On This Day — October 27
3801 noted people were born and 1878 died on October 27 in our archive, including Alain Bombard, Ernest William Hobson and Albert Wendt.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 27
Alain Bombard
1924 – 2005
Ernest William Hobson
1856 – 1933
Albert Wendt
b. 1939
Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan
1859 – 1959
Aleksander Szczygło
1963 – 2010
Andreas Blass
b. 1947
Andriy Portnov
1973 – 2025
Brad Hoylman-Sigal
b. 1965
Bruno Siciliano
b. 1959
Costin Murgescu
1919 – 1989
David E. Kuhl
1929 – 2017
Edurne Uriarte
b. 1960
Edwin Francis Gay
1867 – 1946
Eric Phipps
1875 – 1945
Ernst Trygger
1857 – 1943
Fernand Choquette
1895 – 1975
Genrikh Novozhilov
1925 – 2019
Gladys West
1930 – 2026
Hilal bin Ali Al Sabti
b. 1972
Isabelle Gallagher
b. 1973
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
b. 1942
Jay Bybee
b. 1953
Johann Gasteiger
b. 1941
John Lennard-Jones
1894 – 1954
Josep Trueta
1897 – 1977
Jussi Niinistö
b. 1970
Kayse Shrum
b. 1972
Lykke Friis
b. 1969
Niels Ludvig Westergaard
1815 – 1878
Nikolai Fedorenko
1912 – 2000
Otto Wichterle
1913 – 1998
Reynald Secher
b. 1955
Rosalind Marsden
b. 1950
Sandra M. Díaz
b. 1961
Vicente Asuero y Cortázar
1806 – 1873
Vladimir J. Konečni
b. 1944
Warren Christopher
1925 – 2011
Willi Bleicher
1907 – 1981
A. N. Wilson
b. 1950
Afrikan Krishtofovich
1885 – 1953
Alex Stein
b. 1957
Alexander Fersman
1883 – 1945
Alexy I of Moscow
1877 – 1970
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle
1806 – 1893
Amandus Johnson
1877 – 1974
Andrei Gusev
b. 1952
André Le Troquer
1884 – 1963
Anthony Doerr
b. 1973
Arvo Ylppö
1887 – 1992
Attje Kuiken
b. 1977
Bimal Guha
b. 1952
Bluma Zeigarnik
1900 – 1988
Bryan Glazer
b. 1964
C. L. Sulzberger
1912 – 1993
Carlos Andrés Pérez
1922 – 2010
Carlos Frenk
b. 1951
Charles Du Bos
1882 – 1939
Christoffer Urne
1593 – 1663
Chung Mong-joon
b. 1951
Clifford Antone
1949 – 2006
Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home
1799 – 1881
Cristeta Comerford
b. 1962
Cyrille Schott
1950 – 2026
Debra Bowen
b. 1955
Dominick Argento
1927 – 2019
Donald L. Shaw
1936 – 2021
Donna Lynne
b. 1953
Duncan McNab McEachran
1841 – 1924
Eduard Raul Hellvig
b. 1974
Edward J. Steele
b. 1948
Eero Huovinen
b. 1944
Elliott Lewis
1858 – 1935
Elmer Bragg Adams
1842 – 1916
Emil Jónsson
1902 – 1986
Emily Hale
1891 – 1969
Enid Bagnold
1889 – 1981
Eugene Allen Smith
1841 – 1927
Ferdinand Werner
1876 – 1961
Finn Skårderud
b. 1956
Francis Fukuyama
b. 1952
Frank Popoff
1935 – 2024
František Běhounek
1898 – 1973
Fumi Kaneko
b. 1992
Gennady Igumnov
1936 – 2021
George Helmy
b. 1979
Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp
1762 – 1834
Giovanni Giolitti
1842 – 1928
Hannah Kim
b. 1957
Hans Ritter von Lex
1893 – 1970
Harry Robbins Haldeman
1926 – 1993
Harry Saltzman
1915 – 1994
Heinrich Scherk
1798 – 1885
Henning Otte
b. 1968
Hugh Evan-Thomas
1862 – 1928
Hwang Jun-muk
b. 1963
Jack Carson
1910 – 1963
Jacob Dolson Cox
1828 – 1900
James Tibbs
1855 – 1924
Joanna Scanlan
b. 1961
John Cleese
b. 1939
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
1835 – 1910
Jonathan Yardley
b. 1939
José Miguel Wisnik
b. 1948
Junzo Yamamoto
b. 1954
Karol Beffa
b. 1973
Katixa Agirre
b. 1981
Kazimierz Brandys
1916 – 2000
Kazuo Ohno
1906 – 2010
Kenyon Cox
1856 – 1919
King-Wai Yau
