On This Day — August 27
3972 noted people were born and 1839 died on August 27 in our archive, including Augusto Righi, Carl Bosch and Daphne Koller.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 27
Augusto Righi
1850 – 1920
Carl Bosch
1874 – 1940
Daphne Koller
b. 1968
James Henry Breasted
1865 – 1935
Miron Nicolescu
1903 – 1975
Alexander Bastrykin
b. 1953
Avril Haines
b. 1969
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
1776 – 1831
Bohdan Stupka
1941 – 2012
Charles Gavan Duffy
1855 – 1932
Charles de Lasteyrie
1877 – 1936
Daniel Biss
b. 1977
David Altshuler
b. 1964
Eric von Hippel
b. 1941
Ewa Leniart
b. 1976
Flossie Wong-Staal
1947 – 2020
Frédéric Barbier
1952 – 2023
Giuseppe Peano
1858 – 1932
Hallie Flanagan
1890 – 1969
Henri Weil
1818 – 1909
Igor Koshin
b. 1974
Jean Dhombres
b. 1942
Jelle Zijlstra
1918 – 2001
Johannes Voigt
1786 – 1863
John R. Kirtley
b. 1949
K. R. Rao
1961 – 2021
Karl Haushofer
1869 – 1946
Ken Freeman
b. 1940
Kristen Nygaard
1926 – 2002
Kurt M. Campbell
b. 1957
Lien Chan
b. 1936
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 – 1973
Michał Rostworowski
1864 – 1940
Per Stig Møller
b. 1942
Philippe Labro
1936 – 2025
Rosângela Lula da Silva
b. 1966
Sebastian Kurz
b. 1986
Sergei Krikalev
b. 1958
Tarō Nakayama
1924 – 2023
Vladimir Sloutsker
1956 – 2025
Walter Heller
1915 – 1987
Édouard Descamps
1847 – 1933
Akira Amari
b. 1949
Alberto Dahik
b. 1953
Aleksandr Sloboda
1920 – 2022
Aleksandrs Kiršteins
b. 1948
Alexander Farnese
1545 – 1592
Alexei Ratmansky
b. 1968
Alexey Chernyak
b. 1973
Alfredo Baldomir
1884 – 1948
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa
b. 1958
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
1925 – 2017
Andrzej Domański
b. 1981
Anne McClintock
b. 1954
Anthony Del Col
b. 1977
Antonia Fraser
b. 1932
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
b. 1962
Aydat Mätşin
b. 1963
Barry Conyngham
b. 1944
Bob Kerrey
b. 1943
Brian Laurence Burtt
1913 – 2008
Chang Chun-ha
1918 – 1975
Charles G. Dawes
1865 – 1951
Charles H. Fahy
1892 – 1979
Charles Lilley
1827 – 1897
Charles Thompson
1862 – 1943
Clémence Ross-van Dorp
b. 1957
Clément Cogitore
b. 1983
Craig Huneke
b. 1951
Cătălin Predoiu
b. 1968
Damien Rieu
b. 1989
Dmitry Anuchin
1843 – 1923
Edgar Rees Jones
1878 – 1962
Eduardo Torroja
1899 – 1961
Emil Wojtaszek
1927 – 2017
Enrico Feroci
b. 1940
Estelle Ramey
1917 – 2006
Eugenijus Maldeikis
b. 1958
Fabrice Le Vigoureux
b. 1969
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo
1924 – 1984
Filippo Patroni Griffi
b. 1955
Finnur Magnússon
1781 – 1847
Frank Kelly Freas
1922 – 2005
Frank Pratt
1942 – 2021
Frank Yablans
1935 – 2014
Franz Xaver von Gietl
1803 – 1888
Frederick M. Davenport
1866 – 1956
Fritz Schramma
1947 – 2026
Gary Cohn
b. 1960
Gaspard Fauteux
1898 – 1963
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 – 1831
George, Duke of Saxony
1471 – 1539
Ghaleb Bencheikh Lehocine
b. 1960
Giuliano da Empoli
b. 1973
Gustave Waffelaert
1847 – 1931
Guy Hands
b. 1959
Gwen Cherry
1923 – 1979
Hachirō Nitta
b. 1958
Halet Çambel
1916 – 2014
Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen
1856 – 1921
