On this day: 27 June
Events, births and deaths on 27 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bud Spencer
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1931 · Births · Martinus J. G. Veltman
- 1930 · Births · Ross Perot
- 1932 · Births · Anna Moffo
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 992 · Deaths · Conan I of Rennes
Events · 18
- 1571(Julian date)Jesus College — college of the University of Oxford in England
- 1709(Julian date)Battle of Poltava — decisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709
- 1743Battle of Dettingen — British-led battle during the War of the Austrian Succession on 27 June 1743 near Aschaffenburg, Germany.
- 1800Battle of Neuburg — 1800 battle of the war of the second coalition
- 1844death of Joseph Smith — founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement
- 1864Battle of Kennesaw Mountain — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1935Chin–Doihara Agreement — treaty
- 1946Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 — Canadian 1946 citizenship legislation
- 1950Battle of Suwon Airfield — 1950 Part of Korean War
- 1954Battle of Berne — 1954 FIFA World Cup Match
- 1980Itavia Flight 870 — Aviation accident in Italy, 1980
- 1988Gare de Lyon rail accident — train wreck
- 1991Ten-Day War — armed conflict between Slovenia and Yugoslavia following the Slovenian declaration of independence on 25 June 1991
- 1994Matsumoto sarin attack — an attempted assassination perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult in Japan
- 2007Complexo do Alemão massacre — 2007 police raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 20082008 Zimbabwean presidential election — election
- 20152015 New Taipei water park explosion — dust fire in Taiwan
- 20172017 cyberattacks on Ukraine — series of powerful cyberattacks
Births · 60
- 1350(Julian date)Manuel II Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor (1350-1425)
- 1462(Julian date)Louis XII of France — King of France from 1498 to 1515
- 1550(Julian date)Charles IX of France — King of France (1550–1574)
- 1767Alexis Bouvard — French astronomer (1767-1843)
- 1806Augustus De Morgan — British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
- 1846Charles Stewart Parnell — Irish politician (1846-1891)
- 1850Lafcadio Hearn — Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West (1850–1904)
- 1865John Monash — Australian general (1865–1931)
- 1869Emma Goldman — Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
- 1869Hans Spemann — German embryologist (1869–1941)
- 1872Heber Doust Curtis — American astronomer (1872-1942)
- 1872Paul Laurence Dunbar — American poet, novelist, dramatist
- 1880Helen Keller — American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
- 1882Eduard Spranger — German psychologist (1882-1963)
- 1884Gaston Bachelard — French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
- 1899Juan Trippe — American commercial aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways (1899–1981)
- 1907John McIntire — American character actor (1907-1991)
- 1908Guimarães Rosa — Brazilian novelist (1908-1967)
- 1913Philip Guston — American artist (1913-1980)
- 1914Giorgio Almirante — Italian politician (1914–1988)
- 1930Ross Perot — American businessman and politician (1930–2019)
- 1931Martinus J. G. Veltman — Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)
- 1932Anna Moffo — American opera singer, television personality, and dramatic actress (1932-2006)
- 1937Joseph P. Allen — American astronaut
- 1939Rahul Dev Burman — Indian musician (1939–1994)
Deaths · 60
- 992(Julian date)Conan I of Rennes — Duke of Brittany from 990 to 992
- 1162Odo II, Duke of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy
- 1194(Julian date)Sancho VI of Navarre — King of Navarre
- 1296(Julian date)Floris V, Count of Holland — Count of Holland from 1256 to 1296
- 1458(Julian date)Alfonso V of Aragon — King of Aragon from 1416 to 1458
- 1574(Julian date)Giorgio Vasari — Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
- 1636Date Masamune — daimyo of the Sengoku period to early-Edo period; 1st lord of Sendai
- 1654Johannes Valentinus Andreae — German writer, mathematician and theologian (1586-1654)
- 1655Eleonora Gonzaga — Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire (1598-1655)
- 1729Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre — French musician
- 1794Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg — Bohemian nobleman (1711-1794)
- 1829James Smithson — British chemist
- 1831Sophie Germain — French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
- 1831Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia — Russian grand duke (1779–1831)
- 1839Ranjit Singh — First Maharaja of the Sikh Empire (1780–1839)
- 1844Joseph Smith — American religious leader and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)
- 1892Carl Schorlemmer — German chemist (1834-1892)
- 1905Harold Mahony — Irish tennis player (1867-1905)
- 1907Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz — American educator, naturalist, writer (1822-1907)
- 1917Karl Allmenröder — German World War I flying ace (1896–1917)
- 1934Francesco Buhagiar — Prime Minister of Malta (1876-1934)
- 1944Milan Hodža — Slovak politician and journalist (1878-1944)
- 1946Wanda Gág — American artist and children's writer (1893-1946)
- 1948Dorothea Bleek — German anthropologist and philologist (1873–1948)
- 1950Milada Horáková — Czechoslovak politician and resistance fighter (1901-1950)
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