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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of August 0410 | EVENT | The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. |
| 27th of August 1172 | EVENT | Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England. |
| 27th of August 1232 | EVENT | The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hojo Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232) |
| 27th of August 1689 | EVENT | The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire. |
| 27th of August 1776 | EVENT | The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington. |
| 27th of August 1789 | EVENT | The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights". |
| 27th of August 1793 | EVENT | French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon. |
| 27th of August 1798 | EVENT | Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught. |
| 27th of August 1810 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Ile de France. |
| 27th of August 1813 | EVENT | French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden. |
| 27th of August 1828 | EVENT | Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War. |
| 27th of August 1859 | EVENT | Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. |
| 27th of August 1861 | EVENT | Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
| 27th of August 1896 | EVENT | Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. |
| 27th of August 1916 | EVENT | Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations. |
| 27th of August 1921 | EVENT | The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq. |
| 27th of August 1922 | EVENT | The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks. |
| 27th of August 1928 | EVENT | The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it. |
| 27th of August 1939 | EVENT | First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft. |
| 27th of August 1943 | EVENT | Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. |
| 27th of August 1957 | EVENT | The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force. |
| 27th of August 1962 | EVENT | The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. |
| 27th of August 1969 | EVENT | Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt. |
| 27th of August 1971 | EVENT | An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations. |
| 27th of August 1975 | EVENT | The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. |
| 27th of August 1979 | EVENT | A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush). |
| 27th of August 1982 | EVENT | Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Alt?kat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. |
| 27th of August 1985 | EVENT | The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida. |
| 27th of August 1990 | EVENT | Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash. |
| 27th of August 1991 | EVENT | The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
| 27th of August 1991 | EVENT | Moldova declares independence from the USSR. |
| 27th of August 1993 | EVENT | The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed. |
| 27th of August 2000 | EVENT | 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed. |
| 27th of August 2003 | EVENT | Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. |
| 27th of August 2006 | EVENT | Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash. |
| 27th of August 2007 | EVENT | The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
| 27th of August 1407 | BIRTHDAY | Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425) |
| 27th of August 1471 | BIRTHDAY | George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539) |
| 27th of August 1487 | BIRTHDAY | Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514) |
| 27th of August 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715) |
| 27th of August 1665 | BIRTHDAY | John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751) |
| 27th of August 1669 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Marie of Orleans, queen of Italy (d. 1728) |
| 27th of August 1677 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748) |
| 27th of August 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760) |
| 27th of August 1724 | BIRTHDAY | John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781) |
| 27th of August 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788) |
| 27th of August 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831) |
| 27th of August 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895) |
| 27th of August 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891) |
| 27th of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932) |
| 27th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935) |
| 27th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951) |
| 27th of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943) |
| 27th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919) |
| 27th of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945) |
| 27th of August 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) |
| 27th of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967) |
| 27th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910) |
| 27th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963) |
| 27th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966) |
| 27th of August 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979) |
| 27th of August 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957) |
| 27th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976) |
| 27th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984) |
| 27th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963) |
| 27th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966) |
| 27th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 27th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983) |
| 27th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982) |
| 27th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984) |
| 27th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973) |
| 27th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985) |
| 27th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001) |
| 27th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvere Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966) |
| 27th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959) |
| 27th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005) |
| 27th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d. 1980) |
| 27th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006) |
| 27th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Kabel, German actress (d. 2010) |
| 27th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Foster Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate |
| 27th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994) |
| 27th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993) |
