Anniversaries 27 November

Birth

Georg Forster6

German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, … 1754–1794

Fanny Kemble5

English actress and writer 1809–1893

James Hamilton30

Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814–1867

Peter Kropotkin141

Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scie… 1842–1921

Charles Scott Sherrington3

English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient 1857–1952

Juho Kusti Paasikivi2

7th President of Finland 1870–1956

Chaim Weizmann2

Zionist leader, 1st president of Israel 1874–1952

Charles A. Beard13

American historian 1874–1948

Matsushita Konosuke11

Japanese businessman 1894–1989

Форрест Шакли1

1894–1985

Pierre-Paul Grassé12

French zoologist 1895–1985

James Agee1

American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr… 1909–1955

Bryce Crawford1

American chemist (1914-2011) 1914–2011

Alexander Dubček1

first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party 1921–1992

John Maddox2

Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor 1925–2009

Gail Sheehy3

writer, biographer 1937

Bruce Lee193

Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

Jimi Hendrix52

American musician, singer and songwriter 1942–1970

Marilyn Hacker1

American writer 1942

Manolo Blahnik1

Spanish fashion designer 1942

Isa Genzken33

German sculptor 1948

Gerrit Graham1

American actor 1949

Bob Parsons3

United States Marine 1950

Melinda M. Snodgrass18

American writer 1951

Steve Bannon12

American media executive and former White House Chief Strat… 1953

Bill Nye55

American science educator, comedian, television host, actor… 1955

Aaron C. Brown15

American financial analyst 1956

Michael A. Stackpole5

science fiction author 1957

Kevin Henkes3

American children's illustrator and writer 1960

David Rakoff7

writer 1964–2012

Peter Kenneth7

politician 1965

Han Kang1

South Korean writer 1970

Tiffanie DeBartolo52

American writer 1970

Joseph Pisani8

American artist and photographer 1971

Hilary Hahn5

American violinist 1979

Tom Hurndall1

British activist 1981–2004

Tommy Robinson22

English right-wing activist 1982

Aubrey Peeples1

American actress 1993

Ricardo Hoyos1

Canadian actor 1995

Death

Horace92

Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

Muhammad al-Taqi25

ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism 811–835

Jayapala7

Ruler of the Kabal Shabi 964–1001

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki9

Indian Sufi 1173–1235

John Lyly29

English politician 1554–1606

Black Kettle8

Leader of the Southern Cheyenne 1803–1868

Ada Lovelace8

English mathematician, considered the first computer progra… 1815–1852

Alexandre Dumas, fils8

French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and … 1824–1895

Alice Meynell13

English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist 1847–1922

Charles F. Haanel1

American businessman, author 1866–1949

Mohammad Ali Foroughi3

Iranian politician 1877–1942

Eugene O'Neill36

American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature 1888–1953

Arthur Honegger1

Swiss composer 1892–1955

Yeghishe Charents3

Armenian poet 1897–1937

Fernand Braudel2

French historian and a leader of the Annales School 1902–1985

Leonard Ravenhill23

British writer 1907–1994

Vilém Flusser2

Czech philosopher and photographer 1920–1991

P. D. James26

English crime writer 1920–2014

Maurice Strong5

Canadian businessman 1929–2015

Harvey Milk8

American politician who became a martyr in the gay community 1930–1978

V. P. Singh27

Indian politician 1931–2008

Malcolm Bradbury25

English author and academic 1932–2000

Jonathan Miller9

British theatre director (born 1934) 1934–2019

Adi Da Samraj24

American writer 1939–2008

John Steakley2

American writer 1951–2010