August 27, 1947

1947Barbara Bach, American actress and model^[†]

Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American actress and former model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

1947Halil Berktay, Turkish historian and academic^[†]

Halil Berktay is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University. He has worked as a columnist for the daily newspaper Taraf and is one of the first Turkish historians to acknowledge the Armenian genocide as a historical fact.

1947Kirk Francis, American engineer and producer^[†]

Kirk H. Francis is a former production sound mixer in the motion picture industry.

1947Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)^[†]

Peter Krieg, born as Wilhelm Walter Gladitz was a German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He initially enrolled in business and economics courses at Hamburg University but abandoned his studies to travel and teach horsemanship in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. He later returned to Germany with his first wife, the American Heidi Knott, with whom he studied film at the German Film & TV Academy (DFFB) in Berlin and collaborated on his early works.

1947John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and politician^[†]

John Francis Maclean Morrison is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 17 Test matches and 18 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. From 1998 to 2013, he was a Wellington City Councillor; his political career ended when he stood for mayor in 2013.

1947Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer and sportscaster (died 2002)^[†]

Gavin Pattison Pfuhl was a South African first-class cricketer who played for Western Province. He was a wicketkeeper who took more than 300 dismissals in his 95-game career.