August 27
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August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years). There are 126 days left in the year.
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[change] Births
- 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (died 479 BC)
- AD 1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Ashikaga shogun (died 1425)
- 1730 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher and writer (died 1788)
- 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (died 1831)
- 1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (died 1891)
- 1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (died 1932)
- 1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (died 1935)
- 1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (died 1951)
- 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (died 1945)
- 1874 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (died 1967)
- 1877 - Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
- 1877 - Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (died 1963)
- 1884 - Vincent Auriol, President of France (died 1966)
- 1886 - Eric Coates, English composer (died 1957)
- 1890 - Man Ray, American photographer and artist (died 1976)
- 1899 - C.S. Forester, British author (died 1966)
- 1904 - Norah Lofts, author (died 1983)
- 1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (died 1984)
- 1908 - Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
- 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
- 1909 - Lester Young, jazz musician (died 1959)
- 1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (died 2005)
- 1913 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (died 2006)
- 1914 - Heidi Kabel, German actress (died 2010)
- 1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist
- 1916 - Martha Raye, actress (died 1994)
- 1918 - Jelle Zijlstra, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
- 1925 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (died 2011)
- 1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (died 2002)
- 1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician.
- 1929 - Ira Levin, American author (died 2007)
- 1932 - Antonia Fraser, British author
- 1933 - Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer
- 1935 - Frank Yablans, film producer
- 1941 - Cesaria Evora, Cape Verdean singer
- 1943 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
- 1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
- 1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), actor
- 1954 - John Lloyd, British tennis player and coach
- 1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
- 1962 - Sjon, Icelandic writer and artist
- 1966 - Juhan Parts, Estonian Prime Minister
- 1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
- 1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
- 1970 - Jim Thome, American baseball player
- 1972 - Denise Lewis, British athlete
- 1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
- 1974 - Jose Vidro, Major League Baseball player
- 1974 - Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
- 1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
- 1976 - Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
- 1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
- 1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
- 1977 - Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
- 1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
- 1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
- 1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
- 1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress
- 1993 - Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
[change] Deaths
- 1394 - Emperor Chokei of Japan (b. 1343)
- 1521 - Josquin des Prez, French-Flemish composer (b. 1450)
- 1577 - Titian, Italian painter
- 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
- 1635 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
- 1919 - Louis Botha, South African politician (b. 1862)
- 1937 - Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855)
- 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German aristocrat (b. 1915)
- 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1862)
- 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (b. 1901)
- 1963 - W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
- 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
- 1967 - Brian Epstein, British music manager (b. 1934)
- 1968 - Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
- 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
- 1979 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British statesman (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (b. 1954)
- 1999 - Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1909)
- 2006 - Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (b. 1889)
- 2009 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author (b. 1913)
- 2010 - Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
[change] Events
- 479 BC - Battle of Plataea ends the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.
- 55 BC - Julius Caesar Lands in Britain for the first time.
- AD 410 - Vandal sack of Rome ends after three days.
- 1776 - Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington
- 1813 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden
- 1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
- 1859 - Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.
- 1861 - Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1883 - The after effects caused by the Krakatoa explosion in Indonesia kill 36,000 people.
- 1896 - The shortest war in the world - 9:02 - 9:40 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar
- 1900 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
- 1916 - World War I: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed by sixty nations.
- 1939 - First jet aircraft flight
- 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
- 1962 - Mariner 2 is launched.
- 1979 - An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
- 1990 - The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming. The station broadcasts for eighteen hours per day.
- 1991 - The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1991 - Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1993 - The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
- 2000 - Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, and three people are killed.
- 2003 - Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
- 2005 - Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama declare a State of Emergency in preparation for Hurricane Katrina.
- 2006 - Comair Flight 5191 crashes on take-off at Lexington, Kentucky, with 49 people out of the 50 on board being confirmed dead within hours of the crash.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (Moldova)
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas)
