Anniversaries 27 September

Birth

Cosimo de' Medici3

First ruler of the Medici political dynasty 1389–1464

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet6

French bishop and theologian 1627–1704

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori2

Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musici… 1696–1787

Samuel Adams57

American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political p… 1722–1803

George Müller49

German-English clergyman 1805–1898

Lucretia Maria Davidson2

American poet 1808–1825

Henri-Frédéric Amiel50

Swiss philosopher and poet 1821–1881

Nicholas Roerich29

Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, enligh… 1874–1947

Nikolai Bukharin18

Soviet politician 1888–1938

Sam Ervin2

Democratic United States Senator from North Carolina 1896–1985

Alessandro Pavolini8

Italian politician and writer 1903–1945

William Empson25

English literary critic and poet 1906–1984

Jim Thompson5

American writer 1906–1977

Bhagat Singh16

Indian revolutionary 1907–1931

Albert Ellis5

American psychologist 1913–2007

Louis Auchincloss1

Lawyer, novelist, historian, essayist 1917–2010

Martin Ryle4

English radio astronomer 1918–1984

James H. Wilkinson6

English mathematician 1919–1986

Ernest Becker26

American anthropologist 1924–1974

W. Maxwell Cowan1

South African-American neurobiologist and neuro-anatomist 1931–2002

Oliver E. Williamson3

American economist 1932

Joyce Johnson2

American novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1935

Robert Patrick (playwright)14

Playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, novelist 1937

Günter Brus31

Austrian artist 1938

Ken Binmore1

British economist 1940

Slobodan Casule1

Macedonian politician 1945–2015

Meat Loaf6

American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and … 1947

John Marsden26

author 1950

Debbie Miller1

1950

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa3

American actor 1950

Katie Fforde1

British novelist (1952-) 1952

Mata Amritanandamayi55

Hindu spiritual leader and guru 1953

Diane Abbott13

British Labour Party politician 1953

Larry Wall294

American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Deborah Smith2

writer of romance and women's fiction 1955

Peter Sellars2

American theatre director 1957

Irvine Welsh41

Scottish novelist 1958

Gabriel Serville1

French politician 1959

Francis Heylighen9

Belgian cyberneticist 1960

Marc Maron15

Comedian 1963

Stanislav Pozdniakov2

Russian fencer 1973

Tucker Max26

Internet personality; blogger; author 1975

Luca Parmitano1

Italian astronaut 1976

Francesco Totti1

Italian footballer 1976

Lil Wayne47

American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman 1982

Avril Lavigne17

Canadian singer-songwriter and actress 1984

Tara Westover17

American historian and author 1986

Mitski3

Japanese-American singer-songwriter 1990

Death

Marco Girolamo Vida12

Italian bishop 1485–1566

Vincent de Paul4

French priest, founder and saint 1581–1660

Ram Mohan Roy4

Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and hum… 1772–1833

Edgar Degas67

French artist 1834–1917

Wayland Hoyt4

American Baptist Minister 1838–1910

Remy de Gourmont17

French writer 1858–1915

Aristide Maillol18

sculptor from France 1861–1944

Gottfried de Purucker45

Author, Theosophist 1874–1942

Louis Brownlow10

American mayor 1879–1963

H.D.4

American Imagist poet 1886–1961

James Doolittle3

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient 1896–1993

Hans Fritzsche8

German Nazi official 1900–1953

Dilgo Khyentse17

Bhutanese Buddhist Lama 1910–1991

Ramesh Balsekar6

Indian guru 1917–2009

Herbert Lom2

Czech-born film and television actor 1917–2012

George Grant4

Canadian philosopher 1918–1988

Mary Lee Settle1

Novelist, biographer, academic 1918–2005

Hugh Hefner1

American businessman and magazine publisher 1926–2017

James G. March10

American sociologist 1928–2018

Brother Andrew1

Christian missionary 1928–2022

John E. Mack1

American psychiatrist 1929–2004

William Safire5

American journalist 1929–2009

Jaswant Singh3

Indian politician and retired army officer 1938–2020

James Traficant5

Ohio politician 1941–2014

Joseph C. Wilson8

American ambassador 1949–2019

Cliff Burton2

American musician, member of Metallica 1962–1986