March 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
• 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
• 1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1846 – Mexican–American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• 1918 – Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
• 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
• 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

Births

• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1306 – Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• 1416 – Francis of Paola, Italian saint (d. 1507)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (d. 1735)
• 1696 – Antoine Court, French minister (d. 1760)
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1709 – William Flackton, English organist, viola player, and composer (d. 1798)
• 1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English scholar and critic (d. 1786)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
• 1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (d. 1832)
• 1761 – James Sykes, American physician and politician, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1767 – Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
• 1776 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French botanist and politician (d. 1854)
• 1784 – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
• 1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
• 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, Luxembourger politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer (d. 1891)
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English scholar and academic (d. 1886)
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator, co-founded Currier and Ives (d. 1888)
• 1818 – Erminia Frezzolini, Italian soprano ⟨d. 1884
• 1820 – Elias David Sassoon, Iraqi-Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1880)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1822 –⟩Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
• 1827 – Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
• 1834 – Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Italian nun and nurse (d. 1864)
• 1839 – John Ballance, New Zealand politician, 14th Premier of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1849 – Carlo Dossi, Italian author and politician (d. 1910)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian zoologist and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1855 – James Alfred Ewing, Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1935)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American scholar (d. 1924)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1865 – Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
• 1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
• 1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author (d. 1950)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Frank Burke, Australian politician (d. 1949)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1883 – Paul McCullough, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1932)
• 1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Leonard Mociulschi, Moldavian-Romanian general (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
• 1893 – Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1895 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1898 – Maria Rasputin, Russian daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Alma Tell, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1898 – Herb Stein, American football player (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine singer-songwriter, bandoneón player, composer, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1951)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Leif Tronstad, Norwegian army officer and scientist (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and educator (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Cecil Purdy, Egyptian-Australian chess player (d . 1979)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Raymond Oliver, French chef (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Rudi Ball, German-South African ice hockey player (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Franc Rozman, Slovenian general (d. 1944)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Krit Srivara, Thai military commander (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Reva Gerstein, Canadian psychologist and educator
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Richard Hayman, American harmonica player, conductor, and composer
• 1920 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Joe Tuminelli, Italian-American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American historian, theorist, and academic (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Hélène Berr, French author and holocaust victim (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Alex Agase, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Barnaby Conrad, American author (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
• 1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Reg Evans, Welsh-Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh-American actress and director (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1929 – Žarko Petan, Slovenian author and screenwriter
• 1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1932 – Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, Mayor of Madrid (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Robert Castel, French sociologist (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Peter Schamoni, German director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell, American choregrapher and dancer
• 1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian author
• 1935 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1937 – Johnny Copeland, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1939 – Bruce Johnston, American criminal and murderer (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1940 – Silvano Bertini, Italian boxer
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Kurt Felix, Swiss television host (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player
• 1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean politician, physician and activist (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Enrique Barón Crespo, Spanish politician, economist and lawyer, 16th President of the European Parliament
• 1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (d. 2004)
• 1945 – Harry Rowohlt, German author and translator
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Andy Bown, English bass player and songwriter (Status Quo, The Herd, and Judas Jump)
• 1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch footballer, manager, and coach
• 1947 – Craig Defoy, Welsh golfer
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author and poet
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish politician
• 1949 – Dubravka Ugrešić, Croatian-Dutch author
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Genesis)
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1950 – Julia Alvarez, American author anid poet
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano
• 1950 – Terry Yorath, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1951 – Andrey Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1951 – Angelo Recchi, Italian footballer
• 1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author
• 1953 – George Copos, Romanian businessman and politician
• 1953 – Edwarda O'Bara, American coma patient (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
• 1954 – Robbie Haines, American sailor
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English politician
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish author and playwright
• 1955 – Lefteris Pantazis, Uzbek-Greek singer
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcycle racer
• 1956 – Dale Arnold, American sportscaster
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish skier
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins, English lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian keyboard player and songwriter (INXS)
