On this day | August 27th

On this day: August 27th

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410 The Sack of Rome (410) of Ancient Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.

1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary are crowned junior king and queen of England.

1232 Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Law of Japan governing the ''samurai'' class.

1557 The Battle of St. Quentin (1557) results in Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy becoming Duke of Savoy.

1593 Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.

1597 Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) # Chongyu War: Japanese second invasion (1597–1598): Battle of Chilcheollyang: A Japanese fleet of 500 ships destroys Joseon dynasty commander Won Gyun's fleet of 200 ships at Chilcheollyang.

1600 Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army commences the Siege of Fushimi Castle, which is lightly defended by a much smaller Tokugawa clan garrison led by Torii Mototada.

1689 The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Tsardom of Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).

1776 American Revolutionary War: Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing George Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape.

1791 French Revolution: Frederick William II of Prussia and Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, issue the Declaration of Pillnitz, declaring the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia for the Kingdom of France, agitating the French revolutionaries and contributing to the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition.

1793 French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French First Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize Military port of Toulon, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary Army.

1798 Wolfe Tone's Society of United Irishmen and French Revolutionary Army clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French client republic Republic of Connacht.

1810 Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy Battle of Grand Port the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port District on Mauritius.

1813 French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrian Empirens, Russian Empirens, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.

1828 Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo (1828)

1832 Black Hawk (Sauk leader), leader of the Sauk people tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.

1859 Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

1881 The 1881 Atlantic hurricane season # Hurricane Five makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

1883 1883 eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.

1893 The 1893 Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.

1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895): Battle of Baguashan: The Empire of Japan decisively defeats a smaller Republic of Formosa army at Changhua, crippling the short-lived Republic of Formosa and leading to its surrender two months later.

1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

1908 The Qing dynasty promulgates the Principles of the Constitution (1908), the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy.

1914 World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.

1914 World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: A Japanese fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sadakichi Kato imposes a blockade along the whole coastline of Qingdao # German and Japanese occupations, initiating the Siege of Tsingtao.

1915 Attempted assassination of Patrick Richard Heffron, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona–Rochester, by The Reverend # Roman Catholic Louis M. Lesches.

1916 World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allies of World War I.

1918 Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: United States Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

1922 Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922): The Turkish army takes the Aegean Region city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg).

1927 The Famous Five (Canada) file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"

1928 The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.

1933 The first Bible translations into Afrikaans is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.

1939 First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

1942 First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.

1943 World War II: Empire of Japan forces evacuate New Georgia in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II.

1943 World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe Razing of Vorizia to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.

1955 The first edition of the ''Guinness World Records'' is published in Great Britain.

1956 The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.

1962 The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

1963 An explosion at the Intrepid_Potash # Moab near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.

1964 Army of the Republic of Vietnam leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.

1971 An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.

1975 The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.

1979 The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are Warrenpoint ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

1980 1980 South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him President of South Korea.

1982 Turkish military attaché Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide.

1985 Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1983–1985), is ousted from power in a 1985 Nigerian coup d'état led by Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

1985 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-51-I to deploy three Communications satellite and repair a fourth malfunctioning one.

1991 The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

1991 Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1992 – Aeroflot Flight 2808 crashes on approach to Ivanovo Yuzhny Airport, killing all 84 aboard.

2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing distant.

2003 The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korea and weapons of mass destruction.

2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

2009 Myanmar conflict: The State Peace and Development Council and ethnic armies begin 2009 Kokang incident in the Kokang Special Region.

2011 Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.

865 Rhazes, Persian polymath (d. 925)

1407 Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1425)

1471 George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)

1487 Anna of Brandenburg (d. 1514)

1512 Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (d. 1564)

1542 John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania and Protestant Bishop of Cammin (d. 1600)

1545 Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1592)

1624 Koxinga, Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist (d. 1662)

1637 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd List of Proprietors of Maryland (d. 1715)

1665 John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)

1669 Anne Marie d'Orléans, queen of Sardinia (d. 1728)

1677 Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian general (d. 1748)

1724 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and politician (d. 1781)

1730 Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher and author (d. 1788)

1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (d. 1831)

1785 Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (d. 1841)

1795 Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (d. 1885)

1803 Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (d. 1895)

1809 Hannibal Hamlin, American publisher and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)

1812 Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1869)

1822 William Hayden English, American politician, United States House of Representatives from Indiana and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee (d. 1896)

1827 Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (d. 1897)

1845 Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest) and the Church of St. Elisabeth (Bratislava) (d. 1914)

