August 27

On This Day

23 people found

Born on this day (11)

1952(1)

Paul Reubens

19522023

American actor and comedian

1928(1)

Osamu Shimomura

19282018

Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist

1915(1)

Norman Foster Ramsey

19152011

American physicist

1908(2)

Don Bradman

19082001

Australian cricketer

Lyndon B. Johnson

19081973

president of the United States from 1963 to 1969

1890(1)

Man Ray

18901976

American and French visual artist

1884(1)

Vincent Auriol

18841966

16th President of the French Republic

1878(1)

Pyotr Wrangel

18781928

Russian army general of Baltic German origin

1871(1)

Theodore Dreiser

18711945

American novelist and journalist

1865(1)

Charles G. Dawes

18651951

vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929

1809(1)

Hannibal Hamlin

18091891

Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Died on this day (12)

2021(1)

Edmond H. Fischer

19202021

American biochemist

2009(1)

Sergey Mikhalkov

19132009

Soviet and Russian writer

1990(1)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

19541990

American blues guitarist

1979(1)

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

19001979

British statesman and naval officer

1967(1)

Brian Epstein

19341967

British personal manager and impresario

1965(1)

Le Corbusier

18871965

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer

1963(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois

18681963

American sociologist and activist

1958(1)

Ernest Lawrence

19011958

American nuclear physicist

1950(1)

Cesare Pavese

19081950

Italian writer, literary critic, and translator

1664(1)

Francisco de Zurbarán

15981664

Spanish painter

1635(1)

Lope de Vega

15621635

Spanish playwright and poet

1611(1)

Tomás Luis de Victoria

15481611

Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)