On this day: 27 September
Events, births and deaths on 27 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Russell M. Nelson
- Deaths · Chang Chun-hsiung
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Deaths · Edgar Degas
- 1918 · Births · Martin Ryle
- 1934 · Births · Wilford Brimley
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1125 · Deaths · Richeza of Berg
Events · 26
- 1331Battle of Płowce — 1331 battle
- 1422(Julian date)Treaty of Melno — Peace treaty (1422) between the Teutonic Knights, the Kingdom of Poland and the Duchy of Lithuania
- 1529(Julian date)First Turkish Siege of Vienna — First attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna, Austria
- 1605Battle of Kircholm — 1605 major battle of the Polish–Swedish War
- 1810Battle of Bussaco — 1810 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1821Mexico — country in North America
- 1854SS Arctic disaster — ship sinking
- 1903Wreck of the Old 97 — 1903 Southern Railway mail train disaster
- 1908Ford Model T — American car (1908-1927)
- 1917Broadhurst Theatre — Broadway theater in Manhattan, New York
- 1940Tripartite Pact — treaty establishing the Axis Powers of World War Two
- 1949flag of China — national flag of the People's Republic of China
- 1954President of the People's Republic of China — Ceremonial state representative of China since 1982
- 1954Premier of the People's Republic of China — head of government of China
- 1975Last use of capital punishment in Spain — 1975 executions carried out in Spain
- 1977Japan Airlines Flight 715 — aviation accident
- 1981TGV — France's high-speed rail service
- 1981Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh — 1981 military operation
- 1983GNU — Unix-like operating system
- 1983GNU Project — free software project
- 1988National League for Democracy — political party in Myanmar
- 1996Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — Taliban-led partially recognized government of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001
- 2001Zug massacre — September 2001 shooting in Zug, Switzerland
- 20142014 eruption of Mount Ontake — volcanic eruption in Japan
- 2020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War — armed conflict in South Caucasus
- 20222022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine — 2022 referendum in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1271(Julian date)Wenceslaus II of Bohemia — King of Bohemia and Poland
- 1389(Julian date)Cosimo de' Medici — First ruler of the Medici political dynasty (1389–1464)
- 1533(Julian date)Stephen Báthory — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, 1576–1586 (lived 1533-1586)
- 1601Louis XIII of France — King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643 (1601–1643)
- 1627Jacques Bénigne Bossuet — French bishop and theologian (1627-1704)
- 1657Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia — Russian tsarevna (1657–1704)
- 1696Alphonsus Maria de Liguori — Italian Catholic bishop and saint (1696-1787)
- 1722Samuel Adams — American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)
- 1772Martha Jefferson Randolph — First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809
- 1783Agustín I of Mexico — first constitutional emperor of Mexico (1783-1824)
- 1818Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe — German chemist (1818–1884)
- 1821Henri-Frédéric Amiel — Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)
- 1840Alfred Thayer Maan — United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)
- 1862Louis Botha — South African general and politician (1862-1919)
- 1871Grazia Deledda — Italian novelist (1871-1936)
- 1879Hans Hahn — Austrian mathematician (1879–1934)
- 1907Bhagat Singh — Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
- 1913Albert Ellis — American psychologist (1913–2007)
- 1918Martin Ryle — English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
- 1919James H. Wilkinson — English mathematician (1919–1986)
- 1921Miklós Jancsó — Hungarian film director and screenwriter (1921–2014)
- 1922Arthur Penn — American producer and director (1922–2010)
- 1924Bud Powell — American jazz pianist and composer (1924–1966)
- 1924Josef Škvorecký — Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924-2012)
- 1925Robert Edwards — English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
Deaths · 60
- 1249(Julian date)Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse — Occitan noble (1197-1249)
- 1536(Julian date)Felice della Rovere — Illegitimate daughter of a Pope Julius II
- 1557(Julian date)Go-Nara — emperor of Japan
- 1590Urban VII — pope of the Catholic Church in September 1590
- 1612Piotr Skarga — Polish writer (1536-1612)
- 1623John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen — Count of Nassau-Siegen (1606-1623)
- 1651Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria — Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire (1573–1651)
- 1660Vincent de Paul — French priest, founder and saint (1581-1660)
- 1700Innocent XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1691 to 1700
- 1735Peter Artedi — Swedish zoologist (1705-1735)
- 1783Étienne Bézout — French mathematician (1730-1783)
- 1832Karl Christian Friedrich Krause — German philosopher
- 1833Ram Mohan Roy — Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian
- 1838Bernard Courtois — chemist (1777-1838)
- 1876Braxton Bragg — Confederate Army general (1817–1876)
- 1915Remy de Gourmont — French writer (1858–1915)
- 1917Edgar Degas — French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
- 1919Adelina Patti — Spanish opera singer (1843–1919)
- 1921Engelbert Humperdinck — German composer (1854–1921)
- 1932Barton Warren Evermann — American ichthyologist (1853–1932)
- 1940Julius Wagner-Jauregg — Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
- 1943Mao Zemin — Mao Zedong's brother (1896–1943)
- 1944Aristide Maillol — sculptor from France (1861–1944)
- 1944Aimee Semple McPherson — Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944)
- 1956Babe Didrikson Zaharias — American golfer and athlete
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