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Kosovo War

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AD 272

Constantine the Great

Died aged 65

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AD 272 · 1754 yrs

Constantine the Great

Constantine I (27 February 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

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RoyaltyDied aged 65

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1807 · 219 yrs

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1823 · 203 yrs

Ernest Renan

Joseph Ernest Renan ( ruh-NAHN; French:; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic.

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PhilosophyDied aged 69

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1881 · 145 yrs

Sveinn Björnsson

Sveinn Björnsson (Icelandic:; 27 February 1881 – 25 January 1952) was the first president of Iceland, serving from 1944 until his death in 1952.

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1902 · 124 yrs

John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck ( STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".

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LiteratureWould be 124

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1910 · 116 yrs

Joan Bennett

Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent films, well into the sound era.

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1912 · 114 yrs

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Paul Ricœur

Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (French:; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

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1929 · 97 yrs

Djalma Santos

Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos, known simply as Djalma Santos (Brazilian Portuguese:; also spelled Dejalma Santos; 27 February 1929 – 23 July 2013) was a Brazilian footballer who starred for the Brazil national team in four World Cups and winning the 1958 and 1962 editions.

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1930 · 96 yrs

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American former actress. She made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character.

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FilmAge 96

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1932 · 94 yrs

Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

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FilmWould be 94

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1934 · 92 yrs

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He has been a presidential candidate repeatedly.

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LawAge 92

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Famous deaths13

1936 · 90 yrs

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Иван Петрович Павлов, IPA:; 26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1939 · 87 yrs

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская, IPA:; 26 February 1869 – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. She was a leading figure in the Bolshevik party and was married to Vladimir Lenin.

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1940 · 86 yrs

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1972 · 54 yrs

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi (German: Richard Nikolaus Eijiro Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi; Japanese: リヒャルト・ニコラウス・栄次郎・クーデンホーフ＝カレルギー伯爵, romanized: Rihyaruto Nikorausu Eijirō Kūdenhōfu-Karerugī Hakushaku; 16 November 1894 – 27 July 1972), was a politician, philosopher, and count of…

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1986 · 40 yrs

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский; 30 December 1904 – 14 February 1987) was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent. He helped set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures during his lifetime.

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1989 · 37 yrs

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German:; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.

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ScienceWould be 122

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1993 · 33 yrs

Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987.

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FilmWould be 133

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2003 · 23 yrs

Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), also known professionally as Mister Rogers, was an American television personality, Presbyterian minister, and author. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.

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2011 · 15 yrs

Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997.

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PoliticsWould be 99

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2011 · 15 yrs

Amparo Muñoz

Maria de Amparo Muñoz y Quesada (21 June 1954 – 27 February 2011) was a Spanish actress, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe 1974 competition in Manila, Philippines, being the first and only Spaniard Miss Universe titleholder to date.

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2015 · 11 yrs

Boris Nemtsov

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцов; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

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ScienceWould be 67

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2015 · 11 yrs

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy ( NEE-moy; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famous for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for over 40 years.

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Events5

1998 · 28 yrs

Kosovo War

The Kosovo War (Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.

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War

2005 · 21 yrs

77th Academy Awards

The 77th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m.

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Culture

2010 · 16 yrs

2010 Chile earthquake

On 27 February 2010 at 03:34 UTC−03:00, a Mww 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck off the coast of the Maule Region of central Chile. One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, it lasted approximately three minutes and was felt across six Chilean regions, home to roughly 80 percent of the country's population.

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Disaster

2011 · 15 yrs

83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m.

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Culture

2022 · 4 yrs

Bucha massacre

The Bucha massacre was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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