March 27

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

Events

• 87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
• 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 is born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland.
• 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.
• 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: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 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.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• 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.
• 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 Southcentral 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). Sixty-one 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, leads 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.
• 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.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill by the stealth aircraft.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover Seder in Netanya, Israel.
• 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2013 – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
• 2013 – Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
• 2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
• 2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
• 2016 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.

Births

• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1220 – Pope Martin IV (d. 1285)
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (d. 1735)
• 1679 – Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1741)
• 1681 – Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish-Italian cardinal (d. 1760)
• 1696 – Antoine Court, French minister and historian (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 and author (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist and author (d. 1766)
• 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican-French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (d. 1767)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1770 – Sophie Mereau, German author (d. 1806)
• 1781 – Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist and academic (d. 1864)
• 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, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer (d. 1891)
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator, co-founded Currier and Ives (d. 1888)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
• 1836 – Gustav Leopold Plitt, German theologian and academic (d. 1880)
• 1839 – John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1843 – George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (d. 1934)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1848 – Warren Ives Bradley, American journalist and author (d. 1868)
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (d. 1909)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian author (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American-Swiss scholar and academic (d. 1924)
• 1862 – Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polygot (d. 1945)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Italian nun and nurse (d. 1894)
• 1865 – Eugene Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1918)
• 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, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author and poet (d. 1950)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Catherine Carswell, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1880 – Ruth Hanna McCormick, American publisher and politician (d. 1944)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1886 – Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and set designer, designed Großes Festspielhaus (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (d. 1932)
• 1888 – George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Thorne Smith, American author (d. 1934)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947)
• 1893 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)
• 1893 – George Beranger, Australian-American actor and director (d. 1973)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1896 – Charlotte Hagenbruch, German-Swiss actress and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1898 – Titina De Filippo, Italian actress and playwright (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Norma Koch, American costume designer (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Francis Ponge, French poet and author (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Herbert Arthur Stuart, German-Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine singer-songwriter, bandoneón player, and pianist (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 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Paul Hermann, Hungarian cellist and composer (d. 1944)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American author and engineer (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1937)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Ajoy Kar, Indian director and producer (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Tom Howard, English special effects designer (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Hugh Nibley, American historian, author, and academic (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English lieutenant and 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 – Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, British archaeologist and scholar (d. 2011)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Hélène Berr, French Holocaust victim and author (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Harry Järv, Finnish-Swedish lieutenant, historian, and author (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith, English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Murray Olderman, American author and illustrator
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French surgeon and author (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet, translator, and academic (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Adelina Gutiérrez, Chilean astrophysicist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American writer (d. 1966)
• 1927 – Sylvia Anderson, English voice actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2016)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer, writer and artist
• 1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 1931 – Walter Hooper, American author and scholar
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Junior Parker, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1971)
• 1933 – Hazel Henderson, English economist and author
• 1934 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1939 – Jay Kim, South Korean-American engineer and politician
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1940 – Lindy Infante, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Antonina Lazareva, Russian high jumper
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player and coach
• 1944 – Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (d. 2002)
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author, critic, poet and philosopher
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist and pilot
• 1948 – Rosemary Follett, Australian politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Julia Alvarez, American-Dominican author and poet
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano
• 1950 – Chris Stewart, English drummer and author
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1951 – Andrei Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1952 – Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Austrian skier
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Dennis Bevington, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1954 – Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Swiss-Australian painter
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English lawyer and politician
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish author and playwright
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Gary Sutton, Australian cyclist and sportscaster
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish skier
• 1957 – Konstantin Kokora, Russian figure skater
• 1957 – Stephen Dillane, English actor
• 1957 – Billy Gilliland, Scottish badminton player
• 1958 – Susan Molinari, American journalist and politician
• 1958 – Didier de Radiguès, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian keyboard player and songwriter
• 1960 – Philippe Bianconi, French pianist
• 1960 – Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (d. 2016)
• 1960 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Tim Wrightman, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Danish-Swiss cyclist
• 1961 – Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American author
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English journalist and author
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player, coach, and pastor
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, and television presenter
• 1963 – Ed Pinckney, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1963 – Gary Stevens, English-Australian footballer and physiotherapist
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1966 – Ramiro Castillo, Bolivian footballer (d. 1997)
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American model and actress
• 1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
• 1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1970 – Mauricio Vallina, Cuban-Belgian pianist and composer
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American wrestler
• 1972 – Jérôme Minière, French-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and coach
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1975 – Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Christian Fiedler, German footballer and manager
• 1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• 1976 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, French-Algerian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1977 – Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina, Kazakh skier
• 1977 – Ioannis Melissanidis, German-Greek gymnast
• 1978 – Gabriel Paraschiv, Romanian footballer
• 1978 – Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1979 – Vidas Alunderis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
• 1979 – Tom Palmer, English rugby player
• 1979 – Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
• 1979 – Jenny Wilson, Zimbabwean-South African field hockey player
• 1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Sean Ryan, American football player
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1982 – Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
• 1982 – Margarita Mikelsone, Latvian badminton player
• 1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Robert Guerrero, American boxer
• 1983 – Vasily Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Jacques Riparelli, Cameroonian-Italian sprinter
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
• 1984 – Ben Franks, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Jonathan Wade, American football player
• 1985 – Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jack Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Sébastien Regy, French rugby player
• 1986 – Emma Davis, Irish triathlete
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
• 1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
• 1988 – Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress and producer
• 1989 – Matt Harvey, American baseball player
• 1990 – Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
• 1990 – Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
• 1992 – Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer
• 1996 – Dorotea Sutara, Croatian badminton player

