October 27
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.
Events
Up to 1900
- 673 - Pope Agatho of Alexandria (b. 654)
- 939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
- 1271 - Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1303 - Beatrice of Castile (b. 1242)
- 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
- 1430 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
- 1439 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1392)
- 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and Sultan (b. 1394)
- 1485 - Rudolf Agricola, Dutch writer and educator (b. 1444)
- 1505 – Tsar Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (b. 1511)
- 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1605 – Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
- 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet and hymnist (b. 1614)
- 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1789 - John Cook, Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
- 1880 - Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1827)
1901 – 2000
- 1917 - Arthur Rhys-Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
- 1926 - Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887)
- 1935 - Ernest Eldridge, English racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1942 – Helmuth Hubener, German resistance activist (b. 1925)
- 1954 - Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886)
- 1962 - Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927)
- 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1975 – Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
- 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
- 1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Sherman Adams, 67th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1899)
- 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Catalan-born bandleader (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Jacques Demy, French director (b. 1931)
- 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 1999 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1959)
- 1999 – Karen Demirchyan, Chairman of the Armenian Parliament (b. 1932)
- 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass baritone (b. 1929)
From 2001
- 2001 - Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Walter Washington, American politician (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
- 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina (b. 1950)
- 2012 - Natina Reed, American singer, producer and rapper (b. 1979)
- 2012 - Hans Peter Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
- 2013 - Lou Reed, American musician (b. 1942)
- 2014 - Daniel Boulanger, French actor and writer (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Starke Taylor, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer (b. 1968)
- 2015 - Philip French, British film critic (b. 1933)
- 2016 - Prince Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1915)
- 2017 - Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Punathil Kunjabdulla, Indian writer and physician (b. 1942)
- 2018 - Freddie Hart, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Madan Lal Khurana, Indian politician (b. 1936)
- 2018 - Mario Segale, American businessman (b. 1934)
- 2018 - Ntozake Shange, American poet and playwright (b. 1948)
- 2018 - Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman and owner of Leicester City F.C. (b. 1958)
- 2019 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-British human rights activist and dissident (b. 1942)
- 2019 - Stephen P. Cohen, American political scientist and security expert (b. 1936)
- 2019 - John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
- 2019 - Ivan Milat, Australian serial killer (b. 1944)
- 2019 - Anne Phelan, Australian actress (b. 1940s)
- 2019 - Hans-Peter Uhl, German politician (b. 1944)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 – Emil Jónsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian footballer (d. 1974)
- 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
- 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1913 - Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian, anthropologist and author (d. 2016)
- 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre and film producer (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Kazimierz Brandys, Polish writer (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist (d. 1993)
- 1917 - Arne Andersson, Swedish athlete (d. 2009)
- 1918 - Edgar Herschler, 28th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1919 - Tim M. Babcock, 16th Governor of Montana (d. 2015)
- 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress (d. 2018)
- 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
- 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American activist (d. 2017)
- 1922 - Ruby Dee, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1922 - Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016)
- 1922 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (d. 2010)
- 1922 - George Young, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1924 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Warren Christopher, former United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1925 - Gianni Bonagura, Italian actor (d. 2017)
- 1930 - Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
- 1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American musician (d. 1997)
- 1934 - Elías Querejeta, Spanish film producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1937 - Peter Lustig, German television presenter (d. 2016)
- 1938 - Maurice Hinchey, American politician (d. 2017)
- 1939 – John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
- 1939 - Marino Perani, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
- 1939 - Albert Wendt, Samoan writer
- 1940 – John Gotti, New York mafia boss (d. 2002)
- 1941 - Dick Trickle, American racing driver (d. 2013)
- 1943 - Sherman Kelly, American singer-songwriter (Boffalongo)
- 1944 - Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
- 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
- 1945 - Arild Andersen, Norwegian composer and bassist
- 1946 - Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut, pilot and engineer (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, producer and director
- 1949 - Garry Talent, American musician (E Street Band)
- 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer
- 1950 - Sue Lloyd-Roberts, English journalist (d. 2015)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - K. K. Downing, English musician (Judas Priest)
- 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist and academic
- 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor and director
- 1952 - Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist and author
- 1952 - Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
- 1953 - Peter Firth, English actor
- 1954 - Frank Gray, Scottish footballer
- 1954 - Mike Kelley, American artist (d. 2012)
- 1956 - Michèle Chardonnet, French athlete
- 1956 - Christiane Wartenberg, German athlete
- 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
- 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
- 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English musician (Duran Duran)
- 1958 - Manu Katché, French musician
- 1959 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
- 1961 - Margaret Mazzantini, Italian actress
- 1962 - Stewart McKimmie, Scottish footballer
- 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1963 - Farin Urlaub, German musician and songwriter
- 1964 - Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
- 1967 – Scott Weiland, American musician Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver (d. 2015)
- 1967 - Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
- 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, musician (Cradle of Filth)
- 1971 - Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary movie maker
- 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1975 - Zadie Smith, English novelist
- 1975 - Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
From 1976
- 1976 – Ariel Ibagaza, Argentine footballer
- 1977 – Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
- 1977 - Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
- 1978 - Toby Petersen, American ice hockey player
- 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singapore-born British musician
- 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 - Václav Noid Bárta, Czech singer and actor
- 1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
- 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Ozzy Osbourne
- 1984 - Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1984 - Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress
- 1986 - David Warner, Australian cricketer
- 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
- 1987 - Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1992 - Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
- 1992 - Emily Hagins, American director, producer and screenwriter
- 1994 - Eddie Alderson, American actor
- 1997 - Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
- 1999 - Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 2007 - Dev Singh, SuperIndian
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkmenistan)