Anniversaries 27 August

Birth

Henry Carey11

English composer and playwright 1687–1743

Baal Shem Tov1

Jewish mystical rabbi, the founder of Hasidic Judaism 1698–1760

Joseph Tiefenthaler1

Austrian missionary 1710–1785

Johann Georg Hamann13

German philosopher 1730–1788

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel106

German philosopher 1770–1831

Roden Noel2

English poet 1834–1894

Giuseppe Peano7

Italian mathematician 1858–1932

Constantin Brunner15

German philosopher 1862–1937

Theodore Dreiser20

Novelist, journalist 1871–1945

Man Ray18

American artist and photographer 1890–1976

Léon Theremin2

Russian inventor 1896–1993

Kenji Miyazawa3

Japanese poet and author of children's literature 1896–1933

C. S. Forester4

British novelist 1899–1966

Eduardo Torroja29

Spanish architect 1899–1961

Norah Lofts2

British writer 1904–1983

Lyndon B. Johnson153

American politician, 36th president of the United States (i… 1908–1973

Tjalling Koopmans16

Dutch American economist 1910–1985

Donald M. MacKinnon1

British philosopher 1913–1994

Herbert Stein1

American economist 1916–1999

Martha Raye3

American comic actress and singer 1916–1994

Fred Emery15

Australian psychologist 1925–1997

Kristen Nygaard2

Computer scientist, Mathematician 1926–2002

George Brecht3

American artist and composer 1926–2008

Ira Levin5

Novelist, playwright 1929–2007

Sri Chinmoy75

Indian writer and guru 1931–2007

Antonia Fraser2

British author and novelist 1932

Lien Chan3

former Chairman of the Kuomintang 1936

Napoleon Chagnon1

American anthropologist 1938–2019

William Least Heat-Moon7

American writer 1939

Yannis Spiteris1

Roman Catholic archbishop 1947

Miguel Ángel Ruiz9

Mexican writer and philosopher 1952

Roger Stone9

American lobbyist 1952

Paul Reubens3

American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and … 1952

Joan Smith1

English novelist, journalist and human rights activist 1953

Richard Kadrey23

San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photogr… 1957

Jeanette Winterson187

English writer 1959

András Petőcz5

Hungarian writer 1959

Russ Tice1

former intelligence analyst 1961

Tom Ford6

American fashion designer 1961

Lynn Shelton4

American film director, screenwriter, film editor, actress … 1965–2020

Jill Lepore1

American historian 1966

Cesar Millan7

Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality 1969

Christine O'Donnell47

American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party c… 1969

Johan Norberg7

author 1973

Rozlyn Khan1

actor and model 1988

Cainan Wiebe1

Canadian actor 1995

Nedim Jahić7

Bosnian singer 2001

Death

Pope Sixtus V12

pope 1520–1590

Lope De Vega8

Spanish playwright and poet 1562–1635

James Thomson (poet)50

Scottish writer (1700-1748) 1700–1748

John Pierpont2

American writer 1785–1866

Thomas Chandler Haliburton10

Canadian-British politician, judge, and author 1796–1865

Lucretia Maria Davidson2

American poet 1808–1825

Eugène Fromentin9

French painter 1820–1876

Frank Harris10

Irish journalist and rogue 1856–1931

Constantin Brunner15

German philosopher 1862–1937

Charles Evans Hughes34

American judge 1862–1948

W.E.B. Du Bois62

American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868–1963

Fani Badayuni1

Indian writer 1879–1961

Ivy Compton-Burnett10

English writer 1884–1969

Le Corbusier16

architect, designer, urbanist, and writer 1887–1965

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges1

British civil servant 1892–1969

Haile Selassie58

Emperor of Ethiopia 1892–1975

Sri Anandamoyi Ma5

Hindu saint 1896–1982

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma1

British statesman and naval officer 1900–1979

Gracie Allen34

American actress and comedienne 1902–1964

Cesare Pavese137

Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950

Helder Camara4

Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1909–1999

Sam Levenson11

American journalist 1911–1980

Hans Ruesch5

Swiss racing driver 1913–2007

John H. Disher3

American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager 1921–1988

Victor J. Stenger13

American philosopher 1935–2014

Barbara Johnson5

American literary critic 1947–2009

Stevie Ray Vaughan6

American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist 1954–1990