Deaths

• 215 BC – Emperor Kōrei of Japan (b. 342 BC)
• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian bishop and saint (b. 660)
• 853 – Haymo of Halberstadt, German bishop and author (b. 778)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1221 – Berengaria of Portugal (b. 1194)
• 1223 – Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix (b. 1152)
• 1237 – John of Brienne (b. 1170)
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1427 – Rinaldo Brancaccio, Italian cardinal
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (b. 1434)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535)
• 1564 – Lütfi Pasha, Turkish historian and politician, 37th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1488)
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523)
• 1598 – Theodor de Bry, Belgian-German engraver, goldsmith, and publisher (b. 1528)
• 1615 – Margaret of Valois (b. 1553)
• 1621 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian cardinal (b. 1554)
• 1625 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (b. 1566)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1676 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish general and politician, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1619)
• 1678 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish politician, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1604)
• 1679 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1715 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig (b. 1655)
• 1729 – Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1679)
• 1745 – Tommaso Crudeli, Italian poet and lawyer (b. 1702)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1759 – August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, German painter and entomologist (b. 1705)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1770 – Jacopo Stellini, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1699)
• 1778 – Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, French sculptor (b. 1705)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French sociologist and reformer (b. 1747)
• 1827 – Dmitry Venevitinov, Russian poet (b. 1805)
• 1828 – Johann Gottfried Tulla, German colonel and engineer (b. 1770)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American colonel (b. 1804)
• 1837 – Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1765)
• 1840 – Philipp Albert Stapfer, Swiss philosopher and politician (b. 1766)
• 1843 – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, English politician (b. 1755)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1769)
• 1844 – Dmitry Golitsyn, Russian-French general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1848 – Gabriel Bibron, French zoologist and herpetologist (b. 1805)
• 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)
• 1854 – William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1768)
• 1858 – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, French entomologist and author (b. 1775)
• 1859 – Adelaide Tosi, Italian soprano (b. 1800)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist and academic (b. 1800)
• 1865 – Richard Cox, Australian cricketer (b. 1830)
• 1867 – Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist and botanist (b. 1788)
• 1869 – James Harper, American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (b. 1808)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian and academic (b. 1803)
• 1877 – Samuel Lysons, English priest and historian (b. 1806)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1878 – Dobri Voynikov, Bulgarian journalist, playwright, and educator (b. 1833)
• 1879 – Dezydery Chłapowski, Polish general and businessman (b. 1788)
• 1879 – Hércules Florence, French-Brazilian painter and inventor (b. 1804)
• 1880 – Nils Johan Andersson, Swedish botanist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1880 – Francis Alexander, American painter (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Jørgen Moe, Norwegian bishop, poet, and author (b. 1813)
• 1883 – Philipp Christoph Zeller, German entomologist and educator (b. 1808)
• 1884 – Richard Böhm, German zoologist and explorer (b. 1854)
• 1885 – Heinrich Julian Schmidt, German journalist and historian (b. 1818)
• 1885 – Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg, Austrian cardinal (b. 1809)
• 1886 – Henry Taylor, English poet and playwright (b. 1800)
• 1888 – Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1825)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1811)
• 1890 – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1893 – Alphonse Beau de Rochas, French engineer (b. 1815)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician and academic (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Édouard Delessert, French painter, archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1899 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator, painter, and engraver (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman, founded the Campbell Soup Company (b. 1817)
• 1904 – Takeo Hirose, Japanese commander (b. 1868)
• 1906 – Eugène Carrière, French painter and photographer (b. 1849)
• 1908 – Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and the 3rd Chancellor of Syracuse University (b. 1835)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1913 – Richard Montgomery Gano, American minister, physician, and general (b. 1830)
• 1914 – Spencer Gore, English painter (b. 1878)
• 1914 – Peter Grace, American captain (b. 1845)
• 1916 – Susan Blow, American educator (b. 1843)
• 1916 – Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian-Estonian linguist and author (b. 1853)
• 1917 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American-Italian soldier and sculptor (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1919 – Martin Maginnis, American journalist and politician (b. 1841)
• 1920 – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (b. 1827)
• 1921 – Harry Barron, English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
• 1922 – Philippe A. Guye, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1862)
• 1922 – Nikolay Sokolov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1859)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English organist and composer (b. 1841)
• 1924 – John George Alexander Leishman, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (b. 1857)
• 1925 – John Koss, Norwegian boxer (b. 1895)
