July 27

 

 

July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
• 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
• 1202 – Battle of Basian.
• 1214 – Battle of Bouvines : Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
• 1302 – Battle of Bapheus: decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithyniea for Turkish conquest.
• 1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
• 1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
• 1689 – Glorious Revolution: the Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
• 1694 – A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
• 1720 – The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy.
• 1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• 1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
• 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
• 1862 – Sailing from San Francisco, California to Panama City, Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
• 1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
• 1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
• 1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
• 1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
• 1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
• 1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government.
• 1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
• 1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
• 1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
• 1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
• 1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
• 1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indochina.
• 1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
• 1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
• 1953 – Fighting in the Korean War ends when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
• 1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
• 1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
• 1981 – British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
• 1981 – 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.
• 1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
• 1987 – RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
• 1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.
• 1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
• 1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
• 1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
• 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
• 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
• 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
• 2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
• 2007 – Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase;
• 2012 – The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, United Kingdom. The last time that the Games were held in the United Kingdom was 1948.

Births

• 1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza (d. 1508)
• 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
• 1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
• 1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
• 1741 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French violinist and composer (d. 1808)
• 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839)
• 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer of Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
• 1768 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
• 1773 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
• 1777 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844)
• 1777 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English soldier (d. 1853)
• 1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
• 1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
• 1812 – Thomas Lanier Clingman, American general (d. 1897)
• 1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
• 1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
• 1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• 1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
• 1848 – Thomas Herbst German painter (d. 1915)
• 1853 – Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian-Russian writer (d. 1921)
• 1857 – José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
• 1858 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer (d. 1938)
• 1866 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician, 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
• 1867 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
• 1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
• 1877 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
• 1878 – John Henry Lake, American racing cyclist (death date unknown)
• 1879 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer and businessman, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
• 1891 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Robert George, Scottish soldier, 24th Governor of South Australia (d. 1967)
• 1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
• 1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Fern Persons, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1911 – Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1981)
• 1912 – Vernon Elliott, English conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (d. 1993)
• 1913 – George L. Street III American navy captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982)
• 1915 – Josef Priller, German pilot (d. 1961)
• 1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, American critic and novelist (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Skippy Williams, American saxophonist and arranger (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1917 – Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
• 1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Émile Genest, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Norman Lear, American scriptwriter and producer
• 1923 – Mas Oyama, Japanese karate master, founded Kyokushinkai karate (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Moonglows and New Birth) (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Jack Higgins, English novelist
• 1929 – Marc Wilkinson, Australian composer and conductor
• 1930 – Shirley Williams, English politician
• 1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
• 1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
• 1932 – Forest Able, American basketball player
• 1933 – Nick Reynolds, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer (d. 1995)
• 1935 – Billy McCullough, Irish footballer
• 1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician
• 1937 – Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1938 – Isabelle Aubret, French singer
• 1938 – Gary Gygax, American game designer and writer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (d. 2008)
• 1939 – Michael Longley, Irish poet
• 1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Christian Boesch, Austrian singer
• 1941 – Johannes Fritsch, German composer (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Édith Butler, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1942 – John Pleshette, American actor
• 1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
• 1944 – Tony Capstick, English comedian and actor (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
• 1944 – Barbara Thomson, English musician and composer (Colosseum)
• 1946 – Peter Reading, English poet (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
• 1947 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
• 1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
• 1948 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1948 – Betty Thomas, American actor and director
• 1948 – Henny Vrienten, Dutch singer-songwriter, bass player, and composer (Doe Maar)
• 1949 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
• 1949 – André Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 – Rory MacDonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (Runrig and The Band from Rockall)
• 1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer and actress
• 1949 – Robert Rankin, English novelist
• 1950 – Simon Jones, English actor
• 1952 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sportscaster
• 1952 – Roxanne Hart, American actress
• 1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian actor, director, and composer
• 1953 – Chung Dong-young, South Korean Politician
• 1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver
• 1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician
• 1954 – Ricardo Uceda, Peruvian journalist
• 1955 – Cat Bauer, American novelist
• 1955 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer
• 1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress
• 1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian and actor
• 1957 – Matt Osborne, American wrestler
• 1957 – Allan Simmons, English Scrabble player
• 1958 – Christopher Dean, English figure skater
• 1959 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
• 1959 – Hugh Green, American football player
• 1959 – Yiannos Papantoniou, Greek politician
• 1960 – Conway Savage, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
• 1962 – Karl Mueller, American bass player (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
• 1963 – Karrin Allyson, American singer and pianist
• 1963 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor
• 1964 – Rex Brown, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Pantera, Kill Devil Hill, and Down)
• 1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
• 1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads)
• 1967 – Sasha Mitchell, American actor
• 1967 – David Chacón Perez, Venezuelan director and producer
• 1967 – Neil Smith, English cricketer
• 1967 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1967 – Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
• 1968 – Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
• 1968 – Tom Goodwin, American baseball player
• 1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor
• 1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian race car driver
• 1969 – Triple H, American wrestler and actor
• 1969 – Timo Maas, German DJ and producer
• 1969 – Giannis Milonas, Greek basketball player
• 1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
• 1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor
• 1971 – Emma Laura Gutiérrez Jiménez, Mexican actress who disappeared
• 1972 – Jill Arrington, American sports-caster
• 1972 – Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
• 1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress, singer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian astronaut
• 1973 – Cassandra Clare, American author
• 1973 – Abe Cunningham, American drummer (Deftones and Phallucy)
• 1973 – Erik Nys, Belgian long jumper
• 1973 – Tracy Shaw, English actress
• 1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer, producer, and actor
• 1974 – Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
• 1975 – Fred Mascherino, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Taking Back Sunday, The Color Fred, and Terrible Things)
• 1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
• 1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
• 1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean illustrator and writer
• 1977 – Björn Dreyer, German footballer
• 1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
• 1978 – Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Irish hurler
• 1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
• 1979 – Sidney Govou, French footballer
• 1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler
• 1980 – Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
• 1980 – Dolph Ziggler, American wrestler
• 1981 – Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
• 1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
• 1981 – Christopher Weselek, German rugby player
• 1982 – Cascy Beddow, Canadian acror
• 1982 – Neil Harbisson, Irish-Catalan artist, composer, and activist
• 1983 – Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
• 1983 – Martijn Maaskant, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
• 1983 – Blair Redford, American actor
• 1984 – Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
• 1984 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
• 1984 – Iekeliene Stange, Dutch model
• 1984 – Kenny Wormald, American dancer and actor
• 1985 – Aljin Abella, Filipino-Australian actor
• 1985 – Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
• 1985 – Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
• 1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
• 1986 – DeMarre Carroll, American basketball player
• 1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
• 1986 – Nathan Stephenson, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Jacoby Ford, American football player
• 1987 – Marek Hamšík, Slovakian footballer
• 1987 – Jordan Hill, American basketball player
• 1987 – Sarah Parsons, American ice hockey player
• 1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
• 1989 – Mohamed Bangura, Sierra Leonean footballer
• 1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
• 1990 – Nick Hogan, American actor
• 1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gloriana)
• 1991 – Rena Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (SKE48)
• 1993 – Elana Binysh, English actress
• 1993 – Max Power, English footballer
• 1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
• 1996 – Ashlyn Sanchez, American actress