1845 Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 1909)

1856 Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1916)

1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1932)

1864 Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (d. 1919)

1865 James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian (d. 1935)

1865 Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)

1868 Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist (d. 1943)

1870 Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat (d. 1919)

1871 Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (d. 1945)

1874 Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1940)

1875 Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (d. 1967)

1877 Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910)

1877 Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1963)

1878 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (d. 1928)

1884 Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, President of the French Republic (d. 1966)

1884 Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition (d. 1963)

1886 Rebecca Clarke (composer), English viola player and composer (d. 1979)

1890 Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (d. 1976)

1895 Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian (d. 1981)

1896 Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (d. 1933)

1898 Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian businessman and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1963)

1899 C. S. Forester, English novelist (d. 1966)

1904 Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (d. 1963)

1904 Norah Lofts, English author (d. 1983)

1904 John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (d. 1982)

1905 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek soldier (d. 1945)

1906 Ed Gein, American murderer and body snatcher, The Butcher of Plainfield (d. 1982)

1908 Don Bradman, Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2001)

1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)

1909 Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)

1909 Charles Pozzi, French race car driver (d. 2001)

1909 Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959)

1911 Kay Walsh, English actress and dancer (d. 2005)

1912 Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (d. 1980)

1915 Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 2011)

1916 Gordon Bashford, English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover Classic (d. 1991)

1916 Tony Harris (cricketer), South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1993)

1916 Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (d. 1994)

1917 Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986)

1918 Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)

1919 Pee Wee Butts, American baseball player and coach (d. 1972)

1919 Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)

1920 Baptiste Manzini, American football player (d. 2008)

1920 James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (d. 2015)

1921 Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1996)

1921 Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1922 Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, List of Ministers of Defence of the Netherlands (d. 2012)

1923 Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1924 David Rowbotham, Australian journalist and poet (d. 2010)

1924 Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)

1925 Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)

1925 Nat Lofthouse, English footballer and manager (d. 2011)

1925 Saiichi Maruya, Japanese author and critic (d. 2012)

1925 Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1989)

1925 Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian poet and academic (d. 2015)

1925 Carter Stanley, American bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)

1926 George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (d. 2008)

1926 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)

1928 Péter Boross, Hungarian lawyer and politician, 54th List of Prime Ministers of Hungary

1928 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician, Chief Minister of KwaZulu (d. 2023)

1928 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (d. 2003)

1929 Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (d. 2007)

1929 George Scott (wrestler), Canadian-American wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)

1930 Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (d. 2023)

1930 Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler and politician (d. 1968)

1931 Sri Chinmoy, Indian-American guru and poet (d. 2007)

1931 Joe Cunningham (baseball), American baseball player and coach (d. 2021)

1932 Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2008)

1932 Antonia Fraser, English historian and author

1935 Ernie Broglio, American baseball player (d. 2019)

1935 Michael Holroyd, English author

1935 Frank Yablans, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)

1936 Joel Kovel, American scholar and author (d. 2018)

1936 Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician, Vice President of the Republic of China

1937 Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)

1937 Tommy Sands (American singer), American pop singer and actor

1939 William Least Heat-Moon, American travel writer and historian

1939 Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)

1939 Nikola Pilić, Yugoslav tennis player and coach

1940 Fernest Arceneaux, American singer and accordion player (d. 2008)

1940 Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (d. 1994)

1941 Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)

1941 János Konrád, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer (d. 2014)

1941 Harrison Page, American actor

1942 Daryl Dragon, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2019)

1942 Brian Peckford, Canadian educator and politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

1943 Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1943 Bob Kerrey, American lieutenant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient, 35th Governor of Nebraska

1943 Tuesday Weld, American model and actress

1944 G. W. Bailey, American actor

1944 Tim Bogert, American singer and bass player (d. 2021)

1945 Douglas R. Campbell, Canadian lawyer and judge

1945 Marianne Sägebrecht, German actress

1946 Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer and manager

1947 Barbara Bach, American actress and model

1947 Halil Berktay, Turkish historian and academic

1947 Kirk Francis, American engineer and producer

1947 Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1947 John Morrison (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer and politician

1947 Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2002)

1948 John Mehler, American drummer

1948 Sgt. Slaughter, American wrestler

1948 Deborah Swallow, English historian and curator

1948 Philippe Vallois, French director and screenwriter

1949 Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022)

