October 27th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Turkmenistan) * (see below)
Independence Day (St. Vincent & Grenad...) * (see below)
National Day (Greece)
Flag Day (Greece) * CLICK HERE
National Tell a Story Day (Scotland and England)
Cranky Co-workers Day
Navy Day (USA)
Feast-day of St. Elesbaan (Roman Catholic)
Feast-day of Abbán, early Irish saint in Munster and Leinster, associated with many other churches (Roman Catholic)
Feast-day of St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia. (Roman Catholic)
* Fantasy Fest (Key West, Florida, USA) (2012) From penultimate Friday - last Sunday in Oct (10 of 10)
* Independence Day (Turkmenistan) celebrating independence from USSR in 1991
* Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) celebrating independence from Britain in 1979
Toasts of The Day
"To friends: as long as we are able
To lift our glasses from the table."
- Traditional
- Alternative -
Na Zdravi (Na zdrah vi) Translation: To Your Health
- Czech - In celebration of Independent Czechoslovak State Day
- Alternative -
Stin Eyiassou! (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh) Translation: To Your Health!
- Greek - In clelebration of The "Ohi day"
Drink of The Day
Negroni
1 Part Gin
1 Part Sweet red Vermouth
1 Part Campari
Stir into Glass over ice, Garnish and serve in an Old Fashioned Glass.
- It is an apéritif, a pre-dinner Cocktail intended to stimulate the appetite.
Wine of The Day
Desert Wind (2007) "Ruah", Wahluke Slope
Columbia Valley
$25
Beer of The Day
Two Hearted Ale
Brewer - Bell’s Brewery, Galesburg, MI, USA
Style - American IPA
ABV - 7.1%
Joke of The Day
A boy was just being potty trained and his mom tried this new method with 6 steps:
1. Unbutton pants
2. Pull pants down
3. Pull foreskin back
4. Pee
5. Push foreskin forward
6. Pull pants up and button up
She walked past the bathroom one day and heard him going 1,2,3,4,5,6 and she was thinking she did good.
Then she walked past the next day and heard him saying real fast 3-5,3-5,3-5...
Quote of The Day
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
- Dylan Thomas (born Dylan Marlais Thomas - October 27th, 1914 - November 9th, 1953), a Welsh poet and writer
October Observances
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
American Pharmacist Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Apple Jack Month
Apple Month
Awareness Month
Bat Appreciation Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Computer Learning Month
Cookie Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
Diversity Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Eat Better, Eat Together Month
Eat Country Ham Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair, Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31)
Fair Trade Month
Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
Financial Planning Month
Gay and Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild, Eat Country Ham Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Intergeneration Month
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Drum Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Month of Free Thought
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Book Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Canine Good Health Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Month
National Communicate with Your Kid Month
National Construction Toy Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
National Field Trip Month
National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
National Vegetarian Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Pear and Pineapple Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Raptor Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Rhizomes and Persimmons Month
Rhubarb Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Sausage Month
Second Binary Month (2of 3) (0s and 1s)
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Squirrel Awareness Month (Different Than Squirrel Appreciation Day in January)
Tackling Hunger Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women's Small Business Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Observances this Week
Disarmament Week, October 24th to 30thPeace, Friendship and Good Will Week, October 24th to 30th
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Shocktober A.K.A. Shocktoberfest, Last Week of October
Devil Days, Last Week of October
International Horror Festivals, Last Week of October
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week, Last Week in October
International Magic Week, Last Week in October
Kids Care Week, Week of October 27th, Monday to Sunday
Red Ribbon Week (Drug Prevention), Last Week of October
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week, Week Before Daylight Savings Day
Historical Events on October 27th
312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
710 Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba & claims it for Spain
1523 English troops occupy Montalidier France
1524 Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk
1627 English assault on French Il de Ré
1644 Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War, King Charles I beats parliamentary armies.
1651 English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1662 England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
1676 Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1688 King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1702 English troops plunder St Augustine Florida
1775 US Navy forms
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1806 The French Army enters Berlin.
1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1830 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)
1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1863 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmont
1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks
1864 Siege of Petersburg, VA
1867 Garibaldi marches on Rome
1870 Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1884 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC
1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1901 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"
1904 The first underground New York City Subway line, IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit opens, the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. Fare is set at one nickel (Bkln bridge-145 & Bdwy)
1913 Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country
1914 The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin in World War I.
1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1916 Battle of Segale, Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1919 US Congress sign Volstead Act
1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1922 A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1927 Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
1935 SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1936 Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein, heavy battles, Australian advance
1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
1944 Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation
1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade
1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1947 "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1947 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1948 Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan," premieres
1952 "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs
1953 British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1954 Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1955 Argentine peso devalued
1955 Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1957 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958 Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1960 AL admits LA & Washington to the league
1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
1961 NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs
1962 A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1962 Black Saturday Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
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 in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1962 The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba
1963 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1964 "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs
1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1964 Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1964 Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1969 St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1970 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1973 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1973 The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1975 Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1981 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
1985 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
1985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
1986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
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.
