History of Today 27 June: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 27 June in History

• 27 Jun 2024: U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21. Read more
• 27 Jun 2017: A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe. Read more
• 27 Jun 2015: Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Read more
• 27 Jun 2013: NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun. Read more
• 27 Jun 2008: In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters. Read more
• 27 Jun 2007: Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him. Read more
• 27 Jun 2007: The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre. Read more
• 27 Jun 1995: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. Read more
• 27 Jun 1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured. Read more
• 27 Jun 1991: Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War. Read more
• 27 Jun 1988: The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people. Read more
• 27 Jun 1988: Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants. Read more
• 27 Jun 1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. Read more
• 27 Jun 1981: The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board. Read more
• 27 Jun 1977: France grants independence to Djibouti. Read more
• 27 Jun 1977: Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria. Read more
• 27 Jun 1976: Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. Read more
• 27 Jun 1974: U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union. Read more
• 27 Jun 1973: The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship. Read more
• 27 Jun 1957: Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana. Read more
• 27 Jun 1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. Read more
• 27 Jun 1954: The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game. Read more
• 27 Jun 1950: The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. Read more
• 27 Jun 1946: In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship. Read more
• 27 Jun 1944: World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese. Read more
• 27 Jun 1941: Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. Read more
• 27 Jun 1941: World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. Read more
• 27 Jun 1928: The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929. Read more
• 27 Jun 1927: Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. Read more
• 27 Jun 1924: The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore. Read more
• 27 Jun 1914: The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Read more
• 27 Jun 1905: During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. Read more
• 27 Jun 1898: The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. Read more
• 27 Jun 1895: The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. Read more
• 27 Jun 1864: American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign. Read more
• 27 Jun 1844: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. Read more
• 27 Jun 1806: British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate. Read more

Famous Births on 27 June

• 27 Jun 2002: Kelee Ringo, American football player Kelee Jahare-Hale Ringo is an American professional football cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. He was a two-time CFP national champion with the Bulldogs, winning in 2021 and 2022. Read more
• 27 Jun 2000: Chris Olave, American football player Christian Josiah Olave is an American professional football wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he holds the school record of most career touchdown receptions at 35. Olave was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Read more
• 27 Jun 1999: Will Levis, American football player William Donovan Levis is an American professional football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and Kentucky Wildcats before being selected by the Titans in the second round of the 2023 NFL draft. Read more
• 27 Jun 1999: Chandler Riggs, American actor Chandler Carlton Riggs is an American actor and musician. He rose to prominence for his regular role as Carl Grimes on the AMC horror-drama television series The Walking Dead from 2010 to 2018. For his work on the series, Riggs won three Saturn Awards from five nominations and a Young Artist Award from three nominations. Read more
• 27 Jun 1997: Yordan Alvarez, Cuban baseball player Yordan Ruben Alvarez is a Cuban professional baseball designated hitter and left fielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019 with the Astros. Alvarez stands 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), weighs 237 pounds (108 kg), bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He is a three-time All-Star. Read more
• 27 Jun 1997: Jehyve Floyd, American basketball player Jehyve Jamal Floyd is an American professional basketball player for Petkim Spor of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Floyd played college basketball for the Holy Cross Crusaders, with whom he was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in both 2018 and 2019; in both years he led the league in blocked shots, as well as in shooting percentage from the field. He led the Greek Basket League in blocks in 2020, and the Israeli Basketball Premier League in blocks in 2021. Read more
• 27 Jun 1997: Dalton Eatherly, American livestreamer, better known as Chud the Builder Dalton Levi Eatherly, better known as Chud the Builder, is an American livestreamer who is known for his confrontational IRL streams in Tennessee. Eatherly's online persona, characterized by frequent use of racial slurs and harassment directed at Black people, has led to public condemnation, platform suspensions, and legal controversies. He received national media attention in 2026 following a shooting outside a courthouse in Clarksville, Tennessee, which resulted in Eatherly being charged with attempted murder. Read more
• 27 Jun 1997: H.E.R., American singer-songwriter Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, known professionally as H.E.R. is an American R&B singer-songwriter. She has won an Academy Award, a Children's and Family Emmy Award, and five Grammy Awards, and been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, three American Music Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards. Read more
• 27 Jun 1995: Monté Morris, American basketball player Monté Robert Morris is an American professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones. Read more
• 27 Jun 1994: Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player Anita Wagner is a Bosnian tennis player. Read more
• 27 Jun 1993: Johanna Talihärm, Estonian biathlete Johanna Talihärm is an Estonian biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She represented Estonia at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Read more
• 27 Jun 1993: Alberto Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete Alberto Jonathan Campbell-Staines is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability who competes in the T20 classification. He won two bronze medals at the 9th INAS Athletics World Championships. Read more
• 27 Jun 1992: Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress Ahn So-hee, known mononymously as Sohee, is a South Korean actress and former singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Wonder Girls. She is best known for her performance in the film Train to Busan (2016). Read more
• 27 Jun 1992: Karthika Nair, Indian actress Karthika Nair is a former Indian actress who primarily worked down South in all language films. She made her debut in the 2009 Telugu film Josh, opposite Naga Chaitanya. She rose to fame starring in her second and her first successful Tamil film Ko, opposite Jiiva and Piaa Bajpai. She found further success in the Malayalam film Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath, opposite Dileep. Read more
• 27 Jun 1991: Oliver Stark, British actor Oliver Leon Jones, known professionally as Oliver Stark, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Evan "Buck" Buckley in 9-1-1 on Fox/ABC, and as Ryder in AMC's martial arts-based drama Into the Badlands. Read more
• 27 Jun 1990: Bobby Wagner, American football player Bobby Joseph Wagner is an American professional football linebacker. Wagner played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. He spent ten years with the Seahawks before playing for the Los Angeles Rams in 2022, later returning to Seattle for a second stint in 2023. He then spent two seasons playing for the Washington Commanders. Read more
• 27 Jun 1989: Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player Hana Birnerová is a Czech former tennis player. Read more
• 27 Jun 1989: Sabino Brunello, Italian chess grandmaster Sabino Brunello is an Italian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010. Read more
• 27 Jun 1989: Matthew Lewis, English actor Matthew David Lewis is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series. Read more
• 27 Jun 1988: Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast Stefani Bismpikou is a Greek artistic gymnast who competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She is the first Greek female gymnast ever to win a medal at the European Championships, and has also won several medals on the World Cup circuit. Her best apparatus is the balance beam. Read more
• 27 Jun 1988: Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer Matthew Thomas Spiranovic is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender. Read more
• 27 Jun 1988: Kate Ziegler, American swimmer Kate Marie Ziegler is an American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and long-distance events. Ziegler has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, including eight golds, five silvers, and two bronzes spanning the World Aquatics and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team, and competed in the 800-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Read more
• 27 Jun 1987: India de Beaufort, English actress India de Beaufort is a British actress. She has acted in several films and television shows, including The Better Half (2015), Kimi (2022) and Night Court (2023−24). Read more
• 27 Jun 1987: Ed Westwick, English actor Ed Westwick is an English actor and musician best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl as well as Vincent Swan in the TV series White Gold. He made his feature film debut in Children of Men (2006) and has since appeared in the films Breaking and Entering (2006), Son of Rambow (2007), S. Darko (2009), Chalet Girl (2011), J. Edgar (2011), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Bone in the Throat (2015), Freaks of Nature (2015), Billionaire Ransom (2016) and Me You Madness (2021). Read more
• 27 Jun 1986: Sam Claflin, British actor Samuel George Claflin is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, he began his acting career on television and had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). Read more
