On This Day February 27
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1934 – Game show host Wink Martindale (“Tic Tac Dough,” “Gambit,” “Dedt”)
1964 – Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei (“My Cousin Vinny,” “In the Bedroom,” “The Wrestler”)
1966 – Comedian Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live,” “Portlandia”)
1969 – Grammy-winning rapper-record producer Jay Z, born Shawn Corey Carter
1954 – The Chordettes settle in at No. 1 on the singles chart for seven weeks with “Mr. Sandman.”
1965 – The Byrds kick off three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
1993 – Cancer claims the life of rock composer-guitarist Frank Zappa at the age of 52.
2004 – The Usher-Alicia Keys duet, “My Boo,” enters its sixth and final week as a No. 1 single.
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1903 – Paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey (d. 1972)
1904 – Nobel Peace Prize–winning academic and U.N. diplomat Ralph Bunche (d. 1971)
1942 – Grammy-winning writer and “A Prairie Home Companion” creator-host Garrison Keillor
1955 – Actor Wayne Knight, best known as Newman from the NBC sitcom “Seinfeld”
1960 – Actor David Duchovny, best known for playing Special Agent Fox Mulder in “The X-Files”
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1965 – The most popular single is The Byrds’ interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.”
1976 – Paul McCartney and Wings hold the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Silly Love Songs.”
1993 – Janet Jackson rules the Billboard Hot 100 with “That’s the Way Love Goes.”
2004 – Usher holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week with “Burn.”
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