Anniversaries 27 October

Birth

Abu Bakr4

First Muslim Caliph and a companion of Muhammad 573–634

Banda Singh Bahadur4

Sikh military commander 1670–1716

James Macpherson46

Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736–1796

Joseph Strutt65

British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer 1749–1802

Ilia Chavchavadze4

Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox … 1837–1907

David Law Proudfit2

American writer 1842–1897

E. W. Hobson20

British mathematician 1856–1933

Theodore Roosevelt445

American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858–1919

Emily Post2

American etiquette expert 1872–1960

Herbert Farjeon5

American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researche… 1879–1972

Enid Bagnold1

English dramatist, playwright, memoirist 1889–1981

Fritz Sauckel15

German general 1894–1946

Alfred Whitney Griswold8

American historian 1906–1963

Lee Krasner19

American artist 1908–1984

Karl William Kapp6

American economist 1910–1976

Daniel P. Mannix2

animal collector and author 1911–1997

Dylan Thomas50

Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953

K. R. Narayanan40

9th Vice President and the 10th President of India 1920–2005

Ruby Dee3

American actress 1922–2014

Roy Lichtenstein15

American pop artist 1923–1997

Douglas Huebler1

American conceptual artist 1924–1997

David Bryant (bowls)2

bowls champion 1931

Nawal El-Saadawi4

Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatr… 1931

Sylvia Plath342

American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

Sylvia Plath1

American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

Gerald M. Weinberg22

American computer scientist 1933–2018

Barry Sanders2

American academic, author 1938

John Cleese32

actor from England 1939

Khabibullo Abdusamatov1

Russian astrophysicist 1940

John Gotti3

American crime boss 1940–2002

Maxine Hong Kingston7

Chinese American author 1940

Janusz Korwin-Mikke43

polish politician 1942

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva10

Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil 1945

Fran Lebowitz34

author and public speaker from the United States 1950

A. N. Wilson1

English writer 1950

Francis Fukuyama8

American political scientist, political economist, and auth… 1952

Steve Almond3

American writer 1966

Matt Drudge2

American internet journalist and talk radio host 1966

Jonathan Stroud71

British writer of fantasy fiction 1970

Tope Alabi4

Nigerian Gospel artist 1970

Kate Havnevik13

Norwegian singer-songwriter 1975

Aron Ralston4

Mountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker 1975

Kumar Sangakkara20

Sri Lankan cricketer 1977

Susie Castillo2

MTV VJ, Miss USA 2003 1979

Kelly Osbourne5

English singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter an… 1984

Andrew Bynum1

American basketball player 1987

Death

Michael Servetus7

Spanish physician and theologian 1511–1553

John Bascom2

American academic administrator 1827–1911

Lascelles Abercrombie3

Poet, academic, literary critic 1881–1938

Rex Stout30

American writer 1886–1975

Charles Coughlin5

Catholic priest, radio commentator 1891–1979

James M. Cain8

Novelist, short story writer, journalist 1892–1977

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1

American physicist 1899–1980

Jacques Heurgon1

French historian and classical philologist 1903–1995

Abba Lerner3

American economist 1903–1982

Dwight Waldo13

American political scientist 1913–2000

George Barker4

British poet 1913–1991

David Bohm42

American theoretical physicist 1917–1992

K. R. Malkani1

Indian politician 1921–2003

Moira Lister3

actress 1923–2007

Judy LaMarsh33

Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister. 1924–1980

James Hillman5

American psychologist 1926–2011

Allen Mandelbaum3

American poet and professor of literature, translator from … 1926–2011

John Conyers6

American politician from Michigan 1929–2019

Karen Demirchyan5

Soviet politician 1932–1999

Lou Reed31

American musician 1942–2013

Ntozake Shange5

Contemporary African American writer and performance artist 1948–2018

Johanna Lindsey8

American writer 1952–2019

Li Keqiang2

Premier of the People's Republic of China 1955–2023

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi11

leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 1971–2019