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April 27

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1908 Summer Olympics

118 years ago

Born this day

1822

Ulysses S. Grant

Died aged 63

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Mumtaz Mahal

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Famous births28

1593 · 433 yrs

Mumtaz Mahal

Mumtaz Mahal (Persian pronunciation:; lit. 'The Exalted One of the Palace'; born Arjumand Banu Begum; 27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631) was the empress of the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan.

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LiteratureDied aged 38

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1701 · 325 yrs

Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father's abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three mainline kings of Sardinia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 70

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1737 · 289 yrs

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success.

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ScholarshipDied aged 56

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1759 · 267 yrs

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (also UK:; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.

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LiteratureDied aged 38

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1791 · 235 yrs

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

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ArtDied aged 80

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1820 · 206 yrs

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

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PhilosophyDied aged 83

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1822 · 204 yrs

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory in the American Civil War in 1865.

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PoliticsDied aged 63

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1910 · 116 yrs

Chiang Ching-kuo

Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat. He served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988, and acted as a de facto leader of the country by serving as Premier from 1972 to 1978.

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1927 · 99 yrs

Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.

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LiteratureWould be 99

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1932 · 94 yrs

Anouk Aimée

Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (French pronunciation:; 27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), known professionally as Anouk Aimée (French:) or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019.

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1932 · 94 yrs

Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem ( KAY-səm; April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40, as well as the weekly syndicated television series America's Top 10.

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1935 · 91 yrs

Thodoros Angelopoulos

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.

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Famous deaths10

1605 · 421 yrs

Leo XI

Pope Leo XI (Italian: Leone XI; 2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro di Ottaviano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 April 1605 to his death, on 27 April 1605. His pontificate is one of the briefest in history, lasting under a month.

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ReligionDied aged 69

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1794 · 232 yrs

William Jones

Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, scholar and judge.

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LiteratureDied aged 47

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1882 · 144 yrs

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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PhilosophyDied aged 78

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1937 · 89 yrs

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee, US: GRAHM-shee; Italian:; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.

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1938 · 88 yrs

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (Austrian German:; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian and German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality.

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PhilosophyDied aged 79

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1972 · 54 yrs

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah (born Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma, /(ə)nˈkruːmə/ (ə)n-KROO-mə; 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom.

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1989 · 37 yrs

Kōnosuke Matsushita

Kōnosuke Matsushita (松下幸之助, Matsushita Kōnosuke; 27 November 1894 – 27 April 1989) was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan.

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1992 · 34 yrs

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK:, US:; French:; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musical analysis.

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1998 · 28 yrs

Carlos Castañeda

Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925– April 27, 1998) was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus.

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2007 · 19 yrs

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since.

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Events5

1746 · 280 yrs

Battle of Culloden

The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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War

1859 · 167 yrs

Second Italian War of Independence

The Second Italian War of Independence was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the process of Italian Unification.

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War

1908 · 118 yrs

1908 Summer Olympics

The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were relocated to London after Italy withdrew from hosting on financial grounds.

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Sports

1937 · 89 yrs

Bombing of Guernica

On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War.

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War

1978 · 48 yrs

Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution, also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was a violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), which overthrew Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and…

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