May 27

## Events 
### Up to 1930 
* 1153 &ndash; Malcolm IV of Scotland becomes King.
* 1199 &ndash; King John of England is crowned.
* 1293 &ndash; A massive earthquake hits Kamakura, Japan.
* 1328 &ndash; Philip VI is crowned King of France.
* 1644 &ndash; Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun Dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer Beijing.
* 1703 &ndash; Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
* 1799 &ndash; War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the town's location at the junction of the seven cross–roads.
* 1813 &ndash; War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
* 1849 &ndash; The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
* 1860 &ndash; Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
* 1883 &ndash; Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
* 1895 &ndash; Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
* 1896 &ndash; The F5–strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
* 1901 &ndash; In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
* 1905 &ndash; Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
* 1907 &ndash; A bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
* 1915 &ndash; Off Sheerness, minelayer *Princess Irene* runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
* 1919 &ndash; The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
* 1923 &ndash; The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
* 1924 &ndash; The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
* 1927 &ndash; The Ford Motor Company stops making the Ford Model T and gets ready to make Ford Model As.
* 1930 &ndash; The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man–made structure at the time) opens to the public.

### 1931 &ndash; 2000 
* 1932 &ndash; The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
* 1933 &ndash; New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
* 1933 &ndash; The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon *The Three Little Pigs*, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
* 1933 &ndash; The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
* 1934 &ndash; The 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins, with a series of knock–out games.
* 1935 &ndash; New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
* 1936 &ndash; The RMS *Queen Mary* begins her first voyage.
* 1937 &ndash; In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
* 1939 &ndash; DC Comics prints its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is later hanged for war crimes.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: The German battleship *Bismarck* is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich is wounded in Prague and dies over a week later.
* 1960 &ndash; In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
* 1963 &ndash; Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best–known songs.
* 1964 &ndash; Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
* 1965 &ndash; Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombing of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
* 1967 &ndash; Australians vote to change the Constitution to give Indigenous Australians equal rights
* 1968 &ndash; Future U.S. President George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard.
* 1971 &ndash; The Dahlerau train disaster near Wuppertal, then–West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
* 1974 &ndash; Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1975 &ndash; The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest–ever road accident.
* 1980 &ndash; The Gwangju Massacre: air force and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
* 1995 &ndash; In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
* 1996 &ndash; First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease–fire in the war.
* 1997 &ndash; The F5–strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
* 1998 &ndash; Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
* 1999 &ndash; The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Slobodan Milošević and 4 others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