• 27 Jun 1986: Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor Jared Drake Bell is an American actor and musician. Born in Newport Beach, California, he began his career as a child actor in the 1990s, appearing on Home Improvement (1994) and in several commercials. He rose to prominence with Nickelodeon, playing starring roles in the sketch comedy series The Amanda Show (1999–2002), the sitcom Drake & Josh (2004–2007), and the Nickelodeon television film series The Fairly OddParents (2011–2014). He also voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man on the Disney XD series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017) and various Disney XD media. He has won ten Kids' Choice Awards, a Teen Choice Award, and a Young Artist Award, among other accolades. Read more
• 27 Jun 1986: Bryan Fletcher, American skier Bryan Fletcher is an American former Nordic combined skier who has competed between 2002 and 2018. Read more
• 27 Jun 1986: LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter LaShawn Merritt is an American retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events, specializing in the 400 metres. He is a former Olympic champion over the distance and his personal best of 43.65 seconds makes him the eleventh fastest of all time. Read more
• 27 Jun 1985: James Hook, Welsh rugby player James William Hook is a Welsh retired rugby union player. Hook has won 81 caps for Wales and is Wales' fifth highest all-time points scorer. Most often playing as a fly-half, Hook is known as a utility player, and has also played as a centre, wing and fullback. Read more
• 27 Jun 1985: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and No. 3 in doubles by the WTA. During her career, Kuznetsova won 18 singles and 16 doubles titles, including two singles majors at the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open, and two doubles majors at the 2005 and 2012 Australian Opens. Read more
• 27 Jun 1985: Nico Rosberg, German race car driver Nico Erik Rosberg is a German and Finnish former racing driver, entrepreneur, and broadcaster who competed under the German flag in Formula One from 2006 to 2016. Rosberg won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2016 with Mercedes, and won 23 Grands Prix across 11 seasons. Read more
• 27 Jun 1984: Aiden Blizzard, Australian cricketer Aiden Craig Blizzard is a former Australian cricketer who played domestic cricket for Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, he hit 89 from 38 balls on his Twenty20 debut for Victoria on New Years Day 2007. His innings included 8 sixes. In 2004 he toured India and Sri Lanka with the Australian Cricket Academy. He has also played for Rajshahi Rangers in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh. Read more
• 27 Jun 1984: Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host Khloé Alexandra Kardashian is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring with her family in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021. Its success led to the creation of spin-offs, including Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami (2009–2013) and Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons (2014–2015). Following the ending of their previous show, she and her family began starring on Hulu's The Kardashians in 2022. Read more
• 27 Jun 1984: D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player Dwayne "D. J." King Jr. is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals. Read more
• 27 Jun 1984: Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer Gökhan Inler is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently in charge as a technical director of Italian football club Udinese. Read more
• 27 Jun 1983: Jim Johnson, American baseball player James Robert Johnson is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles Angels. Johnson was an All-Star in 2012 and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award that year while leading MLB in saves. In 2013, Johnson became the first American League (AL) pitcher ever to have recorded back-to-back seasons of 50 saves or more. Johnson and Éric Gagné are the only two MLB pitchers to accomplish this feat. Read more
• 27 Jun 1983: Dale Steyn, South African cricketer Dale Willem Steyn is a South African former professional cricketer who played for the South African cricket team. He is widely regarded as the greatest fast bowler of the modern era and one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Steyn's ability to produce late swing at high pace – a rare and lethal combination amongst fast bowlers – made him stand apart from many of his contemporaries. Many cricketing legends have regarded his length deliveries unplayable when the ball swung. During the 2007–08 season, Steyn achieved a tally of 78 wickets at an average of 16.24, and was subsequently rewarded with the ICC 2008 Test Cricketer of the Year Award. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2013, and the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2013 in 2014's Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In December 2015 he injured his shoulder in the Durban Test against England; after this injury his career was a short lived one as it was followed by multiple injuries; these injuries were the reason why many cricketing greats didn't even consider post 2015 Steyn as "The Dale Steyn" which the batsmen feared to face. He was featured in Wisden Cricketers of the Decade at the end of 2019. He also was included in the ICC Test Team of the Decade at the end of 2020. Read more
• 27 Jun 1983: Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor Nikola Rakočević is a Serbian actor proclaimed as one of Europe’s leading young screen actors. Rakočević has received numerous awards at major international film festivals. Read more
• 27 Jun 1982: Laura Dre, German-Filipina electronic musician, singer-songwriter and music producer Laura-Beatrix Drezewski, better known as Laura Dre, is a German-Filipina singer-songwriter and record producer. Her style covers various genres of electronic music, with lyrics mainly in English. Having previously been part of various bands, Dre is now active as a solo artist in the synthwave scene since 2021. Read more
• 27 Jun 1981: Andrew Embley, Australian footballer Andrew Gerard Embley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is known for winning the Norm Smith Medal as the best player in the 2006 AFL Grand Final. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer Hugo Armando Campagnaro is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player Jennifer Goodridge Cruz is an American film and television producer, writer, director, and musician. She has produced notable works for Netflix, The Disney Channel, and YouTube Red as well as many commercials and music videos. Her films have premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, L'Étrange Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival among others. She was a guest panel speaker at Slamdance Film Festival in 2018 for the polytechnic series, Life As A Truly Independent Filmmaker: Survival guide and is a member of the Producers Guild of America. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: Alexander Peya, Austrian tennis player Alexander Peya is an Austrian tennis coach and a former professional player. His career-high doubles ranking was World No. 3, first achieved in August 2013. He also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 92 in April 2007. Peya won the 2018 Wimbledon mixed doubles title alongside Nicole Melichar-Martinez, defeating Jamie Murray and Victoria Azarenka in the final. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer Kevin Peter Pietersen is a former England international cricketer. He is regarded as one of England's greatest ever batsmen and renowned for his competitive, and often controversial nature. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who played in all three formats for England between 2004 and 2014, which included a brief tenure as captain. He won the Player of the Series award for his performances in 2010 ICC World Twenty20 which helped England to win their maiden ICC trophy. Read more
• 27 Jun 1980: Craig Terrill, American football player Craig Adam Terrill is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). In 88 career games, Terrill had 103 combined tackles, with eight sacks, three fumble recoveries, and one touchdown. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers. He was selected by the Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL draft. He blocked eight field goals in his career, tied for the Seahawks team record. Read more
• 27 Jun 1979: Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter Martin Bourboulon is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the films Daddy or Mommy (2015), Daddy or Mommy 2 (2016), Eiffel (2021), The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023). Read more
• 27 Jun 1978: Apparat, German musician Sascha Ring, better known by the stage name Apparat, is a German electronic musician. He was previously co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dancefloor-oriented techno, he shifted focus towards ambient music, becoming "more interested in designing sounds than beats". Read more
• 27 Jun 1977: Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer Arkadiusz Radomski is a Polish professional manager and former player who played as a holding midfielder. He is currently in charge of III liga club Zagłębie Lubin II. Read more
• 27 Jun 1976: Johnny Estrada, American baseball player Johnny Pulado Estrada III is an American former professional baseball catcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Nationals. Read more
• 27 Jun 1976: Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter Leigh Anne Bingham Nash is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the Christian alternative rock band Sixpence None the Richer, and was also a member of the musical collective Fauxliage. Her debut solo album, Blue on Blue, was released in August 2006, followed by two additional solo albums in 2011 and 2015. Nash has received two Grammy Award nominations: Best Rock Gospel Album in 1998 and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1999. Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: Ace Darling, American wrestler Michael Maraldo is an American professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Ace Darling. Darling has wrestled in various independent promotions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, most notably for the East Coast Wrestling Association, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling. Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen and comedian Roy R. Haylock, better known by the stage name Bianca Del Rio, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer. He is known for winning the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Since his time on Drag Race, Del Rio has written and toured several stand-up shows, including It's Jester Joke (2019), which also made him the first drag queen to headline at Wembley Arena. He has also performed as a host for various international tours, most notably Werq the World. In 2018, he published his first book, Blame It On Bianca Del Rio: The Expert On Nothing With An Opinion On Everything. Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer Sarah Evanetz is a former competition swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 15th in the 100-metre butterfly, and in fifth place with the Canadian relay team in the 4×100-metre medley relay, alongside Julie Howard, Guylaine Cloutier and Shannon Shakespeare. Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: Tobey Maguire, American actor Tobias Vincent Maguire is an American actor and film producer. He began his career in supporting roles, before gaining international recognition and critical praise for his role as Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's 2002 film Spider-Man. Maguire reprised the role in two sequels, Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). He returned to the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: Daryle Ward, American baseball player Daryle Lamar Ward is an American former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2008 for the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. He is the son of former major leaguer Gary Ward. Daryle Ward is currently the Hitting Coach for the Louisville Bats in the Cincinnati Reds organization. Read more
