27th
February, on this day
0837 15th recorded
perihelion
passage of Halley's
Comet
1526 Saxony
and Hesse
form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Lutheran princes in the Holy Roman Empire form a defensive alliance
known as the Schmalkaldic
League.
1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
1560 The
Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland,
is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1563 William
Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln
Cathedral
1594 Henri
IV crowned king of France
1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty
of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian
War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 Yuan
Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the
Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1665 Battle at Elmina,
Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold
I
1678 Earl
of Shaftesbury freed from Tower of London
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific island of
New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad,
Curaçao
1776 Battle
of Moore's Creek Bridge between North Carolina patriots and Scottish
Loyalists.
1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1812 Poet
Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of
Lords, in defense of Luddite
violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1813 1st US federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1814 Battle
of Bar-sur-Aube between France and Austria
1814 Battle
of Orthez Anglo-Portuguese army defeat French army
1814 Ludwig
von Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1816 Dutch regain Suriname
1827 1st Mardi
Gras celebration in New Orleans. LA
1836 Battle
of San Patricio between the Republic of Mexico and the rebelling
Mexican state of Texas
1844 Dominican
Republic gains independence from Haiti
1849 Battle
of Kápolna between Austria and Hungary
1854 Composer Robert
Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1861 Warsaw Massacre: A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over
Poland is fired upon by Russian troops killing five protesters
1864 Near Andersonville GA, Confederates open a new POW camp "Camp
Sumter"
1864 6th and last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, MO
1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1872 Charlotte
Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's
Cricket Ground
1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford
B. Hayes winner Presidential election
1879 Constantin
Fahlberg discovers
saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle
of Majuba Hill, South Africa Boers vs British army under General
Colley
1883 Oscar
Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes),
San Francisco; match is draw
1900 The formation of the Labour
Representation Committee in Britain by the Independent Labour
Party, the Fabian Society, the Social Democratic Federation and trade
unions at a conference in London. Aim: to increase the independent
representation of working people in Parliament. Committee secretary
was future Labour Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald
1900 Battle
at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English
in Pardenberg, South-Africa
1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New
Hebrides
1907 London's main criminal court, the 'Old
Bailey' is built on the site of Newgate
Prison
1908 200 die in
a coal mine (Mina
Rosita Vieja disaster, San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico)
1908 Sacrifice
fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 Star number 46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1912 Lord
Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1919 1st public performance of Holst's
"The
Planets"
1921 The International
Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.
1922 Supreme
Court unanimously upheld 19th amendment woman's right to vote
1924 Belgium's Theunis
government falls
1925 Hitler
resurrects NSDAP
political party in Munich
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for
violating Sabbath
1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1929 Russia and US sign trade agreement
1930 Bouvet
Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1932 Mäntsälä
Rebellion occurs in Finland.
1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set
by Nazis, blamed on communists)
1937 Battle
of Jarama ends Spanish
Civil War.
1938 Britain and France recognize Franco government in Spain
1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot
falls
1939 Borley
Rectory "the most haunted house in England" burns
1940 Martin
Kamen and Sam
Ruben discovered carbon-14
1942 Battle
of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
1942 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 The
Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1943 The
Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
1946 4th "Road" film, "Road
to Utopia" premieres (New York NY)
1947 Paul-Emile
Victor French polar expedition
1949 Chaim
Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
1950 General
Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 22nd
amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President
to 2 terms in office
1956 Elvis
Presley's releases "Heartbreak
Hotel"
1957 Mao's speech "On
the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo
Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1965 France
performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker. Algeria
1967 Antigua
and St Christopher-Nevis
become associated states of UK
1967 Dominica
gains independence from England
1967 Pink
Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold
Layne"
1967 Rio
de la Plata Treaty
1968 Ex-The
Teenagers singer Frankie
Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem
1969 General Hafez
al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
1969 President
Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai
Communique
1973 American
Indian Movement occupy Wounded
Knee in South Dakota
1973 Pope
Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1974 "People"
magazine begins sales
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut
bill
1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped by The
Movement 2 June in West Berlin
1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western
Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario
Front declares independence as the Sahrawi
Arab Democratic Republic.
1976 Final meeting between Mao
tse Tung and Richard Nixon
1977 Keith
Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Robert
Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1980 M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia,
holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors
1981 Former British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson announces he will not be standing for Parliament again
at the next General Election
1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing
747
1981 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony
and Ivory"
1982 Wayne
Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
1986 The
United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial
basis.
