Born:
Theodore Dreiser, U.S., novelist, Sister Carie, American Tragedy
More Notable Birthdays on August 27:
1910 - Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, American President
1890 - Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada
1865 - Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic