128,988 People
People who died on March 27, 1968 (the exact day you were born)
- Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
Natural disasters in 1968
- 1968 Casiguran earthquake
People who died on March 27 (various years)
- 2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan
- 2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer
- 2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer
- 2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director
- 2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist
- 2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer
- 2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon
- 2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer
- 2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer
- 2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
- 2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor
- 2002 - Billy Wilder, American director
- 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor
- 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian
- 2000 - Ian Dury, English musician
- 1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer
- 1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist
- 1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect
- 1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader
- 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridge player
- 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor
- 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor
- 1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and film director
- 1989 - May Allison, American actress
- 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer
- 1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress
- 1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
- 1972 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist
- 1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician
- 1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared)
- 1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist
- 1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player
- 1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer
- 1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist
- 1918 - Henry Adams, American historian
- 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz
- 1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual
- 1889 - John Bright, English statesman
- 1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect
- 1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian
- 1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian
- 1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar
- 1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar
- 1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer
- 1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
- 1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist
- 1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary
- 1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer
- 1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter
- 1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist
- 1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer
- 1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate
- 1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician
- 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland
- 1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
- 1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
- 1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I
- 1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow
- 1378 - Pope Gregory XI
- 1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile
- 1191 - Pope Clement III
- 973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony
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Interesting information. I am going to go check out my birthday - thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCheers!