November 27

2023 Calendar

November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

8 BC – Horace, Roman Emperor (b. 65 BC)
395 - Ruffinus, Roman statesman
450 - Galla Placidia, Roman daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
511 – Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466)
602 - Maurice, Byzantine Emperor (b. 539)
1198 - Constance, Queen of Sicily (b. 1154)
1252 - Blanche of Castile, Spanish consort of King Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, French-Flemish composer (b. 1397)
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1661 - Teofila Zofia Sobieska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1607)
1664 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (b. 1564)
1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer (b. 1719)
1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (b. 1815)
1888 - Wilhelm Hertenstein, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (b. 1824)
1899 - Constant Fornerod, Swiss politician (b. 1819)

1901 – 2000

1916 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855)
1919 - Manuel Espinosa, President of Panama (b. 1857)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (b. 1908)
1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (b. 1849)
1937 - Felix Hamrin, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1875)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1871)
1944 - Leonid Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer (b. 1888)
1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1892)
1960 - Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
1967 – Léon Mba, President of Gabon (b. 1902)
1971 - Joe Guyon, American football player (b. 1892)
1975 – Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician (b. 1930)
1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 – Angela Aames, American actress (b. 1956)
1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1989 - Carlos Arias Navarro, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (b. 1925)
2000 - Willie Cunningham, Scottish footballer (b. 1925)
2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (b. 1922)

From 2001

2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2006 – Alan Freeman, English disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2008 – V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
2011 – Ken Russell, English movie director (b. 1927)
2013 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
2013 - Lewis Collins, English actor (b. 1946)
2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
2014 - P. D. James, English writer (b. 1920)
2015 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (b. 1924)
2015 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1929)
2016 - Ioannis Grivas, Greek politician (b. 1923)
2017 - Loïc Bouvard, French politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Bill Harris, American politician (b. 1934)
2017 - James Kisicki, American actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Bud Moore, American racing driver (b. 1925)
2017 - Cristina Stamate, Romanian actress (b. 1946)
2018 - Harold O. Levy, American lawyer and philanthropist (b. 1952)
2018 - Ed Pastor, American politician (b. 1943)
2018 - V. K. Rao, Indian civil servant (b. 1914)
2018 - Barbara Brooks Wallace, American writer (b. 1922)
2019 - Stefan Danailov, Bulgarian actor (b. 1942)
2019 - Clay Evans, American pastor and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2019 - Maarit Feldt-Ranta, Finnish politician (b. 1968)
2019 - Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
2019 - Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (b. 1934)
2019 - Sushil Kumar, Indian admiral (b. 1940)
2019 - Jonathan Miller, English theatre director, opera director and physician (b. 1934)
2019 - Agnes Baker Pilgrim, American Takelma elder (b. 1924)
2019 - William Ruckelshaus, American attorney and US Government official (b. 1932)
2019 - Bala Singh, Indian actor (b. 1952)
2019 - Sam Watson, Australian indigenous activist, politician and writer (b. 1952)

Births

Up to 1850

1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (d. 1194)
1380 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1630 - Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1665)
1684 – Tokugawa Yoshimune, 8th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1781)
1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the Celsius temperature scale (d. 1744)
1715 – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, German physician and theologian (d. 1794)
1746 – Robert Livingston, American politician and businessman (d. 1813)
1746 - Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician (d. 1865)
1804 - Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (d. 1885)
1809 - Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright and poet (d. 1893)
1831 – Gustav Radde, German geographer and naturalist (d. 1903)
1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)

1851 – 1900

1854 - Louis de Geer, 17th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1935)
1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
1865 - Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1917)
1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (d. 1956)
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
1876 – Viktor Kaplan, Austrian engineer (d. 1934)
1878 - Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter (d. 1969)
1884 - Vasile Voiculescu, Romanian poet (d. 1963)
1885 - Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (d. 1944)
1887 - Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1888 - Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1956)
1891 - Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (d. 1951)
1892 - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (d. 1914)
1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1894 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and author (d. 1977)
1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (d. 1971)
1896 - Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1978)
1897 - Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster (d. 1969)

1901 – 1950

1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist (d. 1976)
1908 - Tameo Ide, Japanese footballer (d. 1998)
1909 - James Agee, American author and screenwriter (d. 1955)
1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1911 - David Merrick, American theatre producer (d. 2000)
1912 - Connie Sawyer, American actress (d. 2018)
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1918 - Borys Paton, Ukrainian engineer and scientist
1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1992)
1923 – Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (d. 2009)
1925 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999)
1927 - William E. Simon, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2000)
1929 - Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (d. 2017)
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (d. 1983)
1934 - Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1934 - Gilbert Strong, American mathematician
1935 - Les Blank, American director and producer (d. 2013)
1935 - Daniel Charles, French philosopher (d. 2008)
1936 - Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
1937 - Rodney Bewes, English actor (d. 2017)
1938 - Apolo Nsibambi, former Prime Minister of Uganda (d. 2019)
1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player
1939 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
1940 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial arts expert (d. 1973)
1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer and coach
1941 - Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
1945 - Barbara Anderson, American actress
1945 - James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
1945 - Benigno Fitial, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands
1946 - Kim Howells, British politician
1946 - Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
1947 - Don Adams, American basketball player
1947 - Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti
1950 - Gavyn Davies, English businessman

1951 – 1975

1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American movie director
1951 - Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress
1951 - Ivars Godmanis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1951 - Luis Lusquiños, Argentine politician (d. 2017)
1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 - Bappi Lahiri, Indian director and singer
1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian musician
1953 - Steve Bannon, American media executive (Breitbart News) and former White House Chief Strategist
1954 - Arthur Smith, English comedian and actor
1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Lionello Manfredoni, Italian footballer
1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
1957 – Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy
1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racing driver
1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball player
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1959 - Victoria Mullova, Russian violinist
1960 – Eike Immel, German footballer
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician, former Governor of Minnesota
1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
1960 - Michael Rispoli, American actor
1960 - Gianni Vernetti, Italian politician
1960 - Nigel Marven, British television presenter and zoologist
1961 – Samantha Bond, British actress
1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director and screenwriter
1961 - Norbert Dickel, German footballer
1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor, director and producer
1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and coach
1964 - Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress (d. 2016)
1964 - Giles Fraser, English Church of England priest, journalist and broadcaster
1964 - Robin Givens, American actress
1965 - Rachida Dati, French politician
1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 - Shane Embury, English musician
1968 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
1970 - Brooke Langton, American actress
1971 - Troy Corser, Australian motorcycle racer
1972 - Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer
1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
1974 - Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish cyclist

From 1976

1976 – Jaleel White, American actor
1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 – The Streets, English rapper
1978 – Radek Stepanek, Czech footballer
1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1979 - Shin Hye-sung, South Korean singer
1980 - Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and musician
1981 - Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1982 - Tatsuya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
1982 - Alexander Kerzhakov, Russian footballer
1982 - Tommy Robinson, English activist, former leader of the English Defence League
1983 – Professor Green, English rapper
1984 - Sanna Nielsen, Swedish singer
1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1985 - Lauren C. Mayhew, American actress and singer
1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1987 - Yuria Haga, Japanese actress
1987 - Tom Allin, English cricketer (d. 2016)
1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer
1990 - Shane Haboucha, American actor
1992 - Park Chan-yeol, South Korean singer and dancer
1996 - Amanda Todd, American victim of cyberbullying (d. 2012)

Deaths

Observances

Earliest Day for the start of Advent
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)
Lancashire Day