• 27 Jun 1974: Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor Christian Kane is an American actor and singer-songwriter. His television roles include Lindsey McDonald in Angel, Eliot Spencer in Leverage and its revival Leverage: Redemption, Jacob Stone in The Librarians and its spinoff sequel series The Librarians: The Next Chapter, and Abe "High Wolf" Wheeler in Into the West. His cinematic filmography includes Just Married, Taxi, Love Song and Secondhand Lions. Read more
• 27 Jun 1974: Christopher O'Neill, English-American businessman Christopher Paul O'Neill, is a British-American financier and husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, with whom he has three children. He declined to become a Swedish citizen and accept any titles; he could then continue as a businessman with no royal duties. Read more
• 27 Jun 1973: Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician Olve Eikemo, better known by his stage name Abbath Doom Occulta or simply Abbath, is a Norwegian musician best known as a founding member of the black metal band Immortal. Before founding Immortal, Abbath performed with Old Funeral alongside future Immortal member Demonaz. Following his departure from Immortal in 2015, he announced that he would be forming a new band under the Abbath name. Although primarily a guitarist, Abbath is also a proficient bassist and drummer, having started his career as a bassist and recorded all drums for Immortal albums Pure Holocaust and Battles in the North. Read more
• 27 Jun 1973: Simon Archer, English badminton player Simon David Archer MBE is an English former badminton player. Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph. Read more
• 27 Jun 1972: Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Dawud Wharnsby is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator and television personality. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work in the musical/poetic genre of English Language nasheed and spoken word. Read more
• 27 Jun 1971: Serginho, Brazilian footballer Sérgio Cláudio dos Santos, better known as Serginho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back, left midfielder or left winger. Known for his speed and energetic attacking runs down the wing, he won the Champions League twice, as well as the Serie A title, among other trophies with AC Milan. At international level, he also represented Brazil at the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup and was part of the team that won the 1999 Copa América. Post retirement, he has acted as manager and agent for former teammate Dida. Read more
• 27 Jun 1970: Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (died 2001) Régine Cavagnoud was a World Cup alpine ski racer from France. She was the World Cup and World Champion in Super-G in 2001. Later that year, Cavagnoud was involved in a high-speed collision while training and died two days later. She competed at three Winter Olympics and five world championships. Read more
• 27 Jun 1970: John Eales, Australian rugby player and businessman John Anthony Eales is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby. In 1999, he became one of the first players to win multiple Rugby World Cups. Read more
• 27 Jun 1970: Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster James Patrick Edmonds is an American former professional baseball center fielder and sports commentator. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the California / Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, and Cincinnati Reds from 1993 to 2010. Read more
• 27 Jun 1970: Jo Frost, English nanny, television personality, and author Joanne Frost, known professionally as Jo Frost, is a British television personality, nanny, and author. She is best known for the reality television programme Supernanny UK, in which she was the central figure. The show first aired in the United Kingdom in 2004 and she has branched off into several other reality shows in the United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands. Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost addressed issues such as addiction and abuse. Frost has written six books on child care. Read more
• 27 Jun 1969: Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Ukraine during his career. He is the 1992 Olympic Champion for the Unified Team. Petrenko became the first flagbearer for Ukraine. Read more
• 27 Jun 1968: Kelly Ayotte, American lawyer and politician, Governor of New Hampshire Kelly Ann Ayotte is an American attorney and politician serving since 2025 as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2011 to 2017 as a United States senator from New Hampshire and from 2004 to 2009 as the 27th attorney general of New Hampshire. Read more
• 27 Jun 1967: Sylvie Fréchette, Canadian swimmer and coach Sylvie Fréchette, is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event. Read more
• 27 Jun 1967: George Hamilton, Northern Irish police officer Sir George Ernest Craythorne Hamilton is a Northern Ireland retired police officer. From 2014 to 2019, he served as the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He was previously the Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for rural policing. Read more
• 27 Jun 1967: Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower Vasiliy Borisovich Kaptyukh is a Belarusian former discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, despite setting his personal best throw at the former, with 67.59 metres. Read more
• 27 Jun 1967: Phil Kearns, Australian rugby player and sportscaster Philip Nicholas Kearns is an Australian former rugby union player. He represented the Wallabies 67 times and was captain on ten occasions. He is a rugby commentator with Fox Sports Australia. Read more
• 27 Jun 1966: J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced films such as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), and the Star Wars sequels The Force Awakens (2015) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Abrams's films have grossed more than $4 billion, making him the tenth highest-grossing film director of all-time, not adjusted for inflation. Read more
• 27 Jun 1966: Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager Jörg Bergen is a German football manager and former player. Read more
• 27 Jun 1966: Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster Jeffrey Guy Conine is an American former professional baseball left fielder / first baseman and current front office assistant for the Miami Marlins, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 17 seasons, with six teams. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he was nicknamed "Mr. Marlin" for his significant history with the club. Read more
• 27 Jun 1966: Aigars Kalvītis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvītis is a Latvian businessman and a former politician who was the Prime Minister of Latvia from 2004 to 2007. Currently he is the president of Latvian Ice Hockey Federation and the Chairman of the Board of Latvian gas company Latvijas Gāze. He is the Chairman of the Council of Latvian telecommunications company Tet. Read more
• 27 Jun 1965: Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian, and author Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels,
  including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022). Read more
• 27 Jun 1965: S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician and social activist Manikavasagam s/o Sundaram is a Malaysian politician and social activist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kapar from March 2008 to May 2013. He is a member of the Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), a component party of formerly Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalition and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and BA coalitions. He has served as the vice president of PRM since March 2024. Read more
• 27 Jun 1965: Óscar Vega, Spanish boxer Spain was the host nation for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The Games were quite exceptional for Spain because their athletes were competing not only in their home country, but also in the home city of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. 422 competitors, 297 men and 125 women, took part in 195 events in 29 sports. Read more
• 27 Jun 1964: Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter Stephan Brenninkmeijer is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer. Read more
• 27 Jun 1964: Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach Chuck Connors Person is an American former basketball player and coach. Person played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was the 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year. Person played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers and was selected fourth overall in the 1986 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers, for whom he played six seasons. He also played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, San Antonio Spurs, Charlotte Hornets and Seattle SuperSonics. Read more
• 27 Jun 1963: Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Wendy Cowan Alexander, Baroness Alexander of Cleveden is a Scottish politician Life Peer and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North from 1999 until 2011. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2007 to 2008. Read more
• 27 Jun 1963: Johnny Benson Jr., American race car driver Jonathan Frederick Benson Jr. is an American retired stock car racing driver and the son of former Michigan modified driver John Benson Sr. Benson has raced across NASCAR's three national series, and his career highlights include the 1993 American Speed Association AC-Delco Challenge series championship, the 1995 NASCAR Busch Series championship, the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year Award, and the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship. Read more
