October 27 Birthdays

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Author Profession: Italian Musician
Born: 1782-10-27
Died: 1840-05-27

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Quotes: Niccolo Paganini

Niccolo Paganini

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

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Author Profession: Politics, Biographies & Memoirs, Outdoors & Nature
Born: 1858-10-27
Died: 2019-01-06

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Quotes: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

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Author Profession: Chinese Musician
Born: 1978-10-27

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Quotes: Vanessa Mae

Vanessa Mae

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

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Author Profession: English comic, actor
Born: 1939-10-27

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Quotes: John Cleese

John Cleese

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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Author Profession: France actor.
Born: 1922-10-27
Died: 2016-01-04

Michel Galabru

Ambitie is een pover excuus voor mensen die de moed niet hebben om lui te zijn.

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Author Profession: English singer (Duran Duran)
Born: 1958-10-27

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Quotes: Simon LeBon

Simon LeBon

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

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Author Profession: US golddigger
Born: 1963-10-27

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Quotes: Marla Maples

Marla Maples

I'm so excited to meet you. I've always modeled myself after 'Ginger.'

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Author Profession: US singer (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)
Born: 1967-10-27

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Quotes: Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland

The most badass way to kill a person is with a rocket launcher.

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Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1946-10-27
Died: 2004-04-01

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Quotes: Carrie Snodgress

Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a career woman, you see. My life always came first. When I got nominated for 'Diary of a Mad Housewife,' I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

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Author Profession: US writer
Born: 1950-10-27

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Quotes: Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

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Author Profession: Egyptian Writer
Born: 1931-10-27

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Quotes: Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

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Author Profession: English daughter
Born: 1984-10-27

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Quotes: Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Osbourne

The only thing I really care about right now is boys. I go for the smelly ones. ... I don't like clean-cut, white picket-fence, khaki pants-wearing boys. All my boyfriends have been really ugly.

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Author Profession: US Celebrity
Born: 1975-10-27

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Quotes: Aron Ralston

Aron Ralston

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

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Author Profession: US Politician
Born: 1800-10-27
Died: 1878-03-02

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Quotes: Benjamin F. Wade

Benjamin F. Wade

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

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Author Profession: US Author
Born: 1944-10-27

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Quotes: J. A. Jance

J. A. Jance

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, Ill be able to finish it. Ive also become more assured about my voice as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

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Author Profession: Swedish Author
Born: 1844-10-27
Died: 1916-02-20

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Quotes: Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

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Author Profession: US Journalist
Born: 1958-10-27

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Quotes: Nina Easton

Nina Easton

The guardians of your companys cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.

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Author Profession: South African Politician
Born: 1917-10-27
Died: 1993-04-24

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Quotes: Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won, until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

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Author Profession: US Businessman
Born: 1874-10-27
Died: 1962-07-11

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Quotes: Owen D. Young

Owen D. Young

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

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Author Profession: Poetry, Literature & Fiction Influences T.S. Eliot, Rimbaud, Freud, Schopenhauer, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, D T.S. Eliot, Rimbaud, Freud, Schopenhauer, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, The Bible, Welsh Folklore ...more
Born: 1914-10-27
Died: 1953-11-09

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Quotes: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

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Author Profession: Humor And Comedy, Social Commentary edit data
Born: 1950-10-27

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Quotes: Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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Author Profession:
Born: 1940-10-27

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Quotes: Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

In a time of destruction, create something. Maxine Hong Kingston

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Author Profession: US writer
Born: 1932-10-27
Died: 1963-02-11

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Quotes: Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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Author Profession: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction Influences Vladimir Nabokov, E.M. Forster, Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace ...more
Born: 1975-10-27

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Quotes: Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

The past is always tense, the future perfect. Zadie Smith

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Author Profession: US etiquette maven
Born: 1862-10-27
Died: 1960-09-25

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Quotes: Emily Post

Emily Post

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

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Author Profession: English writer (National Velvet)
Born: 1889-10-27
Died: 1981-03-31

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Quotes: Enid Bagnold

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To 'Why am I here?' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities...