Anniversaries 27 August
Birth
![Henry Carey photo]()
English composer and playwright
1687–1743
![Baal Shem Tov photo]()
Jewish mystical rabbi, the founder of Hasidic Judaism
1698–1760
![Joseph Tiefenthaler photo]()
Austrian missionary
1710–1785
![Johann Georg Hamann photo]()
German philosopher
1730–1788
![Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel photo]()
German philosopher
1770–1831
![Giuseppe Peano photo]()
Italian mathematician
1858–1932
![Constantin Brunner photo]()
German philosopher
1862–1937
![Theodore Dreiser photo]()
Novelist, journalist
1871–1945
![Man Ray photo]()
American artist and photographer
1890–1976
![Léon Theremin photo]()
Russian inventor
1896–1993
![Kenji Miyazawa photo]()
Japanese poet and author of children's literature
1896–1933
![C. S. Forester photo]()
British novelist
1899–1966
![Eduardo Torroja photo]()
Spanish architect
1899–1961
![Lyndon B. Johnson photo]()
American politician, 36th president of the United States (i…
1908–1973
![Tjalling Koopmans photo]()
Dutch American economist
1910–1985
![Donald M. MacKinnon photo]()
British philosopher
1913–1994
![Herbert Stein photo]()
American economist
1916–1999
![Martha Raye photo]()
American comic actress and singer
1916–1994
![Fred Emery photo]()
Australian psychologist
1925–1997
![Kristen Nygaard photo]()
Computer scientist, Mathematician
1926–2002
![George Brecht photo]()
American artist and composer
1926–2008
![Ira Levin photo]()
Novelist, playwright
1929–2007
![Sri Chinmoy photo]()
Indian writer and guru
1931–2007
![Antonia Fraser photo]()
British author and novelist
1932
![Lien Chan photo]()
former Chairman of the Kuomintang
1936
![Napoleon Chagnon photo]()
American anthropologist
1938–2019
![Yannis Spiteris photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1947
![Miguel Ángel Ruiz photo]()
Mexican writer and philosopher
1952
![Paul Reubens photo]()
American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and …
1952
![Joan Smith photo]()
English novelist, journalist and human rights activist
1953
![Richard Kadrey photo]()
San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photogr…
1957
![Russ Tice photo]()
former intelligence analyst
1961
![Tom Ford photo]()
American fashion designer
1961
![Lynn Shelton photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, film editor, actress …
1965–2020
![Cesar Millan photo]()
Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality
1969
![Christine O'Donnell photo]()
American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party c…
1969
Death
![Lope De Vega photo]()
Spanish playwright and poet
1562–1635
![James Thomson (poet) photo]()
Scottish writer (1700-1748)
1700–1748
![John Pierpont photo]()
American writer
1785–1866
![Thomas Chandler Haliburton photo]()
Canadian-British politician, judge, and author
1796–1865
![Frank Harris photo]()
Irish journalist and rogue
1856–1931
![Constantin Brunner photo]()
German philosopher
1862–1937
![W.E.B. Du Bois photo]()
American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
1868–1963
![Le Corbusier photo]()
architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
1887–1965
![Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges photo]()
British civil servant
1892–1969
![Haile Selassie photo]()
Emperor of Ethiopia
1892–1975
![Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma photo]()
British statesman and naval officer
1900–1979
![Gracie Allen photo]()
American actress and comedienne
1902–1964
![Cesare Pavese photo]()
Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
1908–1950
![Helder Camara photo]()
Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife
1909–1999
![Sam Levenson photo]()
American journalist
1911–1980
![Hans Ruesch photo]()
Swiss racing driver
1913–2007
![John H. Disher photo]()
American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager
1921–1988
![Victor J. Stenger photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2014
![Barbara Johnson photo]()
American literary critic
1947–2009
![Stevie Ray Vaughan photo]()
American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist
1954–1990