Deaths

• 432 – Pope Celestine I
• 1101 – Conrad II of Italy (b. 1074)
• 1276 – James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
• 1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
• 1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
• 1675 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French marshal (b. 1611)
• 1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
• 1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, English statesman (b. 1693)
• 1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet, and painter (b. 1814)
• 1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
• 1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (b. 1811)
• 1883 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1916 – Charles Fryatt, English navy captain (b. 1872)
• 1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French army general and marshal (b. 1854)
• 1938 – John Exley, American rower (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
• 1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
• 1948 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Claire Lee Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
• 1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Babe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Bob Heffron, Australian politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian ruler (b. 1919)
• 1981 – William Wyler, German-American director (b. 1902)
• 1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1986 – Nikos Nikolaou, Greek sculpture (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor, invented the ice resurfacer (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (b. 1928)
• 1991 – John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and con-artist (b. 1950)
• 1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photographer (b. 1960)
• 1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Binnie Barnes, English actress (b. 1903)
• 1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sweets Edison, American trumpet player (Count Basie Orchestra) (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling announcer (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch writer and illustrator (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – James Oyebola, English boxer (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Bejaratana Rajasuda, Thai princess (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2012 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Carl-Ludwig Wagner, German politician (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba.
  • Pantaleon
  • Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Roman Martyrology)
  • July 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Iglesia Ni Cristo Day (the Philippines)
• José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
• Martyrs and Invalids Day (Vietnam)
• National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
• Victory Day (North Korea)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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