On this day: 27 February
Events, births and deaths on 27 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Boris Spassky
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Yi Cheol-seung
100 years ago1926
- Births · David H. Hubel
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 956 · Deaths · Theophylact of Constantinople
Events · 22
- 1560(Julian date)Treaty of Berwick — 1560 treaty between Scottish nobles and England
- 1776Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge — 1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1812flag of Argentina — national flag of the Argentine Republic
- 1814Battle of Orthez — 1814 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1860Cooper Union speech — speech by Abraham Lincoln in New York City during his 1860 campaign for US President
- 1870flag of Japan — national flag of Japan
- 1881Majuba Hill — 1881 final battle of the First Boer War
- 1900FC Bayern Munich — association football club in Munich, Germany
- 1932Mäntsälä rebellion — failed coup attempt in Finland in 1932
- 1933Reichstag fire — arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933
- 1942Battle of the Java Sea — 1942 naval battle on the Pacific campaign of WWII, in present-day western Indonesia
- 1942Operation Biting — 1942 British Combined Operations raid during World War II
- 1947228 Incident — 1947 uprising in Taiwan
- 19621962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing — 1962 aerial attack in Saigon
- 1976Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic — partially recognised state in the western Maghreb
- 1988Sumgait pogrom — pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait in Soviet Azerbaijan in late February 1988
- 2001Loganair Flight 670A — 2001 aviation incident involving a Short 360
- 2002Godhra train burning — incident in Godhra, Gujarat, India in February 2002
- 20042004 SuperFerry 14 bombing — Terrorist attack in the Philippines
- 20102010 Chile earthquake — magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile on 27 February 2010
- 2015assassination of Boris Nemtsov — 2015 murder of a Russian opposition politician
- 20192019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes — India-Pakistan aerial engagement
Births · 60
- 272(Julian date)Constantine the Great — Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)
- 1767Jacques Charles Dupont de l'Eure — French politician (1767-1855)
- 1807
- 1847Ellen Terry — English actress (1847–1928)
- 1861Rudolf Steiner — Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
- 1863George Herbert Mead — American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
- 1863Joaquín Sorolla — Spanish painter (1863–1923)
- 1867Irving Fisher — American economist and statistician (1867–1947)
- 1869Alice Hamilton — American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
- 1881Sveinn Björnsson — Icelandic politician, 1st President of Iceland (1881-1952)
- 1881Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer — Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)
- 1897Marian Anderson — African-American contralto (1897–1993)
- 1902John Steinbeck — American writer (1902–1968)
- 1902Lucio Costa — Brazilian architect (1902–1998)
- 1905Franchot Tone — American actor (1905-1968)
- 1910Joan Bennett — American actress (1910–1990)
- 1912Lawrence Durrell — British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (1912–1990)
- 1913Paul Ricœur — French philosopher (1913–2005)
- 1913Irwin Shaw — American writer (1913–1984)
- 1917John Connally — American politician (1917–1993)
- 1923Dexter Gordon — American jazz saxophonist (1923–1990)
- 1926David H. Hubel — Canadian neurophysiologist
- 1929Djalma Santos — Brazilian association football player (1929-2013)
- 1930Joanne Woodward — American actress (born 1930)
- 1932Elizabeth Taylor — British-American actress (1932–2011)
Deaths · 60
- 906(Julian date)Conrad, Duke of Thuringia — Frankish noble
- 956(Julian date)Theophylact of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1425(Julian date)Vasily I of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow (1372-1425)
- 1483(Julian date)William VIII, Marquess of Montferrat — Marquess of Montferrat
- 1637Honami Kōetsu — Japanese painter and calligrapher; (1558-1637)
- 1641Pau Claris — Catalan politician
- 1706John Evelyn — writer, gardener and diarist (1620-1706)
- 1735John Arbuthnot — Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667-1735)
- 1784Count of St. Germain — 18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
- 1795Tanikaze Kajinosuke — Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1821Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr — German naturalist
- 1841Tokugawa Ienari — Japanese shogun
- 1844Nicholas Biddle — American financier, banker (1786-1844)
- 1892Louis Vuitton — French fashion designer and businessman (1821–1892)
- 1906Samuel Langley — American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
- 1931Chandra Shekhar Azad — Indian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer (1906–1931)
- 1936Ivan Pavlov — Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
- 1939Nadezhda Krupskaya — Russian revolutionary and politician (1869–1939)
- 1943Kostis Palamas — Greek poet
- 1946Harry Edwin Wood — English astronomer (1881-1946)
- 1964Orry-Kelly — Australian costume designer (1897–1964)
- 1968Frankie Lymon — American singer (1942–1968)
- 1969Marius Barbeau — Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (1883–1969)
- 1973Bill Everett — Comic book writer-artist
- 1977John Dickson Carr — American writer (1906–1977)
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