b. 1948
Kristian Tonning Riise
b. 1988
Kwesi Nyantakyi
b. 1968
L.N. Hvidt
1777 – 1856
Larisa Kruglova
b. 1972
Lars Stigzelius
1598 – 1676
Laura Nuño Gómez
b. 1967
Laurent Picard
1927 – 2012
Liu Ta-Chung
1914 – 1975
Lorànt Deutsch
b. 1975
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
b. 1945
Margaret Gene Arnstein
1904 – 1972
Marie-Hélène Schwartz
1913 – 2013
Marina Shimanskaya
b. 1955
Mark Turin
b. 1973
Maurice Hinchey
1938 – 2017
Maxine Hong Kingston
b. 1940
Michael MacKellar
1938 – 2015
Michael Peskin
b. 1951
Michel Ocelot
b. 1943
Natascha Kohnen
b. 1967
Nawal El Saadawi
1931 – 2021
Niels Trolle
1599 – 1667
Nikos Christodoulakis
b. 1952
Oleg Kotov
b. 1965
Oleg Savelyev
b. 1965
Olive Hazlett
1890 – 1974
Oliver Leese
1894 – 1978
Oliver Tambo
1917 – 1993
Paul Haddacks
b. 1946
Pavel Tigrid
1917 – 2003
Peter Liss
b. 1942
Pierre Raymond de Montmort
1678 – 1719
Pierre Simonet
1921 – 2020
R. Stanley Williams
b. 1951
Raffaele Molin
1825 – 1887
Ralph Kiner
1922 – 2014
Ramzi al-Baalbaki
b. 1951
Randal Bryant
b. 1952
Reza Farajidana
b. 1960
Ricard Pérez Casado
1945 – 2026
Richard A. Clarke
b. 1950
Rick Barker
b. 1951
Robert Polito
b. 1951
Robin Miller
1949 – 2021
Rodrigo Hinzpeter
b. 1965
Rolf Kreienberg
1946 – 2021
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 – 1997
Samiya Bashir
b. 1970
Sergej Naryškin
b. 1954
Sergey Khristianovich
1908 – 2000
Shirō Takasu
1884 – 1944
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
1818 – 1887
Stamen Grigorov
1878 – 1945
Steven R. Nagel
1946 – 2014
Sylvia Plath
1932 – 1963
Terry Hart
b. 1946
Theodore Roosevelt
1858 – 1919
Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise
b. 1954
Ursula McConnel
1888 – 1957
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
1880 – 1956
Vicary Gibbs
1751 – 1820
Victor Clarence Vaughan
1851 – 1929
Victor Popov
1937 – 1994
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
1933 – 2016
Warren East
b. 1961
William Alexander Smith
1854 – 1914
William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter
1876 – 1956
William Eskridge
b. 1951
William Hung
1893 – 1980
Wim Quist
1930 – 2022
Wolfgang Streeck
b. 1946
Yorick Wilks
1939 – 2023
Yuri Shaporin
1887 – 1966
Abbas Uddin
1901 – 1959
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah
b. 1963
Achille Larue
1849 – 1922
Adolfo Sigwald
1923 – 1999
Alan Tyson
1926 – 2000
Alan Watson
1933 – 2018
Alberto van Klaveren
b. 1948
Alex Bentley
b. 1990
Alexander Soros
b. 1985
Alfred P. Murrah
1904 – 1975
Alfred Seale Haslam
1844 – 1927
Alfred Whitney Griswold
1906 – 1963
Ali Ahmed Karti
b. 1953
Ali Dastmalchian
1954 – 2020
Anatolie Topală
b. 1970
Anatoliy Zayayev
1931 – 2012
Andrew Bynum
b. 1987
… and 3,601 more
Died on October 27
Lise Meitner
1878 – 1968
Susan Lindquist
1949 – 2016
Alice Gast
1958 – 2025
Carel Gerretson
1884 – 1958
Claude Huriet
1930 – 2024
David Bohm
1917 – 1992
Ernest Everett Just
1883 – 1941
Gheorghe Chițu
1828 – 1897
Hans Henrik Reusch
1852 – 1922
Hans-Peter Uhl
1944 – 2019
Henrik Abrahamyan
1939 – 1999
Jean Leclercq
1911 – 1993
Joan Solà Cortassa
1940 – 2010
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1899 – 1980
Leonard Herzenberg
1931 – 2013
Paul Segond
1851 – 1912
Paul Zamecnik
1912 – 2009
Ralph Copeland
1837 – 1905
René Chamussy
1936 – 2016
Robert Mills
1928 – 1999
Ruben Hovsepyan
1939 – 2016
