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Famous Veterans Birthdays – July 27th
July 27
An event every year that begins at 12:00 am on day 27 of July, repeating indefinitely
Famous Veterans Celebrating Birthdays Today (July 27th):
Famous Veterans Born July 27, 1940:
Gary Kurtz – Film Producer: Star Wars – (Marine Corps 1966-1969) – Died: September 23, 2018
Famous Veterans Born July 27, 1931:
Jerry Van Dyke – Actor and Comedian (younger brother of Dick Van Dyke) – (United States Air Force Tops In Blue in 1954 and 1955) – Died: January 5, 2018
Famous Veterans Born July 27, 1922:
Norman Lear – Screenwriter/Producer (All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons and Good Times.
Lear enlisted in the United States Army in September 1942. He served in the Mediterranean theater as a radio operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force; he talked about bombing Germany in the European theater. Lear flew 52 combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945, and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the books Crew Umbriago, by Daniel P. Carroll (tail gunner), and 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories, by Turner Publishing and Co.
Norman Lear passed away on December 5th, 2023 at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 101.
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- Date:
- July 27
- Event Category:
- Birthdays
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- 463rd Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force, 772nd Bomb Squadron, Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, All in the Family, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, Crew Umbriago, Famous Veterans, Famous Veterans Birthdays July 27th, Famous Veterans Born July 27, Famous Veterans Celebrating Birthdays Today (July 27th), Gary Kurtz, Good Times, Jerry Van Dyke, Maude, Norman Lear, One Day at a Time, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, World War II
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