
Author Fran Lebowitz is 67.
Guitarist K.K. Downing (Judas Priest) is 66.
TV personality Jayne Kennedy is 66.
Actor-director Roberto Benigni ("Life Is Beautiful") is 65.
Actor Peter Firth ("That's Life") is 64.
Actor Robert Picardo ("The Wonder Years," ''China Beach") is 64.
World Golf Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan is 61.
Singer Simon LeBon of Duran Duran is 59.
Keyboardist J.D. McFadden (Sixpence None The Richer, The Mavericks) is 53.
Drummer Jason Finn of Presidents of the United States of America is 50.
Actor Sean Holland is 49.
Actor Channon Roe is 48.
Actress Sheeri Rappaport ("CSI," ''NYPD Blue") is 40.
Actor David Walton is 39.
Violinist Vanessa-Mae is 39.
TV personality Kelly Osbourne is 33.
Actress Christine Evangelista is 31.
Actor Bryan Craig ("General Hospital") is 26.
Actor Troy Gentile ("The Goldbergs") is 24.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1782, violinist Niccolo Paganini. (May 27, 1840)
In 1858, Theodore Roosevelt, the 28th U.S. president. (Jan. 6, 1919)
In 1872, author on etiquette Emily Post. (Sept. 25, 1960)
In 1911, actor Leif Erickson. (Jan. 29, 1986)
In 1914, Welsh author-poet Dylan Thomas. (Nov. 9, 1953)
In 1915, film producer Harry Saltzman. (Sept. 28, 1994)
In 1918, Canadian teacher/composer Gordon Delamont. (Jan. 16, 1981)
In 1922, actress Ruby Dee. (June 11, 2014)
In 1922, Baseball Hall-of-Famer and sportscaster Ralph Kiner. (Feb. 6, 2014)
In 1923, Canadian flutist Mario Duschenes. (Jan. 31, 2009)
In 1924, '50s country/rockabilly singer Bonnie Lou. (Dec. 8, 2015)
In 1928, opera director Irving Guttman, first artistic director of the Vancouver Opera. (Dec. 7 2014)
In 1931, songwriter Roy Edward Burris ("Okie From Muskogee"). (April 19, 2011)
In 1933, country piano player Floyd Cramer. (Dec. 31, 1997)
In 1940, mobster John Gotti. (June 10, 2002)
In 1945, actress Carrie Snodgress. (April 1, 2004)
In 1967, rock singer Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver). (Dec. 3, 2015).
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