1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs
1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs, Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1990 Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
1991 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 perfs
1991 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
1991 John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
1991 Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
1991 Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
1992 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien
1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
1994 Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1994 The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
1995 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
1995 Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1995 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
1995 Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
1996 US beats Japan, 21½-14½, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament
1997 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
1997 October 27, 1997 mini-crash, Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activates its "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
1997 US releases a redesigned $50 bill
1999 Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
2002 Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP, Troy Glaus, Anaheim
2002 The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
2004 The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years
2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2005 The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
2011 The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE it is likely to be Japanese.
2012 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
2012 Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts
2013 18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
2013 38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq
2013 Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory
2015 American soccer star Abby Wambach announces her retirement
Born on October 27th
1156 Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1466 Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
1728 James Cook, British naval captain and explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands (d. 1779)
1739 Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer
1744 Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1746 Georg Anton Kreusser, composer
1760 August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1762 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs
1775 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1782 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (Princess Lucca) (d. 1840)
1800 Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union) (d. 1878)
1809 Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname
1811 Issac (Merrit) Singer, American inventor (1st practical home sewing machine) (d. 1875)
1811 Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1814 Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
1817 Antoni Katski, composer
1828 Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1829 Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 Giovanni Giolitti, Five time premier of Italy (1892-1921) (d. 1928)
1844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1844 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
1854 Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (1901-1909) (Nobel Peace Prize 1906) (d. 1919)
1865 Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1869 Viola Allen, actress, (d. 1948)
1872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette) (d. 1960)
1873 Henry Tate, composer
1876 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Un Soir Un Train)
1877 George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
1889 Enid Bagnold, novelist (Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit)
1892 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira
1892 Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet/critic (Mirror of Dutch Poetry)
1893 Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings)
1894 Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor (Residence-orch)
1894 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor
1894 Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1895 John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad)
1896 Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
1896 Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor
1904 Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1906 Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles
1906 Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
1906 Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
1907 Helmut Walcha, German organist (church music)
1907 Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles
1908 Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 Fred de Cordova, film and TV producer (Tonight Show)
1910 Jack Carson, Canadian actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce) (d. 1963)
1911 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront) and singer (d. 1986)
1912 Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
1913 Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
1914 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) (d. 1953)
1914 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist
1915 Harry Saltzman, American film producer (Goldfinger) (d. 1994)
1916 Bob de Lange (Jacob Bernard), Dutch actor, director (Daniel)
1916 Kazimierz Brandys, writer
1917 Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1917 Jack Plimsoll, South African cricketer
1917 Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter, co-founder (African National Congress) (d. 1993)
1918 Paul Dixon, American talk show host (Paul Dixon Show)
1918 Teresa Wright, American actress (Eleanor Gehrig-Pride of the Yankees) (d. 2005)
1920 K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
1920 Nanette Fabray, American actress (Katherine-One Day at a Time)
1921 Anestis Logothetis, composer
1921 Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
1922 Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela (1974-79/89-94)
1922 George Young, soccer star
1922 Michel Galabru, French actor
1922 Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922 Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), sportscaster (NY Mets)
1923 Roy Lichtenstein, American painter (painted comic book panels) (d. 1997)
1924 Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor (Judge & the Assassin)
1924 Ruby Dee, American actress (Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots)
1925 Albert Medwin, American inventor
1925 Jane Connell, Oakland California, actress (Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling)
1925 Mary Kay Steans, Glendale California, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny)
1925 Warren M Christopher, American lawyer, diplomat (1993–1997), minister of Foreign affairs (1993)
1926 H.R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff (Watergate figure) (d. 1993)
1926 P G "Nana" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper (Indian during 1950's)
1927 Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
1927 Edward Ralph Keinholz, sculptor
1928 Datta Gaekwad, cricketer (father of Anshuman, batted in 11 Tests 50's)
