Birthdates Which Occur on July 27:
1452 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro] Italian duke of Milan (1494 . .1500)
1502 Pier Francesco Corteccia composer
1518 Elizabeth Talbot countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 Heinrich Pape composer
1612 Murad IV sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 Edward Montagu England
1667 Jean Bernoulli mathematician
1734 Jakob Zupan composer
1741 Fran‡ois-Hippolyte Barthelemon composer
1768 Charlotte Corday d'Armont murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath
1777 Thomas Campbell poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1781 Mauro Giuliani composer
1784 Andr‚-Georges-Louis Onslow English/French composer (chamber music)
1801 George Biddle Airy 7th Astronomer Royal
1802 Benedikt Randhartinger composer
1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1820 John Franklin Farnsworth Brig General (Union volunteers)
1824 Alexandre Dumas fils France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1835 GiosuŠ Carducci Italy, poet (Nobel 1906)
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 Roland baron E”tv”s Hungarian physicist
and Vladimir de Pachmann painter
1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge orientalist/museum curator
and Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1867 Enrique Granados L‚rida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen)
1870 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 Stanislav Binicki composer
1877 Ern” [Ernst von] Dohn nyi Hungary, composer (Msg to Posterity)
1878 Jean F van Royen Dutch German secretary (PTT)
and Th to de Weeme painter
1879 Francesco Gaeta Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1880 Donald Crisp Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
and Joseph Tinker baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1881 Hans Fischer German physicist (Nobel 1930)
1890 Judith Lowry Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
1894 Gerald F Bogan US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1899 Harl McDonald near Boulder Colorado, composer (Santa F‚ Trail)
19-- Gwynne Gilford LA Calif, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
and Heather Hart XXX actress (X Factor-Next Generation, Bi-Spy)
and Kimberley Simms actress (Mindy-Guiding Light)
and Mark Geary heavy metal rocker (Dangerous Toys-Hellacious Aces)
and Michael Evans actor (Douglas Austin-Young & Restless)
and Simon Jones Willshire England, comedian (News is the News)
1900 Charles Vidor Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
and Hans Haug composer
1903 Clive Martin Douglas composer
and Nikolai Cherkasov St Petersburg Russia, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1904 Anton Dolin [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1906 Leo Durocher Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1907 Denis Rickett private secretary to Clement Attlee
and Mollie Doreen Phillips British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 Lord Jenkins of Putney Labour Arts minister
1910 Julien Gracq [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andr‚ Breton)
1912 Igor Markevitch Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1913 Mary Green headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
and Vittorio Sereni Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria)
1916 Asfa Wossen Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
and Kennan Wynn NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
and Siegfried Reda composer
1917 John Cunningham executive director (British Aerospace)
and Robert Cowans executive director (British Aerospace)
1918 Eero Aukusti Sipila composer
and Leonard Rose Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 Beatrice Pearson Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
and James Munn British university commissioner
1922 Adolfo Celi Sicily Italy, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue)
and Lillian Hayman Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
and Norman Lear TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1924 Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili composer
and Vincent Canby critic (NY Times)
1925 Doc Pomus rocker
1926 Peter Coker captain
1928 Sakari Mononen composer
1929 Harvey Fuqua rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
and Jack Higgins [Harry Patterson], novelist
and Marc Wilkinson composer
1930 Ronald Dearing chairman (British Post Office)
and Shirley Williams co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minister
1931 Jerry Van Dyke Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1932 Beverly B Byron (Rep-D-MD, 1979- )
and Curnick M Ndlovu Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
and Diane Webber LA Calif, playmate (May, 1955 & Feb, 1956)
and Robert Cowan CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
1933 Nick Reynolds rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1934 John Pardoe CEO (Sight & Sound Education)/Liberal MP
1937 Anna Dawson actress/comedienne^
and Chuck Jackson Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
and Don Galloway Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1938 Shirley Anne Field England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) [or Jun 27]
1939 Irv Cross NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
and James McGee pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
and James Victor Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA)
1941 Johannes Fritsch composer
1942 Barbara Ferris London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
and John Pleshette NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
1943 Al Ramsey NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
and Bill Bradley Crystal City Mo, NY Knick/(Sen-D-NJ)/Rhodes scholar
and Stu Gilliam Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 A I Dedkov cosmonaut
and Bobbie Gentry Mississippi, what did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge
1946 Ricardo Anasagasti [Ricardo M Meul], Cura‡ao, dancer/actor
and Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1947 Betty Thomas St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
and Wayne Dowdy (Rep-D-MS, 1981- )
1948 Henny Vrienten Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar)
and Peggy Fleming Jenkins San Jose Calif, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968)
1949 David Muse rocker (Firefall)
and Jeremy Thomas
and Maureen McGovern Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After)
1950 Michael Vaughn rocker (Paper Lace)
1951 Janet Eilber Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
1953 Wim G J M van de Camp Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1955 Allan Border cricket captain (Australia)
1957 Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn Dutch actress (Composer)
and Hansi Muller skier
1958 Christopher Dean Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 David East cricketer
1960 Christina Singer Geoppingen Germany, tennis star
and Jo Durie England, tennis player
1967 Emiel van E˜keren soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
and Sasha Mitchell LA Calif, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
1977 Jason Michael Zimbler Queens NY, actor (Clarissa Explains it All)
Deaths Which Occured July 27:
82 St Joseph of Arimathea dies
432 Celestine I Italian Pope (422-32), dies
916 Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies
1101 Koenrad RC-German king (1087-98), dies
1128 Willem van Normandia earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1214 Eustaes van Machelen Flemish knight, dies in battle
Stefan van Longchamp French knight, dies in battle
1227 Otto II van Lippe bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies
1233 Ferrand of Portugal earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1638 Johan VIII de Jongere count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne gen (France), dies
1689 John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
1720 Johann Samuel Welter composer, dies at 69
1759 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis astronomer/mathematician, dies
1777 William Hayes composer, dies at 69
1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1822 Joseph Supries composer, dies at 60
1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart painter, dies
1833 Bartolommea Capitanio Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov poet/novelist, dies
1844 John Dalton Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1864 Margaret E Breckinridge US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
1881 Johann Christian Lobe composer, dies at 84
