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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 27 is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
218 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish
citizens.[1] At least 600 Jews are killed.[2] ·
1120 – Richard III of Capua is
anointed as Prince two
weeks before his untimely death. ·
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes
King of Scotland. ·
1199 – John is
crowned King of England. ·
1257 – Richard of Cornwall,
and his wife, Sanchia of Provence,
are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.[3] ·
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai
Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city
of Beijing. ·
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city
of Saint Petersburg. ·
1798 –
The Battle of Oulart
Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat
and kill a detachment of militia.[4] ·
1799 – War of the
Second Coalition: Austrian forces
defeat the French at Winterthur,
Switzerland. ·
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces
capture Fort George. ·
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins
his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification. ·
1863 – American Civil War:
First Assault on the Confederate works
at the Siege of Port Hudson. ·
1874 –
The first group of Dorsland trekkers under
the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria. ·
1883 – Alexander III is
crowned Tsar of Russia. ·
1896 –
The F4-strength St.
Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri,
and East St. Louis,
Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10–million
in damage. ·
1905 – Russo-Japanese War:
The Battle of Tsushima begins. ·
1915 – HMS Princess Irene exploded
and sank off Sheerness, Kent with
the loss of 352 lives. ·
1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon
Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic
canon law in the legal
history of the Catholic Church. ·
1919 –
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. ·
1927 –
The Ford Motor Company ceases
manufacture of the Ford Model T and
begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. ·
1930 –
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest
man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. ·
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities
Act is signed into law requiring the registration of
securities with the Federal Trade
Commission. ·
1933
– The Walt Disney
Company releases the cartoon Three Little
Pigs, with its hit song "Who's
Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" ·
1935 –
New Deal: The Supreme
Court of the United States declares the National
Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,
(295 U.S. 495). ·
1937 –
In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens
to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County,
California. ·
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre,
99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk
Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive. ·
1941 –
World War II: U.S.
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national
emergency". ·
1941
– World War II: The German
battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic
killing almost 2,100 men. ·
1942 –
World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is
fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his
injuries eight days later. ·
1958 –
First flight of the McDonnell
Douglas F-4 Phantom II. ·
1960 –
In Turkey, a military coup removes
President Celâl Bayar and
the rest of the democratic government from office. ·
1962 –
The Centralia mine fire is
ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. ·
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the
first bombardment of National
Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. ·
1967 –
Australians vote in favor of a constitutional
referendum granting the Australian government the power to
make laws to benefit Indigenous
Australians and to count them in the national census. ·
1967
– The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John
F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and
her daughter Caroline. ·
1971 –
The Dahlerau train
disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46
people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. ·
1971
– Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre. ·
1975 – Dibbles Bridge
coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the
highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. ·
1980 –
The Gwangju Massacre:
Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at
least 207 and possibly many more. ·
1984 –
The Danube-Black Sea
canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under
construction since the 1950s. ·
1996 – First Chechen War:
the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and
negotiates a cease-fire. ·
1997 –
The 1997
Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple
tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell. ·
1998 – Oklahoma City
bombing: Michael
Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000
for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. ·
2001 –
Members of the Islamist separatist
group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty
hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be
resolved until June 2002. ·
2006 –
The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta
earthquake shakes central Java with
an MSK intensity
of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured. ·
2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of
United States to visit Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. ·
2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative
Party of Canada. ·
2018 – Maryland Flood Event:
A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley causing one death and
destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City and causing cars to overturn. Births[edit] ·
742 – Emperor Dezong of
Tang (d. 805) ·
1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and
theologian (d. 1406)[5] ·
1378 – Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander,
historian and playwright (d. 1448) ·
1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist
(d. 1594)[6] ·
1537 – Louis
IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1604) ·
1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar
(d. 1649) ·
1584 – Michael Altenburg,
German theologian and composer (d. 1640) ·
1601 – Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary
and saint (d. 1648) ·
1626 – William II,
Prince of Orange (d. 1650) ·
1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (d.
1693) ·
1651 – Louis Antoine
de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729) ·
1652 – Elizabeth
Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (d. 1722) ·
1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and
politician, 14th President
of the Continental Congress (d. 1796) ·
1756 – Maximilian
I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825) ·
1774 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and
officer in the Royal Navy (d. 1857) ·
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt,
American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877) ·
1814 – John Rudolph
Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (d.1885) ·
1815 – Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician,
7th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1896) ·
1818 – Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and
activist (d. 1894) ·
1819 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and
songwriter (d. 1910) ·
1827 – Samuel
F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892) ·
1832 – Zenas Ferry Moody,
American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d.