1987 Donald
Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1988 Gulfstream
G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
1989 German war criminals Austria der
Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989 Venezuela
is rocked by the Caracazo.
1990 Exxon
Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1991 Singer James
Brown is released from prison
1991 Ben
Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
1991 End of the Gulf War after the last of the Iraqi troops have retreated
from Kuwait
1994 17th
Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 Maronite
church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1994 Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros
Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where
it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects
in a pork
barreling fashion.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho,
North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1995 In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced
by the new Denver
International Airport, the largest airport in the United States.
1996 Satoshi
Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokémon.
1997 Singer Sade (Helen
Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton
computer
1998 FBI arrests 10
most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1999 While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon,
Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being
in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
1999 Olusegun
Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
1999 Korea
International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently
directed by Ann Clapper.
2002 Ryanair
Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent
investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 Godhra
train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning
from Ayodhya;
2003 Rowan
Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in
the Anglican church.
2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu
Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party
in Barbuda, Barbudans
for a Better Barbuda.
2005 Pre-pay price capping on the Transport for London oyster
card is introduced.
2007 The general strike against Lansana
Conté in Guinea ends.
2007 The
Chinese Correction, the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbled 9% the
largest drop in 10 years.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 27th February :
0280 Constantine
the Great Roman emperor (306-37), adopted Christianity
1539 Franciscus Raphelengius Dutch book publisher
1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius Dutch painter
1649 Johann Philipp Krieger composer
1702 Johann Valentin Gorner composer
1745 Silverius Muller composer
1746 Gian Francesco Fortunati composer
1759 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab composer
1784 Elias Annes Borger Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
1784 Job Plimpton composer
1792 Don Joaquin B F Espartero Spanish adventurer/field marshal
1802 William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck Lord George Bentinck
1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Portland ME, poet (Hiawatha)
1811 [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee
1822 Eugene Gautier composer
1823 Ferdinand Van Derveer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died
in 1892
1823 William Buel Franklin Major General (Union volunteers), died
in 1903
1827 Richard W Johnson Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in
1897
1832 Alfred Pollard Edward Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1835 Charles Cartuyvels Belgian pulpit orator
1835 Richard Garnett English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker)
1841 [Eleanor] Agnes Lee daughter of US General Robert E Lee
1846 Joaquin Valverde composer
1847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry Coventry England, Shakespearian stage
actress
1848 Charles Hubert H Parry England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1850 Henry Edwards Huntington US, railroad exec
1861 Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy
movement)
1867 Irving Fisher US economist (compensating dollar)
1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer
1869 Alice Hamilton physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws)
1870 Louis Coerne composer
1874 Max Ettinger composer
1879 Jose Sancho Marraco composer
1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician
1881 Sveinn Björnsson 1st President of Iceland (1944-52)/poet
(Figur ild)
1886 Hugo L Black Alabama, (Senator-D-AL)/78th US Supreme Court justice
(1937-71)
1887 James D Innes English painter
1888 Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
1891 David Sarnoff US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
1891 Georges E Migot French composer
1892 William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1893 Joseph Messner composer
1893 Ralph Linton US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan composer
1895 Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
1897 Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (Lyot filter)
1897 G Paul H Schuitema graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
1898 Allison Danzig sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1898 Rutkowski Bronislaw composer
1899 Charles H Best Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes
treatment (Insulin)
1899 Ian Keith Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
1899 Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer
19-- Stephen Yates actor (Another World, Guiding Light)
19-- Tim Topper Baltimore MD, actor (Evan-Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
1901 Marino Marini Italian sculptor/painter
1902 Gene Sarazen Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922,
32)
1902 John Steinbeck Salinas CA, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
1902 Marian Anderson singer, banned by D A R
1902 Ethelda Bleibtrey 100 meter/300 meter US swimmer (Olympics-3
gold-1920)
1903 Reginald Gardiner Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
1904 James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
1904 Renaat Verheijen Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
1905 Franchot Tone Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
1905 Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye)
1906 Alexander Matheson New Zealand cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
1906 H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold English diplomat (South
Africa/Tibet)
1907 Gerhard Alexander [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
1909 Elisabeth Welch singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
