September 27

September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
• 1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
• 1422 – After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
• 1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
• 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
• 1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
• 1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
• 1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
• 1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
• 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
• 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
• 1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool; the United States Congress subsequently awards 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who went to rescue her crew.
• 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
• 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
• 1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
• 1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
• 1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
• 1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
• 1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
• 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
• 1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
• 1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
• 1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
• 1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
• 1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
• 1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
• 1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
• 1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
• 1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
• 1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
• 1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
• 1977 – a United States Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.
• 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
• 1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
• 1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
• 1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
• 1996 – The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
• 1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
• 1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
• 2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
• 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
• 2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
• 2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe.
• 2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.

Births

• 823 – Ermentrude of Orléans (d. 869)
• 1271 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (d. 1305)
• 1275 – John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)
• 1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (d. 1464)
• 1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579)
• 1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
• 1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (d. 1704)
• 1643 – Solomon Stoddard, American pastor (d. 1729)
• 1657 – Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704)
• 1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian composer (d. 1754)
• 1696 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (d. 1787)
• 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
• 1722 – Samuel Adams, American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
• 1729 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (d. 1800)
• 1739 – Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, British politician (d. 1767)
• 1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1794)
• 1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, American daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
• 1803 – Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
• 1805 – George Müller, Prussian-English missionary, founded Ashley Down Orphanage (d. 1898)
• 1818 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
• 1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1881)
• 1824 – William "Bull" Nelson, American navy officer (d. 1862)
• 1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American general (d. 1887)
• 1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
• 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (d. 1914)
• 1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (d. 1902)
• 1842 – Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
• 1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
• 1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American sister of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (d. 1938)
• 1866 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (d. 1932)
• 1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1871 – George Ducker, Canadian soccer player (d. 1952)
• 1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Fred Schule, American hurdler (d. 1962)
• 1879 – Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
• 1885 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1964)
• 1894 – Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
• 1894 – Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
• 1895 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
• 1904 – Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)
• 1906 – William Empson, English poet (d. 1984)
• 1906 – Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Bernard Miles, English actor, scriptwriter, and director (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1911 – John Harvey, English actor (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
• 1916 – S. Yizhar, Israeli author and politician (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (d. 2009)
• 1917 – William T. Orr, American actor and producer (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1919 – Charles H. Percy, American politician (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Johnny Pesky, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1920 – William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Jayne Meadows, American actress and author
• 1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Sammy Benskin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Arthur Penn, American director (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Bud Powell, American pianist (d. 1966)
• 1924 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist
• 1924 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Bernard Waber, American author
• 1925 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Chrysostomos I of Cyprus, Greek archbishop (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Red Rodney, American trumpet player (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian writer and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Calvin Jones, American musician, composer, and educator (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Barbara Murray, English actress
• 1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer and actor
• 1932 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1932 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1932 – Yash Chopra, Indian director (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Michael Colvin, English politician (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician
• 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
• 1933 – Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Paul Goble, American author
• 1933 – Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1933 – Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor
• 1934 – Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
• 1934 – Dick Schaap, American sportscaster (d. 2001)
• 1935 – Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host and producer, created Soul Train (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and author
• 1937 – Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Ioannis Banias, Greek politician (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and author
• 1939 – Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
• 1940 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
• 1941 – Peter Bonetti, English footballer
• 1941 – Gay Kayler, Australian singer
• 1941 – Serge Ménard, Canadian politician
• 1941 – Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, producer, and author (The Mar-Keys)
• 1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor
• 1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta
• 1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Guess Who, Ironhorse, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Bachman & Turner, and Brave Belt)
• 1944 – Gary Sutherland, American baseball player
• 1945 – Max Boyce, Welsh comedian and singer
• 1945 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (d. 2003)
• 1945 – Kay Ryan, American poet
• 1945 – Bob Spiers, Scottish director (d. 2008)
• 1946 – Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot politician, 7th President of Cyprus
• 1946 – T. C. Cannon, American painter (d. 1978)
• 1946 – Robin Nedwell, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1947 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
• 1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1947 – Liz Torres, American actress and singer
• 1948 – Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
• 1948 – Les Chapman, English footballer and manager
• 1948 – Michele Dotrice, English actress
• 1948 – Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
• 1948 – Robin Jackson, Irish activist (d. 1998)
• 1948 – A Martinez, American actor and singer
• 1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian politician
• 1949 – Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
• 1949 – Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
• 1951 – Paul Craig, English educator and author
• 1951 – Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beau Dommage)
• 1951 – Jim Shooter, American writer and illustrator
• 1951 – David Starobin, American guitarist, producer, and director
• 1952 – Didier Dubois, French mathematician
• 1952 – Katie Fforde, English author
• 1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian astronaut
• 1952 – André Viger, Canadian wheelchair racer (d. 2006)
• 1953 – Diane Abbott, English politician
• 1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
• 1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
• 1953 – Greg Ham, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (Men at Work) (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bass player and producer (Sly and Robbie)
• 1954 – Ray Hadley, Australian broadcaster
• 1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor
• 1955 – Richard Bucher, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2012)
• 1958 – Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, screenwriter, and producer
• 1958 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish author
• 1959 – Beth Heiden, American speed skater
• 1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, French-American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1960 – Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
• 1961 – Andy Lau, Hong Kong singer, actor, and producer
• 1962 – Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer
• 1963 – Marc Maron, American comedian and radio host
• 1964 – Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1964 – Johnny DuPlooy, South African boxer (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Third Eye Blind)
• 1965 – Ricky Fuji, Japanese wrestler
• 1965 – Steve Kerr, American basketball player
• 1965 – Bernard Lord, Canadian politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
• 1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1965 – Alexis Stewart, American radio host
• 1966 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
• 1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
• 1966 – Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
• 1968 – Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland
• 1968 – Patrick Muldoon, American actor
• 1969 – Sofia Milos, American actress
• 1970 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player
• 1970 – Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress
• 1971 – Aaron Belz, American poet
• 1971 – Amanda Detmer, American actress
• 1971 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator
• 1971 – Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
• 1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Lhasa de Sela, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)
• 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
• 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Craig L. Rice, American politician
• 1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney)
• 1974 – Sascha Licht, German footballer
• 1975 – Thanos Petrelis, Greek singer
• 1976 – Matt Harding, American dancer
• 1976 – Jason Phillips, American baseball player
• 1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 – Jon Rauch, American baseball player
• 1978 – Pastora Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d. 2012)
• 1979 – Jon Garland, American baseball player
• 1979 – La'Myia Good, American singer and actress (Isyss)
• 1979 – Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
• 1979 – Christian Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1979 – Steve Simpson, Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
• 1980 – Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 – Cytherea, American porn actress and model
• 1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
• 1981 – Sophie Crumb, American illustrator
• 1981 – Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
• 1982 – Anna Camp, American actress
• 1982 – Cassandra Cruz, American porn actress and model
• 1982 – Zero Kazama, Japanese-American actor
• 1982 – Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer
• 1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper and actor (The B.G.'z)
• 1982 – Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer (LUV)
• 1983 – Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
• 1984 – Paul Bevan, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Davide Capello, Italian footballer
• 1984 – John Lannan, American baseball player
• 1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
• 1984 – Abhinav Shukla, Indian actor
• 1985 – Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete
• 1985 – Daniel Pudil, Czech footballer
• 1986 – Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player
• 1986 – Ricardo Risatti, Argentine race car driver
• 1987 – Ádám Bogdán, Hungarian footballer
• 1987 – Austin Carlile, American singer-songwriter (Attack Attack! and Of Mice & Men)
• 1987 – Olga Puchkova. Russian tennis player
• 1988 – Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter
• 1989 – Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
• 1992 – Jake Burbage, American actor
• 1992 – Luc Castaignos, Dutch footballer
• 1992 – Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 – Pak Kwang-Ryong, North Korean footballer
• 1992 – Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer
• 1993 – Mónica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
• 1995 – Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress
• 1995 – Anderson Lim, Bruneian swimmer

