September 27

2024 Calendar

September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

855 – Lothair I, King of the Romans (b. 795)
1162 – Odo II, Duke of Burgundy
1249 – Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1404 – William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
1547 – Lady Eleanor Brandon (b. 1519)
1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1492)
1590 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
1660 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (b. 1581)
1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
1833 – Ram Mohan, Indian reformer (b. 1772)
1876 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (b. 1804)
1891 – Ivan Goncharev, Russian writer (b. 1812)

1901 – 2000

1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
1940 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, British Women's Rights activist (b. 1882)
1961 – H.D., American writer (b. 1886)
1965 – Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian prince, participated in the killing of Grigori Rasputin (b. 1887)
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer (b. 1907)
1975 – Jack Lang, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)
1979 – Gracie Fields, British comedienne (b. 1898)
1981 – Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish athlete (b. 1951)
1986 – Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
1991 – Oona O'Neill, English actress (b. 1926)
1993 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)

From 2001

2004 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist (b. 1929)
2005 – Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929)
2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (b. 1957)
2008 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
2009 – William Safire, American columnist (b. 1929)
2011 – David Croft, British writer, producer and director (b. 1922)
2011 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)
2012 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (b. 1917)
2014 – Eugie Foster, American science fiction writer (b. 1971)
2014 – James Traficant, American politician (b. 1941)
2014 – Taylor Hardwick, American architect (b. 1925)
2014 – Zhang Xianliang, Chinese author and poet (b. 1936)
2014 – Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (b. 1939)
2014 – Jean-Jacques Pauvert, French publisher (b. 1926)
2015 – Syed Ahmed, Indian politician (b. 1945)
2015 – Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (b. 1915)
2015 – Wilton Felder, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1940)
2015 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2015 – John Guillermin, English movie director and producer (b. 1925)
2015 – Denise Lor, American singer and actress (b. 1929)
2016 – Sebastian Papaiani, Romanian actor (b. 1936)
2017 – Joy Fleming, German singer (b. 1944)
2017 – Hiromi Hayakawa, Japanese-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1982)
2017 – Hugh Hefner, American adult magazine publisher and businessman (Playboy) (b. 1926)
2017 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress (b. 1923)
2018 – Marty Balin, American rock singer and musician (b. 1942)
2018 – Brian A. Joyce, American politician (b. 1962)
2018 – James G. March, American sociologist (b. 1928)
2019 – William J. Edwards, American politician (b. 1928)
2019 – Rob Garrison, American actor (b. 1960)
2019 – John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925)
2019 – Joseph C. Wilson, American writer (b. 1949)

Births

1901 – 1950

1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and theorist (d. 2003)
1907 – Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer and producer (d. 1991)
1916 – S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (d. 2006)
1918 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (d. 1984)
1919 – James Wilkinson, British mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 – Johnny Pesky, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1919 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (d. 2015)
1920 – William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – John Malcolm Patterson, former Governor of Alabama (d. 2021)
1921 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian movie director (d. 2014)
1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
1922 – Arthur Penn, American screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (d. 2013)
1924 – Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
1924 – Josef Skvorecky, Czech writer and publisher (d. 2012)
1925 – Robert G. Edwards, British biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2013)
1927 – Chrysostomos I, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus (d. 2007)
1927 – Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper (d. 2001)
1929 – Barbara Murray, English actress (d. 2014)
1929 – Txillardegi, Basque linguist, writer and politician (d. 2012)
1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
1932 – Yash Chopra, Indian director (d. 2012)
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1933 – Greg Morris, American actor
1933 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (d. 1987)
1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host (d. 2012)
1936 – Sancho Gracia, Spanish television presenter (d. 2012)
1937 – Vasyl Durdynets, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter and screenwriter
1940 – Josephine Barstow, English soprano
1940 – Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (d. 2015)
1941 – Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach
1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (d. 2008)
1942 – Alvin Stardust, English singer (d. 2014)
1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian nobleman
1943 – Walter Riester, German politician
1946 – Nicos Anastasiades, Greek-Cypriot politician, President of Cyprus
1946 – Naiyyum Choudhury, Bangladeshi biochemist (d. 2019)
1946 – Robin Nedwell, English actor (d. 1999)
1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
1947 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
1947 – Vic Snyder, American politician
1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer (d. 2022)
1947 – Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
1948 – Duncan Fletcher, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1950 – Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist

1951 – 1975

1951 – Jim Shooter, American writer
1951 – Anthony Laciura, American operatic tenor
1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1952 – Didier Dubois, French mathematician
1952 – Katie Fforde, English author
1953 – Diane Abbott, English politician
1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
1953 – Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican musician and producer
1953 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian engineer and astronaut
1954 – Dougie MacLean, Scottish singer-songwriter
1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and composer
1956 – Milan Smrčka, Czech musician
1956 – Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer
1957 – John Inverdale, English broadcaster
1957 – Peter Sellars, American theatre director
1958 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, German-born French-American movie actor, director and producer
1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American musician and producer
1965 – Bernard Lord, Canadian politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian politician
1966 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
1966 – Jovanotti, Italian singer
1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
1966 – Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
1967 – Willie Rennie, Scottish politician
1967 – Llewella Gideon, English voice actor
1968 – Mari Kiviniemi, former Prime Minister of Finland
1968 – Patrick Muldoon, American actor
1972 – Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress

From 1976

1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1976 – Matt Harding, American video game designer and dancer
1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d. 2012)
1978 – Pastora Soler, Spanish singer
1979 – Shinji Ono, Japanese footballer
1980 – Olivier Kapo, French footballer
1980 – Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1981 – Brendon McCallum, New Zealand cricketer
1981 – Mirjam Weichselbraun, Austrian television host and actress
1982 – Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer
1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper
1982 – Darrent Williams, American football player
1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
1984 – Davide Capello, Italian footballer
1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
1984 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (d. 2011)
1985 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (d. 2014)
1987 – Adam Bogdan, Hungarian footballer
1991 – Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player
1992 – Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer
1993 – Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
1995 – Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress

Deaths

Observances

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