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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
187 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is
founded. ·
1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. ·
1556 – The
thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near
London for their Protestant beliefs. ·
1743 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes
the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle. ·
1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina. ·
1806 – British forces
take Buenos Aires during
the first of the British
invasions of the River Plate. ·
1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day
Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at
the Carthage, Illinois jail. ·
1864 – American Civil War:
Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of
Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign. ·
1869 – The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops. ·
1895 – The inaugural
run of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from
Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to
use electric
locomotives. ·
1898 – The first
solo circumnavigation of
the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. ·
1905 – During
the Russo-Japanese War,
sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian
battleship Potemkin. ·
1908 – A group
of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to
poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way
for Hoŕng Hoa Thám's
rebel army to capture Hanoi. ·
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter
perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane. ·
1927 – Prime Minister of
Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes
an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world
domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this
conference. ·
1941 – Romanian
authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in
Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at
least 13,266 Jews. ·
1941 – World War II: German troops capture the city
of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. ·
1946 – In the Canadian
Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes
the definition of Canadian citizenship. ·
1950 – The United
States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. ·
1954 – The Obninsk
Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power
station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. ·
1954 – The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal
match between Hungary and Brazil,
highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns
violent, with three players ejected and further fighting
continuing after the game. ·
1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near
the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400
people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana. ·
1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María
Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a
dictatorship. ·
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union. ·
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris
by the PLO and
redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. ·
1977 – France grants
independence to Djibouti. ·
1980 – The 'Ustica
massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes
in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on
board. ·
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues
its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since
the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for
the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong. ·
1982 – Space
Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on
the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. ·
1988 – The Gare de Lyon
rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people. ·
1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two
days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops,
tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War. ·
1994 – Members of
the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto,
Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured. ·
2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British
Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him. ·
2007 – The Brazilian
Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemăo in
an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do
Alemăo massacre. ·
2008 – In a highly
scrutinized election President of
Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is
re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had
withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his
party's supporters. ·
2013 – NASA launches
the Interface
Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. ·
2014 – At least
fourteen people are killed when a Gas
Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in
the East Godavari district
of Andhra Pradesh,
India. ·
2015 – Formosa
Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational
water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199
critically. ·
2017 – A series of
powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and
counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe. Births[edit]
·
850 – Ibrahim II of
Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (d.
902) ·
1350 – Manuel II
Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1425) ·
1430 – Henry
Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader (d. 1475) ·
1462 – Louis XII,
king of France (d. 1515) ·
1464 – Ernst II of Saxony,
Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (d. 1513) ·
1497 – Ernest
I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1546) ·
1550 – Charles IX,
king of France (d. 1574) ·
1596 – Maximilian,
Prince of Dietrichstein (d. 1655) ·
1696 – William Pepperrell,
American merchant and soldier (d. 1759) ·
1717 – Louis-Guillaume
Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799) ·
1767 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and
academic (d. 1843) ·
1805 – Napoléon Coste,
French guitarist and composer (d. 1883) ·
1806 – Augustus De Morgan,
English mathematician and logician (d. 1871) ·
1812 – Anna
Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (d. 1899)[1] ·
1817 – Louise von François,
German author (d. 1893) ·
1828 – Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian
politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (d.
1905) ·
1838 – Bankim
Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d.
1894) ·
1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer,
designed the Gewehr 98 (d.
1914) ·
1846 – Charles Stewart
Parnell, Irish politician (d. 1891) ·
1850 – Jřrgen Pedersen Gram,
Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919) ·
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and
author (d. 1904) ·
1862 – May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and
singer (d. 1938) ·
1865 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general
(d. 1931) ·
1869 – Kate Carew, American illustrator and
journalist (d. 1961) ·
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian
philosopher and activist (d. 1940) ·
1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1941) ·
1870 – Frank Rattray Lillie,
American zoologist and embryologist (d. 1947) ·
1872 – Heber Doust Curtis,
American astronomer (d. 1942) ·
1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar,
American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906) ·
1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and
activist (d. 1968) ·
1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and
academic (d. 1963) ·
1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and
poet (d. 1962) ·
1885 – Pierre Montet, French historian and academic
(d. 1966) ·
1885 – Guilhermina Suggia,
Portuguese cellist (d. 1950) ·
1886 – Charlie Macartney,
Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1958) ·
1888 – Lewis Bernstein
Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (d. 1960) ·
1888 – Antoinette Perry, American actress and
director (d. 1946) ·
1892 – Paul Colin,
French illustrator (d. 1985) ·
1899 – Juan Trippe, American businessman,
founded Pan American
World Airways (d. 1981) ·
1900 – Dixie Brown, British boxer (d. 1957) ·
1901 – Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and
academic (d. 1982) ·
1905 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1976) ·
1906 – Catherine Cookson,
English author and philanthropist (d. 1998) ·
1906 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and
painter (d. 1967) ·
1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991) ·
1908 – Joăo Guimarăes Rosa,
Brazilian physician and author (d. 1967) ·
1911 – Marion M. Magruder,
American Marine officer,
commander of the VMF(N)-533 squadron.
