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November 27, 1934

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Notable Births

Ammo Baba

1934Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager (died 2009)[†]

Emmanuel Baba Dawud, better known as Ammo Baba, was an Iraqi football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.

Al Jackson Jr.

1934Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 1975)[†]

Albert J. Jackson Jr. was an American drummer, producer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a group of session musicians who worked for Stax Records and produced their own instrumentals. Jackson was affectionately dubbed "The Human Timekeeper" for his drumming ability. He was posthumously inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s in 1992.

Gilbert Strang

1934Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and academic[†]

William Gilbert Strang is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught Linear Algebra, Computational Science, Engineering, Learning from Data, and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.

Notable Deaths

Baby Face Nelson

1934Baby Face Nelson, American criminal (born 1908)[†]

Lester Joseph Gillis, also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger when he helped Dillinger escape from prison in Crown Point, Indiana. Later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that Nelson and the remaining gang of bank robbers were collectively "Public Enemy Number One".