1917) ·
1836 – Jay Gould, American businessman and
financier (d. 1892) ·
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer
(d. 1876) ·
1852 – Billy Barnes,
English cricketer (d. 1899) ·
1857 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928) ·
1860 – Manuel Teixeira
Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of
Portugal (d. 1941) ·
1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921) ·
1867 – Arnold Bennett, English author and
playwright (d. 1931) ·
1868 – Aleksa Šantić,
Bosnian poet and author (d. 1924) ·
1871 – Georges Rouault, French painter and
illustrator (d. 1958) ·
1875 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (d.
1942) ·
1876 – Ferdynand
Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945) ·
1876
– William Stanier,
English engineer (d. 1965) ·
1878 – Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (d. 1972) ·
1879 – Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and
psychologist (d. 1963) ·
1879
– Hans Lammers,
German judge and politician (d. 1962) ·
1883 – Jessie Arms Botke,
American painter (d. 1971) ·
1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and
composer (d. 1968) ·
1887 – Frank Woolley, English cricketer (d. 1978) ·
1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979) ·
1891 – Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist,
pianist, and composer (d. 1965) ·
1891
– Jaan Kärner,
Estonian poet and author (d. 1958) ·
1894 – Louis-Ferdinand
Céline, French physician and author (d. 1961) ·
1894
– Dashiell Hammett,
American detective novelist and screenwriter (d. 1961) ·
1895 – Douglas Lloyd
Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.
1995) ·
1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1967) ·
1897
– Dink Templeton,
American rugby player and coach (d. 1962) ·
1898 – David Crosthwait, American engineer,
inventor and writer (d. 1976) ·
1899 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (d. 1993) ·
1900 – Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the
Nazi Uckermark
concentration camp (d. 1964) ·
1900
– Uładzimir
Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1933) ·
1904 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and
journalist (d. 1997) ·
1906 – Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d.
1993) ·
1906
– Harry Hibbs,
English footballer (d. 1984) ·
1906
– Antonio Rosario
Mennonna, Italian bishop (d. 2009) ·
1907 – Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and
critic (d. 1988) ·
1907
– Rachel Carson,
American biologist, environmentalist, and author (d. 1964) ·
1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer and
philanthropist (d. 2011) ·
1911 – Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and
politician, 38th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1978) ·
1911
– Teddy Kollek,
Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (d.
2007) ·
1911
– Vincent Price,
American actor (d. 1993) ·
1912 – John Cheever, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1982) ·
1912
– Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster
(d. 2002) ·
1912
– Terry Moore,
American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1995) ·
1915 – Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (d.
1996) ·
1915
– Herman Wouk, American novelist (d. 2019) ·
1917 – Harry Webster, English engineer (d. 2007) ·
1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone,
Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 2019)[7] ·
1921 – Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator,
director, and voice actor (d. 2013) ·
1922 – Otto Carius, German lieutenant and
pharmacist (d. 2015) ·
1922
– Christopher Lee,
English actor (d. 2015) ·
1922
– John D. Vanderhoof,
American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (d.
2013) ·
1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political
scientist and politician, 56th United
States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1923
– Sumner Redstone,
American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2020) ·
1924 – Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and
politician, President of
Venezuela (d. 2014) ·
1924
– John Sumner,
English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne
Theatre Company (d. 2013) ·
1925 – Tony Hillerman, American journalist and
author (d. 2008) ·
1927 – Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and
journalist (d. 1996) ·
1928 – Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer
and educator ·
1930 – John Barth, American novelist and short
story writer ·
1930
– William S. Sessions,
American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ·
1930
– Eino Tamberg,
Estonian composer and educator (d. 2010) ·
1931 – André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist
(d. 1986) ·
1931
– John
Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of
Gibraltar ·
1931
– Bernard Fresson,
French actor (d. 2002) ·
1931
– Faten Hamama,
Egyptian actress and producer (d. 2015) ·
1931
– Philip Kotler,
American author and professor ·
1933 – Edward Samuel Rogers,
Canadian businessman (d. 2008) ·
1933
– Manfred Sommer,
Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2007) ·
1934 – Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball
player ·
1934
– Harlan Ellison,
American author and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1935 – Daniel Colchico, American football player
and coach (d. 2014) ·
1935
– Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles (d. 1976) ·
1935
– Jerry Kindall,
American baseball player and coach (d. 2017) ·
1935
– Ramsey Lewis,
American jazz pianist and composer ·
1935
– Lee Meriwether,
American model and actress, Miss America 1955 ·
1936 – Benjamin
Bathurst, English admiral ·
1936
– Louis Gossett, Jr.,
American actor and producer ·
1936
– Marcel Masse,
Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian
Minister of National Defence (d. 2014) ·
1937 – Allan Carr, American playwright and producer
(d. 1999) ·
1939 – Simon
Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman ·
1939
– Yves Duhaime,
Canadian captain and politician ·
1939
– Sokratis Kokkalis,
Greek businessman ·
1939
– Gerald Ronson,
English businessman and philanthropist ·
1939
– Lionel Sosa, Mexican-American advertising
and marketing executive[8] ·
1939
– Don Williams,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1940 – Mike
Gibson, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2015) ·
1942 – Lee Baca, American police officer ·
1942
– Piers Courage,
English racing driver (d. 1970) ·
1942
– Roger
Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster ·
1942
– Robin Widdows,
English racing driver ·
1943 – Cilla Black, English singer and actress (d.
