January 27, 1936

1936Troy Donahue, American actor (died 2001)^[†]

Troy Donahue was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.

1936Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Chao Chung Ting, also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).