(d. 1997) ·
1912 – E. R. Braithwaite,
Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (d. 2016) ·
1913 – Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1972) ·
1913 – Philip Guston, American painter and academic
(d. 1980) ·
1913 – Willie Mosconi, American pool player
(d. 1993) ·
1914 – Robert Aickman, English author and activist,
co-founded the Inland
Waterways Association (d. 1981) ·
1914 – Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and
administrator (d. 2016) ·
1914 – Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian women's rights
activist, social mobilizer and politician (d. 2006) ·
1914 – Giorgio Almirante,
Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988) ·
1915 – Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher,
author, and activist (d. 2015) ·
1915 – Aideu Handique, Indian actress (d. 2002) ·
1915 – John Alexander Moore,
American zoologist and academic (d. 2002) ·
1916 – Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (d.
1998) ·
1918 – Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017) ·
1919 – M. Carl Holman, American author, educator,
poet, and playwright (d. 1988) ·
1919 – Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse ·
1920 – Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and
manager (d. 2010) ·
1921 – Muriel Pavlow, English actress (d. 2019) ·
1922 – George Walker,
American composer (d. 2018) ·
1923 – Jacques Berthier, French organist and
composer (d. 1994) ·
1923 – Elmo Hope, American pianist and composer (d.
1967) ·
1924 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer and
businessman (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Leonard Lerman, American geneticist and
biologist (d. 2012) ·
1925 – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (d.
1991) ·
1925 – Wayne Terwilliger,
American second baseman, coach, and manager ·
1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (d.
2004) ·
1928 – James Lincoln
Collier, American journalist and author ·
1928 – Rudy Perpich, American dentist and
politician, 34th Governor of
Minnesota (d. 1995) ·
1929 – Dick the Bruiser, American football player
and wrestler (d. 1991) ·
1929 – Peter Maas, American journalist and author
(d. 2001) ·
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and
politician (d. 2019) ·
1931 – Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American
businessman and philanthropist ·
1931 – Martinus J. G.
Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1932 – Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2020) ·
1932 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d.
2006)[2] ·
1932 – Hugh Wood, English composer ·
1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet
(d. 2010) ·
1936 – Shirley Anne Field,
English actress ·
1937 – Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and
astronaut ·
1937 – Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician
(d. 2013) ·
1937 – Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and
scholar ·
1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and
politician, 47th United
States Secretary of the Interior ·
1938 – David
Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge ·
1938 – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (d. 2000) ·
1939 – R. D. Burman, Indian singer-songwriter (d.
1994) ·
1939 – Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and
footballer (d. 2000) ·
1940 – Ian Lang,
Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1941 – Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician,
24th Lieutenant
Governor of Alabama ·
1941 – James P. Hogan,
English-Irish author (d. 2010) ·
1941 – Krzysztof
Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1942 – Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1942 – Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer ·
1942 – Danny Schechter, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1943 – Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and
academic ·
1944 – Angela
King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common
Ground ·
1944 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (d. 2019) ·
1945 – Joey Covington, American drummer,
songwriter, and producer (d. 2013) ·
1945 – Norma Kamali, American fashion designer ·
1945 – Ragnar Sřderlind,
Norwegian composer ·
1948 – Camile Baudoin, American guitarist ·
1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer ·
1951 – Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player ·
1951 – Julia Duffy, American actress ·
1951 – Gilson Lavis, English drummer and portrait
artist ·
1951 – Mary McAleese, Irish academic and
politician, 8th President of Ireland ·
1952 – Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d.