Hans Julius Wolff
1902 – 1983
Harry G. Hamlet
1874 – 1954
Henry Julian White
1859 – 1934
Hirubhai M. Patel
1904 – 1993
Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough
1849 – 1919
Hugh Orde
b. 1958
Iain Baikie
b. 1960
Ivica Puljak
b. 1969
J. Deryl Hart
1894 – 1980
Jacques Fieschi
b. 1948
Jadwiga Emilewicz
b. 1974
Jakob Thomasius
1622 – 1684
James B. Eustis
1834 – 1899
James Madison
1749 – 1812
James Ramsay
1916 – 1986
Jan Bernd Bicker
1746 – 1812
Jan Wyrowiński
b. 1947
Jasper Adams
1793 – 1841
Jill Lepore
b. 1966
Joel Kovel
1936 – 2018
Johan Norberg
b. 1973
John C. West
1922 – 2004
Joke Smit
1933 – 1981
Josef Teichmann
b. 1972
Juhan Parts
b. 1966
Karin Jaani
1952 – 2009
Kathy Hochul
b. 1958
Kerstin Ekman
b. 1933
Kevin Brindle
b. 1955
Kim Kwan-jin
b. 1949
Lev Davidovich Belkind
1896 – 1969
Liane Russell
1923 – 2019
Louis S. Goodman
1906 – 2000
László Verebélÿ
1883 – 1959
Maimu Berg
b. 1945
Makoto Nishida
b. 1962
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
1928 – 2023
Marc Monchal
1935 – 2020
Martha Pollack
b. 1958
Martin Kamen
1913 – 2002
Munther A. Dahleh
b. 1962
Nadine Smith
b. 1965
Nicholas Delbanco
b. 1942
Norman Ernest Archer
1892 – 1970
Norman Foster Ramsey
1915 – 2011
Nout Wellink
b. 1943
Néstor Salvador Quintana
1933 – 2024
Osamu Shimomura
1928 – 2018
Otávio Mangabeira
1886 – 1960
Per Winge
1858 – 1935
Peter Norbeck
1870 – 1936
Prince Mohamed Bolkiah of Brunei
b. 1947
Péter Boross
b. 1928
Rajesh Thakker
b. 1954
Ralph Izzard
1910 – 1992
Ramon Paul Hernando
b. 1966
Renaud Barbaras
b. 1955
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
1841 – 1905
Richard Rigg
1877 – 1942
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
1893 – 1972
Robert R. Spano
b. 1972
Robert Torricelli
b. 1951
Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
1857 – 1923
Roelof Kruisinga
1922 – 2012
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
1928 – 2023
Saiichi Maruya
1925 – 2012
Sandra K. Steingraber
b. 1959
Sanjeev Sanyal
b. 1970
Santiago Castroviejo
1946 – 2009
Shigeo Iwanami
1881 – 1946
Sidney R. Yates
1909 – 2000
Signe Kjelstrup
b. 1949
Sindiwe Magona
b. 1943
Sir Walter Dwyer
1875 – 1950
Stephen Early
1889 – 1951
Sōsuke Uno
1922 – 1998
Tadeusz Sławecki
b. 1957
Tanya Atwater
b. 1942
Thierry Michels
b. 1960
Thiruvalayangudi Vijayaraghavacharya
1875 – 1953
Tom Ford
b. 1961
Valentin Tsvetkov
1948 – 2002
Vincent Auriol
1884 – 1966
Vitaly Bujanovsky
1928 – 1993
Vladimir Andreyev
1930 – 2020
Volker Türk
b. 1965
Václav Kopecký
1897 – 1961
Waldemar Verner
1914 – 1982
Will Steger
b. 1944
Willi Geiger
1878 – 1971
Wulf Barsch
b. 1943
Yoram Harth
b. 1958
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
b. 1963
A. J. Hammons
b. 1992
Aaron Paul
b. 1979
Aase Foss Abrahamsen
1930 – 2023
Abang Muhammad Salahuddin
1921 – 2022
Abdellatif Mekki
b. 1962
Ad Hermes
1929 – 2002
Adam Oates
b. 1962
… and 3,772 more
Died on August 27
Jacques Friedel
1921 – 2014
John Hopkinson
1849 – 1898
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963
Adolf Grimme
1889 – 1963
Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco
1905 – 1990
Constantin Prezan
1861 – 1943
