Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 27
Births
[edit]- 1781 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
- 1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, notable martial artist and founder of Kyokushin karate (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
- 1957 - Bill Engvall, American comedian
- 1969 - Triple H, WWE wrestler
- 1974 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
- 1975 - Alex Rodriguez, (pictured) baseball player
- 1977 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
- 1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
- 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
- 1844 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
- 1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
- 2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)