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October 27th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from Britain in 1979.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.
- Navy Day, first organized to be on this day. (United States)

October 27th


- 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.
- 2004 - The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
- 1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
- 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.
- 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1995 - Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- 1994 - The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- 1994 - Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 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.
- 1991 - Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1988 - Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 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.
- 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1973 - The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1971 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1967 - Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- 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".
- 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 - A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1961 - NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1961 - Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
- 1944 - World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 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.
- 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
- 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.
- 1914 - World War I: 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.
- 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 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.
- 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 1827 - Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1806 - The French Army enters Berlin.
- 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1524 - Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
- 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

October 27th


- 1997 - Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
- 1995 - Cooper Pillot, American actor
- 1994 - Eddie Alderson, American actor
- 1989 - Erik Kloeker, American juggler
- 1988 - Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 - Guillaume Franke, French-born German rugby player
- 1987 - Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (birth date disputed)
- 1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
- 1986 - Jon Niese, American baseball player
- 1984 - Bam Doyne, American basketball player
- 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1983 - Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
- 1983 - Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
- 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
- 1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1981 - Salem Al Fakir, Swedish musician and singer
- 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
- 1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
- 1978 - Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist
- 1977 - Ji?í Jarosík, Czech footballer
- 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1976 - Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach
- 1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher
- 1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1972 - Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
- 1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
- 1972 - Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
- 1971 - Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
- 1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1970 - Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
- 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1970 - Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player
- 1969 - Peter O'Meara,Irish Actor
- 1968 - Vinny Samways, English footballer
- 1967 - Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
- 1967 - Steve Almond, American author
- 1967 - Dejan Rai?kovi?, Montenegrin footballer
- 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
- 1966 - Matt Drudge, American blogger
- 1966 - Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
- 1964 - Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
- 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1963 - Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Ärzte)
- 1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1959 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1958 - Lee Carter, American jurist
- 1958 - Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1957 - Jeff East, American actor
- 1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1956 - Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
- 1956 - Veronica Hart, American porn actress
- 1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
- 1954 - Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
- 1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
- 1953 - Robert Picardo, American actor
- 1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
- 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
- 1952 - Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer
- 1951 - K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
- 1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1951 - Éric Morena, French singer
- 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
- 1950 - Július Šupler, Slovak ice-hockey coach
- 1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
- 1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
- 1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
- 1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
- 1943 - Carmen Argenziano, American actor
- 1943 - Jerry Rook, American basketball player
- 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
- 1942 - Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician
- 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
- 1940 - John Gotti, American crime boss (d. 2002)
- 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
- 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1937 - Lara Parker, American actress
- 1935 - Frank Adonis, American actor
- 1934 - Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
- 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
- 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1929 - Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
- 1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
- 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political aide and 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
- 1925 - Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State
- 1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
- 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
- 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
- 1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
- 1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
- 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
- 1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
- 1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
- 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1913 - Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
- 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1908 - Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
- 1904 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
- 1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
- 1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
- 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
- 1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
- 1869 - Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948)
- 1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- 1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
- 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
- 1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- 1814 - Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
- 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1766 - Nancy Storace, the first soprano to sing Susanna in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro (d. 1817)
- 1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- 1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
- 1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
- 1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)