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What happend on 27. October in History
In our data base we found 314 events happened on 27. October:
• 312: Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. [category: Events]
• 710: Saracen invasion of Sardinia. [category: Events]
• 939: Æthelstan, English king (b. 895) [category: Deaths]
• 939: Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. [category: Events]
• 1156: Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222) [category: Births]
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• 1271: Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213) [category: Deaths]
• 1275: Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. [category: Events]
• 1312: John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275) [category: Deaths]
• 1327: Elizabeth de Burgh, Scottish wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289) [category: Deaths]
• 1401: Catherine of Valois (d. 1437) [category: Births]
• 1430: Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350) [category: Deaths]
• 1439: Albert II of Germany (b. 1397) [category: Deaths]
• 1449: Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician, and sultan (b. 1394) [category: Deaths]
• 1505: Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440) [category: Deaths]
• 1524: Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia. [category: Events]
• 1553: Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511) [category: Deaths]
• 1553: Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. [category: Events]
• 1561: Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510) [category: Deaths]
• 1573: Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499) [category: Deaths]
• 1605: Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542) [category: Deaths]
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• 1617: Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563) [category: Deaths]
• 1644: Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1670: Vavasor Powell, Welsh preacher (b. 1617) [category: Deaths]
• 1674: Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) [category: Deaths]
• 1675: Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) [category: Deaths]
• 1682: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. [category: Events]
• 1703: Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771) [category: Births]
• 1744: Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819) [category: Births]
• 1760: August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831) [category: Births]
• 1766: Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817) [category: Births]
• 1782: Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1789: John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. [category: Events]
• 1806: Juan Seguín, American politician (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1806: The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena. [category: Events]
• 1810: United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. [category: Events]
• 1811: Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1811: Stevens T. Mason, American politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843) [category: Births]
• 1814: Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1827: Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano [category: Events]
• 1838: John Davis Long, American politician, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1838: Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. [category: Events]
• 1842: Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1844: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish author, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1854: William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1858: Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1865: Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1869: Viola Allen, American actress (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1870: Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. [category: Events]
• 1872: Emily Post, American author (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1877: George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1880: Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1894: Oliver Leese, English general (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1896: Edith Haisman, South African-English survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1904: Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. [category: Events]
• 1906: Earle Cabell, American politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1906: Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1907: Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. This would led to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary. [category: Events]
• 1908: Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1910: Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1911: Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1913: Joe Medicine Crow, American historian, author, and anthropologist [category: Births]
• 1914: Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1914: World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1915: Harry Saltzman, Canadian film producer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1916: Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu. [category: Events]
• 1917: Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: Oliver Tambo, South African politician (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1917: Arthur Rhys-Davids, English pilot (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1920: K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1920: Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1921: Warren Allen Smith, American activist and humanist [category: Births]
• 1922: Michel Galabru, French actor [category: Births]
• 1922: Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1922: Ralph Kiner, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1922: A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. [category: Events]
• 1923: Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1923: Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1924: Ruby Dee, American actress, scriptwriter, and poet [category: Births]
• 1924: The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1925: Warren Christopher, American politician and diplomat, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1926: H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1926: Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Dominick Argento, American composer [category: Births]
• 1927: Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet [category: Births]
• 1929: Maurice Robert Johnston, English general [category: Births]
• 1930: ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions go into effect immediately [category: Events]
• 1931: Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author [category: Births]
• 1932: Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1932: Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1932: Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1932: Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1933: Floyd Cramer, American pianist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1933: Valentin Boreyko, Russian rower (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1934: Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director [category: Births]
• 1935: Frank Adonis, American actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1935: Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. [category: Events]
• 1937: Lara Parker, American actress [category: Births]
• 1939: John Cleese, English actor, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1939: Suzy Covey, American scholar (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1940: John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1940: Maxine Hong Kingston, American author [category: Births]
• 1941: Dick Trickle, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1942: Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1942: Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Carmen Argenziano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1943: Jerry Rook, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1944: J. A. Jance, American author [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. [category: Events]
• 1945: Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist (Masqualero) [category: Births]
• 1945: John Kane, Scottish actor and scriptwriter [category: Births]
• 1945: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian politician, 35th President of Brazil [category: Births]
• 1946: Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1946: Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, producer and director [category: Births]