2015) ·
1943
– Bruce Weitz, American actor ·
1944 – Chris Dodd, American lawyer and politician ·
1944
– Ingrid Roscoe,
English historian and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of West Yorkshire ·
1944
– Alain Souchon,
French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1946 – Niels-Henning
Řrsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (d. 2005) ·
1946
– John
Williams, English motorcycle racer (d. 1978) ·
1947 – Peter DeFazio, American politician ·
1947
– Marty Kristian,
German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1947
– Branko Oblak,
Slovenian footballer and coach ·
1947
– Riivo Sinijärv,
Estonian politician, 19th Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1948 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant (d. 2017) ·
1948
– Pete Sears, English bass player ·
1948
– Morning
Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (d. 2014) ·
1949 – Hugh
Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, English politician ·
1949
– Christa Vahlensieck,
German runner ·
1950 – Dee Dee Bridgewater,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1950
– Makis Dendrinos,
Greek basketball player and coach (d. 2015) ·
1951 – John Conteh, English boxer ·
1954 – Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman,
activist, and politician ·
1954
– Jackie Slater,
American football player and coach ·
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager,
and producer ·
1955
– Richard Schiff,
American actor, director, and producer ·
1955
– Ian Tracey,
English organist and conductor ·
1956 – Cynthia McFadden, American journalist ·
1956
– Rosemary Squire,
English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador
Theatre Group ·
1956
– Giuseppe Tornatore,
Italian director and screenwriter ·
1957 – Dag Terje Andersen,
Norwegian politician, Norwegian
Minister of Labour ·
1957
– Nitin Gadkari,
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian
Minister of Transport ·
1957
– Eddie Harsch,
Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (d. 2016) ·
1957
– Siouxsie Sioux,
English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ·
1958 – Nick Anstee, English accountant and
politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London ·
1958
– Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1958
– Jesse Robredo,
Filipino politician, 23rd Filipino Secretary of the Interior (d.
2012) ·
1960 – Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player
and sportscaster ·
1961 – José Luíz Barbosa,
Brazilian runner and coach ·
1961
– Peri Gilpin, American actress ·
1962 – Marcelino Bernal, Mexican footballer ·
1962
– Ray Borner, Australian basketball player ·
1962
– Steven Brill,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1962
– Anthony A. Hyman,
Israeli-English biologist and academic ·
1962
– David Mundell,
Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1962
– Ravi Shastri,
Indian cricketer and sportscaster ·
1963 – Gonzalo Rubalcaba,
Cuban pianist and composer ·
1963
– Maria Walliser,
Swiss skier ·
1964 – Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1965 – Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player
and sportscaster ·
1966 – Heston Blumenthal,
English chef and author ·
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English international
footballer, midfielder, coach, and manager[9] ·
1967
– Eddie McClintock,
American actor ·
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player and
coach ·
1968
– Rebekah Brooks,
English journalist ·
1968
– Harun Erdenay,
Turkish basketball player and coach ·
1968
– Frank
Thomas, American baseball player and sportscaster ·
1969 – Todd Hundley, American baseball player ·
1969
– Jeremy Mayfield,
American race car driver ·
1969
– Craig Federighi,
American computer scientist and engineer ·
1970 – Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist ·
1970
– Tim Farron, English educator and politician ·
1970
– Joseph Fiennes,
English actor ·
1970
– Alex Archer,
American-born Australian musician ·
1971 – Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician ·
1971
– Paul Bettany,
English actor ·
1971
– Wayne Carey, Australian footballer and coach ·
1971
– Kaur Kender, Estonian author ·
1971
– Lisa Lopes, American rapper and dancer (d.