1910 Joan Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little
Women, Disraeli)
1910 Peter De Vries Chicago IL, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of
Noon)
1912 Hugues Panassié French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club
of France)
1912 Lawrence Durrell Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
1913 Frank Allaun British MP (L)
1913 Irwin Shaw US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
1915 Arthur Gilson Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958- )
1917 John Bowden Connally Jr Floresville TX, (Governor/Senator-D/R-TX),
Wounded in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1919 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composer
1920 Jose Melis Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program)
1920 David Vere Bendall former diplomat
1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55)
1921 Andras Szollosy composer
1921 Michael Fox US, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein)
1922 Mervyn Jones author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
1923 Dexter Gordon US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
1923 Viktor Kalabis composer
1924 M M Shearer former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1924 Norman Marshall cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for West
Indies 1955)
1925 Hugh Leggatt art dealer
1925 Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival)
1925 Richard AFM Auwerda Dutch journalist/writer
1926 Sir Peter Emery British MP
1927 Lord Belhaven & Stenton
1927 Michael Butler Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)
1930 Joanne Woodward Thomasville GA, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
1930 Lieux Dressler actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
1931 Andrew Sloan Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
1932 Elizabeth Taylor London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
1932 Lord Young of Graffham CEO (Cables & Wireless)
1932 Dolf Zwerver Dutch painter
1933 Edward Lucie-Smith poetry critic
1933 Raymond Berry Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
1933 6th marquess of Bute Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1933 Geoffrey Maitland Smith CEO (Sears)
1933 Malcolm Wallop (Senator-R-WY, 1977- )
1934 Van Williams Fort Worth TX, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
1934 [Navarre] Scott Momaday US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer
1969)
1934 Ralph Nader Winsted CT, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
1935 Mirella Freni Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1935 Alberto Remedios opera/concert singer
1936 Roger M Mahoney Hollywood CA, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985-
)
1936 Chuck Glaser Spalding NB, singer (Glaser Brothers-Getting to
Me Again)
1936 Timothy Spall actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)
1936 Virginia Maskell actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
1937 L Jay Silvester US, discus thrower (Olympics-silver-1972)
1937 Barbara Babcock Pasadena CA, actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill
St Blues)
1937 Donald MacKay CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
1937 Viscount Head
1938 Pascale Petit Paris, actor (Code Name Jaguar, End of Desire)
1939 Peter Revson auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
1939 Antoinette Sibley ballerina (Turning Point)
1939 Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939 Lester King cricketer (West Indies fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68,
9 wickets)
1940 Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of
Class)
1940 Barbara Kelly CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)
1941 Paddy Ashdown New Delhi India, 1st leader of Britain's Social/Liberal
Democrat Party
1941 Ian McGarry General Secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)
1941 Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends)
1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
1943 Mary Frann St Louis MO, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our
Lives)
1944 Alan Fudge Wichita KS, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
1944 Graeme Pollock cricketer (South African batting prodigy)
1944 Roger Scruton philosopher
1945 Daniel Olbrychski Poland, actor (La Truite)
1947 Gidon Kremer Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
1947 Ashley Woodcock cricketer (one Test Australia vs New Zealand
1974, only knock 27)
1947 Marian G Klaren Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage)
1948 Eddie Gray rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal
Blue Persuasion)
1948 Stephen Curtis CEO (DVLA)
1950 Franco Moschino fashion Designer
1950 Julia Neuberger British Rabbi
1951 Lee Atwater Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
1951 Steve Harley London England, rocker (Cockney Rebel-Make Me Smile
(Come Up & See Me))
1952 Dwight Elmo Jones Houston TX, basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972)
1952 Henk Westbroek Dutch singer (Good Cause)
1952 Kevin Raleigh rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)
1954 Neal Schon rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
1955 Garry Christian rocker
1955 Sally Spencer actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)
1957 Adrian Smith heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
1960 Paul Humphreys rock keyboardist/synthesizer player (OMD-Crush,
Pacific Age)
1960 Stoney Jackson Richmond VA, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
1960 Andres Gomez Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
1960 Bolik Dahan Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
1960 John van Grinsven soccer player (MVV)
1961 James Worthy NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
1961 Grant Shaud actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
1962 Adam Baldwin Chicago IL, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
1962 Grant Show Detroit MI, actor (Jake Hanson-Melrose Place)
1962 Kory Tarpenning Portland OR, pole vaulter
1962 Veronica Ribot-Canales Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96)
1963 Francesco Cancellotti Italy, tennis star
1964 April Heinrichs Littleton CO, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1964 Ewen Vernal British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)
1964 Richard de Vries soccer player (De Graafschap)
1965 Sandra Cecchini Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles)
1966 Gregg Rainwater actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders)
1966 Chris Howard US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 Pete Smith US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets)
1967 Dallas Eakins Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Frantisek Kaberle Brno Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakian
