April 27

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 33 BC &ndash; Lucius Marcius Philippus, step–brother of future Roman Emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as Governor in one of the Provinces of Hispania.
* 711 &ndash; Islamic Conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al–Andalus).
* 1296 &ndash; First Scottish War of Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
* 1521 &ndash; Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
* 1522 &ndash; Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
* 1539 &ndash; Re–founding of Bogota, in present–day Colombia.
* 1565 &ndash; Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
* 1749 &ndash; First performance of George Frideric Handel's *Music of the Fireworks* in Green Park, London.
* 1777 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ridgefield – A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
* 1810 &ndash; Ludwig van Beethoven composes the musical piece Für Elise. 
* 1813 &ndash; War of 1812: US troops capture the capital city of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present–day Toronto).
* 1840 &ndash; The foundation stone is laid for the new Palace of Westminster.
* 1865 &ndash; The SS *Sultana* steamboat explodes and sinks on the Mississippi River, killing 1,700 people.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1904 &ndash; Chris Watson becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
* 1908 &ndash; The 1908 Summer Olympics in London begin.
* 1909 &ndash; Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II is overthrown by his brother Mehmed V.
* 1914 &ndash; Honduras becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention.
* 1927 &ndash; The Carabineros de Chile, the national police and gendarmerie of Chile, is created.
* 1936 &ndash; United Auto Workers gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: German troops enter Athens.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland.
* 1950 &ndash; Apartheid: in South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating (separating) Black people from White people.
* 1950 &ndash; The United Kingdom officially recognizes the state of Israel.
* 1960 &ndash; Togo becomes independent from France.
* 1961 &ndash; Sierra Leone becomes independent from the UK.
* 1967 &ndash; The Expo 67, a trade fair, begins in Montreal, Canada.
* 1974 &ndash; 10,000 people march in Washington, DC, calling for the impeachment for Richard Nixon.
* 1977 &ndash; 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
* 1981 &ndash; Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
* 1987 &ndash; The US Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States over revelations of possible war crimes committed by him during World War II.
* 1992 &ndash; The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is created, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro.
* 1992 &ndash; Russia and 12 former Soviet Republics join the International Monetary Fund.
* 1992 &ndash; Betty Boothroyd becomes the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.
* 1993 &ndash; Several members of the Zambia national football team are killed in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
* 1994 &ndash; South Africa holds its first general elections under free and equal conditions, with Nelson Mandela being elected President.
* 1996 &ndash; The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
* 1999 &ndash; Abdelaziz Bouteflika becomes President of Algeria.

### From 2001 
* 2005 &ndash; The Superjumbo aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight in France.
* 2006 &ndash; Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in New York City.
* 2007 &ndash; The Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in Tallinn is removed by Estonian authorities, amidst tensions with Russia.
* 2009 &ndash; The United Kingdom announces its first cases of the 2009 Swine flu outbreak.
* 2011 &ndash; A tornado outbreak kills hundreds of people in the Southeastern United States.
* 2014 &ndash; Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are declared saints.