• 27 Jun 1962: Michael Ball, English actor and singer Michael Ashley Ball is an English singer, presenter and actor. In 1985, he made his West End debut as Marius Pontmercy in the original production of Les Misérables. In 1989, he reached number two in the UK singles chart with "Love Changes Everything", from the musical Aspects of Love, where he played Alex Dillingham. He played the role in the West End and on Broadway. His album Coming Home To You reached number one in the UK making it his 4th number one album to date. On 24 April 2020, Ball and Captain Tom Moore entered the UK singles chart at number one with a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone", with combined chart sales of 82,000 making it the fastest-selling single of 2020. In 1992, Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second with the song "One Step Out of Time". Read more
• 27 Jun 1962: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor and singer Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognized actors. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time". Read more
• 27 Jun 1962: Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian businesswoman (died 2014) Sunanda Pushkar was an Indian-born Canadian businesswoman. She was a sales director in the Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and a co-owner of the India-based Rendezvous Sports World (RSW), a cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League. Pushkar was the wife of former International diplomat serving under the UN and politician Shashi Tharoor. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach Craig Anthony Hodges is an American former professional basketball player and former head coach of the Westchester Knicks of the NBA Development League. He played in the NBA for 10 seasons and is one of only 6 players to lead the league in 3-point shooting percentage multiple times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and, along with Larry Bird and Damian Lillard, is one of only three players to win three Three Point Contests at the National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend, winning the competition in 1990, 1991, and 1992. Hodges also holds the Three Point Contest records for the most consecutive shots made with 19, set in 1991, and the most points scored in a single round at 25, set in 1986. He was later a head coach at Chicago State University, an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and head coach of the Halifax Rainmen of the National Basketball League of Canada. A political activist, he called on other players to use their fame to advance political causes. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Michael Mayer, American theatre director Michael Mayer is an American director, playwright, and producer. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor Robert King is an English conductor, harpsichordist, editor and author. His career has concentrated on period performance of classical music, in particular from the baroque and early modern periods. In 2007, he was convicted of indecent assault: in 2009, he resumed his musical career. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Jeremy Swift, English actor Jeremy Paul Swift is an English actor. He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981 and worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre company and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period he also appeared in numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's production of What the Butler Saw. Read more
• 27 Jun 1959: Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, Jon Kent, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for seven years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995. Read more
• 27 Jun 1959: Lorrie Morgan, American singer Loretta Lynn Morgan is an American country music singer and actress. She is the daughter of George Morgan, widow of Keith Whitley, and ex-wife of Jon Randall and Sammy Kershaw, all of whom are also country music singers. Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13, and charted her first single in 1979. She achieved her greatest success between 1988 and 1999, recording for RCA Records and the defunct BNA Records. Her first two RCA albums and her BNA album Watch Me are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The 1995 compilation Reflections: Greatest Hits is her best-selling album with a double-platinum certification; War Paint, Greater Need, and Shakin' Things Up, also on BNA, are certified gold. Read more
• 27 Jun 1958: Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Lisa Ruth Germano is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Read more
• 27 Jun 1958: Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996) Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and author. He was one of the founding members of the post-punk band the Gun Club, and released material as a solo artist. Read more
• 27 Jun 1957: Gabriella Dorio, Italian runner Gabriella Dorio is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. Read more
• 27 Jun 1956: Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player and politician Heiner Dopp is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at three Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the silver medal with his team, in 1984 and in 1988 (Seoul). Dopp made his Olympic debut in 1976 (Montreal). Read more
• 27 Jun 1955: Isabelle Adjani, French actress Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French actress and singer, known for portraying tragic and emotionally complex characters across various genres, particularly psychological films. She has received various accolades, including five César Awards, a Lumière Award and a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. Adjani was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2010 and a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014. Read more
• 27 Jun 1954: Richard Ibbotson, English admiral Vice Admiral Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson, is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet. Read more
• 27 Jun 1953: Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and politician Igor Gräzin (birth name: Russian: Игорь Николаевич Грязин, romanized: Igor Nikolayevich Gryazin is an Estonian academic and politician currently serving as a member of the Tallinn City Council. He is a former member of Riigikogu and former Member of the European Parliament. Currently sitting as an independent city councillor, he was formerly affiliated with the Reform Party until 2019 and the Centre Party until 2024. Read more
• 27 Jun 1953: Alice McDermott, American novelist Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Read more
• 27 Jun 1952: Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (died 1993) Madan Kumar Bhandari was a Nepalese political leader. He was elected as the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Nepal, which fought for multiparty democracy and basic human rights in Nepal. His popularity soared after he defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai in the 1991 general election. Known for his oratory and ability to connect with the people, Bhandari's most fundamental contribution was his thought, known as "People's Multiparty Democracy". He is widely credited for advancing Nepal's communist movement to a much greater height together with playing a central role in the popular movement of 1990, which restored democracy and basic human rights in the Nepal after thirty years of the King's direct rule. He died in a jeep accident in Dasdhunga, Chitwan, in 1993. Read more
• 27 Jun 1951: Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player Ulf Andersson is a leading Swedish chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1970 and the Grandmaster title in 1972. Read more
• 27 Jun 1951: Julia Duffy, American actress Julia Margaret Duffy is an American actress. Read more
• 27 Jun 1951: Gilson Lavis, English drummer and portrait artist David Leslie Gilson Lavis was an English drummer and portrait artist. He gained fame as drummer with the band Squeeze in the 1970s and 1980s. Lavis was for more than 30 years drummer for Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, with former Squeeze bandmate Jools Holland, before retiring from drumming in 2024. Rod Stewart described him as "the best swing drummer since Charlie Watts … the guv'nor of swing". Read more
• 27 Jun 1951: Mary McAleese, Irish academic and politician, 8th President of Ireland Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. Born in Ardoyne, north Belfast, she is the first president of Ireland to have come from Ulster. Read more
• 27 Jun 1949: Vera Wang, American fashion designer Vera Ellen Wang is an American fashion designer. Wang initially pursued a career in figure skating before transitioning to fashion. She got her start working for Vogue and Ralph Lauren before launching her own bridal gown boutique in 1990. Read more
• 27 Jun 1948: Camile Baudoin, American guitarist The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock, rhythm and blues, funk and soul music, has attracted a dedicated fanbase who the band calls "fish heads". Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band", The Radiators had only limited commercial success, with only a handful of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of their peers. Read more
• 27 Jun 1945: Joey Covington, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2013) Joseph Edward Covington was an American drummer, best known for his involvements with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship. Read more
• 27 Jun 1945: Norma Kamali, American fashion designer Norma Kamali is an American fashion designer and entrepreneur best known for the "Sleeping Bag" Coat, sweats as everyday sportswear, and swimwear. She lives in New York City. Read more
• 27 Jun 1944: Will Jennings, American songwriter (died 2024) Wilbur Herschel Jennings was an American lyricist. He wrote the lyrics for the songs "Up Where We Belong", "Higher Love", "Tears in Heaven", "My Heart Will Go On" and "Valerie". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Read more
• 27 Jun 1944: Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground Angela King co-founded Common Ground, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Sue Clifford in 1983. She was Friends of the Earth's first Wildlife Campaigner for England. She went on to be consultant to the Nature Conservancy Council until Common Ground was founded in 1982/3. Read more
• 27 Jun 1944: Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (died 2019) Patrick Sercu was a Belgian cyclist who was active on the road and track between 1961 and 1983. On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world titles in the sprint in 1963, 1967 and 1969. On the road, he earned the green jersey in the 1974 Tour de France. Sercu is the record holder for the number of six-day track race victories, having won 88 events out of 223 starts between 1961 and 1983; several of these wins were with cycling great Eddy Merckx. He also won six stages at the Tour de France and eleven stages at the Giro d'Italia. Read more
• 27 Jun 1943: Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with one reaching No. 1 in late 1987. His books center on his idea that financial capitalism breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression.
