On this day: 27 August
Events, births and deaths on 27 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Park Sung-Soo
- Deaths · Takaya Hashi
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Kristen Nygaard
- Births · George Brecht
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 22
- 1232(Julian date)Goseibai Shikimoku — legal code of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan, in 1232
- 1353(Julian date)Battle of Porto Conte — 1353 naval battle
- 1597Battle of Chilcheollyang — sea battle (1597)
- 1600Siege of Fushimi — 1600 A crucial battle in the series leading up to the decisive battle of Sekigahara which ended Japan's Sengoku period
- 1656Treaty of Butre — 1656 treaty between the Netherlands and Ahanta
- 1776Battle of Long Island — 1776 first major battle of the American Revolutionary War to take place after the Declaration of Independence
- 1798Battle of Castlebar — battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 18281828 Treaty of Montevideo — August 1828 treaty to recognize the independence of Uruguay
- 1832Black Hawk War — 1832 conflict between the United States and Native Americans
- 1895Battle of Baguashan — 1895 battle near Changhua, Taiwan
- 1896Anglo-Zanzibar War — colonial war by the United Kingdom in East-Africa
- 1914Siege of Tsingtao — 1914 siege
- 1928Kellogg-Briand pact — 1928 international agreement
- 1942Sarny Massacre — execution of between 14,000 and 18,000 persons, mostly Jews, in the Nazi-occupied city of Sarny
- 1979Warrenpoint ambush — guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 27 August 1979
- 1979assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma — 1979 bomb attack in Dublin, Ireland
- 19801980 South Korean presidential election — presidential election in South Korea
- 19851985 Nigerian coup d'état — The 1985 Nigerian coup d'etat
- 1991Moldova — country in Eastern Europe
- 1992Aeroflot Flight 2808 — 1992 Tu-134 crash in Ivanovo
- 2006Comair Flight 5191 — aviation accident
- 2009Kokang incident — ethnic conflict in Myanmar
Births · 60
- 1545(Julian date)Alexander Farnese — duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain
- 1624Koxinga — 17th-century Chinese military leader and first King of Tungning
- 1730Johann Georg Hamann — German philosopher (1730-1788)
- 1770Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
- 1809Hannibal Hamlin — Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809–1891)
- 1856Ivan Franko — Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916)
- 1858Giuseppe Peano — Italian mathematician (1858–1932)
- 1865Charles G. Dawes — vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
- 1865James Henry Breasted — American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1865–1935)
- 1871Theodore Dreiser — American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)
- 1874Carl Bosch — German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
- 1877Charles Rolls — motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
- 1884Vincent Auriol — 16th President of the French Republic (1884–1966)
- 1890Man Ray — American and French visual artist (1890–1976)
- 1896Kenji Miyazawa — Japanese poet and author of children's literature (1896–1933)
- 1906Ed Gein — American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1983)
- 1908Lyndon B. Johnson — president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
- 1908
- 1909Lester Young — American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)
- 1915Norman Foster Ramsey — American physicist (1915–2011)
- 1922Sōsuke Uno — 75th Prime Minister of Japan (1922-1998)
- 1925Nat Lofthouse — English footballer (1925-2011)
- 1926Kristen Nygaard — Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)
- 1928Osamu Shimomura — Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
- 1929Ira Levin — American novelist, playwright (1929–2007)
Deaths · 60
- 493(Julian date)Emperor Wu of Southern Qi — Southern Qi Emperor
- 542(Julian date)Caesarius of Arles — Merovingian archbishop and saint
- 827(Julian date)Eugene II — pope
- 923(Julian date)Ageltrude — Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Italy
- 1147Eric III of Denmark — Danish king
- 1312(Julian date)Arthur II, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany from 1305 to 1312
- 1394(Julian date)Chōkei — emperor of Japan
- 1521(Julian date)Josquin des Prez — composer of the Renaissance (c. 1450–1521)
- 1576(Julian date)Titian — Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
- 1590Sixtus V — pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590
- 1611Tomás Luis de Victoria — Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)
- 1635Lope de Vega — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
- 1664Francisco de Zurbarán — Spanish painter (1598–1664)
- 1748(Julian date)James Thomson — Scottish writer (1700–1748)
- 1773Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz — German general
- 1828Eise Eisinga — Dutch astronomer (1744-1828)
- 1857Rufus Wilmot Griswold — American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer (1815–1857)
- 1879Rowland Hill — English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879)
- 1909Emil Christian Hansen — Danish biochemist and mycologist (1842–1909)
- 1929Herman Potočnik — Slovenian inventor (1892-1929)
- 1931Frank Harris — Irish-American writer, journalist and publisher (1856–1931)
- 1935Childe Hassam — American painter (1859-1935)
- 1948Charles Evans Hughes — American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)
- 1949Shoen Uemura — Japanese artist (1875-1949)
- 1949Ehmetjan Qasim — Soviet politician (1914-1949)
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