April 27

2024 Calendar

April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

630 – Ardashir III of Persia
1272 – Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1463 – Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish priest and missionary (b. 1532)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1794 - James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer (b. 1730)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
1818 - Christopher Greenup, 3rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 - Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician (b. 1815)

1901 – 2000

1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul, Bengali statesman (b. 1883)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1969 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1977 - Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1891)
1979 - Celal Atik, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (b. 1918)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1991 – Robert Velter, French comic writer (b. 1909)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1996 – William Colby, American CIA director (b. 1920)
1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian writer (b. 1925)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (b. 1954)

From 2001

2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
2002 - Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, American writer (b. 1944)
2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
2013 - Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
2014 - Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (b. 1929)
2014 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1931)
2014 - Harry Firth, Australian racing driver (b. 1918)
2014 - Andréa Parisy, French actress (b. 1935)
2015 - Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
2015 - Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1926)
2015 - Suzanne Crough, American actress (b. 1963)
2015 - Gene Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1931)
2015 - Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboardist (b. 1960)
2015 - Marty Napoleon, American jazz pianist (b. 1921)
2016 - Toms, Indian cartoonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Peter George, Canadian academic (b. 1941)
2017 - Vinod Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1946)
2017 - Vinu Chakravarthy, Indian actor (b. 1945)
2017 - Julius Youngner, American virologist (b. 1920)
2018 - Paul Junger Witt, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
2018 - Roy Young, English singer and pianist (b. 1937)
2018 - Earl Balfour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2018 - Michael Luscombe, Australian chief executive (b. 1953)
2018 - Kristin Nelson, American actress, painter and author (b. 1945)
2019 - Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (b. 1955)
2019 - Negasso Gidada, President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
2019 - Bart Chilton, American civil servant (b. 1960)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 - Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
1903 - Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990)
1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1904 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
1905 - John Huck, American javelin thrower and shot putter (d. 1986)
1909 - Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (d. 1971)
1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (d. 1988)
1911 - Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
1912 - Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
1912 - Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (d. 2001)
1913 - Luz Long, German long jumper (d. 1943)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008)
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
1921 - Robert Dhéry, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 2016)
1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
1926 - Tim LaHaye, American minister, author and speaker (d. 2016)
1927 – Coretta Scott King, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviator (d. 1988)
1929 - Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (d. 2016)
1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
1931 - Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist (d. 1969)
1932 – Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host and voice actor (d. 2014)
1932 - Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
1932 - Chuck Knox, American football coach (d. 2018)
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer
1939 - Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
1941 - Fethullah Gülen, Turkish politician and religious leader
1942 - Valeri Polyakov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1943 - Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (d. 2019)
1944 – Michael Fish, English weather presenter
1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer (d. 2017)
1944 - Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, English academic and politician
1947 - Nick Greiner, Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
1947 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1975)
1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
1948 – Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer and coach
1948 - Frank Abagnale, American security consultant and trickster
1949 - Jean Asselborn, Luxembourgish politician
1950 – Paolo Pulici, Italian footballer

1951 – 1975

1951 – Ace Frehley, American musician
1951 - Viviane Reding, Luxembourgish journalist and politician
1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and singer
1954 – Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician
1954 – Herman Edwards, American football manager
1954 - John Cygan, American actor (d. 2017)
1955 - Eric Schmidt, American entrepreneur, former CEO of Google
1956 - Bridget Kendall, English journalist
1957 - Adrian Utley, English musician
1959 - Andrew Fire, American Nobel Prize-winning biologist
1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
1959 – Jim Duffy, Scottish footballer and coach
1961 - Andrew Schlafly, American conservative lawyer and activist
1962 - Edvard Moser, Norwegian neurologist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
1965 - Anna Chancellor, English actress
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
1967 – King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer and educator
1968 - Cristian Mungiu, Romanian filmmaker
1969 – Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
1969 – Mica Paris, English singer
1969 – Tess Daly, English television presenter
1969 - Cory Booker, American politician
1971 - Olari Elts, Estonian conductor

From 1976

1976 - Sally Hawkins, English actress
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter and critic
1976 - Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1978 - Jim James, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (My Morning Jacket)
1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorean footballer
1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer-songwriter
1982 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian politician
1983 - Ari Gaynor, American actress
1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Hannes Thór Halldórsson, Icelandic footballer and filmmaker
1986 - Jenna Coleman, British actress
1986 – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 - William Moseley, English actor
1988 - Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
1989 – Lars Bender, German footballer
1989 – Sven Bender, German footballer
1989 - Emily Rios, American actress and model
1990 - Robin Bengtsson, Swedish singer
1990 - Martin Kelly, English footballer
1991 - Lara Gut, Swiss skier
1992 – Allison Iraheta, American actress
1995 - Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day in Togo (1960) and Sierra Leone (1961)
Freedom Day in South Africa
World Tapir Day
King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)