1949 Leah Jamieson, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic

1949 Ann Murray, Irish soprano

1950 Charles Fleischer, American comedian and actor

1950 Neil Murray (British musician), Scottish bass player and songwriter

1950 Edmund Weiner, English lexicographer and author

1951 Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager

1951 Mack Brown, American football player and coach

1951 Randall Garrison, American-Canadian criminologist and politician

1952 Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian (d. 2023)

1953 Tom Berryhill, American businessman and politician (d. 2020)

1953 Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1953 Joan Smith, English journalist and author

1953 Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright

1954 John Lloyd (tennis), English tennis player and sportscaster

1954 Rajesh Thakker, English physician and academic

1954 Derek Warwick, English race car driver

1955 Robert Richardson (cinematographer), American cinematographer

1955 Diana Scarwid, American actress

1956 Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player

1957 Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

1957 Bernhard Langer, German golfer

1958 Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut

1958 Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright

1958 Hugh Orde, British police officer

1959 Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess

1959 Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver

1959 Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor

1959 Denice Denton, American engineer and academic (d. 2006)

1959 Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer

1959 András Petőcz, Hungarian author and poet

1959 Jeanette Winterson, English journalist and novelist

1961 Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

1961 Mark Curry (television presenter), English television host and actor

1961 Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director

1961 Steve McDowall, New Zealand rugby player

1961 Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer

1962 Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

1964 Stephan Elliott, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter

1964 Paul Bernardo, Canadian serial rapist and murderer

1965 Scott Dibble (politician), American lawyer and politician

1965 Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

1965 Ange Postecoglou, Greek-Australian footballer and coach

1966 Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower

1966 René Higuita, Colombian footballer

1966 Juhan Parts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

1967 Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1967 Rob Burnett (American football), American football player and sportscaster

1968 Eric "Bobo" Correa, American musician

1968 Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic

1968 Michael Long (golfer), New Zealand golfer

1968 Matthew Ridge, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

1969 Mark Ealham, English cricketer

1969 Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer, television personality, and author

1969 Reece Shearsmith, English actor, comedian and writer

1969 Chandra Wilson, American actress and director

1970 Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer and coach

1970 Mark Ilott, English cricketer

1970 Pokwang, Filipino comedian, actress, television host and singer

1970 Tony Kanal, British-American bass player. songwriter, and record producer

1970 Jim Thome, American baseball player and manager

1970 Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)

1971 Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and manager

1971 Kyung Lah, South Korean-American journalist

1971 Hisayuki Okawa, Japanese runner

1971 Aygül Özkan, German lawyer and politician

1972 Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player

1972 Denise Lewis, English heptathlete

1972 Jimmy Pop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972 The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler

1973 Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer

1973 Dietmar Hamann, German footballer and manager

1973 Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter

1973 Johan Norberg, Swedish historian and author

1974 Aaron Downey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1974 Manny Fernandez (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player

1974 Michael Mason (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer

1974 José Vidro, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

1974 Mohammad Yousuf (cricketer, born 1974), Pakistani cricketer

1975 Blake Adams, American golfer

1975 Mase, American rapper, songwriter and pastor

1975 Jonny Moseley, Puerto Rican-American skier and television host

1975 Marko Rudan, Australian footballer and manager

1976 Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress

1976 Audrey C. Delsanti, French astronomer and biologist

1976 Milano Collection A.T., Japanese wrestler

1976 Carlos Moyá, Spanish-Swiss tennis player

1976 Mark Webber (racing driver), Australian race car driver

1977 Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer

1977 Justin Miller (baseball, born 1977), American baseball player (d. 2013)

1978 Demetria McKinney, American actress and singer

1979 Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist

1979 Aaron Paul, American actor and producer

1979 Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)