1993) ·
1953 – Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and
politician ·
1953 – Alice McDermott, American novelist ·
1954 – Richard Ibbotson, English admiral ·
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress ·
1956 – Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player and
politician ·
1957 – Gabriella Dorio, Italian runner ·
1958 – Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996) ·
1959 – Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator ·
1959 – Lorrie Morgan, American singer ·
1960 – Craig Hodges, American basketball player and
coach ·
1960 – Robert King,
English harpsichordist and
conductor ·
1960 – Jeremy Swift, English actor ·
1962 – Michael Ball,
English actor and singer ·
1962 – Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian
businesswoman (d. 2014) ·
1963 – Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning ·
1963 – Johnny Benson Jr.,
American race car driver ·
1964 – Stephan
Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Chuck Person, American basketball player and
coach ·
1965 – Simon Sebag
Montefiore, English journalist, historian, and author ·
1965 – S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician and
social activist ·
1965 – Óscar Vega,
Spanish boxer ·
1966 – J.J. Abrams, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1966 – Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager ·
1966 – Jeff Conine, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 – Aigars Kalvītis,
Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister
of Latvia ·
1967 – Sylvie Fréchette,
Canadian swimmer and coach ·
1967 – George
Hamilton, Northern Irish police officer[3] ·
1967 – Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower ·
1967 – Phil Kearns, Australian rugby player and
sportscaster ·
1968 – Kelly Ayotte, American lawyer and
politician, New
Hampshire Attorney General ·
1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater ·
1970 – Régine Cavagnoud,
French skier (d. 2001) ·
1970 – John Eales, Australian rugby player and
businessman ·
1970 – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1971 – Jo Frost, English nanny, television
personality, and author ·
1971 – Serginho,
Brazilian footballer ·
1972 – Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1973 – Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician ·
1973 – Simon Archer, English badminton player ·
1974 – Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter
and actor ·
1974 – Christopher O'Neill,
English-American businessman ·
1975 – Ace Darling, American wrestler ·
1975 – Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen &
comedian ·
1975 – Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer ·
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor ·
1975 – Daryle Ward, American baseball player ·
1976 – Johnny Estrada, American baseball player ·
1976 – Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter ·
1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski,
Polish footballer ·
1978 – Apparat,
German musician ·
1980 – Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer ·
1980 – Jennifer Goodridge,
American keyboard player ·
1980 – Alexander Peya, Austrian tennis player ·
1980 – Kevin Pietersen, South African-English
cricketer ·
1980 – Craig Terrill, American football player ·
1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian footballer ·
1983 – Jim
Johnson, American baseball player ·
1983 – Dale Steyn, South African cricketer ·
1983 – Nikola
Rakočević, Serbian actor ·
1984 – Khloé Kardashian,
American model, businesswoman, and radio host ·
1984 – D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 - Jose Holebas, German-Greek footballer ·
1984 – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer[4] ·
1985 – James Hook,
Welsh rugby player ·
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova,
Russian tennis player ·
1985 – Nico Rosberg, German race car driver ·
1986 – Sam Claflin, British actor ·
1986 – Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1986 – Bryan Fletcher,
American skier ·
1986 – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter[5] ·
1987 – India de Beaufort,
English actress ·
1987 – Ed Westwick, English actor ·
1988 – Stefani Bismpikou,
Greek gymnast ·
1988 – Matthew Spiranovic,
Australian footballer ·
1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer ·
1989 – Hana Birnerová,
Czech tennis player ·
1989 – Matthew Lewis,
English actor ·
1992 – Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress ·
1992 – Karthika Nair, Indian film actress ·
1993 – Johanna Talihärm,
Estonian biathlete ·
1993 – Alberto
Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete ·
1994 – Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player ·
1995 – Monté Morris, American basketball player[6] Deaths[edit]
·
992 – Conan I of Rennes,
Duke of Brittany ·
1162 – Odo II, Duke of
Burgundy (b. 1118) ·
1194 – King Sancho VI of Navarre (b.
1132) ·
1296 – Floris V,
Count of Holland (b. 1254) ·
1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b.
1396) ·
1497 – Michael An Gof, rebel leader ·
1497 – Thomas Flamank, rebel leader ·
1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian historian, painter,
and architect (b. 1511) ·
1601 – Henry
Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (b. 1525) ·
1603 – Jan Dymitr
Solikowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1539) ·
1627 – John Hayward,
English historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1564) ·
1636 – Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (b. 1567) ·
1654 – Johannes
Valentinus Andreae, German theologian (b. 1586) ·
1655 – Eleonora
Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1598) ·
1672 – Roger Twysden, English historian and
politician (b. 1597) ·
1720 – Guillaume
Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and author (b. 1639) ·
1794 – Wenzel
Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (b. 1711) ·
1794 – Philippe de Noailles,
French general (b. 1715) ·
1827 – Johann
Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (b. 1754) ·
1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and
mineralogist (b. 1765) ·
1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician and
physicist (b. 1776) ·
1839 – Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780) ·
1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b.