  In his works, Batra proposes an equitable distribution system known as Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) as a means to not only ensure material welfare but also to secure the ability of all to develop a full personality. Read more
• 27 Jun 1942: Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer Bruce Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, best known as a former member of the Beach Boys. He also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit "I Write the Songs". Read more
• 27 Jun 1942: Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer". Read more
• 27 Jun 1942: Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) Daniel Isaac Schechter was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, journalistic control and ethics, and medicine. While attending the London School of Economics in the 1960s, Schechter became an anti-apartheid activist and made trips to South Africa on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC). Later he would help musician Steven Van Zandt assemble other performers to form Artists United Against Apartheid, who released the album Sun City in 1985. Schechter produced and directed six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela from the time Mandela was a political prisoner to his election and service as President of South Africa. Read more
• 27 Jun 1941: Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama William Joseph Baxley II, is an American Democratic politician and attorney from Dothan, Alabama. Read more
• 27 Jun 1941: James P. Hogan, English-Irish author (died 2010) James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author. His major works include the Giants series of five novels published between 1977 and 2005. Read more
• 27 Jun 1941: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 1996) Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993–1994). Read more
• 27 Jun 1940: Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997. Read more
• 27 Jun 1939: R. D. Burman, Indian singer-songwriter (died 1994) Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films, bringing a new level of music ensemble with his compositions. Burman did his major work with legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. He also worked extensively with lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi and Gulzar, with whom he created some of the most memorable numbers in his career. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman and his Bengali lyricist wife Meera Dev Burman. Read more
• 27 Jun 1939: Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (died 2000) Neil James Napier Hawke was an Australian Test cricketer and leading Australian rules footballer. Read more
• 27 Jun 1939: Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (died 2023) Brereton Chandler Jones was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Kentucky. After his governorship, he chaired the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), a lobbying organization for the Kentucky horse industry. Read more
• 27 Jun 1938: Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic primaries. Read more
• 27 Jun 1938: David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead is a retired Scottish judge who served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's most senior judge, and later as first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013. He had previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He is the Chief Justice of Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts. Read more
• 27 Jun 1938: Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (died 2000) Konrad Paul Kujau was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million from a journalist, Gerd Heidemann, who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine Stern, resulting in a net profit of DM 6.8 million for Heidemann. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau. Read more
• 27 Jun 1937: Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut Joseph Percival Allen IV is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft. Read more
• 27 Jun 1937: Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (died 2013) Otto Herrigel was a Namibian businessman, and politician. He served as Namibia's first Minister of Finance between 1990 and 1992. Read more
• 27 Jun 1937: Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar Kirkpatrick Sale is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a "philosophy unified by decentralism" and as being "a leader of the neo-Luddites," an "anti-globalization leftist," and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement." Read more
• 27 Jun 1936: Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (died 2010) Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Read more
• 27 Jun 1936: Shirley Anne Field, English actress (died 2023) Shirley Anne Field was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the British New Wave. Read more
• 27 Jun 1932: Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager (died 2020) Edward Michael Kasko was an American infielder, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). Read more
• 27 Jun 1932: Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (died 2006) Anna Moffo was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility. Noted for her physical beauty, she was nicknamed "La Bellissima". Read more
• 27 Jun 1932: Hugh Wood, English composer (died 2021) Hugh Wood was a British composer. Read more
• 27 Jun 1931: Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist Charles Bronfman, is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world. Read more
• 27 Jun 1931: Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021) Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory. Read more
• 27 Jun 1930: Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (died 2019) Henry Ross Perot was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an independent campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election and a third-party campaign in the 1996 U.S. presidential election as the nominee of the Reform Party, which was formed by grassroots supporters of Perot's 1992 campaign. Although he failed to carry a single state in either election, both campaigns were among the stronger presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in U.S. history. Read more
• 27 Jun 1930: Tommy Kono, Japanese American weightlifter (died 2016) Tamio "Tommy" Kono was an American weightlifter of Japanese descent. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kono set world records in four different weight classes: lightweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight and middle-heavyweight. Read more
• 27 Jun 1929: Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991) William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with 20 tag team championships in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski. Read more
• 27 Jun 1929: Peter Maas, American journalist and author (died 2001) Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry. Read more
• 27 Jun 1928: Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (died 1995) Rudolph George Perpich Sr. was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. To date, he is the only governor elected to serve non-consecutive terms in the history of Minnesota. Read more
• 27 Jun 1927: Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (died 2004) Robert James Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He created and played the title role in the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984, the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. He also played the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program. Read more
• 27 Jun 1925: Leonard Lerman, American geneticist and biologist (died 2012) Leonard Solomon Lerman was an American scientist most noted for his work on DNA. Read more
• 27 Jun 1925: Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (died 1991) Jerome Solon Felder, known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). Read more
• 27 Jun 1925: Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager (died 2021) Willard Wayne Terwilliger, nicknamed "Twig", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1949 and 1960 for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, New York Giants, and Kansas City Athletics. Read more
• 27 Jun 1924: Bob Appleyard, English cricketer and businessman (died 2015) Robert Appleyard was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer. He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. Able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamers and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action, Appleyard's career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after his first full season in 1951. In his limited Test career, he took a wicket every fifty-one balls, and in first-class cricket his 708 wickets cost only 15.48 runs each. Read more
• 27 Jun 1923: Jacques Berthier, French organist and composer (died 1994) Jacques Berthier was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé. Read more
• 27 Jun 1923: Elmo Hope, American pianist and composer (died 1967) St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk. Read more
• 27 Jun 1922: George Walker, American composer (died 2018) George Theophilus Walker was an American composer, pianist, and organist, and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his work Lilacs in 1996. Walker was married to pianist and scholar Helen Walker-Hill between 1960 and 1975. Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker and playwright Ian Walker. Read more
• 27 Jun 1921: Muriel Pavlow, English actress (died 2019) Muriel Lilian Pavlow was a British actress. Her mother was French and her father Russian. Read more
• 27 Jun 1920: Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and manager (died 2010) Fernando José Riera Bauzá was a Chilean professional football player and manager, patriarch of Chilean football. Read more
• 27 Jun 1919: M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (died 1988) M. Carl Holman was an American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate. In 1968, Ebony listed him as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans. Read more
• 27 Jun 1919: Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse (died 2020) Amala Shankar was an Indian dancer. She was the wife of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and mother of musician Ananda Shankar and dancer Mamata Shankar and sister-in-law of musician and composer Ravi Shankar. Amala Shankar acted in the film Kalpana written, co-produced and directed by husband Uday Shankar. She died on Friday, 24 July 2020, in West Bengal's Kolkata, India aged 101. Read more
• 27 Jun 1918: Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (died 2017) Adolph Gustav Kiefer was an American competition swimmer who swam for the University of Texas, a 100-meter gold medalist in the 1936 Summer Olympics, and a former world record-holder in numerous backstroke events. He was the first person in the world to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke. Kiefer was also an inventor of new products related to aquatics competition and a founder of Adolph Kiefer and Associates, a swimming equipment company, in 1947. Read more
• 27 Jun 1916: Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (died 1998) Robert Uno Normann was a Norwegian guitarist and considered a jazz guitar pioneer. Read more
• 27 Jun 1915: Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (died 2015) Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and her husband, James Boggs, took their own political direction, turning their focus to civil rights and Black Liberation, Asian American, and other social justice movements. By 1998 she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige, published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements. Read more
• 27 Jun 1915: John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic (died 2002) John Alexander Moore was an American zoology professor. Read more
