On this day: 27 May
Events, births and deaths on 27 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Freddie Aguilar
- Deaths · Jean Tiberi
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Paul Chater
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 927 · Deaths · Simeon I of Bulgaria
- 1039 · Deaths · Dirk III, Count of Holland
- 1045 · Deaths · Bruno
Events · 26
- 1595Battle of Clontibret — 1595 battle fought during the Nine Years War
- 1644Battle of Shanhai Pass — 1644 battle in China
- 1798Battle of Oulart Hill — battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 1799Battle of Winterthur — 1799 battle of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1860Siege of Palermo — 1860 siege of the Expedition of the Thousand
- 18961896 St. Louis – East St. Louis tornado — damaging tornado in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896
- 1905Battle of Tsushima — major naval battle between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War
- 19171917 Code of Canon Law — codification of canonical legislation of the Latin Catholic Church, valid from 1917 until 1983
- 1930Chrysler Building — building in New York City
- 1937Golden Gate Bridge — suspension bridge on the San Francisco Bay
- 1940Le Paradis massacre — WW2 war crime
- 1941Last battle of the battleship Bismarck — sinking of the battleship Bismarck
- 1942Operation Anthropoid — 1942 military operation
- 1942Reinhard Heydrich assassination — special operation by soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile during WW2
- 1950Linnanmäki — amusement park in Helsinki, Finland
- 19601960 Turkish coup d'état — 27 May 1960 government coup in Turkey
- 1962Centralia mine fire — long-burning coal seam fire in Pennsylvania
- 19671967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals) — Successful proposal to give the Commonwealth power to make special laws for Aboriginal people and to count them for the purposes of the Constitution
- 1971Dahlerau train disaster — train wreck
- 1971
- 1977Aeroflot Flight 331 — aviation accident
- 1989Concert for Democracy in China — benefit concert held in 1989 in support of the Tiananmen Square protesters
- 1995Battle of Vrbanja Bridge — 1995 Bosnian War confrontation
- 19971997 Jarrell tornado — extremely destructive F5 tornado in 1997
- 19971997 Central Texas tornado outbreak — tornado outbreak in Texas
- 2006May 2006 Java earthquake — earthquake in Java, Indonesia
Births · 60
- 1332(Julian date)Ibn Khaldun — historiographer and historian
- 1626William II, Prince of Orange — prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (1626–1650)
- 1652Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans — German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
- 1756Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria — King of Bavaria
- 1774Francis Beaufort — Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)
- 1794Cornelius Vanderbilt — American businessman and tycoon (1794–1877)
- 1818Amelia Bloomer — Women's rights activist (1818–1894)
- 1819Julia Ward Howe — American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
- 1837Wild Bill Hickok — American folk hero and lawman (1837–1876)
- 1867Arnold Bennett — English writer (1867–1931)
- 1871
- 1879Karl Bühler — German psychologist (1879–1963)
- 1884Max Brod — Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
- 1894Louis-Ferdinand Céline — French writer (1894–1961)
- 1894Dashiell Hammett — American writer (1894–1961)
- 1897John Cockcroft — British physicist (1897–1967)
- 1907Rachel Carson — American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
- 1911Hubert Humphrey — vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969
- 1911Vincent Price — American actor (1911–1993)
- 1911Teddy Kollek — Israeli politician (1911–2007)
- 1912John Cheever — American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)
- 1915Herman Wouk — American writer (1915-2019)
- 1918Yasuhiro Nakasone — Japanese politician (1918–2019)
- 1922Christopher Lee — English actor and singer (1922–2015)
- 1923Henry Kissinger — American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 (1923–2023)
Deaths · 60
- 366(Julian date)Procopius — 4th-century Roman usurper
- 866(Julian date)Ordoño I of Asturias — King of Asturias
- 927(Julian date)Simeon I of Bulgaria — Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927
- 1039(Julian date)Dirk III, Count of Holland — Dutch noble
- 1045(Julian date)Bruno — Chancellor of Italy and Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
- 1444(Julian date)John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset — Duke of Somerset
- 1508(Julian date)Ludovico Sforza — duke of Milan
- 1525(Julian date)Thomas Müntzer — early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
- 1541(Julian date)Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury — English peeress, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (1473-1541)
- 1564(Julian date)John Calvin — French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)
- 1610François Ravaillac — French regicide
- 1661Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll — Governed Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1607-1661)
- 1675Gaspard Dughet — French painter (1613-1675)
- 1690Giovanni Legrenzi — Italian composer (1626–1690)
- 1702Dominique Bouhours — French literary critic
- 1707Madame de Montespan — French noble, mistress of Louis XIV; (1640-1707)
- 1781Giovanni Battista Beccaria — Italian physicist
- 1797François-Noël Babeuf — French political agitator and journalist (1760-1797)
- 1831Jedediah Smith — American explorer (1799–1831)
- 1840Niccolò Paganini — Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
- 1867Thomas Bulfinch — American writer and mythologist (1796-1867)
- 1896Aleksandr Stoletov — Russian physicist (1839–1896)
- 1910Robert Koch — German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
- 1933Achille Paroche — sport shooter (1868-1933)
- 1939Joseph Roth — Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
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