2002) ·
1971
– Lee Sharpe, English footballer ·
1971
– Grant Stafford,
South African tennis player ·
1971
– Sophie Walker,
British politician, leader of the Women's Equality
Party ·
1971
– Petroc Trelawny,
British radio and television broadcaster ·
1972 – Todd Demsey, American golfer ·
1972
– Antonio Freeman,
American football player ·
1972
– Maxim Sokolov,
Russian ice hockey player ·
1973 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian ·
1973
– Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and
coach ·
1973
– Yorgos Lanthimos,
Greek film video, and theatre director, producer and screenwriter ·
1974 – Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter ·
1974
– Denise van Outen,
English actress, singer, and television host ·
1974
– Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1974
– Danny Wuerffel,
American football player ·
1975 – André 3000, American rapper ·
1975
– Michael Hussey,
Australian cricketer ·
1975
– Jamie Oliver,
English chef and author ·
1975
– Feryal Özel,
Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic ·
1976 – Marcel
Fässler, Swiss racing driver ·
1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad,
Algerian high jumper ·
1977
– Mahela Jayawardene,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1978 – Adin Brown, American soccer player ·
1979 – Michael Buonauro, American author and
illustrator (d. 2004) ·
1979
– Mile Sterjovski,
Australian footballer ·
1980 – Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater ·
1981 – Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina ·
1981
– Johan Elmander,
Swedish footballer ·
1982 – Natalya, Canadian professional wrestler[10] ·
1984 – Blake Ahearn, American basketball player ·
1984
– Miguel González,
Mexican baseball pitcher ·
1985 – Chiang Chien-ming,
Taiwanese baseball player ·
1985
– Roberto Soldado,
Spanish footballer ·
1986 – Conor Cummins, Manx motorcycle racer ·
1986
– Bamba Fall, Senegalese basketball player ·
1986
– Lasse Schöne,
Danish footballer ·
1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer ·
1987
– Bella Heathcote,
Australian actress ·
1987
– Eric Kolelas,
French-English actor and director ·
1987
– Bora Paçun, Turkish
basketball player ·
1987
– Matt Prior,
Australian rugby league player ·
1987
– Martina Sablikova,
Czech speed skater and cyclist ·
1988 – Vontae Davis, American football player ·
1988
– Irina Davydova,
Russian hurdler[11] ·
1988
– Garrett Richards,
American baseball pitcher ·
1988
– Tyler Sash, American football player (d.
2015) ·
1989 – Igor Morozov,
Estonian footballer ·
1990 – Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner ·
1990
– Chris Colfer,
American actor and singer ·
1990
– Marcus Kruger,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1991 – Sebastien Dewaest,
Belgian footballer ·
1991
– Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player ·
1991
– Ksenia Pervak,
Russian tennis player ·
1991
– Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer ·
1992 – Aaron Brown,
Canadian sprinter ·
1992
– Laurence
Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer[12] Deaths[edit] ·
366 – Procopius,
Roman usurper (b. 325) ·
398 – Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355) ·
475 – Eutropius, bishop of
Orange ·
866 – Ordońo I of Asturias (b.
831) ·
927 – Simeon I of Bulgaria first
Bulgarian Emperor (b. 864) ·
1039 – Dirk III,
Count of Holland (b. 981) ·
1045 – Bruno of Würzburg,
imperial chancellor of Italy (b. c. 1005) ·
1178 – Godfrey van Rhenen,
bishop of Utrecht ·
1240 – William
de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166) ·
1444 – John
Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1404) ·
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452) ·
1508
– Lucrezia Crivelli,
mistress of Ludovico Sforza (b. 1452) ·
1525 – Thomas Müntzer,
German mystic and theologian (b. 1488) ·
1541 – Margaret
Pole, Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) ·
1564 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian
(b. 1509) ·
1610 – François Ravaillac,
French assassin of Henry IV of France (b.
1578) ·
1624 – Diego Ramírez
de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580) ·
1637 – John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English
politician (b. c. 1566) ·
1661 – Archibald
Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician
(b. 1607) ·
1675 – Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b.
1613) ·
1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi,
Italian organist and composer (b. 1626) ·
1702 – Dominique Bouhours,
French priest and critic (b. 1628) ·
1707 – Françoise-Athénaďs,
marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b.
