July 27
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July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining after July 27 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
- 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
- 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
- 1773 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian politician and historian (d. 1844)
- 1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
- 1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
- 1833 – Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- 1835 – Giosue Carducci, Italian writer (d. 1907)
- 1857 – José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican political leader (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Canadian physician and feminist (d. 1943)
- 1867 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
- 1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
- 1877 – Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1880 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
- 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
- 1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (d. 1976)
- 1901 – Rudy Vallee, American singer (d. 1986)
- 1903 – Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (d. 1966)
- 1905 – Leo Durocher, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Mario Del Monaco, tenor (d. 1982)
- 1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist (d. 2007)
- 1916 – Keenan Wynn, American character actor (d. 1986)
- 1917 – Bourvil, actor (d. 1970)
- 1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
- 1922 – Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
- 1923 – Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Kyokushin marshal art (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Vincent Canby, film critic (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Heinz Wewers, German footballer (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Karl Mai, German footballer (d. 1993)
- 1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
- 1938 – Isabelle Aubret, French singer
- 1938 – Gary Gygax, game creator (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
- 1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- 1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer and Broadway actress
- 1949 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
- 1954 – Peter L. Allen, actor and musician
- 1957 – Bill Engvall, comedian
- 1958 – Christopher Dean, British figure skater
- 1967 – Juliana Hatfield, musician
- 1967 – Kellie Waymire, actress (d. 2003)
- 1968 – Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
- 1969 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
- 1969 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
- 1972 – Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
- 1974 – Eason Chan, Hong Kong pop singer
- 1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
- 1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
- 1977 – Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, British actor
- 1979 – Sidney Govou, French footballer
- 1979 – Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
- 1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
- 1984 – Arynne Sherouse, American writer, actor, and singer
- 1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
[change] Deaths
- 1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet and painter (b. 1814)
- 1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
- 1873 – Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet (b. 1803)
- 1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
- 1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and publicist (b. 1874)
- 1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Richard Herrmann, German footballer (b. 1923)
- 1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
- 1970 – Antonio Oliveira de Salazar, President of Portugal (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
- 1980 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American comedian (b. 1903)
- 2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
[change] Events
- 1689 – The Jacobite Army defeats Government forces in the Battle of Killiecrankie.
- 1793 – Maximilien Robespierre takes control of the 'Committee of Public Safety'.
- 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 'Enemies of the Revolution'.
- 1921 – University of Toronto researchers, led by Frederick Banting, prove than the hormone insulation regulates blood sugar.
- 1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut (first appearance) on television.
- 1945 – Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1953 – The Korean War ends.
- 1996 – A bomb explodes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
- 2002 – The world's worst ever air show disaster occurs in Lviv, Ukraine.
- 2007 – Two news helicopters, from TV Stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Phoenix, Arizona, while covering a police chase.
[change] Observances
- National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
- Victory Day (North Korea)
