October 27 Births, Weddings, & Deaths

 HOME

________

October 27 in history

________

Births

VIP

1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician (d. 1919)
      26th President of the United States
      Nobel Prize laureate

Notable

921 – Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (d. 959)
1156 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1335 – Taejo of Joseon (d. 1408)
1401 – Catherine of Valois (d. 3 Jan 1437)
      Queen Consort of England
1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
1728 o.s. – James Cook (d. 14 Feb 1779)
      British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy
1744 – Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1766 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1800:  Benjamin F. Wade  [American politician] (d. 2 Mar 1878)
      U.S. Senator, R, OH, 1851-1869
1806 – Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician (d. 1890)
      101st Mayor of San Antonio
1811 – Stevens T. Mason, American politician (d. 1843)
      1st Governor of Michigan
1811 – Isaac Singer, American businessman (d. 1875)
      founded the Singer Corporation
 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician (d. 1891)
      3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City
1838 – John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician (d. 1915)
      34th United States Secretary of the Navy
1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician (d. 1928)
      13th Prime Minister of Italy
1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1916)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader (d. 1914)
      founded the Boys' Brigade
1858 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese naval officer and politician (d. 1936)
      30th Prime Minister of Japan
1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1869 – Viola Allen, American actress (d. 1948)
1872 – Emily Post, American author (d. 25 Sep 1960
      founded The Emily Post Institute
1873 – Malcolm Shepherd, Australian public servant (d. 1960)
1874:  Owen D. Young  (d. 11 Jul 1962)
      American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat
      founded Radio Corporation of America, 1919
1877 – Walt Kuhn, American painter (d. 1949)
1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943)
1884 – Shirō Takasu, Japanese naval officer (d. 1944)
1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
1989:  Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones (d. 31 Mar 1981)
      British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet
1890 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (d. 1974)
1894 – Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
1894 – Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978)
1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (d. 1946)
1896 – Edith Haisman, South African-English Titanic survivor (d. 20 Jan 1997)
1904 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
1906 – Peter Blume, American painter (d. 1992)
1906 – Earle Cabell, American banker and politician (d. 1975)
      Mayor of Dallas
1906:  Alfred Whitney Griswold  [American historian and educator] (d. 19 Apr 1963)
      16th President of Yale University, 1951-1963
1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author
1913 – Luigi Piotti, Italian racing driver (d. 1971)
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 9 Nov 1953)
1915 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (d. 1994)
1917 – Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1918 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)
1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer
1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician (d. 2005)
      10th President of India
1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist
1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922 – Ruby Dee, American actress, singer, and poet (d. 11 Jun 2014)
      New York Times obituary
1922:  Stanley Marion Garn  [American human biologist and educator] (d. 31 Aug 2007)
1922 – Michel Galabru, Moroccian-French actor
1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
1923 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
1925 – Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
      63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1925 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1925 – Paul Fox, English broadcaster
1925 – Monica Sims, English radio host and producer
1926 – Boris Chetkov, Russian artist (d. 2010)
1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat (d. 1993)
      4th White House Chief of Staff
1926 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese translator and author (d. 2010)
1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer and educator
1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician
      Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1930 – Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist
1930 – Myra Carter, American actress
1930 – Barry Supple, English historian and academic
1931 – David Bryant, English bowls player
1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
1931 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor and singer (d. 2007)
1932 – Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (d. 1963)
1933 – Valentin Boreyko, Russian rower (d. 2012)
1933 – Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (d. 1997)
1933 – Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (d. 2002)
1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
1935 – Frank Adonis, American actor and screenwriter
1935 – Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
1935 – Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American entertainer and banjoist
1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
1937 – Lara Parker, American actress
1938:  Maurice Hinchey  [American politician]
      U.S. Representative, D. NY, 1993-2013
1939 – John Cleese, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1939 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (d. 2007)
1940 – John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)
1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
1941 – Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter

1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer
1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach
1944 – J. A. Jance, American author and poet
1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
      (Masqualero)
1945 – Dick Dodd, American drummer and actor (d. 2013)
      (The Bel-Airs, The Standells, and Eddie & the Showmen)
1945 – John Kane, Scottish actor and screenwriter
1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian politician
      35th President of Brazil
1946 – Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
1946 – Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 21 Aug 2014)
1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, director, and producer
1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)