* 2018 &ndash; South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for talks.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 85 BC &ndash; Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman politician and general (d. 43 BC)
* 1623 &ndash; Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer (d. 1722)
* 1650 &ndash; Charlotte-Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
* 1676 &ndash; King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
* 1701 &ndash; Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
* 1724 &ndash; Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1755)
* 1755 &ndash; Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
* 1759 &ndash; Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and feminist (d. 1797)
* 1770 &ndash; Edward Codrington, English admiral (d. 1851)
* 1788 &ndash; Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist and writer (d. 1863)
* 1791 &ndash; Samuel Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
* 1802 &ndash; Louis Niedermeyer, French–Swiss composer and teacher (d. 1861)
* 1806 &ndash; Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
* 1820 &ndash; Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1908)
* 1822 &ndash; Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
* 1840 &ndash; Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
* 1848 &ndash; Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
* 1853 &ndash; Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
* 1856 &ndash; Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875)
* 1857 &ndash; Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (d. 1914)
* 1860 &ndash; Frank Winkelmeier, Austrian, tallest man at the time of his death (d. 1887)
* 1862 &ndash; Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish–American actor (d. 1930)
* 1866 &ndash; Marcel Raoul-Duval, French polo player (d. 1916)
* 1875 &ndash; Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1960)
* 1878 &ndash; John Rimmer, British athlete (d. 1962)
* 1878 &ndash; Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
* 1880 &ndash; Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (d. 1958)
* 1882 &ndash; Jessie Redmon Fauset, American writer and poet (d. 1961) 
* 1887 &ndash; Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
* 1888 &ndash; Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
* 1892 &ndash; Albert Rudomine, French photographer (d. 1975)
* 1893 &ndash; Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1939)
* 1893 &ndash; Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (d. 1976)
* 1894 &ndash; Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian composer, conductor, musician, critic and writer (d. 1995)
* 1894 &ndash; George Petty, American artist (d. 1975)
* 1896 &ndash; William Hudson, Australian engineer (d. 1978)
* 1896 &ndash; Wallace Carothers, American chemist (d. 1937)
* 1898 &ndash; Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian–American writer and illustrator (d. 1962)
* 1899 &ndash; Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
* 1903 &ndash; Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990) 
* 1904 &ndash; Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
* 1904 &ndash; Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
* 1905 &ndash; John Huck, American javelin thrower and shot putter (d. 1986)
* 1909 &ndash; Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (d. 1971)
* 1910 &ndash; Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese–Taiwanese politician (d. 1988)
* 1911 &ndash; Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
* 1912 &ndash; Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
* 1912 &ndash; Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (d. 2001)
* 1913 &ndash; Luz Long, German long jumper (d. 1943)
* 1918 &ndash; Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008)
* 1920 &ndash; Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
* 1920 &ndash; Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
* 1921 &ndash; Robert Dhéry, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004) 
* 1922 &ndash; Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 2016)
* 1922 &ndash; Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1926 &ndash; Tim LaHaye, American minister, writer and speaker (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Coretta Scott King, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Sheila Scott, English aviator (d. 1988)
* 1929 &ndash; Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (d. 2016)
* 1931 &ndash; Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
* 1931 &ndash; Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist (d. 1969)
* 1932 &ndash; Anouk Aimée, French actress
* 1932 &ndash; Casey Kasem, American radio show host and voice actor (d. 2014)
* 1932 &ndash; Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
* 1932 &ndash; Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
* 1932 &ndash; Chuck Knox, American football coach (d. 2018)
* 1932 &ndash; Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
* 1939 &ndash; Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
* 1939 &ndash; Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer
* 1939 &ndash; Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
* 1941 &ndash; Fethullah Gülen, Turkish politician and religious leader
* 1942 &ndash; Valeri Polyakov, Soviet–Russian cosmonaut
* 1943 &ndash; Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (d. 2019)
* 1944 &ndash; Michael Fish, English weather presenter
* 1944 &ndash; Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, English academic and politician
* 1947 &ndash; Nick Greiner, Hungarian–Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
* 1947 &ndash; Pete Ham, Welsh singer–songwriter and musician (d. 1975)
* 1947 &ndash; Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
* 1948 &ndash; Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer and coach
* 1948 &ndash; Frank Abagnale, American security consultant and trickster
* 1949 &ndash; Jean Asselborn, Luxembourgish politician
* 1950 &ndash; Paolo Pulici, Italian footballer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Ace Frehley, American musician
* 1951 &ndash; Viviane Reding, Luxembourgish journalist and politician
* 1952 &ndash; Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
* 1953 &ndash; Arielle Dombasle, French–American actress and singer
* 1954 &ndash; Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician
* 1954 &ndash; Herman Edwards, American football manager
* 1954 &ndash; John Cygan, American actor (d. 2017)
* 1955 &ndash; Eric Schmidt, American entrepreneur, former CEO of Google
* 1956 &ndash; Bridget Kendall, English journalist
* 1957 &ndash; Adrian Utley, English musician
* 1959 &ndash; Andrew Fire, American Nobel Prize–winning biologist
* 1959 &ndash; Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
* 1959 &ndash; Jim Duffy, Scottish footballer and coach
