Anniversaries 27 July

Birth

Fatimah17

daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah 604–632

Nathanael Greene126

American general in the American Revolutionary War 1742–1786

Thomas Campbell64

British writer 1777–1844

George Biddell Airy13

English mathematician and astronomer 1801–1892

Alexandre Dumas, fils8

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

Giosuè Carducci1

Italian poet and teacher 1835–1907

Хилари Беллок1

1870–1953

Hilaire Belloc91

writer 1870–1953

Iwane Matsui9

Japanese general 1878–1948

Oskar R. Lange3

Polish economist 1904–1965

Robert L. May1

American writer 1905–1976

Heinrich Baab4

German Gestapo officer 1908

Julien Gracq1

French writer 1910–2007

Rayner Heppenstall1

British writer 1911–1981

Scott Corbett1

American children's writer 1913–2006

Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft5

British politician 1914–1987

Elizabeth Hardwick14

Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916–2007

Jacques Bertin20

French geographer and cartographer 1918–2010

Jack Goody1

British anthropologist 1919–2015

Garry Davis6

American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013) 1921–2013

John Seigenthaler2

American journalist, writer, and political figure 1927–2014

Jean Baudrillard64

French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007

Gary Gygax16

American writer and game designer 1938–2008

Michael Longley4

poet 1939

Troy Perry2

American activist and clergy 1940

August-Wilhelm Scheer6

German business theorist 1941

Hans Rosling6

Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public s… 1948–2017

Juliet Marillier40

New Zealand fiction writer 1948

Pedro López Quintana1

Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See 1953

Mary Kay Andrews3

American writer(original name/Kathy Hogan Trocheck) 1954

Rob Enderle48

American financial analyst 1954

Carol Leifer2

American actor and comedian 1956

Bill Engvall71

American comedian and actor 1957

Lawrence M. Schoen22

American writer and klingonist 1959

Emily Thornberry1

British politician (born 1960) 1960

Phan Thi Kim Phuc5

Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph tak… 1963

Dave Brat3

American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College 1964

Håkon Wium Lie1

Norwegian software engineer 1965

Dan Bern5

American musician 1965

Sean Punch2

Canadian editor 1967

Rahul Bose3

Indian actor 1967

Juliana Hatfield19

American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author 1967

Matthew F. Hale1

White separatist religious leader 1971

Cassandra Clare2041

American author 1973

Pete Yorn72

American musician 1974

Alex Rodriguez2

American baseball player 1975

Alexei Maxim Russell10

Canadian writer 1976

Neil Harbisson9

Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist 1984

Antoine Bethea2

American football player, defensive back, safety 1984

Lila Rose2

American anti-abortion activist 1988

Kimsa Sok1

Cambodian tour guide 2003

Death

Guigo I5

Cartusian monk 1083–1136

Pierre Louis Maupertuis24

French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters 1698–1759

John Dalton6

English chemist, meteorologist and physicist 1766–1844

James E. Talmage1

American Mormon leader 1862–1933

Ferruccio Busoni2

Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and p… 1866–1924

Gertrude Stein160

American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p… 1874–1946

Katharine Fullerton Gerould5

American writer 1879–1944

António de Oliveira Salazar19

Prime Minister of Portugal 1889–1970

Richard Aldington5

English writer and poet 1892–1962

Paul Brunton4

British philosopher 1898–1981

Bob Hope12

American comedian, actor, singer and dancer 1903–2003

S. J. Simon4

British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer 1904–1948

Eric Mervyn Lindsay1

Irish astronomer 1907–1974

Piet de Jong4

Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1915–2016

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi92

Shah of Iran 1919–1980

John Stott1

British theologian 1921–2011

Sam Hunter2

American art historian 1923–2014

Paul Shepard2

American human ecologist 1925–1996

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam43

11th President of India, scientist and science administrator 1931–2015

Shantananda Saraswati7

Hindu spiritual teacher 1934–2005

Ágota Kristóf2

Hungarian Swiss writer 1935–2011

Ron Sider1

Canadian theologian 1939–2022

Mick Farren1

English journalist, author and singer 1943–2013

Sam Shepard4

American playwright and actor 1943–2017

Jack Tatum4

All-American college football player, professional football… 1948–2010