Seigō Nakano
1886 – 1943
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
1915 – 2016
Tony Hulman
1901 – 1977
Abba P. Lerner
1903 – 1982
Aleksandr Golovin
1949 – 2023
Alexander Pomerantsev
1849 – 1918
Alexander Protopopov
1866 – 1918
Anders Knutsson Ångström
1888 – 1981
André Granet
1881 – 1974
August Wilmanns
1833 – 1917
August von Trott zu Solz
1855 – 1938
Bernard W. Rogers
1921 – 2008
Bernd T. Matthias
1918 – 1980
Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon
1697 – 1777
Charles Dubin
1921 – 2008
Charles Richmond Glover
1870 – 1936
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
1893 – 1956
Christian Heinrich von Nagel
1803 – 1882
Daniel Pedoe
1910 – 1998
Daniel Tilas
1712 – 1772
Domingos Leite Pereira
1882 – 1956
Dominique Struye de Swielande
1947 – 2015
Edgar C. Jones
1903 – 1980
Edzard Reuter
1928 – 2024
Ellisiv Steen
1908 – 2001
Enrico Mattei
1906 – 1962
Es'kia Mphahlele
1919 – 2008
Franci Slak
1953 – 2007
Francis Arthur Bainbridge
1874 – 1921
François Just Marie Raynouard
1761 – 1836
François-Henri de Virieu
1931 – 1997
Frédéric-Georges Herr
1855 – 1932
George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham
1760 – 1830
George Greenwood
1850 – 1928
Gerald Stern
1925 – 2022
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
1915 – 2006
Gilles de Roberval
1602 – 1675
Guy Vernor Henry
1839 – 1899
H. Alexander Smith
1880 – 1966
Hans Werner Henze
1926 – 2012
Henk Vredeling
1924 – 2007
Henry Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury
1845 – 1935
Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
1867 – 1947
James M. Cain
1892 – 1977
Jan Niemiec
1958 – 2020
Joe Frank
1942 – 2022
John Conyers
1929 – 2019
John Dale Ryan
1915 – 1983
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres
1734 – 1824
Joseph Klausner
1874 – 1958
João Lobo Antunes
1944 – 2016
Judy LaMarsh
1924 – 1980
Karen Demirchyan
1932 – 1999
Kjeld Philip
1912 – 1989
Leonard Petrosyan
1953 – 1999
Li Keqiang
1955 – 2023
Lou Reed
1942 – 2013
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont
1773 – 1846
Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský
1870 – 1931
Lydia Fowler Wadleigh
1817 – 1888
Margaret Partridge
1891 – 1967
Maria Bogucka
1929 – 2020
Mary Lura Sherrill
1888 – 1968
Maurice Olender
1946 – 2022
Michio Suzuki
1887 – 1982
Mikayel Kotanyan
1927 – 1999
Nikolay Durnovo
1876 – 1937
Ntozake Shange
1948 – 2018
Néstor Kirchner
1950 – 2010
Odd Brochmann
1909 – 1992
Peter Quennell
1905 – 1993
Philip R. Lee
1924 – 2020
Rafael Alberti
1902 – 1999
Richard More O'Ferrall
1797 – 1880
Ronald Greeley
1939 – 2011
Roy DeCarava
1919 – 2009
Ruben Miroyan
1939 – 1999
Rutger Sernander
1866 – 1944
Ruy Luís Gomes
1905 – 1984
Slobodan Selenić
1933 – 1995
Stamen Grigorov
1878 – 1945
Theodor Steltzer
1885 – 1967
Thyrsus González de Santalla
1624 – 1705
Théodore Tuffier
1857 – 1929
Vazgen Sargsyan
1959 – 1999
Vladimir Bukovsky
1942 – 2019
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
1933 – 2016
William Goodell
1829 – 1894
William Lafayette Darling
1856 – 1938
William Thompson
1678 – 1739
Winifred Elsie Brenchley
1883 – 1953
Yuri Bakhshyan
1947 – 1999
Zdzisław Jachimecki
1882 – 1953
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
1971 – 2019
Ahmad Kamal Abdullah
1941 – 2021
Albert II of Germany
1397 – 1439
Albert O. Vorse, Jr.