1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player and producer
      (E Street Band)
1950 – Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author and actress
1950 – Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
1950 – A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
      (Judas Priest)
1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
1951 – Éric Morena, French singer
1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
1952 – Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
      (Agents)
1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Jan Duursema, American illustrator
1954 – Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
1955 – Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician
      31st Secretary of State of California
1956 – Veronica Hart, American porn actress and director
1956:  Patty Sheehan  [American golfer]
1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1957 – Jeff East, American actor and singer
1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson, American writer, producer, director and actor
1958 – Lee Carter, American judge
1958:  Nina Easton  [American journalist and author]
1958 – David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
      (Duran Duran and Arcadia)
1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
1960:  Oleg Bryjak  [Kazakhstani-German bass baritone opera singer] (d. 24 Mar 2015)

1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1960 – Vangelis Trigas, Greek bouzouki player
1961 – Carl, Prince of Wied (d. 2015)
1963 – Marla Maples, American model and actress
1963 – Tom McKean, Scottish runner
1964:  Candice Olson  [Canadian designer]
1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1964 – Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
1966:  Majora Carter  [American activist and radio host]
1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger
      founded the Drudge Report
1966 – Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
1966 – Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
1967 – Steve Almond, American author and educator
1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
1967 – Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter
      (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, The Wondergirls, and Camp Freddy)
1968 – Dileep, Indian actor and producer
1968 – Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
1969 – Peter O'Meara, Irish actor
1970 – Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (AC4)
1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (d. 1997)
1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
      (Cradle of Filth, At the Gates, Nemhain, The Haunted, Nifelheim, and Brujeria)
1970 – Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1970 – Jonathan Stroud, English author
1970 – Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
1971 – Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball player
1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
1974:  Elena Roger  [Argentine actress]
1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
1975 – Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
1975 – Elias Toufexis, Canadian actor
1976 – Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
1976 – Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
1977 – Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 – Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist
1978 – Manami Konishi, Japanese actress and singer
1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
1978:  David Walton  [American actor]
1979 – Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
1980 – Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Taksaorn Paksukcharern, Thai model and actress
1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
1981 – Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1983 – Takuro Okuyama, Japanese footballer
1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish model and actor
1984 – Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English-American singer-songwriter and actress
1984 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 – Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
1985 – Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
1985 – Sandra Volk, Slovenian tennis player
1986:  Cutter Hodierne  [American filmmaker]
1986 – Jon Niese, American baseball player
1986 – Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
1987 – Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete.
1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
1987 – Sebastian Gacki, Canadian actor
1987 – Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
1987 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
1988 – Brady Ellison, American archer
1988 – Illimar Pärn, Etonian ski jumper
1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
1990 – Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
1990 – Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
1991 – Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
1992 – Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1992 – Junya Ikeda, Japanese actor and voice actor
1992 – Taiko Katono, Japanese actor and model
1992 – Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
1993:  Troy Gentile  [American actor]
1993 – Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
1994 – Eddie Alderson, American actor
1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
      (Morning Musume)

Family

Coulee area

Jeff Holmquist
Curtis Carey
Jeff Campbell

Other

Weddings

VIP

Notable

Family

Coulee area

Other

Deaths

VIP

Notable

939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 894)
1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, Scottish wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician, and sultan (b. 1394)
1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet, and educator (b. 1443)
1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
      English Secretary of State
1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician (b. 1730)
      6th Governor of Delaware
1816 – Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet, writer and artist (b. 1761)
1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician (b. 1822)
      48th Prime Minister of Greece
1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887)
1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer (b. 1872)
      co-founded the Abbey Theatre
1949 – Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1954 – Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886)
1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
1975 – Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
1976 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919)
1977 – James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1924)
      42nd Secretary of State for Canada
1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
      (T. Rex, Shagrat, and Steve Took's Horns)
1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (b. 1899)
      American physicist and mathematician
      Nobel Prize laureate
1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
1990 – Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
1990 – Helmut Maandi, Estonian politician (b. 1906)
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
1990 – Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (b. 1901)
1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian actor and singer (b. 1929)
2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer (b. 1925)
2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
2003 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
2005 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
2007 – Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2008 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
2009 – August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
2009 – David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
2010 – Denise Borino-Quinn, American actress (b. 1964)
2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
      51st President of Argentina
2010 – James Wall, American actor and manager (b. 1917)
2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
2011 – Robert Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1926)
      co-founded Marmon Group
2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
2012 – Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician (b. 1923)
     44th Secretary of State of Maine
2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
2013 – Vinko Coce, Croatian singer (b. 1954)
2013 – Noel Davern, Irish politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
2013 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
2013 – Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – Lou Reed, American musician, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
      (The Velvet Underground and Metal Machine Trio)
2013 – Michael Wilkes, English general and politician (b. 1940)
      Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
2014 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014 – Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
      (N.EX.T)
2014 – William Orchard, Australian water polo player and psychiatrist (b. 1929)
2014 – Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
      mayor of Dallas
2014 – Dub Williams, American farmer and politician (b. 1927)

Family

Coulee area

Other