• 27 Jun 1914: Robert Aickman, English author and activist, co-founded the Inland Waterways Association (died 1981) Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories". Aickman's fiction often relied on unsettling atmosphere and indirect suggestion, along with characters who experience "dislocation in time and space", rather than explicit depiction of supernatural or gory events. Read more
• 27 Jun 1914: Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator (died 2016) Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University. Read more
• 27 Jun 1914: Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (died 1988) Giorgio Almirante was an Italian politician who founded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, which he led until his retirement in 1987. Read more
• 27 Jun 1913: Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1972) Elton Britt was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician, who was best known for his western ballads and yodelling songs. Read more
• 27 Jun 1913: Philip Guston, American painter and academic (died 1980) Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million. Read more
• 27 Jun 1913: Willie Mosconi, American pool player (died 1993) William Joseph Mosconi was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity. Read more
• 27 Jun 1912: E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (died 2016) Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was the author of the 1959 autobiographical novel To Sir, With Love, which was made into a 1967 British drama film of the same title, starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu. The narrator is an engineer, but to make ends meet, he accepts the job of teacher in a rough London school. Read more
• 27 Jun 1911: Marion M. Magruder, American Marine officer, commander of the VMF(N)-533 squadron (died 1997) Marion Milton Magruder was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a pioneer in Radar Intercept Night Fighting. He was the first commanding officer of Marine aircraft squadron VMF(N)-533, then known as "Black Mac's Killers", and led that squadron during the Battle of the Marshall Islands and Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Read more
• 27 Jun 1908: João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (died 1967) João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat. Read more
• 27 Jun 1907: John McIntire, American actor (died 1991) John Herrick McIntire was an American character actor who appeared in 65 theatrical films and many television series. McIntire is well known for having replaced Ward Bond, upon Bond's sudden death in November 1960, as the star of NBC's Wagon Train. He played Christopher Hale, the leader of the wagon train from early 1961 to the end of the series in 1965. He also replaced Charles Bickford, upon Bickford's death in 1967, as ranch owner Clay Grainger on NBC's The Virginian for four seasons. Read more
• 27 Jun 1906: Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (died 1967) Vernon Phillips Watkins was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English". Read more
• 27 Jun 1905: Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1976) Joseph Armand Mondou was a Canadian ice hockey forward with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams; with Montreal in 1930 and 1931. Read more
• 27 Jun 1901: Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (died 1982) Merle Antony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section T, created in August 1940. He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T from 1942 on during World War II. He pioneered the use of pulsed radio waves whose discovery opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy. Read more
• 27 Jun 1900: Dixie Brown, British boxer (died 1957) Anthony George Charles was a boxer, commonly known as Dixie Brown. Read more
• 27 Jun 1899: Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (died 1981) Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century. He was involved in the introduction of the Sikorsky S-42, which opened trans-Pacific airline travel; the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, which introduced cabin pressurization to airline operations; the Boeing 707, which started a new era in low-cost jet transportation; and the Boeing 747 jumbo jets. He also founded InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Read more
• 27 Jun 1892: Paul Colin, French illustrator (died 1985) Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative. Read more
• 27 Jun 1888: Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (died 1960) Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929), England in the Age of the American Revolution (1930) and the History of Parliament series he edited later in his life with John Brooke. Read more
• 27 Jun 1888: Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (died 1946) Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an American actress, producer, director and administrator known for her work in theatre. She was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre Wing and is the eponym of the Tony Awards, presented by that organization for excellence in Broadway theatre. Read more
• 27 Jun 1886: Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958) Charles George Macartney was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Test matches between 1907 and 1926. He was known as "The Governor-General" in reference to his authoritative batting style and his flamboyant strokeplay, which drew comparisons with his close friend and role model Victor Trumper, regarded as one of the most elegant batsmen in cricketing history. Sir Donald Bradman—generally regarded as the greatest batsman in history—cited Macartney's dynamic batting as an inspiration in his cricket career. Read more
• 27 Jun 1885: Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (died 1966) Jean Pierre Marie Montet was a French Egyptologist. Read more
• 27 Jun 1885: Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (died 1950) Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an international reputation. She spent many years living in the United Kingdom, where she was particularly celebrated. She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain. Her last was in 1949, the year before her death. Read more
• 27 Jun 1884: Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962) Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour. Read more
• 27 Jun 1882: Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic (died 1963) Eduard Spranger was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, Spranger was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. He was considered a humanist who developed a philosophical pedagogy as an act of 'self defense' against the psychology-oriented experimental theory of the times. Read more
• 27 Jun 1880: Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (died 1968) Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a college diploma. Read more
• 27 Jun 1872: Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (died 1942) Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe. Read more
• 27 Jun 1872: Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1906) Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. Read more
• 27 Jun 1870: Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (died 1947) Frank Rattray Lillie was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the laboratory, eventually rising to become its director in 1908. His efforts developed the MBL into a full-time institution. Read more
• 27 Jun 1869: Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961) Mary Williams, who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illustrated celebrity interviews. Read more
• 27 Jun 1869: Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940) Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Read more
• 27 Jun 1869: Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941) Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs, one of the first steps towards cloning. Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation and won a Nobel Prize for her work. Read more
• 27 Jun 1865: John Monash, Australian engineer and general (died 1931) General Sir John Monash was an Australian military commander of the First World War and a civil engineer. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with which he took part in the Gallipoli campaign. Read more
• 27 Jun 1862: May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1938) May Irwin was an actress, singer and star of vaudeville. Originally from Canada, she and her sister Flo Irwin found theater work after their father died. She was known for her performances as a coon shouter and for her recordings. Read more
• 27 Jun 1850: Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (died 1919) Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more
• 27 Jun 1850: Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (died 1904) Yakumo Koizumi was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world. Read more
• 27 Jun 1846: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (died 1891) Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the balance of power in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891. He fell from power following revelations of a long-term affair, and died at the age of 45. Read more
• 27 Jun 1838: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 1894) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature. He was the composer of Vande Mataram, written in highly Sanskritised Bengali, personifying India as a mother goddess. Chattopadhayay wrote fourteen novels and many serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treatises in Bengali. He is known as Sahitya Samrat in Bengali. Read more
• 27 Jun 1838: Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (died 1914) Peter Paul von Mauser was a German weapon designer, manufacturer, industrialist and politician. Read more
• 27 Jun 1828: Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905) Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd Baronet was an Irish-born Australian colonial politician who was the 13th Premier of Victoria. Read more
• 27 Jun 1817: Louise von François, German author (died 1893) Marie Louise von François was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Read more
• 27 Jun 1812: Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (died 1899) Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston was a 19th-century American writer from Massachusetts. The youngest daughter of Boston's mayor and Harvard University president Josiah Quincy III, she was a member of a prominent family with a wide circle of friends, and was intimately associated with many distinguished people of her era. Waterston published her works, including poems, novels, hymns, and articles in The Atlantic Monthly. Her diary was published posthumously. A sculptor created a carved marble bust of Waterston that is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Read more
• 27 Jun 1806: Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (died 1871) Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the underlying principles of which he formalized. De Morgan's contributions to logic are heavily used in many branches of mathematics, including set theory and probability theory, as well as other related fields such as computer science. Read more
• 27 Jun 1805: Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (died 1883) Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French classical guitarist and composer. Read more

Notable Deaths on 27 June

• 27 Jun 2024: Kinky Friedman, American country musician (born 1944) Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. Read more
• 27 Jun 2024: Martin Mull, American actor (born 1943) Martin Eugene Mull was an American actor, musician, and painter. He became known on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, then its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night, and America 2 Night. His other notable roles included Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film Clue, Leon Carp on Roseanne, Willard Kraft on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom, and Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development. He also had a recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Russell, a drug-using while humorous pharmacist. Read more