Emil Christian Hansen
1842 – 1909
Emil Winkler
1835 – 1888
Ernest Lawrence
1901 – 1958
Heribert Barrera i Costa
1917 – 2011
Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez
1913 – 2009
Jonas Moore
1627 – 1679
Masayoshi Nagata
1927 – 2008
Neville Alexander
1936 – 2012
Nikolai Todorov
1921 – 2003
Peggy Koopman-Boyden
1943 – 2025
Salvador Rivas Martínez
1935 – 2020
Stanisław Smolka
1854 – 1924
Walter Gordon Duncan
1885 – 1963
William Bayliss
1860 – 1924
Adebowale Adefuye
1947 – 2015
Akis Tsochatzopoulos
1939 – 2021
Alexander Todorsky
1894 – 1965
Angelo Dell'Acqua
1903 – 1972
Arabella Scott
1886 – 1980
Bennett Cerf
1898 – 1971
Bolesław Szabelski
1896 – 1979
Carl Fredrik Scheffer
1715 – 1786
Charles Evans Hughes
1862 – 1948
Charles Hardy
1898 – 1941
Cipriano Segundo Montesino
1817 – 1901
David McGee
1947 – 2023
David Sharp
1840 – 1922
Dawda Kairaba Jawara
1924 – 2019
Driss Basri
1938 – 2007
Duke Cunningham
1941 – 2025
Edmond H. Fischer
1920 – 2021
Eduard von Hofmann
1837 – 1897
Edward Ford
1902 – 1986
Ephraim Sklyansky
1892 – 1925
Erik Ahlman
1892 – 1952
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
1851 – 1914
Frank Corner
1920 – 2014
Fritz Borgnis
1906 – 1982
Gad Yaacobi
1935 – 2007
Georges Lecomte
1867 – 1958
Guillaume Soisson
1866 – 1938
Hans Olof Holmström
1784 – 1855
Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
1779 – 1840
Huang Wanli
1911 – 2001
James Jackson
1777 – 1867
Jan Noskiewicz
1890 – 1963
Jayanta Mahapatra
1928 – 2023
Jean Henri Magne
1804 – 1885
Jean Vezin
1933 – 2020
Johannes Edfelt
1904 – 1997
John Motley Morehead
1796 – 1866
José Yves Limantour
1854 – 1935
Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
1927 – 2006
Louis Andrieux
1840 – 1931
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1900 – 1979
Martin Weitzman
1942 – 2019
Mary Tsingou
1928 – 2026
Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux
1938 – 2023
Mick Connelly
1916 – 2003
Milton Robert Carr
1943 – 2024
Otto Schott
1851 – 1935
Otto Selz
1881 – 1943
Paschal Robinson
1870 – 1948
Paul Dukes
1889 – 1967
Pedro de Deza
1520 – 1600
Reynold A. Nicholson
1868 – 1945
Rudolf Haym
1821 – 1901
Ruth Stokes
1890 – 1968
Samuel Hole
1819 – 1904
Sergey Mikhalkov
1913 – 2009
Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński
1898 – 1971
Tadeusz Ferenc
1940 – 2022
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
1796 – 1865
Valentyna Semenyuk-Samsonenko
1957 – 2014
Valeri Petrov
1920 – 2014
Victor J. Stenger
1935 – 2014
Virginia B. Smith
1923 – 2010
Waldo E. Cohn
1910 – 1999
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
1868 – 1937
Werner Kuhn
1899 – 1963
Willem Hubert Nolens
1860 – 1931
William Blizard
1743 – 1835
William S. Rice
1873 – 1963
Willis Winter Bradley
1884 – 1954
Xia Peisu
1923 – 2014
Yrjö Ruutu
1887 – 1956
A. R. Lakshmanan
1942 – 2020
Abie Nathan
1927 – 2008
Agustí Riera i Pau
1876 – 1936
Aldo Aniasi
1921 – 2005
Alec Hill
1916 – 2008
Alexander Abercromby
1784 – 1853
Andreas Olsen Sæhlie
1832 – 1896
Andreyan Zakharov
1761 – 1811
Andrée Yanacopoulo
1927 – 2025
Antoine Vollon
1833 – 1900
Armando Jaramillo Lyon
1923 – 2002
Art Heyman