Deaths

• 1249 – Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (b. 1197)
• 1404 – William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
• 1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
• 1590 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Lady Arbella Stuart, English wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (b. 1575)
• 1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
• 1660 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (b. 1581)
• 1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. 1637)
• 1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
• 1719 – George Smalridge, English bishop (b. 1662)
• 1730 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
• 1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
• 1737 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1680)
• 1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)
• 1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
• 1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
• 1833 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian reformer (d. 1772)
• 1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)
• 1876 – Braxton Bragg, American general (b. 1817)
• 1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (b. 1804)
• 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
• 1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
• 1915 – Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
• 1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
• 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
• 1940 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
• 1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
• 1956 – Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
• 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer (b. 1911)
• 1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1965 – William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)
• 1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian prince, participated in the murder of Grigori Rasputin (b. 1887)
• 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Jack Lang, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)
• 1979 – Gracie Fields, English-Italian actress and singer(b. 1898)
• 1979 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (One in a Million, Small Faces, Wings, Thunderclap Newman, and The Dukes) (b. 1953)
• 1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1984 – Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (b. 1932)
• 1985 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (Metallica, EZ-Street, and Trauma) (b. 1962)
• 1985 – Alexandru Epureanu, Moldovan Football player (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Oona O'Neill, English wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
• 1993 – Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Narita Brian, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
• 1998 – Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Dale Houston, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (b. 1957)
• 2008 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Charles Houston, American mountaineer (b. 1913)
• 2009 – William Safire, American author and journalist (b. 1929)
• 2010 – George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
• 2011 – David Croft, English scriptwriter, producer and director (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny) (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Ted Boy Marino, Italian-Brazilian wrestler and actor (b. 1939)
• 2012 – John Silber, American academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Frank Wilson, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Days:
  • Adheritus
  • Vincent de Paul
  • September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• End of Independence War (Mexico)
• French Community Holiday (French community of Belgium)
• Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar)
• World Tourism Day (International)

External links

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

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