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 until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
- 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
- 1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
- 1740 – Jeanne Baret, French naturalist (d. 1803)
- 1768 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
- 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
- 1773 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian politician and historian (d. 1844)
- 1773 – Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (d. 1802)
- 1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
- 1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
- 1833 – Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- 1834 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian national hero (d. 1879)
- 1835 – Giosue Carducci, Italian writer (d. 1907)
- 1848 – Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
- 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 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
- 1903 – Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (d. 1966)
- 1904 – Lyudmila Rudenko, Russian chess player (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Leo Durocher, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
- 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)
- 1928 – Joseph Kittinger, American pilot
- 1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Shirley Williams, British politician
- 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)
- 1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
- 1944 – Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
- 1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- 1949 – Andre Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949 – Rory MacDonald, Scottish musician (Runrig)
- 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
- 1961 – Daniel C. Burbank, American astronaut
- 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
- 1973 – Abe Cunningham, American drummer (Deftones)
- 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
- 1980 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
- 1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
- 1984 – Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
- 1984 – Arynne Sherouse, American writer, actor, and singer
- 1985 – Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
- 1987 – Marek Hamsik, Slovakian footballer
- 1987 – Jordan Hill, American basketball player
- 1989 – Mohamed Bangura, Sierra Leonian footballer
- 1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
- 1990 – Nick Hogan, American reality TV personality
- 1991 – Rena Matsui, Japanese singer (AKB48)
Deaths [change]
- 432 – Pope Celestine I
- 916 – Clement of Ohrid, Slavic archbishop and scholar (b. 840)
- 1101 – Conrad II of Italy (b. 1074)
- 1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
- 1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
- 1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
- 1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
- 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 de Oliveira Salazar, President of Portugal (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
- 1978 – Bob Heffron, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
- 1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
- 1980 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American comedian (b. 1903)
- 2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
- 2011 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
Events [change]
- 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, somewhere North of the Firth of Forth.
- 1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies.
- 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
- 1663 – The English Parliament passes the Second Navigation Act, requiring that all goods bound for American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
- 1689 – The Jacobite Army defeats Government forces in the Battle of Killiecrankie.
- 1694 – A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
- 1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Usant - British and French fleets fight to a stand-off.
- 1789 – The United States Department of Foreign Affairs is founded, later being renamed the United States Department of State.
- 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'.
- 1830 – The July Revolution in France against King Charles II of France.
- 1862 – Sailing from San Francisco to Panama City, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico.
- 1865 – Welsh settlers arrive in Chubut, Argentina.
- 1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, from Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
- 1880 – 2nd Anglo-Afghanistan War: Battle of Maiwand - Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeats a British Army.
- 1890 – Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself, leading to his death two days later.
- 1919 – The Chicago Race Riot breaks out after an incident on the South Side. Subsequent rioting leads to 38 deaths.
- 1921 – University of Toronto researchers, led by Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulation regulates blood sugar.
- 1924 – The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris come to an end.
- 1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, on dealing with prisoners of war, is signed by 53 nations.
- 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, though, as of 2012, North Korea and South Korea are still officially in a state of war with each other.
- 1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria officially ends.
- 1976 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws.
- 1983 – At Weikada High Security Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18 Tamil prisoners are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
- 1996 – A bomb explodes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US, killing 1 person. Eric Rudolph carried out the attack.
- 1997 – Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France.
- 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
- 2002 – The world's worst ever air show disaster occurs in Lviv, Ukraine, as a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes, killing 85 people.
- 2005 – NASA suspends Space Shuttle flights, just a day after the Discovery launch, as, during it, part of the foam insulation sheds from the fuel tank. Repairs are performed on space walks and the Shuttle lands safely on August 9.
- 2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
- 2007 – Two news helicopters, from TV Stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Phoenix, Arizona, while covering a police chase.
- 2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics in London begin.
Observances [change]
- National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
- Victory Day (North Korea)
