Anniversaries 27 April

Birth

Edward Gibbon43

English historian and Member of Parliament 1737–1794

Mary Wollstonecraft44

British writer and philosopher 1759–1797

Jasmine Jones1

American painter and inventor 1791–1872

William Muir2

Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator 1819–1905

Herbert Spencer81

English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent … 1820–1903

Ulysses S. Grant177

18th President of the United States 1822–1885

Anne Ross Cousin1

Scottish musician and songwriter 1824–1906

Alice Morse Earle5

American historian 1851–1911

Maurice Baring2

English writer 1874–1945

George Henry Powell2

songwriter 1880–1951

Cecil Day Lewis12

English poet 1904–1972

Arthur F. Burns5

American economist and diplomat 1904–1987

Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter12

Marquess of Exeter 1909–1988

Philip Abelson1

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director o… 1913–2004

Edwin Morgan1

Scottish poet and translator 1920–2010

John Stott1

British theologian 1921–2011

Coretta Scott King24

American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of… 1927–2006

Gilbert Sorrentino1

American writer 1929–2006

Pik Botha3

South African politician 1932–2018

Brennan Manning52

writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Ma… 1934–2013

Nico Perrone16

Italian historian and writer 1935

Stanisław Dziwisz1

Polish cardinal 1939

Fethullah Gülen10

Turkish preacher, former imam, writer, and political figure 1941

Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti2

Indian archaeologist 1941

August Wilson13

American playwright 1945–2005

Nicholas Serota13

British curator 1946

Frank W. Abagnale11

American security consultant, former confidence trickster, … 1948

Ace Frehley2

American musician best known as the former lead guitarist a… 1951

Herm Edwards8

American football player, coach and analyst 1954

Frank Bainimarama34

Prime Minister of Fiji 1954

Eric Schmidt12

software engineer, businessman 1955

Nicholas D. Kristof9

journalist, author, columnist 1959

Rachel Caine288

American writer 1962

Joanne B. Freeman3

US historian and tenured professor of History and American … 1962

Russell T. Davies17

Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who 1963

Lisa Wilcox2

American actress 1964

Jason Whitlock3

American TV person 1967

Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands3

King of the Netherlands 1967

Dana Milbank3

American journalist 1968

Cory Booker19

35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress 1969

Jussi Halla-aho20

Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician 1971

Travis Meeks7

American musician 1979

Roberta Floris2

italian journalist, television presenter and former model (… 1979

Luke Cummo1

American mixed martial artist 1980

Patrick Stump45

American musician 1984

Jenna Coleman1

English actress 1986

William Moseley (actor)3

British actor 1987

Death

Ferdinand Magellan1

Portuguese explorer 1480–1521

Jonathan Boucher10

English minister 1738–1804

William Jones12

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India 1746–1794

Charles Symmons14

Welsh poet 1749–1826

Ralph Waldo Emerson727

American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Subh-i-Azal16

Persian religious leader 1831–1912

Karl Pearson65

English mathematician and biometrician 1857–1936

Edmund Husserl7

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology 1859–1938

H. Stanley Allen1

English Physicist 1873–1954

Daniel Daly4

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient 1873–1937

Ilmari Kianto1

Finnish writer 1874–1970

Antonio Gramsci22

Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937

Matsushita Konosuke11

Japanese businessman 1894–1989

Hart Crane7

American writer 1899–1932

Pauline Réage1

French journalist and novelist 1907–1998

Edward R. Murrow67

Television journalist 1908–1965

Kwame Nkrumah26

Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Gh… 1909–1972

Carlos Castaneda98

Peruvian-American author 1925–1998

Gerard O'Neill4

Physicist, author, and inventor 1927–1992

Vito Acconci2

Designer, landscape architect, performance and installation… 1940–2017

George Alec Effinger59

Novelist, short story writer 1947–2002