Anniversaries 27 November
Birth
![Georg Forster photo]()
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, …
1754–1794
![Fanny Kemble photo]()
English actress and writer
1809–1893
![James Hamilton photo]()
Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
1814–1867
![Peter Kropotkin photo]()
Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scie…
1842–1921
![Charles Scott Sherrington photo]()
English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
1857–1952
![Juho Kusti Paasikivi photo]()
7th President of Finland
1870–1956
![Chaim Weizmann photo]()
Zionist leader, 1st president of Israel
1874–1952
![Charles A. Beard photo]()
American historian
1874–1948
![Matsushita Konosuke photo]()
Japanese businessman
1894–1989
![Pierre-Paul Grassé photo]()
French zoologist
1895–1985
![James Agee photo]()
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr…
1909–1955
![Bryce Crawford photo]()
American chemist (1914-2011)
1914–2011
![Alexander Dubček photo]()
first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party
1921–1992
![John Maddox photo]()
Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor
1925–2009
![Bruce Lee photo]()
Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f…
1940–1973
![Jimi Hendrix photo]()
American musician, singer and songwriter
1942–1970
![Manolo Blahnik photo]()
Spanish fashion designer
1942
![Bob Parsons photo]()
United States Marine
1950
![Steve Bannon photo]()
American media executive and former White House Chief Strat…
1953
![Bill Nye photo]()
American science educator, comedian, television host, actor…
1955
![Aaron C. Brown photo]()
American financial analyst
1956
![Michael A. Stackpole photo]()
science fiction author
1957
![Kevin Henkes photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1960
![Joseph Pisani photo]()
American artist and photographer
1971
![Tom Hurndall photo]()
British activist
1981–2004
![Tommy Robinson photo]()
English right-wing activist
1982
Death
![Horace photo]()
Roman lyric poet
-65–-8 BC
![Muhammad al-Taqi photo]()
ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
811–835
![Jayapala photo]()
Ruler of the Kabal Shabi
964–1001
![John Lyly photo]()
English politician
1554–1606
![Black Kettle photo]()
Leader of the Southern Cheyenne
1803–1868
![Ada Lovelace photo]()
English mathematician, considered the first computer progra…
1815–1852
![Alexandre Dumas, fils photo]()
French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and …
1824–1895
![Alice Meynell photo]()
English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist
1847–1922
![Charles F. Haanel photo]()
American businessman, author
1866–1949
![Mohammad Ali Foroughi photo]()
Iranian politician
1877–1942
![Eugene O'Neill photo]()
American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature
1888–1953
![Fernand Braudel photo]()
French historian and a leader of the Annales School
1902–1985
![Vilém Flusser photo]()
Czech philosopher and photographer
1920–1991
![P. D. James photo]()
English crime writer
1920–2014
![Maurice Strong photo]()
Canadian businessman
1929–2015
![Harvey Milk photo]()
American politician who became a martyr in the gay community
1930–1978
![V. P. Singh photo]()
Indian politician
1931–2008
![Malcolm Bradbury photo]()
English author and academic
1932–2000
![Jonathan Miller photo]()
British theatre director (born 1934)
1934–2019
![Adi Da Samraj photo]()
American writer
1939–2008
![John Steakley photo]()
American writer
1951–2010