1928 Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
1928 Kyle Rote, NFL halfback (NY Giants 1951-61)
1928 Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor
1929 Marino Iandioro, canned Tomato Pioneer
1929 Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
1930 Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
1931 David Bryant, English world champion bowler/tv-host
1931 Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout) (d. 2007)
1932 Kathy Cornelius, LPGA golfer
1932 Sylvia Plath (Victoria Lucas), American poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar) (d. 1963)
1933 Floyd Cramer, American pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound) (d. 1997)
1933 John Sturdy, scholar
1934 David Barclay, British hotel magnate, multi-millionaire
1934 Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate, multi-millionaire
1934 Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
1937 Lara Parker, American actress
1938 Maurice Hinchey, (Rep-D-New York)
1939 John Cleese, British actor, writer, comedian (Monty Python, A Fish called Wanda)
1940 Anthea Joseph, music producer
1940 John Gotti, American free trader, mafia head of the Gambino family (d. 2002)
1940 Lee Greenwood, country singer (God Bless the USA)
1940 Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
1941 Dick Trickle, American auto racer
1942 Lee Greenwood, American singer
1942 Phillip Catherine, rocker
1943 Carmen Argenziano, American actor
1943 Jerry Rook, American basketball player
1945 Carrie Snodgress, Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)
1945 John Kane, actor, writer
1945 Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
1945 Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer
1946 Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
1946 Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer (Ghostbusters, Animal House) and director
1946 Leslie Byrne, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1946 Peter Martins, Danish actor
1946 Steven R Nail, Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, 61-A, 37, 55)
1946 Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C)
1947 Terry Anderson, AP correspondent, US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)
1948 Byron Allred, Logan Ut, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1949 Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1949 Garry W Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
1949 Jack Daniels, American country singer (Highway 101)
1949 Jose J P Hageman, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 Mike Kopetski, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1950 Fran Lebowitz, American writer, actress (Resident Alien)
1951 Carlos Frenk, Mexican-British cosmologist
1951 Jayne Kennedy-Overton, Wash DC, actress (Penitentary)
1951 K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1951 Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951 Éric Morena, French singer
1952 Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
1952 Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor (Life Is Beautiful)
1952 Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer
1953 Michael Baker, Memphis Tn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43, 52, 68, 81)
1953 Peter Firth, British actor (Equus, Lifeforce, The Hunt for Red October)
1953 Robert Picardo, American actor (Star Trek : Voyager, Gremlins 2)
1954 Chris Tavare, cricketer (England opener & occasional scorer of runs)
1954 Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
1955 Debra Bowen, American politician
1955 Michael Shamus Wiles, Actor (Breaking Bad, Fight Club)
1956 Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
1956 Patty Sheehan, Middlebury VT, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open)
1956 Veronica Hart, American porn actress
1957 Glenn Hoddle, English footballer (Tottenham)
1957 Jeff East, American actor
1958 Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
1958 Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever)
1958 Lee Carter, American Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit (Alabama)
1958 Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
1959 Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
1960 Tom Nieto, American baseball player
1961 Rick Gibson, Calgary Alta, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA)
1963 Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle-Day of Our Lives)
1963 Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Ärzte)
1963 Marla Maples (Trump), American actress and model (Will Rogers Follies)
1964 Jill Hetherington, Brampton Ontario, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1964 Mark Taylor, Australian cricket captain (1994-1999)
1964 Mary Meagher-Plant, 100m butterfly swimmer (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-84, 88)
1965 Krista Blomquist, New Haven Conn, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1995)
1966 Brad Lauer, Humboldt, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1966 Grant Kenny, Norfolk Island NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
1966 Marcos A. Ferraez, Actor (My Sister's Keeper)
1966 Matt Drudge, American blogger (The Drudge Report)
1966 Timm Rosenbach, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1967 Jaren Jackson, NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs)
1967 Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)
1967 Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
1968 Antoinette Lucas, Crozier VA, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1968 Kata Karkkainen, Helsinki Finland, playmate (Dec, 1988)
1968 Vinny Samways, English footballer
1969 Annie Patterson, composer
1969 Corey Foster, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1969 John Kasay, NFL kicker (Carolina Panthers)
1970 Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1970 Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player
1970 Bert Emanuel, wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
1970 Vernon Lewis, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1971 Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
1971 Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1971 Liz Pagano, Seattle Wash, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994)
1971 Matt Brown, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Mike Ricci, Scarborough, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1971 Zaddick X Longenbach, Greenwalds Pa, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1972 Brad Radke, American baseball player, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 Elissa, Lebanese singer
1972 Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
1972 John Steel, Auckland NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 Lee Clark, English footballer
1972 Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1973 Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tenn, Miss America-Tenn (1996)
1973 Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1973 Monica Louwerens, Greenville Miss, Miss America (Miss-Top 10-1996)
1974 Juan Viedna Schenkhuizen, soccer player (Ajax, NEC)
1975 Emily John Orton, Creswell Oregon, Miss America (Oregon-2nd-1996)
1975 Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach
1975 Zadie Smith, British novelist
1977 Jirí Jarosík, Czech footballer
1977 Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 David Walton, Actor (Fired Up!)