1914 – 1979
Alexander Gagarin
1801 – 1857
Alexander Malins Lafone
1870 – 1917
Alfred Büchi
1879 – 1959
Alfred Dubuc
1871 – 1947
Alfred Gray
1939 – 1998
Alfred Philippe Roll
1845 – 1919
Alfredo Cerda Jaraquemada
1900 – 1984
Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
1848 – 1930
Andreas Osiander
1498 – 1552
Andrzej Panufnik
1914 – 1991
Ante Tresić-Pavičić
1867 – 1949
Anton Gindely
1829 – 1892
Artemy Khalatov
1894 – 1938
Arthur Lloyd
1852 – 1911
Arthur Rhys-Davids
1897 – 1917
Arthur Tremblay
1917 – 1996
August von Rothmund
1830 – 1906
B. V. Sreekantan
1925 – 2019
Bahaa Taher
1935 – 2022
Bernard Barham Woodward
1853 – 1930
Bettina Gaus
1956 – 2021
Bob Ferry
1937 – 2021
Boris Dobronravov
1896 – 1949
C. George Sandulescu
1933 – 2018
Carl Ploug
1813 – 1894
Carlos Leonardo de la Rosa
1944 – 2022
Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville
1716 – 1767
Charles Coughlin
1891 – 1979
Charles Longley
1794 – 1868
Charles Lutaud
1855 – 1921
Charles Orville Whitley
1927 – 2002
Charles Polk Jr.
1788 – 1857
Daniel Webster Gill
1856 – 1933
David Seth Doggett
1810 – 1880
Digamber Singh
1951 – 2017
Dmitry Gayev
1951 – 2012
Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold
1801 – 1861
Eduard Kojnok
1933 – 2011
Edward Bassett
1863 – 1948
Edward Deering Mansfield
1801 – 1880
Edward Thring
1821 – 1887
Ellen Hayes
1851 – 1930
Elliott Roosevelt
1910 – 1990
Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard de Saint-Priest, 1st Duke of Almazán de Saint-Priest
1789 – 1881
Eppo Cremers
1823 – 1896
Eugene Davis Saunders
1853 – 1914
Eugene Hale
1836 – 1918
Evan Stephens
1854 – 1930
Fanni Luukkonen
1882 – 1947
Francisco Afan Delgado
1886 – 1964
Frank Druce
1875 – 1954
Frank W. Rollins
1860 – 1915
Frederik Hauch
1754 – 1839
Fyodor Ostashenko
1896 – 1976
Gentile Portino da Montefiore
1240 – 1312
Golding Bird
1814 – 1854
H. Newell Martin
1848 – 1896
Hamilton Coolidge
1895 – 1918
Hans Conrad Schellenberg
1872 – 1923
Hans Jörg Stetter
1930 – 2025
Hans Kemna
1940 – 2024
Harry Bresslau
1848 – 1926
Henri-Louis Manceron
1848 – 1917
Henry Westman Richardson
1855 – 1918
Horace Pauleus Sannon
1870 – 1938
Illar Hallaste
1959 – 2012
Jack Houston
1919 – 2008
Jacques Demy
1931 – 1990
Jacques Heurgon
1903 – 1995
James C. Fry
1897 – 1982
James Henry Bowker
1822 – 1900
James Hillman
1926 – 2011
James J. Lanzetta
1894 – 1956
James Schwarzenbach
1911 – 1994
James Szlumper
1834 – 1926
Jean Doujat
1609 – 1688
Jean Filliozat
1906 – 1982
Jim McGirr
1890 – 1957
Johannes Dantiscus
1485 – 1548
Johannes Praetorius
1537 – 1616
John Bascom
1827 – 1911
John White
1911 – 2007
… and 1,678 more