On this day: 27 April
Events, births and deaths on 27 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jiggly Caliente
- Events · 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Tim LaHaye
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 26
- 1296Battle of Dunbar — 1296 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
- 1521(Julian date)Battle of Mactan — 1521 first native resistance against the Spanish colonisation in the Philippines
- 1522Battle of Bicocca — 1522 battle of the Italian wars
- 1650Battle of Carbisdale — battle in Highland, Scotland, UK
- 1777Battle of Ridgefield — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1805Battle of Derna — 1805 battle of the First Barbary War
- 1810Für Elise — composition for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1813Battle of York — war of 1812 battle
- 19081908 Summer Olympics — Games of the IV Olympiad, celebrated in London (United Kingdom) in 1908
- 1911Second Guangzhou Uprising — 1911 uprising in Guangzhou, China
- 1927Carabineros de Chile — military police of Chile
- 1945Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn — historic photograph depicting the end of World War II in Finland
- 1960Togo — country in West Africa
- 1965Battle of Plaman Mapu — one of the battles which occured as part of Borneo confrontation
- 19741974 Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash — aviation accident
- 1976American Airlines Flight 625 — 1976 aviation accident
- 1978Saur Revolution — April 1978 coup in Afghanistan
- 1989
- 1992Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — former Balkan republic (1992–2003)
- 19931993 Zambia national football team plane crash — aviation accident
- 19941994 South African general election — first South African election held under universal suffrage
- 20122012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions — 2012 explosions in Ukraine
- 2018April 2018 inter-Korean summit — summit between Korean peninsula leaders Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in
- 2018Panmunjom Declaration — agreement between North and South Korea on ending the Korean War and the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula
- 202543rd Hong Kong Film Awards — annual Chinese film awards ceremony
- 20262026 Argo Bromo Anggrek and Commuter Line train collision — 2026 Bekasi Timur train collision
Births · 60
- 1593Mumtaz Mahal — Mughal empress
- 1701Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1730-1773)
- 1748Adamantios Korais — Greek humanist scholar (1748–1833)
- 1759Mary Wollstonecraft — English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
- 1791Samuel Finley Breese Morse — American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
- 1820Herbert Spencer — English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
- 1822Ulysses S. Grant — president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
- 1840Edward Whymper — British mountaineer
- 1848Otto, King of Bavaria — King of Bavaria (1848-1916)
- 1853Jules Lemaître — French critic and dramatist (1853-1914)
- 1856Tongzhi Emperor — emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1856-1875)
- 1893Draža Mihailović — Yugoslav general (1893-1946)
- 1896Wallace Carothers — American organic chemist (1896–1937)
- 1904Cecil Day-Lewis — Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
- 1910Chiang Ching-kuo — 6th and 7th President of Republic of China
- 1910Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli — Brazilian politician (1910-1975)
- 1912Zohra Sehgal — Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)
- 1913Philip Abelson — US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)
- 1920Guido Cantelli — Italian conductor (1920–1956)
- 1922Jack Klugman — American actor (1922–2012)
- 1927Coretta Scott King — American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1929Nina Ponomaryova — Soviet discus thrower (1929-2016)
- 1932Anouk Aimée — French actress (1932–2024)
- 1932Casey Kasem — American voice actor (1932–2014)
- 1935Thodoros Angelopoulos — Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2012)
Deaths · 60
- 630Ardashir III — The temporary ruler of the Sassanid Empire (628–630)
- 1272(Julian date)St. Zita — Italian servant and Catholic saint from Lucca, patron of domestic workers (lived c.1212-1272)
- 1321(Julian date)Nicolò Albertini — Italian Dominican friar, bishop and cardinal
- 1353(Julian date)Simeon of Moscow — Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1316-1353)
- 1404(Julian date)Philip the Bold — Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404)
- 1463(Julian date)Isidore of Kyiv — Catholic cardinal
- 1521(Julian date)Ferdinand Magellan — Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
- 1599Maeda Toshiie — general of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period
- 1605Leo XI — pope of the Catholic Church in April 1605 (1535-1605)
- 1656Jan van Goyen — Dutch landscape painter (1596-1656)
- 1694John George IV, Elector of Saxony — German noble (1668-1694)
- 1702Jean Bart — French admiral and privateer (1651-1702)
- 1813Zebulon Pike — American military officer, explorer, and writer (1779-1813)
- 1873William Macready — British stage actor (1793-1873)
- 1882Ralph Waldo Emerson — American philosopher (1803–1882)
- 1893John Ballance — 14th Premier of New Zealand (1839-1893)
- 1896Henry Parkes — Australian statesman and politician (1815-1896)
- 1902Julius Sterling Morton — American politician (1832-1902)
- 1915Alexander Scriabin — Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
- 1932Hart Crane — American writer (1899–1932)
- 1936Karl Pearson — English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
- 1937Antonio Gramsci — Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
- 1938Edmund Husserl — German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
- 1952Guido Castelnuovo — Italian mathematician (1865–1952)
- 1961Roy Del Ruth — American film director (1893–1961)
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