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Events
- 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 939 - Edmund I of England succeeds Athelstan of England as King of England.
- 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 - Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid (1795), which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonization of the Americas and the U.S.
- 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
- 1807 - Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops.
- 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colonization of the Americas of West Florida.
- 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order (Mormonism), which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
- 1870 - Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Kingdom of Prussia forces at Metz along with 140,000 France soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V of Ethiopia, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia.
- 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexion to the South African Union.
- 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1936 - Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his Edward VIII abdication crisis from the throne.
- 1946 - First commerce television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
- 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
- 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
- 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in SA-1 (Apollo).
- 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his Lockheed U-2 was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1970 - Louis Néel receives the Nobel Prize.
- 1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1981 - The Soviet Union submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first President of Kyrgyzstan.
- 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 - First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936.
- 1992 - US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1995 - Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption.
- 1997 - Stock markets around the world stock market crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
- 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
- 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
- 2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but London Weekend Television (LWT) lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel Television, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
- 2005 - 2005 Paris suburb riots after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers
Births
- 1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
- 1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
- 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason (Michigan), first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
- 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
- 1854 - William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade), Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- 1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
- 1877 - George Thompson (cricketer), English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
- 1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 1997)
- 1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
- 1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
- 1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
- 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
- 1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
- 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
- 1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
- 1924 - Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
- 1925 - Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
- 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
- 1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Québécois poet, singer and songwriter
- 1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor
- 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
- 1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
- 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
- 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
- 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
- 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
- 1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
- 1945 - John Kane (writer), actor/writer
- 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
- 1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
- 1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
- 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
- 1951 - K.K. Downing, British guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
- 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
- 1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
- 1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
- 1957 - Jeff East, American actor
- 1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
- 1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1964 - Mark Taylor (cricketer), Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
- 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
- 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
- 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
- 1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea (musical group))
- 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
- 1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
- 1977 - Jiri Jarosik, Czech footballer
- 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
- 1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
- 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
- 1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
- 1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
- 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
- 1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer
- 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
- 1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
Deaths
- 939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
- 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
- 1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
- 1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
- 1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
- 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
- 1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
- 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
- 1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
- 1605 - Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
- 1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
- 1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1789 - John Cook (governor), American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
- 1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
- 1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
- 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
- 1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
- 1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1899)
- 1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
- 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
- 1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
- 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
- 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 1999 - Robert Mills (physicist), American physicist (b. 1927)
- 1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 2000 - Walter Berry (opera singer), Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- 2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- 2004 - Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
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Events
- 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 939 - Edmund I of England succeeds Athelstan of England as King of England.
- 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 - Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid (1795), which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonization of the Americas and the U.S.
- 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
- 1807 - Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops.
- 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colonization of the Americas of West Florida.
- 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order (Mormonism), which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
- 1870 - Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Kingdom of Prussia forces at Metz along with 140,000 France soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V of Ethiopia, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia.
- 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexion to the South African Union.
- 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1936 - Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his Edward VIII abdication crisis from the throne.
- 1946 - First commerce television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
- 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
- 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
- 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in SA-1 (Apollo).
- 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his Lockheed U-2 was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1970 - Louis Néel receives the Nobel Prize.
- 1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1981 - The Soviet Union submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first President of Kyrgyzstan.
- 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 - First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936.
- 1992 - US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1995 - Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption.
- 1997 - Stock markets around the world stock market crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
- 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
- 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
- 2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but London Weekend Television (LWT) lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel Television, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
- 2005 - 2005 Paris suburb riots after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers
Births
- 1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
- 1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
- 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason (Michigan), first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
- 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
- 1854 - William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade), Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- 1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
- 1877 - George Thompson (cricketer), English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
- 1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 1997)
- 1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
- 1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
- 1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
- 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
- 1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
- 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
- 1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
- 1924 - Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
- 1925 - Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
- 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
- 1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Québécois poet, singer and songwriter
- 1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor
- 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
- 1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
- 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
- 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
- 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
- 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
- 1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
- 1945 - John Kane (writer), actor/writer
- 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
- 1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
- 1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
- 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
- 1951 - K.K. Downing, British guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
- 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
- 1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
- 1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
- 1957 - Jeff East, American actor
- 1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
- 1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1964 - Mark Taylor (cricketer), Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
- 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
- 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
- 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
- 1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea (musical group))
- 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
- 1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
- 1977 - Jiri Jarosik, Czech footballer
- 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
- 1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
- 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
- 1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
- 1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
- 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
- 1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer
- 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
- 1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
Deaths
- 939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
- 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
- 1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
- 1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
- 1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
- 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
- 1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
- 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
- 1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
- 1605 - Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
- 1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
- 1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1789 - John Cook (governor), American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
- 1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
- 1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
- 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
- 1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
- 1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1899)
- 1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
- 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
- 1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
- 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
- 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 1999 - Robert Mills (physicist), American physicist (b. 1927)
- 1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 2000 - Walter Berry (opera singer), Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- 2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- 2004 - Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
October 27 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Star Buys: October 27, 2007
Jane MacQuitty ... 2006 Ockfener Bockstein Riesling, Mosel, Dr Wagner, Germany, Waitrose, £6.49.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 27
1978: Gunman runs amok in West Midlands. Four people are killed and four others seriously wounded after a gunman goes on a shooting spree in the Midlands.
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BBC - Press Office - 27 October 2003
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Dept_Diary - Monday, October 27
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