• 1946: Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer [category: Births]
• 1947: William Fay, Irish actor and producer (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. [category: Events]
• 1949: Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1949: Garry Tallent, American bass player and producer (E Street Band) [category: Births]
• 1949: Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Fran Lebowitz, American author [category: Births]
• 1950: Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1951: Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English cosmologist [category: Births]
• 1951: Jayne Kennedy, American actress and sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1951: K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter (Judas Priest) [category: Births]
• 1951: Nancy Jacobs, American politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Éric Morena, French singer [category: Births]
• 1952: Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher [category: Births]
• 1952: Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director [category: Births]
• 1952: Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer (Agents) (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1953: Peter Firth, English actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Robert Picardo, American actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. [category: Events]
• 1954: Jan Duursema, American illustrator [category: Births]
• 1954: Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. [category: Events]
• 1955: Debra Bowen, American politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Babis Tsertos, Greek singer and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1956: Jaq D. Hawkins, English occultist and author [category: Births]
• 1956: Veronica Hart, American porn actress and director [category: Births]
• 1957: Glenn Hoddle, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1957: Jeff East, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1958: Lee Carter, American judge [category: Births]
• 1958: Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter (Duran Duran and Arcadia) [category: Births]
• 1958: Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. [category: Events]
• 1959: Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1960: Tom Nieto, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1961: NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. [category: Events]
• 1962: Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. [category: Events]
• 1962: Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. [category: Events]
• 1963: Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Ärzte) [category: Births]
• 1963: Marla Maples, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1964: Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1964: Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing". [category: Events]
• 1966: Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1966: Matt Drudge, American blogger, founded the Drudge Report [category: Births]
• 1967: Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, The Wondergirls, and Camp Freddy) [category: Births]
• 1967: Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1967: Steve Almond, American author [category: Births]
• 1967: Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. [category: Events]
• 1968: Alain Auderset, Swiss author [category: Births]
• 1968: Dileep, Indian actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1968: Vinny Samways, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Peter O'Meara, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth, At the Gates, Nemhain, The Haunted, Nifelheim, and Brujeria) [category: Births]
• 1970: Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1970: Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer [category: Births]
• 1970: Jonathan Stroud, English author [category: Births]
• 1971: Jade Arcade, American illustrator and writer [category: Births]
• 1971: Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. [category: Events]
• 1972: Brad Radke, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Elissa, Lebanese singer [category: Births]
• 1972: Evan Coyne Maloney, American director [category: Births]
• 1972: Lee Clark, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner [category: Births]
• 1972: Marika Krook, Swedish singer and actress (Edea) [category: Births]
• 1973: Jason Johnson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado. [category: Events]
• 1974: C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach [category: Births]
• 1975: Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Deryck Cooke, English author and historian (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1977: Sheeri Rappaport, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: James M. Cain, American author (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist [category: Births]
• 1978: Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist [category: Births]
• 1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1980: Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Judy LaMarsh, Canadian lawyer, politician, and author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (T. Rex, Shagrat, and Steve Took's Horns) (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Kristi Richards, Canadian skier [category: Births]
• 1981: Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. [category: Events]
• 1982: Patrick Fugit, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1983: Brent Clevlen, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Bam Doyne, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Brady Quinn, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1984: Kelly Osbourne, English singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: David Warner, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jon Niese, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Matty Pattison, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. [category: Events]
• 1987: Andrew Bynum, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1987: Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Brady Ellison, American archer [category: Births]
• 1988: Evan Turner, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure. [category: Events]
• 1990: Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Elliott Roosevelt, American air force officer and author (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jacques Demy, French director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Princess Sophie von Hohenberg (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1992: Emily Hagins, American director [category: Births]
• 1992: Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: David Bohm, American physicist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. [category: Events]
• 1994: Eddie Alderson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. [category: Events]
• 1994: The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history. [category: Events]
• 1995: Cooper Pillot, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. [category: Events]
• 1995: Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. [category: Events]
• 1996: Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress [category: Births]
• 1997: October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. [category: Events]
• 1999: Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) [category: Births]
• 1999: Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. [category: Events]
• 2000: Walter Berry, Austrian opera singer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Tom Dowd, American record producer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Zdenko Runjić, Croatian composer (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. [category: Events]
• 2006: Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: August Coppola, American academic and author (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: James Wall, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: James Hillman, American psychologist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian politician (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bill White, American illustrator (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ian Buist, English diplomat (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jacques Dupin, French poet (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rodney S. Quinn, American politician (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• _: Abbán [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Elesbaan [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Frumentius (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Navy Day, first organized to be on this day. (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]