April 14, 1927

1927Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)^[†]

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS was a New Zealand chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

1927Dany Robin, French actress and singer (died 1995)^[†]

Dany Robin was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s, moving from the role of ‘ingénue’ to that of saucy Parisienne. She played the leading lady in Topaz (1969), and is regarded as the last ‘Hitchcock blonde’.