1978 Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1978 Stephanie Abrams, on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel
1978 Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1979 Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
1980 Cassia Riley, American model
1980 Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1981 Andrea Riseborough, Actress (Oblivion)
1981 Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
1981 Salem Al Fakir, Swedish musician and singer
1981 Troy Gentile, Actor (Good Luck Chuck)
1982 Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
1982 Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
1982 Patrick Fugit, American actor (Almost Famous)
1982 Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
1983 Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1983 Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 Bam Doyne, American basketball player
1984 Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 Emilie Ullerup, Actress (A Little Bit Zombie)
1984 Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1984 Kelly Osbourne, English television personality, Daughter of Ozzy Obourne
1986 Jon Niese, American baseball player
1986 Matty Pattison, English footballer
1987 Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
1987 Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)
1989 Erik Kloeker, American juggler
1989 Georgie Lalov, Actor (The Wolf of Wall Street)
1990 Chaz Monet, Actress (Ruby Bridges)
1992 Emily Hagins, Director (Pathogen)
1994 Eddie Alderson, American actor (Changeling)
1994 Hannah Dawson, Actress (An Inch Away)
1994 Hunter Ansley Wryn, Actress (Serenity)
1995 Cooper Pillot, American actor
1997 Nathan Wesdell, Actor (Lower Learning)
2001 Teilor Grubbs, Actress (Hawaii Five-0)
Died on October 27th
925 Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi), Persian
939 King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1271 Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 Aboe al-Fida (Aboelfeda), Arabic writer, historian, geographer, Sultan of Hama (b. 1273)
1430 Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, Germany, (b. 1397)
1449 Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and USSR astronomer (b. 1394)
1485 Rudolph Agricola (Roelof Huysman), humanist, organist
1505 Ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505) (b. 1440)
1542 Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur)
1553 Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and physician, burns at stake for heresy (b. 1511)
1561 Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1580 John Bonga, beggar
1605 Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
1617 Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1651 Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer, poet, mayor of Hoorn
1652 Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel, gov of Hulst
1659 Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged
1670 Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1725 Jacob Hop, politician, diplomat
1771 Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer
1781 Herman-Francois Delange, composer
1789 John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1796 Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
1822 Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1833 Ferdinand Franzl, composer
1848 Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
1864 Andreas Randel, composer
1917 Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1919 John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch)
1919 Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08)
1925 Wilhelm Gericke, composer
1927 Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (b. 1888)
1933 Julius Klengel, composer
1933 Meir Shapira, rabbi/organizer (Daf Yomi)
1935 E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1938 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet, critic
1940 Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer
1942 Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1943 Bela Reinitz, composer
1944 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1947 William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (b. 1872)
1949 Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1949 Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1953 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1954 Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot)
1954 Frank Druce, cricketer (252 runs in 5 Tests for England)
1955 Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1955 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
1958 Frederik Gerretson (Geerten Gossaert), historian, poet, politician
1958 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1962 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, politician (b. 1906)
1962 Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show)
1962 Rudolf Anderson, United States Air Force pilot and officer, shot down over Cuba (b. 1927)
1964 Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey)
1964 Willi Bredel, writer
1965 French Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1966 Nigel Haig, cricketer (England pace bowler in 5 Tests 1921-30)
1968 Lise Meitner, Austria-Swedish physics (protactinium) (b. 1878)
1969 Jaime Pahissa, composer
1972 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl
1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (Mister Ed, Red Ryder)
1975 Rex Stout, American mystery writer (Nero Wolfe) (b. 1886)
1977 James M. Cain, American novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice) (b. 1892)
1980 John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1980 Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1980 Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, English singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1981 John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade)
1987 Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71)
1988 Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On)
1988 S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products)
1990 Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive, son of FDR (b. 1910)
1990 Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
1990 Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
1990 Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director (La Cage Aux Folles) (b. 1922)
1990 Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician, bandlander (b. 1900)
1991 Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor/composer (Sinfonia Sacra)
1991 George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1991 Pyke F C Koch, realistic painter
1992 David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1992 Roy Marshall, cricketer (143 runs for WI, 35725 runs overall)
1994 Robert White, guitarist
1995 Mike Dutfield, documentary Prodcuer,
1995 Susi Hush, tYelevision producer
1996 Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1996 Belinda Quirey, dance historian, teacher
1996 James Aubrey Turner, scientist
1996 John Gregory, dancer
1996 Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
1999 Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
2000 Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
2006 Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2009 David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
2010 Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
2010 James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
2010 Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (b. 1950)
2011 James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)
2013 Lou Reed, American musician