### From 2001 
* 2005 &ndash; Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in jail for marijuana smuggling in Indonesia.
* 2006 &ndash; An earthquake in Java kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities of Bantul and Yogyakarta.
* 2009 &ndash; A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people in Lahore, Pakistan.
* 2015 &ndash; Football's world governing body FIFA is accused by US law enforcement officials of bribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Fourteen people are arrested, and President Sepp Blatter is under pressure over his position.
* 2016 &ndash; Barack Obama becomes the first serving President of the United States to visit Hiroshima and meet victims of the atomic bomb.
* 2017 &ndash; A computer failure at British Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 742 &ndash; Emperor Dezong of Tang of China (d. 805)
* 1332 &ndash; Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
* 1519 &ndash; Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
* 1623 &ndash; William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
* 1626 &ndash; William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
* 1651 &ndash; Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
* 1652 &ndash; Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans) (d. 1722)
* 1738 &ndash; Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
* 1756 &ndash; King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
* 1774 &ndash; Francis Beaufort, Irish scientist and admiral (d. 1857)
* 1794 &ndash; Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1877)
* 1818 &ndash; Amelia Bloomer, American activist (d. 1894)
* 1818 &ndash; Franciscus Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist (d. 1889) 
* 1819 &ndash; Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d. 1910)
* 1819 &ndash; George V of Hanover (d. 1878)
* 1820 &ndash; Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
* 1822 &ndash; Joachim Raff, Swiss–German composer (d. 1882)
* 1832 &ndash; Zenas Ferry Moody, American politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
* 1832 &ndash; Lizardo Montero Flores, President of Peru (d. 1905)
* 1836 &ndash; Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
* 1837 &ndash; Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
* 1860 &ndash; Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
* 1864 &ndash; Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (d. 1938)
* 1867 &ndash; Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
* 1871 &ndash; Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
* 1876 &ndash; Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
* 1876 &ndash; William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
* 1877 &ndash; Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
* 1879 &ndash; Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963)
* 1884 &ndash; Max Brod, writer (d. 1968)
* 1888 &ndash; Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
* 1893 &ndash; Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 (d. 2005)
* 1894 &ndash; Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
* 1894 &ndash; Dashiell Hammett, American writer (d. 1961)
* 1895 &ndash; Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
* 1897 &ndash; John Cockcroft, British physicist (d. 1967)
* 1900 &ndash; Ethel Lang, British supercentenarian (d. 2015)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1902 &ndash; Fanny Godin, Belgian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
* 1904 &ndash; Chohei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
* 1906 &ndash; Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
* 1907 &ndash; Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (d. 2016)
* 1907 &ndash; Rachel Carson, American ecologist (d. 1964)
* 1909 &ndash; Dolores Hope, American singer (d. 2011)
* 1909 &ndash; Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d. 1970)
* 1911 &ndash; Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
* 1911 &ndash; Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
* 1911 &ndash; Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1912 &ndash; John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
* 1912 &ndash; Sam Snead, American golf champion (d. 2002)
* 1913 &ndash; Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
* 1915 &ndash; Herman Wouk, American writer (d. 2019)
* 1917 &ndash; Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan
* 1920 &ndash; Gabrielle Wittkop, French writer, essayist, journalist and artist (d. 2002)
* 1921 &ndash; Caryl Chessman, American, executed for murder (d. 1960)
* 1921 &ndash; Bob Godfrey, English animator (d. 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)
* 1922 &ndash; Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (d. 2015)
* 1922 &ndash; John David Vanderhoof, 36th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
* 1923 &ndash; Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1923 &ndash; Inge Morath, Austrian–American photographer (d. 2002)
* 1923 &ndash; Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
* 1924 &ndash; Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Tony Hillerman, American mystery writer (d. 2008)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1928 &ndash; Thea Musgrave, Scottish–American composer
* 1930 &ndash; John Barth, American novelist
* 1930 &ndash; Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (d. 2010)
* 1930 &ndash; William S. Sessions, FBI director
* 1931 &ndash; Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
* 1934 &ndash; Enzo Siciliano, Italian writer (d. 2006)
* 1934 &ndash; Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (d. 2018)
* 1934 &ndash; Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (d. 2016)
* 1935 &ndash; Lee Meriwether, American actress and former Miss America
* 1935 &ndash; Luud Schimmelpennink, Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and politician
* 1936 &ndash; Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
* 1936 &ndash; Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
* 1937 &ndash; Allan Carr, producer, writer (d. 1999)
* 1940 &ndash; Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist (d. 2015)
* 1942 &ndash; Piers Courage, English racing driver (d. 1970)
* 1943 &ndash; Cilla Black, English singer (d. 2015)
* 1943 &ndash; Robert Axelrod, American political scientist
* 1944 &ndash; Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist and author
* 1945 &ndash; Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
* 1946 &ndash; Lewis Collins, English actor (d. 2013)
* 1946 &ndash; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (d. 2005)
* 1947 &ndash; Henry McMaster, American politician, 117th Governor of South Carolina
* 1947 &ndash; Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
* 1949 &ndash; Terry Collins, American baseball manager

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
* 1955 &ndash; Eric Bischoff, American WWE performer
* 1956 &ndash; Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
* 1957 &ndash; Siouxsie Sioux, English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
* 1957 &ndash; Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
* 1958 &ndash; Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
* 1958 &ndash; Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
* 1958 &ndash; Linnea Quigley, American actress
* 1958 &ndash; Wayne Williams, American child murderer
* 1959 &ndash; Donna Strickland, Canadian physicist
* 1960 &ndash; Ray Armstead, American athlete
* 1961 &ndash; Peri Gilpin, American actress
* 1962 &ndash; David Mundell, Scottish politician
* 1962 &ndash; Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
* 1962 &ndash; Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
* 1963 &ndash; Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
* 1964 &ndash; Adam Carolla, American comedian, television host and actor
* 1964 &ndash; Volker Abramczik, German footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Todd Bridges, American actor
* 1965 &ndash; Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
* 1966 &ndash; Sean Kinney, American drummer (Alice in Chains)
* 1966 &ndash; Heston Blumenthal, English chef
* 1967 &ndash; Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
* 1968 &ndash; Rebekah Brooks, English newspaper editor
* 1968 &ndash; Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
* 1968 &ndash; Frank Thomas, American baseball player
* 1970 &ndash; Joseph Fiennes, English actor
* 1970 &ndash; Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
* 1970 &ndash; Tim Farron, English politician
* 1971 &ndash; Paul Bettany, English actor
* 1971 &ndash; Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
* 1971 &ndash; Sophie Walker, Scottish politician
* 1971 &ndash; Lee Sharpe, English footballer
* 1971 &ndash; Beatrix von Storch, German politician of the Alternative for Germany Party
* 1974 &ndash; Derek Webb, singer–songwriter, former member of Caedmon's Call
* 1974 &ndash; Danny Wuerffel, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
* 1975 &ndash; Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and TV personality (*The Naked Chef*)
* 1975 &ndash; Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
* 1975 &ndash; André 3000, American rapper, producer and actor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Jiri Stajner, Czech footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1979 &ndash; Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Miloy, Angolan footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
* 1983 &ndash; Bobby Convey, American soccer player
* 1984 &ndash; Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
* 1985 &ndash; Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Birkir Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
* 1989 &ndash; Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Nadine Beiler, Austrian singer
* 1990 &ndash; Chris Colfer, American actor
* 1990 &ndash; Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Thai actress
* 1990 &ndash; Jonas Hector, German footballer
* 1994 &ndash; Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
* 1999 &ndash; Lily-Rose Depp, French–American actress
* 1999 &ndash; Harambe, American–bred Western lowland gorilla (d. 2016)

