Anniversaries 27 May
Birth
![Ibn Khaldun photo]()
Arab historiographer and historian
1332–1406
![Cornelius Vanderbilt photo]()
American businessman, philanthropist, and tycoon
1794–1877
![Julia Ward Howe photo]()
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
1819–1910
![Zenas Ferry Moody photo]()
American politician
1832–1917
![Jay Gould photo]()
American businessman
1836–1892
![John Kendrick Bangs photo]()
American author, editor and satirist
1862–1922
![Arnold Bennett photo]()
English novelist
1867–1931
![Isadora Duncan photo]()
American dancer and choreographer
1877–1927
![Rudolf Pannwitz photo]()
German writer and philosopher
1881–1969
![Max Brod photo]()
author, composer, and journalist
1884–1968
![Dashiell Hammett photo]()
American writer
1894–1961
![Peter Marshall photo]()
American preacher
1902–1949
![Rachel Carson photo]()
American marine biologist and conservationist
1907–1964
![W. W. Hansen photo]()
American physicist
1909–1949
![Hubert H. Humphrey photo]()
Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson
1911–1978
![John Cheever photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1912–1982
![Herman Wouk photo]()
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include…
1915–2019
![Caryl Chessman photo]()
Convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist, writer
1921–1960
![Christopher Lee photo]()
British actor and singer
1922–2015
![Henry Kissinger photo]()
United States Secretary of State
1923–2023
![Bipan Chandra photo]()
Indian historian
1928–2014
![Charles Tilly photo]()
American sociologist
1929–2008
![Philip Kotler photo]()
American marketing author, consultant and professor
1931
![Jeffrey Bernard photo]()
British journalist
1932–1997
![Harlan Ellison photo]()
American writer
1934–2018
![Lee Meriwether photo]()
American actress, former model
1935
![Sarah Caudwell photo]()
English barrister and writer
1939–2000
![Rick Rescorla photo]()
War hero, victim and hero of 9/11
1939–2001
![Max Velmans photo]()
British psychologist
1942
![Robert Axelrod photo]()
American political scientist
1943
![Bruce Cockburn photo]()
Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
1945
![David Rowlands photo]()
British civil servant
1947–2014
![Pauline Hanson photo]()
Australian politician
1954
![Donna Strickland photo]()
Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner
1959
![Kiyohiko Azuma photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1968
![Nicolai Dubinin photo]()
Russian Roman Catholic bishop
1973
![Marjorie Taylor Greene photo]()
American politician and businesswoman from the state of Geo…
1974
![Jamie Oliver photo]()
British chef and media personality
1975
![Mahela Jayawardene photo]()
Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1977
![Chris Colfer photo]()
actor, singer, book author
1990
Death
![Anthony Fitzherbert photo]()
English judge, scholar and legal author
1470–1538
![Thomas Müntzer photo]()
early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader …
1489–1525
![John Calvin photo]()
French Protestant reformer
1509–1564
![Paul Gerhardt photo]()
German hymn writer
1607–1676
![François-Noël Babeuf photo]()
French political agitator and journalist of the French Revo…
1760–1797
![Arthur Mee photo]()
British journalist and writer
1875–1943
![Jawaharlal Nehru photo]()
Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister …
1889–1964
![Joseph Roth photo]()
austrian novelist and journalist
1894–1939
![Ernst Ruska photo]()
German physicist
1906–1988
![Luciano Berio photo]()
Italian composer
1925–2003
![Victor Kiam photo]()
American businessman, American football executive
1926–2001
![Massimo Vignelli photo]()
Italian designer
1931–2014
![George Klir photo]()
American computer scientist
1932–2016
![Gil Scott-Heron photo]()
American musician, poet and author
1949–2011
![Michael Talbot photo]()
American Writer
1953–1992
