On this day: 27 November
Events, births and deaths on 27 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Robert A. M. Stern
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Ioannis Grivas
100 years ago1926
- Births · Chae Myung-shin
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 24
- 1542(Julian date)Palace plot of Renyin year — 16th-century China royal assassination plot
- 17551755 Meknes earthquake — earthquake in Morocco
- 1809Berners Street Hoax — 1810 practical joke by Theodore Hook in London
- 1839American Statistical Association — professional organization for statisticians
- 1863Battle of Mine Run — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1868Battle of Washita River — 1868 battle between the 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne
- 1917Pehr Evind Svinhufvud's first senate — first cabinet of independent Finland
- 1919Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine — 1919 peace treaty between Bulgarian and the Allies after World War I
- 1940Battle of Cape Spartivento — 1940 naval battle during the battle of the Mediterranean
- 1940Jilava massacre — 1940 massacre in Romania
- 1942Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon — 1942 destruction of the French naval fleet by Vichy France
- 1943Battle of Wareo — 1943 battle fought by Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Huon Peninsula campaign of World War II
- 1944RAF Fauld explosion — Accidental, very large 1944 explosion of wartime weaponry in England.
- 1950Battle of Changjin Reservoir — 1950 battle in the Korean War
- 1963Let Us Continue — President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- 1978Kurdistan Workers' Party — Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization
- 1983Avianca Flight 011 — 1983 aviation accident
- 1989Avianca Flight 203 — 1989 airliner bombing
- 19991999 New Zealand general election — general election in New Zealand
- 2004Blackwater 61 crash — 2004 aviation accident
- 2008XL Airways Germany Flight 888T — 2008 airplane crash into the Mediterranean Sea
- 2009The Monster Ball Tour — 2009–11 concert tour by Lady Gaga
- 20092009 Nevsky Express bombing — train wreck
- 20152015 Colorado Springs shooting — mass shooting at a medical clinic in Colorado on November 27, 2015
Births · 60
- 1127(Julian date)Emperor Xiaozong of Song — Chinese Song dynasty emperor from 1162 to 1189
- 1380(Julian date)Ferdinand I of Aragon — Aragonese king
- 1635Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon — Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719)
- 1684Tokugawa Yoshimune — The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1684-1751)
- 1701(Julian date)Anders Celsius — Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
- 1754Georg Forster — German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
- 1798Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius — South African politician (1798–1853)
- 1833Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge — British Royal (1833–1897), mother of Mary of Teck
- 1857Charles Scott Sherrington — English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
- 1867Charles Koechlin — French composer, teacher and writer on music
- 1870Juho Kusti Paasikivi — 7th President of Finland (1870-1956)
- 1874Chaim Weizmann — Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
- 1874Charles A. Beard — American historian (1874-1948)
- 1885Liviu Rebreanu — Romanian writer (1885-1944)
- 1887Masaharu Homma — Japanese general (1887–1946)
- 1894Kōnosuke Matsushita — Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
- 1903Lars Onsager — American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
- 1907Harivansh Rai Bachchan — Indian Hindi poet, Father of Amitabh Bachchan (1907-2003)
- 1907L. Sprague de Camp — American non- and speculative fiction writer (1907–2000)
- 1909James Agee — American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
- 1920Abe Lenstra — Dutch footballer (1920-1985)
- 1921Alexander Dubček — first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (1921-1992)
- 1932Ninoy Aquino — Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac (1932–1983)
- 1939Laurent-Désiré Kabila — former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1939-2001)
- 1940Bruce Lee — Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
Deaths · 60
- 8 BCE(Julian date)Horace — Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)
- 395(Julian date)Rufinus — Roman general and consul 392
- 450(Julian date)Galla Placidia — 4th-century Roman Empress
- 511(Julian date)Clovis I — first king of the Franks (c. 466-511)
- 602(Julian date)Maurice — Byzantine Emperor (539-602)
- 1198(Julian date)Costanza I of Sicily — Queen of Sicily
- 1252(Julian date)Blanche of Castile — Queen consort of France (1188–1252)
- 1346Gregory of Sinai — Greek Christian saint
- 1474Guillaume Dufay — composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
- 1570(Julian date)Jacopo Sansovino — Italian artist (1486–1570)
- 1754Abraham de Moivre — French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
- 1763Princess Isabella of Parma — Archduchess of Austria
- 1852Ada Lovelace — English mathematician (1815–1852)
- 1875Richard Christopher Carrington — British astronomer (1826-1875)
- 1884Fanny Elssler — Austrian ballerina (1810-1884)
- 1895Alexandre Dumas fils — French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)
- 1899Constant Fornerod — member of the Swiss Federal Council (1819–1899)
- 1916Emile Verhaeren — Belgian poet (1855-1916)
- 1920Alexius Meinong — Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
- 1931Lya De Putti — (1896-1931) actress
- 1934Baby Face Nelson — American bank robber (1908–1934)
- 1936Basil Zaharoff — Greek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)
- 1940Nicolae Iorga — Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright (1871-1940)
- 1943Ivo Lola Ribar — Yugoslav Partisan leader (1916–1943)
- 1944Leonid Mandelstam — Soviet physicist
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