1979 Rusty Smith (speed skater), American speed skater

1981 Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor

1981 Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer

1981 Chantal Djotodia, Beninese-Central African nurse and politician

1981 Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer

1981 Karla Mosley, American actress

1983 Joanna McGilchrist, English rugby player and physiotherapist

1984 David Bentley, English footballer

1984 Amanda Fuller, American actress

1984 Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer

1985 Kayla Ewell, American actress

1985 Kevan Hurst, English footballer

1985 Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer

1985 Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter and sculptor

1986 Lana Bastašić, Serbian-Bosnian author and translator

1986 Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria

1986 Mario (singer), American singer and actor

1987 Joel Grant, English-Jamaican footballer

1987 Darren McFadden, American football player

1988 Alexa PenaVega, American actress and singer

1989 Romain Amalfitano, French footballer

1989 Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress

1990 Tori Bowie, American athlete (d. 2023)

1990 Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer

1991 Lee Sung-yeol, South Korean actor and singer

1992 Blake Jenner, American actor and singer

1992 Stephen Morris (American football), American football player

1992 Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter

1992 Ayame Goriki, Japanese actress and singer

1993 Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

1993 Olivier Le Gac, French cyclist

1994 Ellar Coltrane, American actor

1994 Breanna Stewart, American basketball player

1995 Jessie Mei Li, English actress

1995 Sergey Sirotkin (racing driver), Russian race car driver

1997 Lucas Paquetá, Brazilian footballer

1998 Kevin Huerter, American basketball player

1998 Matheus Nunes, Portuguese footballer

1998 Rod Wave, American rapper, singer, and songwriter

2001 Franz Wagner (basketball), German basketball player

2007 Ariana Greenblatt, American actress

542 Caesarius of Arles, French bishop and saint (b. 470)

749 Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Persian general

827 Pope Eugene II

923 Ageltrude, queen of Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire) and Holy Roman Empire

1146 King Eric III of Denmark

1255 Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (b. 1247)

1312 Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1261)

1394 Emperor Chōkei of Japan (b. 1343)

1450 Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)

1521 Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer (b. 1450)

1545 Piotr Gamrat, Polish archbishop (b. 1487)

1576 Titian, Italian painter and educator (b. 1488)

1590 Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)

1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. c. 1548)

1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)

1664 Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1598)

1748 James Thomson (poet, born 1700), Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1700)

1782 John Laurens, American Revolutionary and abolitionist (b. 1754)

1828 Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)

1857 Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)

1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)

1871 William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)

1875 William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)

1891 Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)

1903 Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)

1909 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)

1922 Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)

1929 Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

1931 Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)

1931 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)

1931 Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (b. 1846)

1935 Childe Hassam, American painter and academic (b. 1859)

1944 Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)

1945 Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer, designed the Petőfi Bridge (b. 1894)

1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)

1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)

1956 Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)

1958 Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1901)

1963 W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)

1963 Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)

1964 Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)

1965 Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)

1967 Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)

1968 Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)

1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)

1969 Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)

1971 Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)

1971 Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)

1975 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)

1978 Gordon Matta-Clark, American painter and illustrator (b. 1943)

1978 Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897)

1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900)

1980 Douglas Kenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)

1981 Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)

1990 Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1899)

1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954)

1992 Bengt Holbek, Danish folklorist (b. 1933)

1994 Frank Jeske, German footballer (b. 1960)

1996 Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)

1998 Essie Summers, New Zealand author (b. 1912)

1999 Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop and theologian (b. 1909)

2001 Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1936)

2001 Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian politician (b. 1938)

2002 Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (b. 1922)

2003 Pierre Poujade, French soldier and politician (b. 1920)

2004 Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)

2005 Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)

2005 Seán Purcell, Irish footballer (b. 1929)

2006 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2006 Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (b. 1969)

2007 Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

2009 Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (b. 1913)

2010 Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist (b. 1934)

2010 Luna Vachon, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1962)

2012 Neville Alexander, South African linguist and activist (b. 1936)

2012 Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (b. 1931)

2012 Art Heyman, American basketball player (b. 1941)

2012 Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1926)

2012 Richard Kingsland, Australian captain and pilot (b. 1916)

2012 Geliy Korzhev, Russian painter (b. 1925)

2013 Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (b. 1910)

2013 Bill Peach, Australian journalist (b. 1935)

2013 Dave Thomas (golfer), Welsh golfer and architect (b. 1934)

2014 Jacques Friedel, French physicist and academic (b. 1921)

2014 Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2014 Benno Pludra, German author (b. 1925)

2015 Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, 8th List of Prime Ministers of Bangladesh (b. 1939)

2015 Pascal Chaumeil, French director and screenwriter (b. 1961)

2015 Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1957)

2016 Cookie (cockatoo), Australian Major Mitchell's cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (b. 1933)

2024 Bob Carr (Michigan politician), American politician (b. 1943)

2024 Juan Izquierdo, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1997)

2024 Charlotte Kretschmann, German supercentenarian (b. 1909)

2024 Leonard Riggio, American businessman (b. 1941)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Baculus of Sorrento

- Caesarius of Arles

- Decuman

- Gebhard of Constance

- Euthalia, Virgin Martyr

- John of Pavia

- Lycerius

- Máel Ruba (Scotland)

- Margaret the Barefooted

- Saint Monica, mother of Augustine of Hippo

- Narnus

- Our Lady of La Vang

- Saint Phanourios

- Rufus and Carpophorus

- Syagrius of Autun

- Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church))

- August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Independence Day (Republic of Moldova), celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas, United States)