1883 Montgomery Blair lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1916 Charles Fryatt British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni pianist/composer, dies
Ferruccio Busoni Italian pianist/composer, dies at 58
1934 Louis HG Lyautey French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
1942 William Matthew Finders Petrie Egyptologist, dies
1944 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls composer, dies at 68
1946 Gertrude Stein US/French author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies
1948 Francesco Spetrino composer, dies at 91
1952 W de Basil [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1960 V sa Pr¡hoda Czech violinist, dies at 59
1961 Theodore Chanler composer, dies at 59
1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington novelist/biographer, dies
1968 Anton van Duinkerken [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
Lillian Harvey actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61
1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
1971 Bernhard Paumgartner Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1974 Lightning Slim blues singer, dies at 61
1976 Ray Brennan becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar composer, dies at 72
[John] Willem van Otterloo conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
1979 Ettore Manni actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
Shirley Mason dies at 79
1980 Pahlawi Mohammed Reza shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1981 Billy [William] Wyler US director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies
Ray Harrison dancer (American Song), dies at 64
William Wyler US director (Ben Hur), dies
1982 Dan Seymour actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
Vladimir Smirnov Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980), dies at 28
1984 James Mason British actor (Lolita), dies at 75 of a heart attack
Oswald Jacoby US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1985 Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
1986 Leroy Holmes orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1987 Travis Jackson baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83
1988 Judith Barsi child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1990 Bobby Day rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
Elizabeth Allan actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies
Kim Thomas-Friedland news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
Nick Pippin dies of AIDS at 35
1991 Carol Gillies dies at 50
1992 Jenny Karezi Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56
1993 Reggie Lewis NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
1994 H Minderop founder/chairman (TROS-radio/tv), dies
Rosa Chacel Spanish author, dies at 96
Holidays Which Occur July 27:
Puerto Rico Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Birthday (1857)
Religious Observances on July 27:
Christian Feast of Martyrs of Salsette
Christian Feast of St Aurelia, Natalia & Companions
Christian Feast of 7 Sleepers of Ephesus
Christian Feast of St Theobald of Marly
RC Lucilla, martyr to Rome
RC Pantaleon, emperor Maximianus doctor/patron of arts
303 RC Commem of St Pantaleon, martyr/patron of medicine
1015 Orth Feast of Vladimir, evangelizer of Russia (7/15 OS)
1909 Ang Commemoration of William Reed Huntington, priest
Things to Remember for July 27:
Baked Beans-Hot Dog-Ice Cream-Hitch Hiking Month
Flowers-water lily & larkspur Gem-ruby
Park & Recreation Month-National Picnic Month
19 Days Dog Days
25 Days Astrological sign: Leo
1 Day Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn
4 Days Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius
Highlights in History Which Occur July 27:
432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1230 Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
and Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1563 French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
and Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 English parliament accept Staple Act
1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay
and Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1713 Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714 Battle at Hang” (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
and English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1789 Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1794 Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops
1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
and Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
and Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
and Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
and Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road)
(Strawberry Plains)
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene
1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out
1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
1897 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
and Dutch govt of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
1905 J Palisa discovers asteroid #569 Misa
1908 A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m
1913 Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
and Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1921 2nd govt of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
and Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1927 Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1929 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1930 Andr‚ Leducq wins Tour de France
1931 Chilean president Carlos Ib ¤ez forced out
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1933 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1312 Vassar
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1284 Latvia
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000
1937 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1941 103øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
and German army enters Ukraine
and Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
and Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
and US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
and US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1945 US Communist Party forms
1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
1950 Pres Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto
and North Korea & UN sign armistice
and Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
and Chick Harbert wins PGA golf tournament
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
and Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
and Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1751 Herget
and Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1957 St James' Theater in London closes
1960 VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
and Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
and USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
and General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium govt
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
and Helmond Sport soccer team forms
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
and Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1978 Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares
1979 France performs nuclear test
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
and Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
1983 104.øF (40.3øC) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1985 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.78)
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
and General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma
and Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1990 White-Russia declares independence
and Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
and TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1992 Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch & Evgueni
Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1993 Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
and Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
and Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
and NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
and NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1862 Steamer 'Golden Gate' burned and sank off west coast of Mexico,
carrying $1.5 million in gold and silver.
Your Special Reminders for July 27:
1920 55øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1963 98øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 208th day of year with 157 days left (Numerology = 7)
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