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 366 &ndash; Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
* 866 &ndash; Ordoño I, king of Asturias
* 927 &ndash; Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
* 1508 &ndash; Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
* 1525 &ndash; Thomas Müntzer, German theologian and religious reformer (b. 1489) 
* 1541 &ndash; Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374)
* 1564 &ndash; John Calvin, religious reformer (b. 1509)
* 1610 &ndash; Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
* 1661 &ndash; Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter, was beheaded
* 1707 &ndash; Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
* 1797 &ndash; François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)
* 1831 &ndash; Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
* 1840 &ndash; Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
* 1885 &ndash; Charles Rogier, Belgian politician and journalist (b. 1800)
* 1896 &ndash; Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
* 1910 &ndash; Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
* 1918 &ndash; Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1869)
* 1926 &ndash; Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet
* 1936 &ndash; H. P. Hanssen, Danish politician (b. 1862)
* 1939 &ndash; Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (b. 1894)
* 1941 &ndash; Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
* 1941 &ndash; Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)  
* 1943 &ndash; Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1960 &ndash; James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (b. 1877)
* 1962 &ndash; Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881)
* 1963 &ndash; Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
* 1964 &ndash; Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
* 1967 &ndash; W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
* 1971 &ndash; Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
* 1985 &ndash; Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b. 1899)
* 1986 &ndash; Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian–American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
* 1986 &ndash; Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
* 1987 &ndash; John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1891)
* 1988 &ndash; Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
* 1989 &ndash; Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
* 1990 &ndash; Robert B. Meyner, 40th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
* 1991 &ndash; Leopold Nowak, musicologist (b. 1904)
* 1993 &ndash; Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
* 2000 &ndash; Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
* 2000 &ndash; Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
* 2004 &ndash; Umberto Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1934)
* 2007 &ndash; Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
* 2007 &ndash; Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
* 2008 &ndash; Franz Künstler, last–surviving Austro-Hungarian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
* 2009 &ndash; Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
* 2010 &ndash; John William Finn, American naval officer (b. 1909)
* 2011 &ndash; Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
* 2011 &ndash; Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
* 2011 &ndash; Gil Scott-Heron, American rapper and poet (b. 1949)
* 2012 &ndash; Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927)
* 2012 &ndash; Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)
* 2013 &ndash; Bill Pertwee, British actor (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (b. 1940)
* 2014 &ndash; Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian medical research scientist (b. 1933)
* 2014 &ndash; Massimo Vignelli, Italian graphic designer (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Kai G. Henriksen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1956)
* 2016 &ndash; Marshall Jones, American musician (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Don Robinson, English rugby league player (b. 1932)
* 2018 &ndash; Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
* 2018 &ndash; Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian economist and politician, Prime minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
* 2018 &ndash; Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
* 2019 &ndash; Veeru Devgan, Indian choreographer, actor and director (b. 1934)
* 2019 &ndash; Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1990)
* 2019 &ndash; Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
* 2019 &ndash; Aharon Razin, Israeli biochemist (b. 1935)
* 2020 &ndash; Tony Scannell, Irish actor (b. 1945)

## Observances 
* Children's Day (Nigeria)
* Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
* Mother's Day (Bolivia)
* Navy Day (Japan)