• 1959 – Mariusz Strzałka, Polish fencer
• 1960 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Johannes Kerkorrel, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (d. 1996)
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (B'z and Tak Matsumoto Group)
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
• 1961 – Valery Kargin, Latvian economist and banker
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American author
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English author
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian drummer (Soda Stereo)
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
• 1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist
• 1963 – Gary Stevens, English footballer
• 1963 – Jörg Michael, German drummer (Stratovarius, Mekong Delta, Running Wild, and Rage)
• 1963 – Bedabrata Pain, Indian director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Ed Pinckney, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer
• 1964 – Kad Merad, Algerian-French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Jessica Soho, Filipino journalist
• 1965 – Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese illustrator
• 1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
• 1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese wrestler
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
• 1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss actress
• 1968 – Stacey Kent, American singer
• 1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
• 1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (d. 1990)
• 1969 – Mickey Hardt, Swiss-Luxembourgian actor, model, and martial artist
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian-American drummer and songwriter (Theory of a Deadman, Union, Econoline Crush, and Indigenous)
• 1970 – Mauricio Vallina, Cuban pianist
• 1970 – Brendan Hill, English-American drummer (Blues Traveler and Stolen Ogre)
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1971 – Matt Pegg, English bass player (Procol Harum)
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American wrestler
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and coach
• 1973 – Ade Adepitan, Nigerian-English basketball player
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
• 1973 – Pablo Pozo, Chilean football referee
• 1974 – Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Luca Banti, Italian football referee
• 1974 – Joan Horrach, Spanish cyclist
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Black Eyed Peas and Wild Orchid)
• 1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
• 1975 – Jeff Palmer, American-Argentinian porn actor
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong actor
• 1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1977 – Elías Larry Ayuso, American basketball player
• 1977 – Víctor Ávila, Mexican basketball player
• 1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek gymnast
• 1977 – Noname Jane, American porn actress
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
• 1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
• 1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter (Lùnapop)
• 1980 – Nicolas Duvauchelle, French actor
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
• 1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Gavin Skelton, English footballer
• 1981 – JJ Lin, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Brian Miner, American comedian
• 1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese model, Miss Universe Japan 2006
• 1982 – Jhon Valencia, Colombian footballer and coach
• 1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor and dancer
• 1982 – Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1983 – Robert Guerrero, American boxer
• 1983 – Joshua Hill, Australian baseball player
• 1983 – Yunus İçuz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Jacques Riparelli, Cameroonian-Italian sprinter
• 1983 – Vasiliy Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Nesar Ahmad Bahave, Afghan martial artist
• 1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
• 1984 – Laura Critchley, English singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Ben Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Alison Carroll, English model, actress, and gymnast
• 1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Oren Eizenman, Israeli ice hockey player
• 1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish model and actress
• 1985 – Jéssica Guillén, Venezuelan model, Miss Venezuela 2009
• 1985 – Guillaume Joli, French handball player
• 1985 – Nadezhda Skardino, Belarusian biathlete
• 1986 – Dan Bull, English rapper
• 1986 – Chris Lofton, American basketball player
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1986 – SoCal Val, American wrestling manager and announcer
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Alejandro Castro, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Sonny Guadarrama, American soccer player
• 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1987 – Alex Pledger, New Zealand basketball player
• 1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
• 1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1988 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
• 1988 – Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress and singer
• 1990 – Kimbra, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Pholien Systermans, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 – Natalia Sánchez, Spanish singer, model and actress (Santa Justa Klan)
• 1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
• 1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese voice actress
• 1993 – Fraser Fyvie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 – Lucia Mokrášová, Slovak heptathlete

Deaths

• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian saint (b. 660)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535)
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523)
• 1625 – James VI and I of England and Scotland (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English-American politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French reformer (b. 1747)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American colonel (b. 1804)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (b. 1800)
• 1873 – Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician (b. 1811)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American scientist and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English organist and composer (b. 1841)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Eve Meyer, American model, actress, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot and captain (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, English actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, Sr., American bridge player and author (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian businessman (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, English actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Swiss-Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American author and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Adán Sánchez, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor and producer (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, Scottish typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian educator and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American critic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Gerald Curran, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Paul Williams, American journalist and publisher, founded Crawdaddy! (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day or Tatmadaw nei (Burma)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
  • Amador of Portugal
  • Augusta of Treviso
  • Gelasius
  • John of Egypt
  • Philetus and companies
  • Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
  • Rupert of Salzburg
  • Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
  • March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• World Theatre Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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