Today in History
27 May
259 births · 110 deaths · 55 events recorded
Notable Births
All 259 ›
Franco Colapinto
b. 2003
Argentine racing driver (born 2003)
Jérémy Doku
b. 2002
Belgian footballer (born 2002)
Abner Vinícius
b. 2000
Brazilian footballer (born 2000)
Matheus Cunha
b. 1999
Brazilian footballer (born 1999)
Lily-Rose Depp
b. 1999
French and American actress (born 1999)
Anna Bondár
b. 1997
Hungarian tennis player (born 1997)
Louis Gossett Jr.
b. 1936
American actor (1936–2024)
Philip Kotler
b. 1931
American marketing author, consultant, and professor (born 1931)
Notable Deaths
All 110 ›
Freddie Aguilar
d. 2025
Filipino musician (1953–2025)
Elizabeth MacRae
d. 2024
American actress (1936–2024)
Bill Walton
d. 2024
American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
Poul Schlüter
d. 2021
Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Larry Kramer
d. 2020
American playwright and gay rights activist (1935–2020)
Gardner Dozois
d. 2018
American science fiction author and editor (1947–2018)
Gregg Allman
d. 2017
American musician (1947–2017)
Erik Carlsson
d. 2015
Swedish rally driver (1929–2015)
On This Day in History
All 55 ›
2018
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2018 Central Maryland Flood
2017
Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Andrew Scheer
2016
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
Barack Obama
2014
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
Kerala Blasters FC
2006
The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2006 Yogyakarta earthquake
2001
Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
Abu Sayyaf
1999
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1998
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
Oklahoma City bombing