| 27th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 27th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967 (d. 2001) |
| 27th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007) |
| 27th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996) |
| 27th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998) |
| 27th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | David Rowbotham, Australian poet |
| 27th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006) |
| 27th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Lofthouse, English footballer |
| 27th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002) |
| 27th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002) |
| 27th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician |
| 27th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007) |
| 27th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007) |
| 27th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cunningham, American baseball player |
| 27th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Antonia Fraser, British author |
| 27th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Broglio, American baseball player |
| 27th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Yablans, American film producer |
| 27th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Kovel, American politician |
| 27th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007) |
| 27th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Sands, American actor and singer |
| 27th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | William Least Heat-Moon, American author |
| 27th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994) |
| 27th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Page, American actor |
| 27th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille) |
| 27th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Peckford, Canadian politician |
| 27th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tuesday Weld, American actress |
| 27th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | G. W. Bailey, American actor |
| 27th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer |
| 27th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bach, American actress |
| 27th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer |
| 27th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Reems, American actor |
| 27th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (d. 2002) |
| 27th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990) |
| 27th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama |
| 27th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fleischer, American actor |
| 27th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach |
| 27th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager |
| 27th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), American actor |
| 27th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush) |
| 27th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor |
| 27th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Warwick, British race car driver |
| 27th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Lloyd, British tennis player |
| 27th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Fygi, Dutch singer |
| 27th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Richardson, American cinematographer |
| 27th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Scarwid, American actress |
| 27th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion |
| 27th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Grubb, American author and game designer |
| 27th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host |
| 27th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut |
| 27th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Lanoye, Belgian author |
| 27th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ |
| 27th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
| 27th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist |
| 27th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Ford, American fashion designer |
| 27th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer |
| 27th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Mignogna, American voice actor |
| 27th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Duggan, American photographer |
| 27th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bogue, American actor |
| 27th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 27th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia |
| 27th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer and actor |
| 27th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian |
| 27th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Millan, Mexican dog trainer |
| 27th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ealham, England cricketer |
| 27th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Chandra Wilson, American actress |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Ebdon, English snooker player |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kanal, English musician (No Doubt) |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Thome, American baseball player |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ilott, England cricketer |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008) |
| 27th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Park Myeong-su, Korean comedian, MC and singer |
| 27th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and coach |
| 27th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Aygul Ozkan, German politician |
| 27th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 27th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Felix da Housecat, American DJ and record producer |
| 27th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) |
| 27th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Lewis, English heptathlete |
| 27th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player |
| 27th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dietmar Hamann, German footballer |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Burak Kut, Turkish pop singer |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Norberg, Swedish author |
| 27th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Bowles, Canadian actor |
| 27th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 27th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer |
| 27th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer |
| 27th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Gelotte, Swedish guitarplayer, In Flames |
| 27th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Rudan, Australian footballer |
| 27th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Moseley, American skier |
| 27th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 27th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player |
| 27th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress |
| 27th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Webber, Australian racing driver |