* 1961 &ndash; Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality, model, politician and writer (d. 1994)
* 1961 &ndash; Andrew Schlafly, American conservative lawyer and activist
* 1962 &ndash; Edvard Moser, Norwegian neurologist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
* 1963 &ndash; Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
* 1965 &ndash; Anna Chancellor, English actress
* 1966 &ndash; Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
* 1967 &ndash; King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
* 1967 &ndash; Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer and educator
* 1968 &ndash; Cristian Mungiu, Romanian filmmaker
* 1969 &ndash; Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
* 1969 &ndash; Mica Paris, English singer
* 1969 &ndash; Tess Daly, English television presenter
* 1969 &ndash; Cory Booker, American politician
* 1971 &ndash; Olari Elts, Estonian conductor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Sally Hawkins, English actress
* 1976 &ndash; Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
* 1976 &ndash; Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter and critic
* 1976 &ndash; Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
* 1978 &ndash; Jim James, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (My Morning Jacket)
* 1980 &ndash; Christian Lara, Ecuadorean footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer-songwriter
* 1982 &ndash; Nicole Hosp, Austrian politician
* 1983 &ndash; Ari Gaynor, American actress
* 1984 &ndash; Patrick Stump, American musician
* 1984 &ndash; Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1984 &ndash; Hannes Thór Halldórsson, Icelandic footballer and filmmaker
* 1986 &ndash; Jenna Coleman, British actress
* 1986 &ndash; Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
* 1986 &ndash; Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
* 1987 &ndash; William Moseley, English actor
* 1988 &ndash; Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1989 &ndash; Lars Bender, German footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Sven Bender, German footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Emily Rios, American actress and model
* 1990 &ndash; Robin Bengtsson, Swedish singer
* 1990 &ndash; Martin Kelly, English footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Lara Gut, Swiss skier
* 1992 &ndash; Allison Iraheta, American actress
* 1995 &ndash; Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 630 &ndash; Ardashir III of Persia
* 1272 &ndash; Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
* 1404 &ndash; Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
* 1463 &ndash; Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
* 1521 &ndash; Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
* 1605 &ndash; Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
* 1613 &ndash; Robert Abercromby, Scottish priest and missionary (b. 1532)
* 1656 &ndash; Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
* 1694 &ndash; John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
* 1794 &ndash; James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer (b. 1730)
* 1813 &ndash; Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
* 1818 &ndash; Christopher Greenup, 3rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
* 1882 &ndash; Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
* 1896 &ndash; Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician (b. 1815)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1915 &ndash; Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
* 1932 &ndash; Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
* 1937 &ndash; Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
* 1952 &ndash; Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
* 1962 &ndash; A. K. Fazlul, Bengali statesman (b. 1883)
* 1965 &ndash; Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
* 1969 &ndash; René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
* 1972 &ndash; Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
* 1977 &ndash; Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1977 &ndash; Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1891)
* 1979 &ndash; Celal Atik, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (b. 1918)
* 1989 &ndash; Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
* 1991 &ndash; Robert Velter, French comic writer (b. 1909)
* 1992 &ndash; Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
* 1996 &ndash; Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
* 1996 &ndash; William Colby, American CIA director (b. 1920)
* 1998 &ndash; Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian writer (b. 1925)
* 2000 &ndash; Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (b. 1954)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
* 2002 &ndash; Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch–Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
* 2006 &ndash; Julia Thorne, American writer (b. 1944)
* 2007 &ndash; Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
* 2009 &ndash; Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
* 2013 &ndash; Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
* 2014 &ndash; Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1931)
* 2014 &ndash; Harry Firth, Australian racing driver (b. 1918)
* 2014 &ndash; Andréa Parisy, French actress (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
* 2015 &ndash; Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Suzanne Crough, American actress (b. 1963)
* 2015 &ndash; Gene Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboardist (b. 1960)
* 2015 &ndash; Marty Napoleon, American jazz pianist (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Toms, Indian cartoonist (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Peter George, Canadian academic (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Vinod Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1946)
* 2017 &ndash; Vinu Chakravarthy, Indian actor (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; Julius Youngner, American virologist (b. 1920)
* 2018 &ndash; Paul Junger Witt, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
* 2018 &ndash; Roy Young, English singer and pianist (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; Earl Balfour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Michael Luscombe, Australian chief executive (b. 1953)
* 2018 &ndash; Kristin Nelson, American actress, painter and writer (b. 1945)
* 2019 &ndash; Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (b. 1955)
* 2019 &ndash; Negasso Gidada, President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Bart Chilton, American civil servant (b. 1960)

## Observances 
* Independence Day in Togo (1960) and Sierra Leone (1961)
* Freedom Day in South Africa
* World Tapir Day
* King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)