Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 27
Births
[edit]- 1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
- 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
- 1869 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
- 1880 - Helen Keller, (pictured) American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
- 1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician (d. 2019)
- 1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
- 1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
- 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
- 1986 - Drake Bell, American actor and musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (murdered) (b. 1805)
- 1999 - Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (b. 1925)