Amtrack passenger train Number 58 (R) pulls along side Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy Steam Locomotive at the Amtrak station in St. Louis in 2021. On September 27, 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive (not pictured) to pull a passenger train. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2025 with 95 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include statesman Samuel Adams in 1722; political cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1840; actor Jayne Meadows in 1919; filmmaker Arthur Penn in 1922; actor William Conrad in 1920; actor Wilford Brimley in 1934; World Golf Hall of Fame member Kathy Whitworth in 1939; Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait, in 1940 (age 85); musician Randy Bachman (Guess Who/Bachman-Turner Overdrive) in 1943 (age 82); actor Liz Torres in 1947 (age 78); musician/actor Meat Loaf in 1947; actor A Martinez in 1948 (age 77); Baseball Hall of Fame member Mike Schmidt in 1949 (age 76); actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in 1950 (age 75); actor/musician Shaun Cassidy in 1958 (age 67); Speed Skating Hall of Fame member Beth Heiden in 1959 (age 66); musician Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) in 1964 (age 60); musician Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) in 1970 (age 55); actor Gwyneth Paltrow in 1972 (age 53); actor Indira Varma in 1973 (age 52); musician Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) in 1978 (age 47); musician Lil Wayne in 1982 (age 43); actor Anna Camp in 1982 (age 43); musician Avril Lavigne in 1984 (age 41); model/actor Arielle Vandenberg in 1986 (age 39); actor Thomas Mann in 1991 (age 34); actor Jenna Ortega in 2002 (age 23).