1941 – 2012
Arthur Pease
1837 – 1898
Augusto Turati
1888 – 1955
Austin Eli Wing
1792 – 1849
Babette Josephs
1940 – 2021
Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain
1711 – 1758
Bartolomeo Eustachi
1500 – 1574
Bengt Holbek
1933 – 1992
Benito Legarda
1853 – 1915
Benjamin A Poore
1863 – 1940
Benson Wood
1839 – 1915
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado
1780 – 1827
Brandon Tartikoff
1949 – 1997
Brian Epstein
1934 – 1967
Burhan Shahidi
1894 – 1989
Carlo Bonelli
1612 – 1676
Carolus Sigonius
1520 – 1584
Cesare Nosiglia
1944 – 2025
Cesare Pavese
1908 – 1950
Charles DeWitt
1727 – 1787
Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore
1841 – 1907
Charles Scott-Murray
1818 – 1882
Charles Thomas Clough
1852 – 1916
Charles W. Thayer
1910 – 1969
Charles W. Waterman
1861 – 1932
Chittaranjan Mitra
1926 – 2008
Chrysostomos of Smyrna
1867 – 1922
Clark Burdick
1868 – 1948
Conxita Grangé i Beleta
1925 – 2019
Dale M. Cochran
1928 – 2018
Damien Alary
1951 – 2025
Darryl Dawkins
1957 – 2015
David Barker
1938 – 2013
Dermot MacDermot
1906 – 1989
Domenico Grimani
1461 – 1523
Don Sundquist
1936 – 2023
Ebrahim Yazdi
1931 – 2017
Edward Lye
1694 – 1767
Ehmetjan Qasim
1914 – 1949
Eise Eisinga
1744 – 1828
Enrico Cappucci
1910 – 1976
Enzo Martinelli
1911 – 1999
Eric Moxey
1894 – 1940
Eugen Jettel
1845 – 1901
Eve Brent
1929 – 2011
Felipe José Abárzuza
1896 – 1970
Francis Marion Smith
1846 – 1931
Francisco Bulnes Correa
1886 – 1970
Frank Fellows
1889 – 1951
Frank Harris
1856 – 1931
Frank Richard Heartz
1871 – 1955
Frederick William Magrady
1863 – 1954
Fritz Windhorst
1935 – 2023
Gabriel Lasker
1912 – 2002
Garry E. Brown
1923 – 1998
Geliy Korzhev
1925 – 2012
George Brown
1790 – 1865
George Dern
1872 – 1936
Georges Marrane
1888 – 1976
Gerhard Puchelt
1913 – 1987
Giannino Castiglioni
1884 – 1971
Gilbert Ironside
1632 – 1701
Gilbert de Botton
1935 – 2000
Giovanni Gaetano Orsini
1285 – 1335
Gottfried Wilhelm Fink
1783 – 1846
Haile Selassie I
1892 – 1975
Harvey Fergusson
1890 – 1971
Heinrich Keil
1822 – 1894
Henriette Nissen-Saloman
1819 – 1879
Henry Bowlby
1823 – 1894
Henry Robert Fuller
1825 – 1905
Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford
1858 – 1940
Herschel M. Hogg
1853 – 1934
Hiacynt Alchimowicz
1841 – 1916
Hiram Iddings Bearss
1875 – 1938
Howard Llewellyn Swisher
1870 – 1945
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
1922 – 2006
Hélder Câmara
1909 – 1999
Hélène Perdrière
1910 – 1992
Ion Filotti Cantacuzino
1908 – 1975
Italo Insolera
1929 – 2012
Iya Savvina
1936 – 2011
J. Tinsley Oden
1936 – 2023
Jaime Alfonso Quintana
1891 – 1972
James C. Gardner
1924 – 2010
James Dickson Phillips, Jr.
1922 – 2017
James Knox Taylor
1857 – 1929
James Lanier
1800 – 1881
James Washington Logue
1863 – 1925
James of Coimbra
1433 – 1459
Janie Porter Barrett
1865 – 1948
Jean Jansem
1920 – 2013
Jinx Falkenburg
1919 – 2003
Joachim Wach
1898 – 1955
Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1814 – 1885
John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere
1732 – 1812
John H. Disher
1921 – 1988
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