February 27
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February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year (308 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 640 - Pepin the Elder, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (b. 580)
- 956 - Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople (b. 917)
- 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
- 1706 – John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
- 1735 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
- 1795 - Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
- 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, American banker (b. 1786)
- 1850 - Samuel Adams, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1805)
- 1874 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1819)
- 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)
- 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (b. 1821)
1901 – 2000
- 1905 - George S. Boutwell, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1818)
- 1906 - Samuel Pierpoint Langley, American astrophysicist (b. 1834)
- 1931 – Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906)
- 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist (b. 1849)
- 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
- 1937 - Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint (b. 1862)
- 1939 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (b. 1869)
- 1941 - William D. Byron, American politician (b. 1895)
- 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (b. 1859)
- 1956 - Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian politician (b. 1888)
- 1970 – Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1973 - Bill Everett, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
- 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
- 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
- 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
- 1999 - Christine Glanville, British puppeteer (b. 1924)
From 2001
- 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish-born comedian (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
- 2003 - John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
- 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedienne (b. 1958)
- 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
- 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American writer and commentator (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Manea Manescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Wendy Toye, British actress (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran and supercentenarian (b. 1901)
- 2013 - Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
- 2013 - Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kickboxer (b. 1969)
- 2013 - Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Jan Hoet, Belgian art historian (b. 1936)
- 2014 - Huber Matos, Cuban dissident, activist and writer (b. 1918)
- 2014 - Aaron Allston, American game designer and science fiction writer (b. 1960)
- 2015 - Bohdan Tomaszewski, Polish sports commentator (b. 1921)
- 2015 - Richard Bakalyan, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Bob Benmosche, American executive (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Mykhailo Chechetov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1953)
- 2015 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (b. 1959)
- 2016 - Rajesh Pillai, Indian film director (b. 1974)
- 2017 - John Harlan, American radio and television announcer (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Quini, Spanish footballer (b. 1949)
- 2018 - William H. T. Bush, American businessman (b. 1938)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Marino Marini, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1980)
- 1902 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1903 - Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and sketcher (d. 2005)
- 1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
- 1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
- 1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1905 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
- 1910 - Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1912 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer (d. 1990)
- 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish politician (d. 1989)
- 1917 – John Connally, 39th Governor of Texas and 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1993)
- 1921 - Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot and navigator (d. 2014)
- 1923 - Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-American chemist and entrepreneur (d. 2014)
- 1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
- 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist (d. 2013)
- 1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist, sculptor and writer (d. 2009)
- 1928 - Jean Joubert, French novelist, short story writer and poet (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
- 1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
- 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1932 - Ernst Hinterseer, Austrian skier
- 1934 – Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
- 1934 - Michiko Maeda, Japanese actress
- 1935 - Alberto Remedios, operatic tenor
- 1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
- 1935 - Brian Heap, English biologist and academic
- 1936 - Roger Mahony, American cardinal
- 1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
- 1939 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese fashion designer
- 1939 - Don McKinnon, New Zealand politician
- 1939 - Antoinette Sibley, English ballerina
- 1940 - Loren Pankratz, American psychologist
- 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
- 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist
- 1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian football manager
- 1945 - Carl Anderson, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
- 1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist and conductor
- 1948 - John Chittick, American health activist (d. 2017)
- 1950 - Julia Neuberger, English rabbi and politician
- 1950 - Annabel Goldie, Scottish politician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political figure (d. 1991)
- 1953 - Ian Khama, President of Botswana
- 1953 - Gabriela Svobodova, Czech cross-country skier
- 1953 - Gavin Esler, British broadcaster
- 1953 - Yolande Moreau, Belgian comedian, actress, movie director and screenwriter
- 1957 - Viktor Markin, Soviet-Russian sprinter
- 1957 – Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
- 1958 - Maggie Hassan, Governor of New Hampshire
- 1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1960 – Carson Yeung, Hong Kong businessman
- 1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
- 1964 - Thomas Lange, German rower
- 1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
- 1966 – Baltasar Kormakur, Icelandic actor, director and producer
- 1969 - Gareth Llewellyn, Welsh rugby player
- 1969 - Stuart MacBride, Scottish writer
- 1970 - Goran Markov, Macedonian footballer
- 1970 - Patricia Petibon, French soprano
- 1971 – Roman Giertych, Polish Minister of Education
- 1971 – Derren Brown, British illusionist
- 1973 – Peter Andre, British-Australian singer-songwriter, businessman and television personality
- 1974 – Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
- 1974 - Carte Goodwin, former United States Senator for West Virginia
- 1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
From 1976
- 1976 - Sergei Semak, Russian footballer
- 1978 – James Beattie, English footballer
- 1978 - Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
- 1979 - Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (d. 2015)
- 1980 - Debbie Flood, British rower
- 1980 – Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton
- 1980 – Bobby Valentino, American singer
- 1981 - Evi Goffin, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Josh Groban, American singer
- 1982 - Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
- 1982 - Amedy Coulibaly, French Islamic Jihadist (d. 2015)
- 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
- 1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
- 1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
- 1985 - Brandon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 - Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 - Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician
- 1989 - Stephen Kiprotich, Ugandan long-distance runner
- 1989 - Brittany Ashton Holmes, American actress
- 1992 - Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
- 1992 - Callum Wilson, English footballer
- 1992 - Meyers Leonard, American basketball player
- 1994 - Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
- 1996 - Marta Bassino, Italian skier
Deaths
Observances
- National Day of the Dominican Republic