Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 27

Births

• 1389 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
• 1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
• 1824 - William "Bull" Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
• 1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
• 1894 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
• 1918 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
• 1934 - Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
• 1942 - Alvin Stardust, English singer (d. 2014)
• 1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer (d. 2022) (pictured)
• 1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
• 1978 - Jon Rauch, American baseball player
• 1980 - Asashoryu, Mongolian sumo wrestler

Deaths

• 1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
• 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
• 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
• 1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
• 1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)