• 1925 – Carl Neumann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1926 – Kick Kelly, American baseball player, manager, and umpire (b. 1856)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (b. 1842)
• 1927 – Klaus Berntsen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1844)
• 1927 – William Healey Dall, American biologist, malacologist, and explorer (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Leslie Stuart, English organist and composer (b. 1863)
• 1929 – Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1859)
• 1930 – Sister Christine, German-American educator (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1932 – Eliezer Steinbarg, Romanian author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1934 – Musa al-Husayni, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1853)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1936 – Christine Buisman, Dutch phytopathologist and botanist (b. 1900)
• 1937 – Axel Anderberg, Swedish architect, designed the Swedish Museum of Natural History (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Romolo Bacchini, Italian director, painter, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1938 – Friedrich Leo von Rottenberger, Austrian gardener and architect (b. 1872)
• 1938 – William Stern, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Quast, Austrian general (b. 1850)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealander politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1941 – Primo Riccitelli, Italian composer (b. 1875)
• 1942 – Julio González, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Vernon Kell, English intelligence officer and soldier (b. 1873)
• 1943 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882)
• 1944 – Eduino Francini, Italian partisan (b. 1925)
• 1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 – Octave Aubry, French historian and author (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Karl Groos, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1946 – Ludvig Kornerup, Swedish footballer and referee (b. 1871)
• 1947 – Edith Craig, English actress, director, producer, and fashion designer (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Charlie Smith, South African cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1948 – Henry Hamilton Beamish, English-Rhodesian politician (b. 1873)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1953 – Charles Finlayson, South African cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1954 – Walter M. Pierce, American lawyer and politician, 17th Governor of Oregon (b. 1861)
• 1955 – Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge, English captain (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Évariste Lévi-Provençal, French orientalist and historian (b. 1894)
• 1956 – Giuseppe Merosi, Italian engineer (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Roberts Dambītis, Latvian soldier and politician (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Leon C. Phillips, American lawyer and politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1890)
• 1960 – Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Ian Whyte, Scottish conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1961 – Moshe Novomeysky, Russian-Israeli scientist and engineer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – James Basevi, English-American art director and set designer (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Jack Britton, American boxer (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Harold Dow Bugbee, American painter, illustrator, and curator (b. 1900)
• 1963 – Harry Piel, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Roger Motz, Belgian engineer and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Francis Cuggy, English footballer and manager (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Archer Baldwin, American-born English farmer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Hermann Garrn, German footballer (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Ragnar Josephson, Swedish historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1966 – Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Malcolm Arbuthnot, English photographer and painter (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1968 – Vladimir Seryogin, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1969 – Archie Bradley, Australian boxer and rugby player (b. 1897)
• 1969 – David Lloyd, Welsh tenor (b. 1912)
• 1969 – Antonio Pigliaru, Italian philosopher, academic, and jurist (b. 1922)
• 1970 – Nicholas Attygalle, Sri Lankan surgeon and academic (b. 1894)
• 1970 – A. C. Schiffler, American lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Albin Grau, German architect and production designer (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Aldo Carpi, Italian painter and author (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1903)
• 1973 – Timo K. Mukka, Swedish-Finnish author (b. 1944)
• 1974 – Wang Ming, Chinese politician (b. 1904)
• 1974 – Eduardo Santos, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Georg August Zinn, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, and composer (b. 1896)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Sverre Farstad, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
• 1978 – Clemens Kapuuo, Namibian educator and politician (b. 1923)
• 1978 – Frank Mitchinson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1884)
• 1979 – Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett, New Zealand physicist and meteorologist (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Vincenc Beneš, Czech painter (b. 1883)
• 1979 – William Elliott, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Melville S. Green, American physicist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1980 – Philip W. Anderson, American film editor (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer and academic (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Jüri Kukk, Estonian chemist and Soviet dissident (b. 1940)
• 1982 – John Addey, English astrologer and author (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Fernando Alessandri, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect, designed the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower (b. 1929)
• 1985 – Hugh Farquharson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Ben Ramsey, American lawyer and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Texas (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Christopher Vokes, Irish-Canadian general (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Harold Harding, English engineer (b. 1900)