• 27 Jun 2018: Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (born 1928) Joseph Walter Jackson was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Read more
• 27 Jun 2018: Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (born 1951) Liz Jackson was an Australian journalist, TV presenter and barrister noted for her work on the Four Corners and Media Watch television programs. She received nine Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism. Read more
• 27 Jun 2018: William McBride, Australian obstetrician (born 1927) William Griffith McBride was an Australian obstetrician. He published a letter on the teratogenicity of thalidomide in 1961, following the findings of a midwife named Pat Sparrow. which resulted in the reduction of the number of drugs prescribed during pregnancy. Later in his life, McBride was involved in several trials with the pharma industry accusing him of medical malpractice and scientific fraud for falsifying data in a paper that claimed that the drug Debendox was also responsible for birth defects. Read more
• 27 Jun 2017: Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (born 1929) Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and contributions to sociological theory. Read more
• 27 Jun 2016: Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (born 1929) Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player. He was known for action-comedy and spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner and friend Terence Hill. Spencer and Hill appeared in 18 films together. Read more
• 27 Jun 2015: Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (born 1926) Zvi Elpeleg was an academic, author, and a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute at Tel Aviv University. Born in Poland, Elpeleg served as a colonel in the Israeli army and later received an ambassadorial appointment. Read more
• 27 Jun 2015: Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (born 1930) Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works. Read more
• 27 Jun 2015: Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (born 1948) Christopher Russell Edward Squire was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and only constant member of the progressive rock band Yes until his death in 2015. In 2017, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (born 1954) Edmond P. Blanchard was a Canadian jurist and politician. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932) Allen R. Grossman was a noted American poet, critic and professor. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930) Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military in a coup d'état. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919) Violet Milstead Warren was a Canadian aviator, noted for being the first female Canadian bush pilot and one of only four Canadian women to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during WWII. With over 600 hours of flight time during the war, she was the longest serving female Canadian ATA pilot. She worked as a flight instructor at Barker Field in Toronto, Ontario, and her students included commercial pilot Molly Reilly and author June Callwood. She is a member of the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, the Order of Canada, and the Bush Pilots Hall of Fame. Read more
• 27 Jun 2014: Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926) Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country several of whose members became prime ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut. Read more
• 27 Jun 2013: Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964) Stefano Borgonovo was an Italian footballer and manager, who played as a striker. An opportunistic striker, Borgonovo played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, and came to prominence while playing alongside Roberto Baggio with Fiorentina during the 1988–89 season, on loan from Milan. His prolific performances with Fiorentina earned him a permanent move to Milan, where he contributed to the club's European Cup victory in 1990, despite struggling with injuries. Read more
• 27 Jun 2013: Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945) Ian Christopher Scott was a New Zealand painter. His work was significant for pursuing an international scope and vision within a local context previously dominated by regionalist and national concerns. Over the course of his career he consistently sought to push his work towards new possibilities for painting, in the process moving between abstraction and representation, and using controversial themes and approaches, while maintaining a highly personal and recognisable style. His work spans a wide range of concerns including the New Zealand landscape, popular imagery, appropriation and art historical references. Scott's paintings are distinctive for their intensity of colour and light. His approach to painting is aligned with the modernist tradition, responding to the formal standards set by the American painters Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski. Read more
• 27 Jun 2012: Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918) Stanley Ernest Walter Cox was a British athlete who competed in two Olympic games in 1948 and 1952. Cox served with Royal Air Force in World War II before competing in the 10,000-metre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Unable to participate in the 1950 British Empire Games, he returned to the Olympics in 1952, although he did not complete his event, the marathon, due to the flu. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he suffered a sunstroke and collapsed within two miles (3 km) of the finish. He retired from running in 1956, but continued to work with UK Athletics for several years and was due to participate in the ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Read more
• 27 Jun 2012: Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920) Rosemary de Brissac Dobson was an Australian poet, illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry and has been translated into French and other languages. Read more
• 27 Jun 2011: Mike Doyle, English footballer (born 1946) Michael Doyle was an English footballer, who spent most of his career with Manchester City and also played for Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Rochdale. Read more
• 27 Jun 2010: Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934) Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). He was the son of Carl Cohen. Read more
• 27 Jun 2009: Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922) Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955. Read more
• 27 Jun 2008: Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (born 1914) Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, nicknamed as Sam Bahadur, was an Indian Army general officer who was the Chief of the army staff during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, and the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His active military career spanned four decades, beginning with service in World War II. Read more
• 27 Jun 2007: William Hutt, Canadian actor (born 1920) William Ian DeWitt Hutt, was a Canadian actor of stage, television and film. Hutt's distinguished career spanned over 50 years and won him many accolades and awards. While his base throughout his career remained at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared on the stage in London, New York and across Canada. Read more
• 27 Jun 2006: Eileen Barton, American singer (born 1924) Eileen Barton was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake." Read more
• 27 Jun 2006: Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (born 1960) Angel Maturino Reséndiz, known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s, some of which involved sexual assault. He had become known as "The Railroad Killer", as most of his crimes were committed near railroads, where he had jumped off the trains which he was using to travel. Read more
• 27 Jun 2005: Shelby Foote, American historian and author (born 1916) Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. Read more
• 27 Jun 2005: Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1914) Raymond Towers Holmes was a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War who is best known for an event that occurred during the Battle of Britain. He became famous when he reportedly saved Buckingham Palace from being hit by German bombing by ramming his Hawker Hurricane into a Dornier Do 17 bomber over London. He was feted by the press as a war hero for saving the Palace. However, different versions of this event have been proposed. Holmes became a King's Messenger after the war, and died at the age of 90 in 2005. Read more
• 27 Jun 2005: John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (born 1946) John Thomas Walton was an American war veteran, businessman and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton cofounded the Children's Scholarship Fund, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth. Read more
• 27 Jun 2004: George Patton IV, American general (born 1923) George Smith Patton IV was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George S. Patton Jr. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Read more
• 27 Jun 2004: Darrell Russell, American race car driver (born 1968) Darrell James Russell was an American National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional class debut. Read more
• 27 Jun 2003: David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937) David Newman was an American screenwriter. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until his death in 2003 from a stroke. Read more
• 27 Jun 2002: John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer (born 1944) John Alec Entwistle was an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers", he was the band's only member with formal musical training and also provided backing and occasional lead vocals. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990. Read more
• 27 Jun 2002: Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (born 1920) Robert Lyman John Long was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as vice chief of Naval Operations from 1977 to 1979 and as commander in chief Pacific from 1979 to 1983. Read more
• 27 Jun 2001: Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator, and painter (born 1914) Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage stamp designer, her father a sculptor, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life. Read more
• 27 Jun 2001: Jack Lemmon, American actor (born 1925) John Uhler Lemmon III was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-drama films. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Volpi Cup. He also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1991, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996. The Guardian labeled him as "the most successful tragi-comedian of his age". Read more
• 27 Jun 2001: Joan Sims, English actress (born 1930) Irene Joan Marion Sims was an English actress and comedienne, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On franchise, appearing in 24 of the films. Read more
• 27 Jun 2000: Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1907) Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year. Read more
• 27 Jun 1999: Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919) Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's prime minister from 1967 to 1973. He was the president of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after causing a massacre by deploying military riflemen and a tank brigade to attack non-violent protestors to suppress the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate in the fall of the regime in 1974. His and the dictatorship's legacy, as well as its methods he constructed and effects on Greek economy and society as a whole, are still fiercely debated. Read more
