27 October
Notable Births
Haruka Kudō (singer)
b. 1999
Japanese actress (born 1999)
Lonzo Ball
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Rasmus Andersson
b. 1996
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Kim Woo-seok (singer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer and actor (born 1996)
Leon Draisaitl
b. 1995
German ice hockey player (born 1995)
Rasmus Ristolainen
b. 1994
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Troy Gentile
b. 1993
American actor (born 1993)
Kiefer Ravena
b. 1993
Filipino basketball player (born 1993)
Stephan El Shaarawy
b. 1992
Italian footballer (born 1992)
Emily Hagins
b. 1992
American filmmaker
Brandon Saad
b. 1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Daniel Sams
b. 1992
Australian cricketer
Alex Bentley
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Oktovianus Maniani
b. 1990
Indonesian association footballer
Mark Barron
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Brady Ellison
b. 1988
American archer (born 1988)
Viktor Genev
b. 1988
Bulgarian footballer
Illimar Pärn
b. 1988
Estonian ski jumper
Evan Turner
b. 1988
American basketball player and coach (born 1988)
Andrew Bynum
b. 1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
Prunella Scales
d. 2025
English actress (1932–2025)
Li Keqiang
d. 2023
Premier of China from 2013 to 2023
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
d. 2019
Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
d. 2018
Thai businessman (1958–2018)
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
d. 2016
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
Ayerdhal
d. 2015
French thriller and science fiction writer
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
d. 2015
Indian pharmacologist
Betsy Drake
d. 2015
American actress, writer, and psychotherapist (1923–2015)
Philip French
d. 2015
English film critic and radio producer (1933–2015)
Shin Hae-chul
d. 2014
South Korean musician (1968–2014)
Noel Davern
d. 2013
Irish politician (1945–2013)
Leonard Herzenberg
d. 2013
American geneticist (1931–2015)
Luigi Magni
d. 2013
Italian screenwriter and film director
Lou Reed
d. 2013
American rock musician (1942–2013)
Terry Callier
d. 2012
American musician
Angelo Maria Cicolani
d. 2012
Italian politician (1952–2012)
Regina Dourado
d. 2012
Brazilian actress (1952–2012)
Hans Werner Henze
d. 2012
German composer (1926–2012)
Göran Stangertz
d. 2012
Swedish actor (1944–2012)
Jacques Demy
d. 1990
French film director (1931–1990)
On This Day in History
All 47 ›
2019
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
Islamic State
2018
A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
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.
Leicester City F.C.
2017
Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
Catalonia
2014
Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
Operation Herrick
1999
Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
Armenian parliament shooting
1997
The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1997 Asian financial crisis
1994
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
Gliese 229
1993
Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people.
Widerøe Flight 744
1992
United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
Murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr.
1991
Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
Turkmenistan
1988
Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
Embassy of the United States, Moscow
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.
Big Bang (financial markets)
1981
Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
Cold War
1979
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1971
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
First Congolese Republic
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".
Ronald Reagan
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.
Rudolf Anderson
1962
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
Vasily Arkhipov
1961
NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Saturn I SA-1