Editing 1927 (section)

===January–February===
[[File:Eartha Kitt 2007.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Eartha Kitt]]]]
[[File:(Olof Palme) Felipe González ofrece una rueda de prensa junto al primer ministro de Suecia. Pool Moncloa. 28 de septiembre de 1984 (cropped).jpeg|100px|thumb|[[Olof Palme]]]] 
[[File:Sidney Poitier 1968.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sidney Poitier]]]]
[[File:Juliette Greco voor het programma Domino in de Cinebone Studio in Duivendrecht, Bestanddeelnr 914-9574 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Juliette Gréco]]]] 
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Maurice Béjart]], French-Swiss dancer, choreographer and director (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Cruickshank |first=Judith |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-b-jart-influential-choreographer-who-attracted-huge-audiences-to-ballet-760253.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-b-jart-influential-choreographer-who-attracted-huge-audiences-to-ballet-760253.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Maurice Béjart: Influential choreographer who attracted huge audiences to ballet |work=The Independent |date=November 24, 2007 |access-date=January 20, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Vernon L. Smith]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel]] laureate<ref>{{cite book|author1=United States|author2=United States Congress Committee on Science|title=Keeping the Lights on: Removing Barriers to Technology to Prevent Blackouts : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, September 25, 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvQqAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=44|isbn=9780160716805}}</ref>
** [[Kazi M Badruddoza]], Bangladeshi agronomist, [[Independence Award]] laureate (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=রিপোর্ট |first=স্টার অনলাইন |date=2023-08-30 |title=কাজী পেয়ারার জনক কৃষিবিজ্ঞানী কাজী এম বদরুদ্দোজা মারা গেছেন |url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news-510046 |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Daily Star Bangla |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Barbara Rush]], American actress (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title="A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWNZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0696-8|page=200}}</ref>
* [[January 10]]
**[[Johnnie Ray]], American singer (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rosa Solomon|title=Careful, He Might Not Hear You|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYrxY7Wc6G8C&pg=PA156|year=1990|publisher=Little Red Apple Publishing|isbn=978-1-875329-00-7|pages=156}}</ref>
** [[Otto Stich]], member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Clements|title=Clements' International Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1uojAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Political Research, Incorporated|page=17}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Sydney Brenner]], South African biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Verma P.S. & Agarwal V.K.|title=Genetics, 9th Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzBlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|year=2010|publisher=S. Chand Publishing|isbn=978-81-219-3114-4|pages=30|edition=Multicolour}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] 
**[[Kirti Nidhi Bista]], Nepali politician, three times prime minister (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Handbook and Atlas of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia8bAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations|page=81}}</ref>
**[[Yaakov Heruti]], Israeli Zionist militant and political activist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-09-20|title=Ya'acov Heruti, member of the Stern Gang who was sent to Britain to assassinate Ernest Bevin – obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/09/20/yaacov-heruti-member-stern-gang-who-sent-britain-assassinate/|access-date=2023-04-02|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Eartha Kitt]], African-American singer, actress, activist and author (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kristine Helen Burns|title=Women and music in America since 1900: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2gYAAAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-1-57356-308-6|page=349}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Qurratulain Hyder]], Indian journalist and academic (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of South Asian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvkHAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University|page=183}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], Brazilian composer (d. [[1994]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[José Azcona del Hoyo]], 26th [[President of Honduras]] (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William D. Coplin|author2=Michael O'Leary|title=Political Risk Yearbook 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7dWAAAAYAAJ|date=February 1990|publisher=Cedar Tree House|isbn=978-1-85271-123-8|page=2}}</ref>
* [[January 28]]  
** [[Per Oscarsson]], Swedish actor (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/08/per-oscarsson-obituary|title=Per Oscarsson obituary|date=February 8, 2011|last=Bergan|first=Ronald |author1-link=Ronald Bergan|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Ronnie Scott]], English jazz saxophonist (d. [[1996]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Lewis Urry]], Canadian inventor (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Olof Palme]], Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Britannica Educational Publishing|title=Denmark, Finland, and Sweden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af-cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|date=1 June 2013|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-995-5|pages=212}}</ref>
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Galway Kinnell]], American poet (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard Nelson|title=On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cXV26PmJUYC&pg=PA19|year=1987|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-06376-6|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Stan Getz]], American musician (d. [[1991]])<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|pages=518/9}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Anger]], American actor, director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|author=Marc Stein|title=Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America: Actors to gyms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yedGAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-31262-0|page=61}}</ref> (d. [[2023]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Juliette Gréco]], French singer, actress (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/24/juliette-greco-obituary|title=Juliette Greco obituary|date=24 September 2020|author=Patrick O'Connor|website=The Guardian|access-date=10 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[George Taliaferro]], American football player (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|first=Mike|last=Schumann|url=https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/breaking-iu-legend-george-taliaferro-has-passed-away/|title=Breaking: IU Legend George Taliaferro Dies at 91|work=The Daily Hoosier|access-date=October 8, 2018|date=October 9, 2018}}</ref> 
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Leontyne Price]], African-American soprano<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3081|date=November 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-048-3|pages=3081}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Harvey Korman]], American actor, comedian (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite news| title=Harvey Korman| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| location=London| date=June 3, 2008|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2071350/Harvey-Korman.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2071350/Harvey-Korman.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| access-date=2008-06-03}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[June Brown]], English actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitmore |first1=Greg |title=June Brown: a life in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/apr/04/june-brown-a-life-in-pictures |website=The Guardian |access-date=4 April 2022 |date=4 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[John Selfridge]], American mathematician (d. [[2010]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[John Warner]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Roy Cohn]], American lawyer, anti-Communist (d. [[1986]])
** [[Sidney Poitier]], Bahamian-American actor, film director, (Oscar winner for [[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]) (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |title=Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Best Actor Oscar, dies aged 94 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/sidney-poitier-death-age-cause-actor-b1988778.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/sidney-poitier-death-age-cause-actor-b1988778.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=January 7, 2022 |language=en |date=January 7, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Hubert de Givenchy]], French fashion designer (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2018/03/12/le-couturier-hubert-de-givenchy-est-mort-a-l-age-de-91-ans_5269637_3382.html|title=Le couturier Hubert de Givenchy est mort à l'âge de 91 ans|language=French|url-access=subscription |work=Le Monde|date=12 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] 
** [[Emil Bobu]], Romanian Communist activist, politician (d. [[2014]])
** [[Guy Mitchell]], American singer and actor (d. [[1999]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Emmanuelle Riva]], French actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Ralph Stanley]], American [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] banjo player and vocalist (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Peter Whittle (mathematician)|Peter Whittle]], New Zealand mathematician (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/centrefolds/22/Dec1981.shtml|title=NZMS Newsletter 22 Centrefold, December 1981|author=J.H. Darwin|access-date=3 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215001749/http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/centrefolds/22/Dec1981.shtml|archive-date=15 December 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>