• 27 Jun 1998: Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1935) Gilles Rocheleau was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded the Bloc Québécois with Lucien Bouchard in 1990. Read more
• 27 Jun 1996: Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (born 1909) Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas. Broccoli's heirs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson continued to produce new Bond films until 2025 when the franchise rights were sold to Amazon. Read more
• 27 Jun 1991: Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1921) Milton Subotsky was an American producer and writer of film and television. He was the co-founder of Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg, which produced horror and science-fiction films in the United Kingdom during the 1960's and 70's. Read more
• 27 Jun 1989: A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic (born 1910) Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). Read more
• 27 Jun 1986: George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (born 1905) George Nēpia was a New Zealand Māori rugby union and rugby league player. He is remembered as an exceptional full-back and one of the most famous Māori rugby players. He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2004 he was selected as number 65 by the panel of the New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers television show. Nēpia was featured in a set of postage stamps from the New Zealand post office in 1990. Historian Philippa Mein Smith described him as "New Zealand rugby's first superstar". Read more
• 27 Jun 1977: Arthur Perdue, American businessman (born 1885) Arthur W. Perdue (1885–1977) was an American businessman and the founder of Perdue Farms along with his wife Pearl in 1920. The business was started in his backyard, and at the time only produced chicken eggs, and grew into a $4.1 billion company. Read more
• 27 Jun 1975: G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (born 1886) Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. Read more
• 27 Jun 1973: Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (born 1901) Ida Mett (1901–1973) was a Belarusian anarcho-syndicalist, physician and writer. Following her experiences in the Russian Revolution, she fled into exile in France, where she collaborated with other exiled revolutionary anarchists on the Delo Truda magazine and the constitution of platformism. She then went on to participate in the anarcho-syndicalist movements in Belgium, Spain and France, before repression by the fascist Vichy regime forced her to cease her activities. She spent the final decades of her life working as a nurse and publishing history books. Read more
• 27 Jun 1970: Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (born 1902) Daniel Chapin Kinsey was an American hurdler and scholar in physical education. Read more
• 27 Jun 1967: Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (born 1878) Jaan Lattik was an Estonian politician, writer and a former Estonian Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. Read more
• 27 Jun 1962: Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (born 1904) Paul Viiding was an Estonian poet, author, and literary critic. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (born 1871) Charlotte Dod was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only 15 in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion. Read more
• 27 Jun 1960: Harry Pollitt, British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (born 1890) Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and rise of Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War, support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, both support for and opposition to the war against Nazi Germany, defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. Read more
• 27 Jun 1957: Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (born 1924) Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer. His accomplishments include the first ascents of Nanga Parbat in 1953 and Broad Peak in 1957. He is one of the pioneers of the alpine style. Buhl was the father of Austrian-German writer, publisher, and freelance journalist, Kriemhild "Krimi" Buhl. Read more
• 27 Jun 1952: Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (born 1878) Max Wilhelm Dehn was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory. Dehn's early life and career took place in Germany. However, he was forced to retire in 1935 and eventually fled Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States. Read more
• 27 Jun 1950: Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901) Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focused on preserving democratic institutions and women's rights. Read more
• 27 Jun 1949: Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900) Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude". Read more
• 27 Jun 1948: Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873) Dorothea Frances Bleek was a German–South African anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa. Read more
• 27 Jun 1946: Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (born 1893) Wanda Hazel Gág was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator. She is best known for writing and illustrating the children's book Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print. Gág was also a noted print-maker, receiving international recognition and awards. Growing Pains, a book of excerpts from the diaries of her teen and young adult years, received widespread critical acclaim. Two of her books were awarded Newbery Honors and two received Caldecott Honors. The New York Public Library included Millions of Cats on its 2013 list of 100 Great Children's Books. Read more
• 27 Jun 1944: Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1878) Milan Hodža was a Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. As a proponent of regional integration, he was known for his attempts to establish a democratic federation of Central European states. Read more
• 27 Jun 1935: Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (born 1857) Eugène Augustin Lauste was a French inventor instrumental in the technological development of the history of cinema. Read more
• 27 Jun 1934: Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (born 1876) Francesco Buhagiar was the second Prime Minister of Malta (1923–1924). He was elected from the Maltese Political Union. Read more
• 27 Jun 1920: Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1839) Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem "O Canada". He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec, to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur. Read more
• 27 Jun 1919: Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885) Peter Johnson Sturholdt was an American boxer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Sturholdt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota. In 1904, he finished fourth in the lightweight class after losing the bronze medal fight to Russell van Horn. Read more
• 27 Jun 1917: Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (born 1896) Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace credited with 30 aerial victories. The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning promotion via battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916. As Manfred von Richthofen's protege, Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score a constant string of aerial victories until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder was shot down near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be abused as propaganda by the Nazis. Read more
• 27 Jun 1912: George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (born 1855) George John Bonnor was an Australian cricketer, known for his big hitting, who played Test cricket between 1880 and 1888. Read more
• 27 Jun 1911: Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (born 1882) Victor John Surridge was an English motor-cycle racer who raced for the Rudge team. After the works Rudge factory team visited the Isle of Man TT Races for the first time, Victor Surridge while practising for the 1911 Isle of Man TT Races was killed on the Glen Helen section on the new Isle of Man TT Mountain Course used for the first-time in 1911. Read more
• 27 Jun 1907: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (born 1822) Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Read more
• 27 Jun 1905: Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (born 1867) Harold Segerson Mahony was a Scottish-born Irish tennis player who is best known for winning the singles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1896. His career lasted from 1888 until his death in 1905. Mahony was born in Scotland but lived in Ireland for the majority of his life; his family were Irish including both of his parents, the family home was in County Kerry, Southwestern Ireland. He was the last Scottish born man to win Wimbledon until the victory of Andy Murray at the 2013 championships.
  He remains the most recent Irish singles champion at the All England Club. Read more
• 27 Jun 1896: John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1825) John Berryman VC was a British Army non-commissioned officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Read more
• 27 Jun 1894: Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834) Giorgio Costantino Schinas was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent. Read more
• 27 Jun 1878: Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (born 1800) Sidney Breese, a lawyer, soldier, author and jurist born in New York, became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad". Read more
• 27 Jun 1844: Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (born 1800) Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, and was killed with his brother at Carthage Jail where they were being held awaiting trial. Read more
• 27 Jun 1844: Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805) Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religious movement he founded is followed by millions of global adherents and several churches, the largest of which is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read more
• 27 Jun 1839: Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (born 1780) Ranjit Singh was the founder and the first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839. Read more
• 27 Jun 1831: Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (born 1776) Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence under the pseudonym of Monsieur Le Blanc with famous mathematicians, such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. Because of prejudice against her sex, she was unable to make a career out of mathematics, but she worked independently throughout her life. Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. On 27 June 1831, she died from breast cancer. At the centenary of her life, a street and a girls' school were named after her. The Academy of Sciences established the Sophie Germain Prize in her honour. Read more
• 27 Jun 1831: Konstantin Pavlovich, grand duke of Russia and the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia (born 1779) Konstantin Pavlovich was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir presumptive for most of his elder brother Alexander I's reign, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823. For 25 days after the death of Alexander I; from 19 November (O.S.)/1 December to 14 December (O.S.)/26 December 1825, he was known as His Imperial Majesty Konstantin I Emperor and Sovereign of Russia, although he never reigned and never acceded to the throne. His younger brother Nicholas became tsar in 1825. The succession controversy became the pretext of the Decembrist revolt. Read more
• 27 Jun 1829: James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (born 1765) James Smithson was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name. Read more
• 27 Jun 1827: Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (born 1754) Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history. Read more

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