Republic)
1967 Robert Kron Brno Czechoslovakia, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1968 Loy Vaught NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers)
1968 Mike Sullivan Marshfield, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1968 Ron Cox NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1969 Victoria Fair Jackson MI, Miss Michigan-America (1990)
1969 Greg Stevenson Sherbrooke Québec Canada, rower (Olympics-11-92,
96)
1969 Robert Massey NFL cornerback (New York Giants)
1969 Robert Molenaar Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1969 Willie Banks US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1970 David White NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Ivan Robinson Philadelphia PA, US boxer (Olympics-92)
1971 Jaroslav Modry Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1971 Rich Tylski guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 "Pooh" Clark rocker (High-5)
1973 Terence Davis WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1974 Chris Dishman guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 Jim Maher cricketer (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995
side)
1975 Christina Nigra actress (Out of This World)
1975 Dana Marie Lane Cheyenne WY, Miss Wyoming-America (1995)
1975 Duce Staley running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1975 Marcus Robinson wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1976 Tony Gonzalez tight end (Kansas City Chiefs)
1980 Chelsea Victoria Clinton Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton
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Deaths which occurred
on February 27th:
1167 Robert of Melun English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
1656 Johan van Heemskerk Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
1706 John Evelyn diarist, dies
1731 Angelo Predieri composer, dies at 76
1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, dies at 46
1735 John Arbuthnot physician/mathematician, dies
1779 Jan Nepveu Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies
at 59
1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele composer, dies at 61
1805 Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at 57
1844 Nicholas Biddle US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies
at 85
1852 Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at 69
1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies
at 23
1881 George Colley British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle
at 46
1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin Russian composer, dies at 53
1913 Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58
1920 Alexandru D Xenopol Romanian historian, dies at 72
1921 Schofield Haigh cricketer (England all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912),
dies
1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams composer, dies at 67
1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at 65
1936 Ivan P Pavlov Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies
at 86
1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies
at 70
1940 Peter Behrens German architect, dies
1942 Karel WFM Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
1943 Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília),
dies at 84
1945 HJ Lochtman Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen
1947 Mackinnon of Mackinnon cricketer (Tests England vs Australia
1879), dies at 89
1950 Ivan Goll writer, dies at 58
1952 Theodorus Pangalos Greek General/dictator 1926, dies at 74
1955 Tom Howard comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
1956 Frank Dailey orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at
54
1956 Günther Ramin German organist/composer/choir conductor,
dies at 57
1958 Harry Cohn CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
1960 Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
1961 Platt Adams high jumper (Olympics-gold-1912), dies
1962 Willie Best actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
1966 Minerva Urecal actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81
1968 Johannes Tralow writer, dies at 85
1968 Ludvik Podest composer, dies at 46
1969 John Boles actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73
1970 Robert Bruce Lockhart diplomat/writer, dies
1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at
72
1974 Pat Brady Toledo OH, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 59
1975 Neville Cardus writer/cricketer, dies
1977 Allison Hayes actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47
1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov composer, dies at 65
1980 George Tobias actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
1982 Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, dies at 39
1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
1985 David Huffman actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
1985 Henry Cabot Lodge (Senator-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
1987 Joan Greenwood English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies
at 65
1989 Joe Silver actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66
1989 Konrad Lorenz Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85
1991 Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at
45
1991 H J of Royen manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at
52
1991 Robert-Jan Akkerman Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
1992 Marinus Ruppert Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
1992 S I Hayakawa (Senator-R-CA, 1977-83), dies from a stroke at 85
1993 José Duval actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
1993 Lillian Gish US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
1993 Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
1994 Harold Acton English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at
84
1994 Karl I Pelgrom Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie jet pioneer, dies at 92
1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austria social philosopher/economist,
dies at 84
1995 Bernard Cornfield financier, dies at 67
1995 Philip Sherrington opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
1996 François Chaumette actor (They Never Slept, Christine),
dies at 72
1996 George Ian Murray 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64
1996 Pat Smythe show jumper, dies at 67
1996 Sylvia Williams museum director/curator, dies at 60
1998 J T Walsh actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), dies from
a heart attack at 54
2003 Fred[erick McFeely] Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television
host, dies from stomach cancer at 74
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