October 27 facts for kids

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 65 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
• 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
• 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
• 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

1601–1900

• 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• 1674 – The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.
• 1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• 1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
• 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1806 – The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
• 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
• 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

1901–present

• 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• 1914 – World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• 1916 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
• 1919 – The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.
• 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
• 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
• 1936 – Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
• 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
• 1948 – Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
• 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• 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 over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
• 1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
• 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
• 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
• 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
• 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 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.
• 1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
• 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
• 1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
• 2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
• 2018 – Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.

Births

Pre-1600

• 892 – Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (d. 908)
• 921 – Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (d. 959)
• 1156 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
• 1335 – Taejo of Joseon (d. 1408)
• 1401 – Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
• 1561 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
• 1572 – Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (d. 1578)

1601–1900

• 1615 – Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (d. 1691)
• 1661 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (d. 1728)
• 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
• 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and academic (d. 1819)
• 1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
• 1765 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
• 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• 1806 – Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (d. 1890)
• 1811 – Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
• 1811 – Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
• 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (d. 1891)
• 1838 – John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1915)
• 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928)
• 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
• 1858 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935)
• 1858 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
• 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (d. 1958)
• 1868 – William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
• 1877 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949)
• 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943)
• 1884 – Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
• 1890 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (d. 1974)
• 1894 – Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
• 1894 – Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978)
• 1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (d. 1946)
• 1894 – Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (d. 1988)

1901–present

• 1904 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (d. 1992)
• 1906 – Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (d. 2016)
• 1913 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
• 1914 – Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (d. 1979)
• 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 1953)
• 1915 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1918 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
• 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2017)
• 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Paul Fox, English broadcaster
• 1925 – Monica Sims, English radio host and producer (d. 2018)
• 1926 – Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943)
• 1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
• 1926 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (d. 2019)
• 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1929 – Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Bill George, American football player (d. 1982)
• 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• 1930 – Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
• 1930 – Barry Supple, English historian and academic
• 1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2021)
• 1931 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2020)
• 1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
• 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 – Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist
• 1935 – Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (d. 2017)
• 1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
• 1938 – Lara Parker, American actress and author (d. 2023)
• 1939 – John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
• 1939 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
• 1940 – John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
• 1941 – Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
• 1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
• 1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach
• 1944 – J. A. Jance, American author and poet
• 1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
• 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 39th President of Brazil
• 1945 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
• 1946 – Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2022)
• 1948 – Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter
• 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player and record producer
• 1950 – Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
• 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
• 1950 – Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
• 1950 – A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
• 1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
• 1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
• 1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
• 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
• 1952 – Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
• 1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
• 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Jan Duursema, American illustrator
• 1954 – Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (d. 2012)
• 1954 – Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
• 1955 – Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California
• 1956 – Patty Sheehan, American golfer
• 1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
• 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
• 1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 – Gordon Cowans, English footballer
• 1958 – David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
• 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro
• 1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1963 – David Hall, Australian horse trainer
• 1963 – Marla Maples, American model and actress
• 1963 – Tom McKean, Scottish runner
• 1964 – Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
• 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1964 – Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor
• 1966 – Steve Almond, American author and educator
• 1966 – Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
• 1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
• 1966 – Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
• 1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
• 1967 – Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
• 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1968 – Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
• 1968 – Dileep, Indian actor and producer
• 1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
• 1969 – Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer
• 1969 – Michael Tarnat, German footballer
• 1970 – Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (d. 1997)
• 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
• 1970 – Jonathan Stroud, English author
• 1970 – Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
• 1971 – Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
• 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician
• 1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
• 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
• 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
• 1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball player
• 1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1975 – Predrag Drobnjak, Montenegrin basketball player
• 1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1975 – Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
• 1976 – Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler
• 1976 – Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
• 1976 – Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
• 1977 – Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
• 1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout
• 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
• 1979 – Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
• 1980 – Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
• 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author
• 1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
• 1981 – Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model
• 1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
• 1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
• 1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
• 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
• 1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
• 1983 – Takuro Okuyama, Japanese footballer
• 1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
• 1984 – Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
• 1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
• 1984 – Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
• 1985 – Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
• 1985 – Sandra Volk, Slovenian tennis player
• 1986 – Chris Butler, American ice hockey player
• 1986 – Anna Cruz, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 – Christine Evangelista, American actress
• 1986 – Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player
• 1986 – Jon Niese, American baseball player
• 1986 – Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
• 1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
• 1986 – Lou Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
• 1987 – Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete
• 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
• 1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
• 1988 – Brady Ellison, American archer
• 1988 – Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
• 1988 – Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
• 1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mark Barron, American football player
• 1990 – Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player
• 1990 – Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
• 1990 – Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
• 1991 – Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
• 1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1992 – Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
• 1992 – Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer
• 1993 – Troy Gentile, American actor
• 1993 – Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
• 1994 – Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1995 – Leon Draisaitl, German ice hockey player
• 1996 – Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1996 – Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor
• 1997 – Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
• 1997 – James TW, English singer-songwriter
• 1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 939 – Æthelstan, English king
• 1052 – Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
• 1269 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
• 1272 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
• 1277 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
• 1303 – Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
• 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
• 1326 – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262)
• 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
• 1329 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
• 1331 – Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• 1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
• 1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
• 1441 – Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
• 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
• 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (b. 1443)
• 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
• 1513 – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
• 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
• 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
• 1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)

1601–1900

• 1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
• 1613 – Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
• 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1563)
• 1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
• 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
• 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
• 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
• 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
• 1812 – Isaac Brock, British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1769)
• 1816 – Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1761)
• 1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)

1901–present

• 1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
• 1929 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
• 1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
• 1944 – Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1957 – James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
• 1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
• 1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
• 1977 – James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
• 1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
• 1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (b. 1969)
• 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (b. 1939)
• 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
• 2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
• 2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
• 2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
• 2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2009 – August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
• 2009 – David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
• 2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
• 2014 – Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933)
• 2016 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915)
• 2018 – Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, chairman of Leicester City F.C (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (b. 1971)
• 2023 – Li Keqiang, premier of China (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Abbán
  • Abraham the Poor
  • Frumentius (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Gaudiosus of Naples
  • Kaleb of Axum
  • Namatius (Namace)
  • Oran of Iona
  • October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)
• Flag Day (Greece)
• Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.
• Navy Day (United States) (unofficial, official date is October 13)
• World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

See also

In Spanish: 27 de octubre para niños