• 1987 – Giuseppe Ambrosoli, Italian-Ugandan priest, physician, missionary, and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 1987 – William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Tim Lee Carter, American soldier, physician, and politician (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Tonny Koeswoyo, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 1988 – Fred Rose, Australian footballer (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Charles Willeford, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Cláudio Santoro, Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)
• 1990 – Percy Beard, American hurdler and coach (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Jarl Gallén, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1908)
• 1990 – František Kopečný, Czech etymologist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Igor Ryomin, Russian footballer (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Leueen MacGrath, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Harald Sæverud, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1992 – James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Arthur Larson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1993 – Kate Reid, British-born Canadian actress (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Ernst Streng, German cyclist (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Otto Bonsema, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Josef Schächter, Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901)
• 1994 – Lawrence Wetherby, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1908)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)
• 1995 – Margita Figuli, Slovakian author and translator (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Asher Hassin, Moroccan-Israeli educator and politician (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Tony Lovink, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Imre Nyéki, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1928)
• 1996 – Seán Browne, Irish politician (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Ignace Kowalczyk, German-French footballer (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Alfred Waterman, English cricketer (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Lane Dwinell, American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Birger Hatlebakk, Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Charles Lillard, American-Canadian historian, author, and poet (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Émile Stijnen, Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Julio César Britos, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Aghajani Kashmeri, Indian-Canadian screenwriter and poet (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Karl-Adolf Zenker, German admiral (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Lindsay Booth, Australian farmer and businessman (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Ernestina de Champourcín, Spanish poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Nahum Stelmach, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1936)
• 2000 – George Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2000 – Bruno Hunziker, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Boris Rauschenbach, Russian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Lotte Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Alan Ackerman Beetle, American botanist (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Miriam Lichtheim, Israeli historian, translator, and academic (b. 1914)
• 2004 – H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, English chemist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Einar Magnussen, Norwegian economist and politician, Minister of Trade and Shipping (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909)
• 2004 – James Wapakhabulo, Ugandan lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Elvira Farreras i Valentí, Spanish poet and author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Richard Kearney, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Antonio Téllez, Spanish journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Lesław Bartelski, Polish author (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Peter Wells, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Hans Hedberg, Swedish-French sculptor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ransom A. Myers, American-Canadian biologist and academic (b. 1952)
• 2007 – John Ward, English archbishop (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Charlotte Winters, American soldier (b. 1897)
• 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 – Evert Grift, Dutch cyclist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Kon Sasaki, Japanese photographer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Zbigniew Gut, Polish footballer (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Peter Herbolzheimer, German trombonist and bandleader (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Stanley Vann, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – George Tooker, American painter (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Hugo Biermann, South African admiral (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Harold G. Hillam, American religious leader (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American academic and critic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Alfredo De Gasperis, Italian-Canadian businessman, founded ConDrain (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Roosevelt Jamison, American songwriter and manager (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Paul Williams, American journalist and publisher, founded Crawdaddy! (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (b. 1935)
• 2015 – T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
  • Amador of Portugal
  • Augusta of Treviso
  • Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh
  • John of Egypt
  • Philetus
  • Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
  • Rupert of Salzburg
  • Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
  • March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Armed Forces Day (Myanmar)
• International whisk(e)y day
• World Theatre Day (International)

External links

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