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Famous Late Year Birthdays: A 2027 Index
Famous late year birthdays from September through December, with exact dates, the record types listed for each entry, and a 2027 check-year reference.
What to take away
- This index covers famous late year birthdays from September 1 to December 31, making the boundary a rule rather than a guess.
- The table below lists 16 famous people born inside that window, with exact dates and the record type behind each.
- The 2027 view is a date stamp. The table lists a record type for each date, and the index does not refresh itself after that.
- Three record types settle most disputesa state or provincial vital record, a league profile, and a studio or label press file.
- Two records, two dates. Print both and name both, because picking the tidier number is how a wrong date starts.
Where the boundary sits
Late-year covers September, October, November and December. In 2027, a common year, that span is 122 days. August falls outside this index.
The window is narrow on purpose. Every row needs a record behind it, and four months can be checked entry by entry. A January to December file would need the same records for three times the names.
The standing late-year reference uses the same four-month window and the same record types, so both pages put the boundary in the same place.
What the 2027 view means
2027 is the year the checking was done. A birth date does not change that year. Only the calendar under it moves.
The stamp tells a reader how fresh the work is. Each date was re-checked against its record type on that pass, not copied from an older page.
Two things follow. A date added in 2029 needs its own check. A site that reuses this index in 2031 is reporting a 2027 check, not a current one.
The index
Sixteen names across four months. Every person here has a stable public record and at least two independent secondary sources. This is a sample of the method, not a complete roll of famous late-year birthdays.
| Person | Date of birth | Record type carrying the date |
|---|---|---|
| Zendaya | September 1, 1996 | Studio publicity file |
| Keanu Reeves | September 2, 1964 | Studio publicity file and published biographies |
| Beyonce | September 4, 1981 | State vital record cited in published biographies |
| Serena Williams | September 26, 1981 | WTA player profile and media guide |
| Brie Larson | October 1, 1989 | Studio publicity file |
| Ryan Reynolds | October 23, 1976 | British Columbia birth registration cited in biographies |
| Drake | October 24, 1986 | Ontario birth registration cited in published biographies |
| Julia Roberts | October 28, 1967 | Studio publicity file |
| Alphonso Davies | November 2, 2000 | National team and club roster file |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | November 11, 1974 | Studio publicity file |
| Ryan Gosling | November 12, 1980 | Studio publicity file |
| Scarlett Johansson | November 22, 1984 | Studio publicity file |
| Taylor Swift | December 13, 1989 | Label press materials |
| Billie Eilish | December 18, 2001 | Label press materials |
| Denzel Washington | December 28, 1954 | Studio publicity file and published biography |
| LeBron James | December 30, 1984 | NBA media guide and team roster file |
The last column names the record type that carries each date. Where a vital record exists, it outranks a media guide or a publicity file.
Simone Biles, born March 14, 1997, sits outside this table on purpose. The method does not change with the month, and a spring date is sourced the way a December one is.
When the month rather than the person is the organizing unit, the layout changes. A day-by-day September list replaces name-by-name rows with day headers.
Where the dates come from
State health departments hold the original record for a US birth, and each state sets its own rules on who may order a copy. The CDC page on where to write for vital records lists the office and the request path for every state.
Provincial registries do the same job in Canada, the second market for this index. That is why Ryan Reynolds carries a British Columbia registration and Drake an Ontario one.
Media guides, federation profiles and publicity files are secondary sources. They are citable and useful, and they are not the record itself.
Example: two records, two dates
Two records, two dates
- Trace the date to its earliest appearance, and note which record type that version names.
- Compare like with like, and check whether the sources agree on the full date, the month, or only the year.
- Print both dates side by side, each with its source named next to it.
- State what would settle it, such as a certified copy or a registry entry.
Print both dates and name each source. Do not resolve the conflict by picking the number that looks tidier.
Most conflicts have two causes. A birth shortly before or after midnight local time can land on different calendar days in different records. The other cause is a copied error: one page prints a wrong day, a hundred pages repeat it, and the wrong day collects more citations than the right one.
The April birthdays for actors page shows the same conflict with paperwork attached, because a studio checks a date of birth against its own filing.
The guideline on reliable sources was written for a general encyclopedia, but its test holds here. A fan page or a self-published profile does not settle a date, however many copies of it exist.
Publishing a year instead of a date
A full date of birth is not a default field for a living person. The guidance on writing about living people asks for a reason before the full date appears. If the date is not part of why the person is listed, the year is enough.
A year answers most reader questions, and it withholds the exact value someone would use to confirm an identity.
Removal requests have an order. Take the date down first, then decide what the entry can say without it. Log the removal, so a later editor does not restore it from an old copy.
