Birthdays for January the 27th

1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy and Salzburg Austria
1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole)
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL
1885 - Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer
1894 - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
1900 - Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy
1901 - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh)
1911 - Benay Venuta, actress
1918 - Skitch Henderson, Bandleader
1921 - Donna Reed, in Denison Iowa
1927 - Joe Perry, AAFC and NFL fullback (SF 49ers and Baltimore Colts)
1929 - Ingrid Thulin, in Sweden
1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (Cockfighter and Grandview USA)