1800) ·
1844 – Joseph Smith, American religious leader,
founded the Latter Day
Saint movement (b. 1805) ·
1878 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and
politician (b. 1800) ·
1894 – Giorgio
Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1834) ·
1896 – John Berryman,
English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1825) ·
1905 – Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player
(b. 1867) ·
1907 – Elizabeth Cabot
Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (b.
1822) ·
1911 – Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer
(b. 1882) ·
1912 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b.
1855) ·
1917 – Karl Allmenröder,
German soldier and pilot (b. 1896) ·
1919 – Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (b. 1885) ·
1920 – Adolphe-Basile
Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1839) ·
1934 – Francesco Buhagiar,
Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1876) ·
1935 – Eugene Augustin
Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857) ·
1944 – Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and
politician, 10th Prime
Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878) ·
1946 – Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator
(b. 1893) ·
1949 – Frank Smythe, English botanist and
mountaineer (b. 1900) ·
1950 – Milada Horáková,
Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901) ·
1952 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and
academic (b. 1878) ·
1957 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and
mountaineer (b. 1924) ·
1960 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer,
and archer (b. 1871) ·
1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and
critic (b. 1904) ·
1967 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician,
9th Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878) ·
1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar
(b. 1902) ·
1975 – G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and
physicist (b. 1886) ·
1977 – Arthur Perdue, American businessman (b. 1885)[7] ·
1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and
referee (b. 1905) ·
1987 – Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and
politician, 17th Attorney-General
for Australia (b. 1926) ·
1989 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic
(b. 1910) ·
1991 – Milton Subotsky, American-English
screenwriter and producer (b. 1921) ·
1996 – Albert R. Broccoli,
American film producer (b. 1909) ·
1998 – Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and
politician (b. 1935) ·
1999 – Georgios
Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1919) ·
2000 – Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and
politician, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1907) ·
2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator,
and painter (b. 1914) ·
2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925) ·
2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930) ·
2002 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter,
bass guitarist, and producer (b. 1944) ·
2002 – Robert L. J. Long,
American admiral (b. 1920) ·
2003 – David Newman,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937) ·
2004 – George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923) ·
2004 – Darrell
Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968) ·
2005 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author
(b. 1917) ·
2005 – Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (b.
1914) ·
2005 – John T. Walton, American businessman,
co-founded the Children's
Scholarship Fund (b. 1946) ·
2006 – Ángel Maturino
Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (b. 1959) ·
2007 – William Hutt,
Canadian actor (b. 1920) ·
2008 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (b.
1914) ·
2009 – Gale Storm, American actress (b. 1922) ·
2010 – Corey Allen, American film and television
actor, writer, director, and producer (b. 1934) ·
2011 – Mike Doyle,
English footballer (b. 1946) ·
2012 – Stan Cox, English runner (b. 1918) ·
2012 – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and
illustrator (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Stefano Borgonovo,
Italian footballer (b. 1964) ·
2013 – Ian Scott,
English-New Zealand painter (b. 1945) ·
2014 – Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and
politician (b. 1954) ·
2014 – Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and
academic (b. 1932) ·
2014 – Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and
politician, 43rd President of Haiti (b.
1930) ·
2014 – Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (b. 1919)[8] ·
2014 – Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat,
author, and academic (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and
professor (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Chris Squire, English musician (bass
guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (b. 1948) ·
2016 – Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and
screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2017 – Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (b.
1929) ·
2018 – Joe Jackson,
American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (b. 1928)[9] ·
2018 – Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and
former barrister (b. 1951) ·
2018 – William McBridge,
Australian obstetrician (b. 1927) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Arialdo o Crescens, one of the Seventy disciples o Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church) o Zoilus o June
27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Canadian
Multiculturalism Day (Canada) ·
Commemoration Day for the
Victims of the Communist Regime (Czech Republic) ·
Day
of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art (Turkmenistan) ·
Helen Keller Day (United States) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977. ·
Mixed Race Day (Brazil) ·
National HIV Testing Day (United
States) ·
National PTSD
Awareness Day (United States) ·
Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany) |
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