Anniversaries 27 June

Birth

Augustus De Morgan41

British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (… 1806–1871

Charles Stewart Parnell11

Irish politician 1846–1891

Lafcadio Hearn14

writer 1850–1904

Emma Goldman109

anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp… 1868–1940

Paul Laurence Dunbar5

American author 1872–1906

Roy Bedichek1

American writer and naturalist 1878–1959

Helen Keller156

American author and political activist 1880–1968

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy2

British saint 1883–1929

Gaston Bachelard35

French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

Jacques Deval1

French film director and writer 1890–1972

João Guimarães Rosa1

Brazilian novelist 1908–1967

Phillip Guston35

American artist 1913–1980

Robert Aickman1

British fantasy and horror writer 1914–1981

William Foote Whyte17

American sociologist 1914–2000

Grace Lee Boggs2

social activist and feminist 1915–2015

Douglas John Foskett24

1918–2004

Paul Conrad8

German theologian 1924–2010

Michael Dummett2

British academic and philosopher 1925–2011

Bob Keeshan7

United States Marine 1927–2004

Ross Perot3

American businessman 1930–2019

Martinus J. G. Veltman3

Dutch physicist 1931

Robert Rosen8

American theoretical biologist 1934–1998

Lucille Clifton10

American poet 1936–2010

Alan Coren11

humorist and writer from the United Kingdom 1938–2007

Krzysztof Kieślowski3

Polish film director and screenwriter 1941–1996

James P. Hogan11

British writer 1941–2010

Arthur Li3

Hong Kong politician 1945

Ami Ayalon1

Israeli politician 1945

Alice McDermott1

American writer, novelist, essayist 1953

Charlie Beck9

Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department 1953

Tarik Gunersel15

Turkish actor 1953

Isabelle Adjani3

French actress 1955

Ted Haggard27

American minister 1956

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud1

former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the Amer… 1956

Scott Cunningham1

U.S. writer about Wicca and the occult 1956–1993

Tony Leung7

Hong Kong actor 1962

J. J. Abrams7

American film and television producer and director 1966

Cecily von Ziegesar24

American writer 1970

Dawud Wharnsby79

Canadian musician 1972

Tom Tugendhat5

British politician 1973

Ismail ibn Musa Menk9

Muslim cleric and Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe. 1975

Tobey Maguire1

actor from the United States 1975

Raúl González12

Spanish footballer 1977

Khloé Kardashian2

American television personality 1984

Jessamyn Stanley3

American yoga teacher and author 1987

Ed Westwick1

English actor and musician 1987

Lauren Jauregui8

Cuban-American singer and songwriter 1996

Death

Agnolo Firenzuola8

Italian poet and litterateur 1493–1543

Giorgio Vasari7

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian 1511–1574

Ranjit Singh2

founder of Sikh Empire (early 19th century) 1780–1839

Harriet Martineau6

English writer and sociologist 1802–1876

Sarah Helen Whitman7

United States poet 1803–1878

Joseph Smith, Jr.40

American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day… 1805–1844

Ernest Bramah26

English author 1868–1942

Arthur Waley21

British academic 1889–1966

Earl Browder1

American political activist (1891-1973) 1891–1973

Walter Dornberger2

German general 1895–1980

Alfred Jules Ayer18

English philosopher 1910–1989

Simon Ramo6

Father of the ICBM 1913–2016

Sam Manekshaw15

First Field marshal of the Indian Army 1914–2008

Tove Jansson35

Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001

Shelby Foote16

Novelist, historian 1916–2005

George S. Patton IV15

U.S. Army general 1923–2004

Michael Bond4

English author, creator of Paddington the Bear 1926–2017

Alvin Toffler16

American writer 1928–2016

Peter L. Berger45

Austrian-born American sociologist 1929–2017

Alden Nowlan1

Canadian writer 1933–1983

Surendra Pratap Singh4

Indian journalist 1948–1997

Bhakti Tirtha Swami73

American Hindu writer 1950–2005