On this day: 27 July
Events, births and deaths on 27 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Piet de Jong
- Deaths · Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Deaths · Jerry Doyle
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1929 · Births · Jean Baudrillard
- 1917 · Deaths · Emil Theodor Kocher
- 1924 · Deaths · Ferruccio Busoni
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1061 · Deaths · Nicholas II
- 1101 · Deaths · Conrad II of Italy
- 1077 · Deaths · Shao Yong
Events · 28
- 1202(Julian date)Battle of Basian — 1202 battle of the Georgian-Seljuk Wars
- 1214(Julian date)Battle of Bouvines — battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
- 1225Visby Cathedral — cathedral in Visby, Sweden
- 1302Battle of Bapheus — 1302 Ottoman-Byzantine military engagement
- 1689Battle of Killiecrankie — 1689 battle of the First Jacobite Rising
- 1694Bank of England — central bank of the United Kingdom
- 1775Army Medical Department — medical branch of the United States Army
- 1778Battle of Ushant — 1778 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1789United States Department of State — executive department of the U.S. federal government
- 1794Thermidorian Reaction — The period in the French Revolution between Robespierre's fall on 27 July '94 (9 Thermidor II) and the installment of the Directory on 1 November '95, marked by liberalization, right-wing reaction and suppression of the Montagnards/Jacobins.
- 1857Siege of Arrah — This was the eight-day defence of a fortified outbuilding during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 1880Battle of Maiwand — 1880 battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1900Hun speech — 1900 speech by Wilhelm II
- 1929Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War — 1929 treaty covering the treatment of prisoners of war during World War II
- 1940Bugs Bunny — Warner Bros. cartoon character
- 1953Korean Armistice Agreement — armistice signed July 27, 1953 ending hostilities in Korean War
- 1953Military Demarcation Line — de facto land border between North and South Korea
- 1955El Al Flight 402 — 1955 airliner shootdown
- 1981Aeroméxico Flight 230 — Deadly aeroplane accident
- 1989Korean Air Flight 803 — aviation accident
- 1990Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt — 1990 failed coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago
- 1996Centennial Olympic Park bombing — 1996 bombing in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 1997Si Zerrouk massacre — 1997 massacre in Algeria
- 2002Sknyliv air show disaster — aviation accident
- 20072007 Phoenix news helicopter collision — aviation accident
- 20122012 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXX Olympiad, in London, United Kingdom
- 2015
- 2018July 2018 lunar eclipse — total lunar eclipse on 27 July 2018
Births · 60
- 774(Julian date)Kūkai — Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
- 1452(Julian date)Ludovico Sforza — duke of Milan
- 1612Murad IV — the 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
- 1740Jeanne Baret — French explorer, naturalist and botanist (1740-1807)
- 1768Charlotte Corday — figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)
- 1773Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily — Princess of Naples and Sicily (1773-1802)
- 1781Mauro Giuliani — Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer
- 1801George Biddell Airy — English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)
- 1824Alexandre Dumas fils — French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)
- 1835Giosuè Carducci — Italian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
- 1848Loránd Eötvös — Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)
- 1854Takahashi Korekiyo — Japanese politician (1854-1936)
- 1867Enrique Granados — Spanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
- 1870Hilaire Belloc — French-English writer (1870–1953)
- 1871Ernst Zermelo — German mathematician (1871–1953)
- 1877Ernő Dohnányi — Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist (1877–1960)
- 1878Iwane Matsui — Japanese general (1878–1948)
- 1881Hans Fischer — German chemist (1881–1945)
- 1903(Julian date)Michael Stasinopoulos — Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1903–2002)
- 1904Lyudmila Rudenko — Soviet chess player (1904-1986)
- 1910Julien Gracq — French writer (1910-2007)
- 1915Mario Del Monaco — Italian opera singer
- 1916Keenan Wynn — American actor (1916–1986)
- 1922Adolfo Celi — Italian actor (1922–1986)
- 1928Joseph Kittinger — American military pilot (1928–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 959(Julian date)Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou — Later Zhou dynasty emperor from 954 to 959
- 1061(Julian date)Nicholas II — pope
- 1077(Julian date)Shao Yong — Chinese philosopher, mathematician, and scholar under the Song dynasty (1011-1077)
- 1101Conrad II of Italy — German king
- 1276(Julian date)James I of Aragon — King of Aragon (1208–1276)
- 1365(Julian date)Rudolf IV — Duke of Austria
- 1382Joanna I of Naples — Queen of Naples (1326-1382)
- 1675Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne — French nobleman, general, Marshal of France
- 1759Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis — French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
- 1828Radama I the Great — King of Imerina (1793–1828)
- 1841Mikhail Lermontov — Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
- 1844John Dalton — British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
- 1853Tokugawa Ieyoshi — Japanese shogun (1793–1853)
- 1883Montgomery Blair — American judge (1813-1883)
- 1917Emil Theodor Kocher — surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1841-1917)
- 1924Ferruccio Busoni — Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)
- 1931Auguste Forel — Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848-1931)
- 1938Thomas Crean — Irish explorer (1877–1938)
- 1946Gertrude Stein — American author (1874–1946)
- 1958Claire Lee Chennault — US general
- 1960Julie Vinter Hansen — Danish astronomer (1890-1960)
- 1962Richard Aldington — English writer and poet (1892–1962)
- 1963Garrett Morgan — American inventor (1877–1963)
- 1965Daniel-Rops — French writer, historian and essayist (1901–1965)
- 1970António de Oliveira Salazar — Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
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