1640) ·
1781 – Giovanni Battista
Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716) ·
1797 – François-Noël Babeuf,
French journalist (b. 1760) ·
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer,
and author (b. 1799) ·
1840 – Niccolň Paganini,
Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782) ·
1867 – Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist
(b. 1796) ·
1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov,
Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) ·
1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and
microbiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1843) ·
1918 – Ōzutsu Man'emon,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869) ·
1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam,
Indian author and activist (b. 1848) ·
1933 – Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b.
1868) ·
1939 – Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and
author (b. 1894) ·
1941 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894) ·
1941
– Günther Lütjens,
German admiral (b. 1889) ·
1942 – Muhammed Hamdi
Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878) ·
1943 – Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and
politician, 21st Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878) ·
1945 – Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888) ·
1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1885) ·
1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist,
publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's
Believe It or Not! (b. 1890) ·
1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1868) ·
1960 – James Montgomery
Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) ·
1963 – Grigoris Lambrakis,
Greek physician and politician (b. 1912) ·
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of
India (b. 1889) ·
1967 – W. Otto Miessner, American composer and
educator (b. 1880) ·
1967
– Ernst Niekisch,
German academic and politician (b. 1889) ·
1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer
(b. 1926) ·
1971 – Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher
from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901) ·
1971
– Armando Picchi,
Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935) ·
1980 – Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician
(b. 1932) ·
1984 – Vasilije Mokranjac,
Serbian composer (b. 1923) ·
1986 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American
philosopher and academic (b. 1921) ·
1986
– Ajoy Mukherjee,
Indian politician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901) ·
1986
– Giorgos Tzifos,
Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918) ·
1987 – John Howard Northrop,
American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
1988 – Hjördis Petterson,
Swedish actress (b. 1908) ·
1988
– Ernst Ruska, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1906) ·
1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and
translator (b. 1907) ·
1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and
politician, 44th Governor of New
Jersey (b. 1908) ·
1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and
theorist (b. 1904) ·
1992 – Uncle Charlie
Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890) ·
1998 – Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician
(b. 1905) ·
2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot
(b. 1912) ·
2000
– Murray
MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and
diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong
Kong (b. 1917) ·
2000
– Maurice Richard,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921) ·
2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator
(b. 1925) ·
2006 – Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b.
1949) ·
2006
– Paul Gleason,
American actor (b. 1939) ·
2006
– Craig Heyward,
American football player (b. 1966) ·
2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (b.
1967) ·
2007
– Gretchen Wyler,
American actress and dancer (b. 1932) ·
2007
– Ed Yost, American inventor, created
the hot air balloon (b.
1919) ·
2008 – Franz Künstler,
Hungarian soldier (b. 1900) ·
2009 – Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and
academic (b. 1931) ·
2009
– Clive Granger,
Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1934) ·
2009
– Mona Grey, British nursing administrator;
Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer ·
2009
– Abram Hoffer,
Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917) ·
2009
– Gérard Jean-Juste,
Haitian-American priest and theologian (b. 1946) ·
2009
– Carol Anne O'Marie,
American nun and author (b. 1933) ·
2009
– William Refshauge,
Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913) ·
2009
– Paul Sharratt,
English-American television host (b. 1933) ·
2010 – Payut Ngaokrachang,
Thai animator and director (b. 1929) ·
2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (b.
1950) ·
2011
– Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball
player (b. 1974) ·
2011
– Gil Scott-Heron,
American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949) ·
2012 – Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and
politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (b.
1934) ·
2012
– Friedrich Hirzebruch,
German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) ·
2012
– Anahit Perikhanian,
Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (b. 1928)[13] ·
2012
– David Rimoin,
Canadian-American geneticist and academic (b. 1936) ·
2013 – Jagjit Singh
Lyallpuri, Indian politician (b. 1917) ·
2013
– Bill Pertwee,
English actor (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Abdoulaye Sékou Sow,
Malian politician, Prime
Minister of Mali (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (b.
1936) ·
2014
– Helma Sanders-Brahms,
German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) ·
2014
– Roberto Vargas,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929) ·
2014
– Massimo Vignelli,
Italian-American graphic designer (b. 1931) ·
2015 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b.
1929)[14] ·
2015
– Nils Christie,
Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (b. 1928) ·
2015
– Andy
King, English footballer and manager (b. 1956) ·
2015
– Michael
Martin, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) ·
2017 – Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and
songwriter (b. 1947)[15] ·
2020 – Larry Kramer, American playwright, public
health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)[16] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Armed Forces
Day (Nicaragua) ·
Christian feast day: o Bede (commemoration, Anglican Communion) o May
27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Slavery Abolition
Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin) ·
Start
of National
Reconciliation Week (Australia) |
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