Anniversaries 27 July
Birth
![Fatimah photo]()
daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah
604–632
![Nathanael Greene photo]()
American general in the American Revolutionary War
1742–1786
![George Biddell Airy photo]()
English mathematician and astronomer
1801–1892
![Alexandre Dumas, fils photo]()
French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and …
1824–1895
![Giosuè Carducci photo]()
Italian poet and teacher
1835–1907
![Iwane Matsui photo]()
Japanese general
1878–1948
![Oskar R. Lange photo]()
Polish economist
1904–1965
![Robert L. May photo]()
American writer
1905–1976
![Heinrich Baab photo]()
German Gestapo officer
1908
![Scott Corbett photo]()
American children's writer
1913–2006
![Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft photo]()
British politician
1914–1987
![Elizabeth Hardwick photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
1916–2007
![Jacques Bertin photo]()
French geographer and cartographer
1918–2010
![Jack Goody photo]()
British anthropologist
1919–2015
![Garry Davis photo]()
American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013)
1921–2013
![John Seigenthaler photo]()
American journalist, writer, and political figure
1927–2014
![Jean Baudrillard photo]()
French sociologist and philosopher
1929–2007
![Gary Gygax photo]()
American writer and game designer
1938–2008
![Troy Perry photo]()
American activist and clergy
1940
![August-Wilhelm Scheer photo]()
German business theorist
1941
![Hans Rosling photo]()
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public s…
1948–2017
![Juliet Marillier photo]()
New Zealand fiction writer
1948
![Pedro López Quintana photo]()
Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See
1953
![Mary Kay Andrews photo]()
American writer(original name/Kathy Hogan Trocheck)
1954
![Rob Enderle photo]()
American financial analyst
1954
![Carol Leifer photo]()
American actor and comedian
1956
![Bill Engvall photo]()
American comedian and actor
1957
![Lawrence M. Schoen photo]()
American writer and klingonist
1959
![Emily Thornberry photo]()
British politician (born 1960)
1960
![Phan Thi Kim Phuc photo]()
Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph tak…
1963
![Dave Brat photo]()
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
1964
![Håkon Wium Lie photo]()
Norwegian software engineer
1965
![Juliana Hatfield photo]()
American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
1967
![Matthew F. Hale photo]()
White separatist religious leader
1971
![Alex Rodriguez photo]()
American baseball player
1975
![Neil Harbisson photo]()
Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist
1984
![Antoine Bethea photo]()
American football player, defensive back, safety
1984
![Lila Rose photo]()
American anti-abortion activist
1988
![Kimsa Sok photo]()
Cambodian tour guide
2003
Death
![Pierre Louis Maupertuis photo]()
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
1698–1759
![John Dalton photo]()
English chemist, meteorologist and physicist
1766–1844
![James E. Talmage photo]()
American Mormon leader
1862–1933
![Ferruccio Busoni photo]()
Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and p…
1866–1924
![Gertrude Stein photo]()
American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p…
1874–1946
![Katharine Fullerton Gerould photo]()
American writer
1879–1944
![António de Oliveira Salazar photo]()
Prime Minister of Portugal
1889–1970
![Richard Aldington photo]()
English writer and poet
1892–1962
![Paul Brunton photo]()
British philosopher
1898–1981
![Bob Hope photo]()
American comedian, actor, singer and dancer
1903–2003
![S. J. Simon photo]()
British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer
1904–1948
![Eric Mervyn Lindsay photo]()
Irish astronomer
1907–1974
![Piet de Jong photo]()
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1915–2016
![John Stott photo]()
British theologian
1921–2011
![Sam Hunter photo]()
American art historian
1923–2014
![Paul Shepard photo]()
American human ecologist
1925–1996
![A. P. J. Abdul Kalam photo]()
11th President of India, scientist and science administrator
1931–2015
![Shantananda Saraswati photo]()
Hindu spiritual teacher
1934–2005
![Ágota Kristóf photo]()
Hungarian Swiss writer
1935–2011
![Ron Sider photo]()
Canadian theologian
1939–2022
![Mick Farren photo]()
English journalist, author and singer
1943–2013
![Sam Shepard photo]()
American playwright and actor
1943–2017
![Jack Tatum photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1948–2010
