April 27
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April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births[change]
- 1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer (d. 1722)
- 1650 – Charlotte-Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
- 1676 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
- 1701 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
- 1724 - Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1755)
- 1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and feminist (d. 1797)
- 1791 – Samuel Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
- 1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
- 1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1908)
- 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
- 1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
- 1848 – Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
- 1853 - Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
- 1856 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875)
- 1857 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (d. 1914)
- 1860 – Frank Winkelmeier, Austrian, tallest man at the time of his death (d. 1887)
- 1875 – Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1960)
- 1878 - John Rimmer, British athlete (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
- 1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian composer, conductor, musician, critic and writer (d. 1995)
- 1894 – George Petty, American artist (d. 1975)
- 1896 - William Hudson, Australian engineer (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Wallace Carothers, American chemist (d. 1937)
- 1899 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
- 1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1904 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
- 1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (d. 2001)
- 1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008)
- 1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
- 1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
- 1922 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer
- 1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Coretta Scott King, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2006)
- 1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviator (d. 1988)
- 1929 - Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete
- 1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- 1932 – Anouk Aimee, French actress
- 1932 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host and voice actor
- 1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician
- 1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
- 1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer
- 1942 - Valeri Polyakov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
- 1944 – Michael Fish, English weather presenter
- 1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer
- 1947 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1975)
- 1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer and coach
- 1948 - Frank Abagnale, American security consultant and trickster
- 1950 – Paolo Pulici, Italian footballer
- 1951 – Ace Frehley, American musician
- 1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
- 1954 – Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician
- 1954 – Herman Edwards, American Football manager
- 1957 - Adrian Utley, English musician
- 1959 - Andrew Fire, American Nobel Prize-winning biologist
- 1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
- 1959 – Jim Duffy, Scottish footballer and coach
- 1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
- 1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
- 1967 – King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
- 1969 – Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
- 1969 – Mica Paris, English singer
- 1969 – Tess Daly, English television presenter
- 1969 - Cory Booker, American politician
- 1976 - Sally Hawkins, British actress
- 1978 - Jim James, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (My Morning Jacket)
- 1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
- 1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician
- 1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 - Jenna-Louise Coleman, British actress
- 1986 – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
- 1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
- 1988 - Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Lars Bender, German footballer
- 1989 – Sven Bender, German footballer
- 1989 - Emily Rios, American actress and model
- 1992 – Allison Iraheta, American actress
Deaths[change]
- 630 – Ardashir III of Persia
- 1272 – Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
- 1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
- 1463 – Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
- 1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
- 1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
- 1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
- 1818 - Christopher Greenup, 3rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
- 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
- 1896 - Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician (b. 1815)
- 1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
- 1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
- 1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
- 1962 - A. K. Fazlul, Bengali statesman (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Rene Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
- 1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
- 1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1977 - Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1891)
- 1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
- 1991 – Robert Velter, French comic writer (b. 1909)
- 1996 – William Colby, American CIA director (b. 1920)
- 1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian writer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
- 2006 - Julia Thorne, American writer (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
- 2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
Events[change]
- 33 BC - Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother of future Roman Emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as Governor in one of the Provinces of Hispania.
- 1296 – First Scottish War of Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
- 1522 - Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
- 1539 – Re-founding of Bogota, in present-day Colombia.
- 1565 – Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music of the Fireworks in Green Park, London.
- 1813 - War of 1812: US troops capture the capital city of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present-day Toronto).
- 1840 – The foundation stone is laid for the new Palace of Westminster.
- 1865 – The SS Sultana steamboat explodes and sinks on the Mississippi River, killing 1,700 people.
- 1904 – Chris Watson becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1909 – Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II is overthrown by his brother Mehmed V.
- 1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1927 – The Carabineros de Chile, the national police and gendarmerie of Chile, is created.
- 1936 - United Auto Workers gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans.
- 1945 - World War II: German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- 1960 – Togo becomes independent from France.
- 1961 – Sierra Leone becomes independent from the UK.
- 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1987 – The US Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States over revelations of possible war crimes committed by him during World War II.
- 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is created, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro.
- 1992 – Russia and 12 former Soviet Republics join the International Monetary Fund.
- 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.
- 1993 – Several members of the Zambia national football team are killed in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
- 1994 – South Africa holds its first free elections, with Nelson Mandela being elected President.
- 2005 – The Superjumbo aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight in France.
- 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in New York City.
- 2007 – The Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in Tallinn is removed by Estonian authorities, amidst tensions with Russia.
- 2009 – The United Kingdom announces its first cases of the 2009 Swine flu outbreak.
- 2011 - A tornado outbreak kills hundreds of people in the Southeastern United States.
Observances[change]
- Independence Day in Togo (1960) and Sierra Leone (1961)
- Freedom Day in South Africa
- World Tapir Day
- King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)