| 27th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Deco, Portuguese footballer |
| 27th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker and actor |
| 27th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Paul, American actor |
| 27th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tian Liang, Chinese diver |
| 27th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire) |
| 27th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Smith, American shorttracker |
| 27th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Lowder, American actor |
| 27th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress |
| 27th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer |
| 27th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Demetria McKinney, American actress |
| 27th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Monier, French cyclist |
| 27th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor |
| 27th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer |
| 27th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | David Bentley, English footballer |
| 27th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist |
| 27th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mario, American R&B singer |
| 27th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Darren McFadden, American football player |
| 27th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alexa Vega, American actress |
| 27th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Petras, German singer |
| 27th of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Hecken, German figure skater |
| 27th of August 0542 | DEATH | Saint Caesarius of Arles |
| 27th of August 0827 | DEATH | Pope Eugene II |
| 27th of August 1312 | DEATH | Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (Born 1262) |
| 27th of August 1394 | DEATH | Chokei, Emperor of Japan (Born 1343) |
| 27th of August 1450 | DEATH | Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (Born 1395) |
| 27th of August 1521 | DEATH | Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer |
| 27th of August 1545 | DEATH | Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (Born 1487) |
| 27th of August 1572 | DEATH | Claude Goudimel, French composer |
| 27th of August 1577 | DEATH | Titian, Italian artist |
| 27th of August 1590 | DEATH | Pope Sixtus V (Born 1521) |
| 27th of August 1635 | DEATH | Felix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (Born 1562) |
| 27th of August 1664 | DEATH | Francisco Zurbaran, Spanish painter (Born 1598) |
| 27th of August 1748 | DEATH | James Thomson, Scottish poet (Born 1700) |
| 27th of August 1773 | DEATH | Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (Born 1721) |
| 27th of August 1857 | DEATH | Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (Born 1815) |
| 27th of August 1865 | DEATH | Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (Born 1796) |
| 27th of August 1871 | DEATH | William Whiting Boardman, American politician (Born 1794) |
| 27th of August 1875 | DEATH | William Chapman Ralston, American banker (Born 1826) |
| 27th of August 1909 | DEATH | Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (Born 1842) |
| 27th of August 1929 | DEATH | Herman Potocnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (Born 1892) |
| 27th of August 1931 | DEATH | Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (Born 1856) |
| 27th of August 1931 | DEATH | Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (Born 1846) |
| 27th of August 1944 | DEATH | Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (Born 1915) |
| 27th of August 1948 | DEATH | Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (Born 1862) |
| 27th of August 1958 | DEATH | Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1901) |
| 27th of August 1963 | DEATH | Garrett Morgan, American inventor (Born 1877) |
| 27th of August 1963 | DEATH | W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (Born 1868) |
| 27th of August 1963 | DEATH | Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (Born 1888) |
| 27th of August 1964 | DEATH | Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (Born 1895) |
| 27th of August 1965 | DEATH | Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (Born 1887) |
| 27th of August 1967 | DEATH | Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (Born 1934) |
| 27th of August 1968 | DEATH | Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (Born 1906) |
| 27th of August 1969 | DEATH | Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (Born 1884) |
| 27th of August 1969 | DEATH | Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (Born 1905) |
| 27th of August 1971 | DEATH | Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (Born 1898) |
| 27th of August 1971 | DEATH | Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (Born 1906) |
| 27th of August 1975 | DEATH | Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (Born 1892) |
| 27th of August 1976 | DEATH | Mukesh, Indian playback singer (Born 1923) |
| 27th of August 1979 | DEATH | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (Born 1900) |
| 27th of August 1980 | DEATH | Douglas Kenney, American humorist (Born 1947) |
| 27th of August 1981 | DEATH | Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (Born 1948) |
| 27th of August 1984 | DEATH | Bernard Youens, English actor (Born 1914) |
| 27th of August 1987 | DEATH | Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (Born 1962) |
| 27th of August 1988 | DEATH | William Sargant, British psychiatrist (Born 1907) |
| 27th of August 1988 | DEATH | Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (Born 1928) |
| 27th of August 1990 | DEATH | Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (Born 1954) |
| 27th of August 1996 | DEATH | Greg Morris, American actor (Born 1933) |
| 27th of August 1997 | DEATH | Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (Born 1921) |
| 27th of August 1999 | DEATH | Helder Camara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (Born 1909) |
| 27th of August 2001 | DEATH | Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (Born 1938) |
| 27th of August 2001 | DEATH | Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (Born 1936) |
| 27th of August 2002 | DEATH | Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN) (Born 1922) |
| 27th of August 2003 | DEATH | Pierre Poujade, French politician (Born 1920) |
| 27th of August 2004 | DEATH | Willie Crawford, American baseball player (Born 1946) |
| 27th of August 2005 | DEATH | Sean Purcell, Gaelic footballer (Born 1929) |
| 27th of August 2005 | DEATH | Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (Born 1922) |
| 27th of August 2006 | DEATH | Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (Born 1922) |
| 27th of August 2006 | DEATH | Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (Born 1969) |
| 27th of August 2006 | DEATH | Maria Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004 : 2006 (Born 1889) |
| 27th of August 2007 | DEATH | Emma Penella, Spanish actress (Born 1930) |
| 27th of August 2008 | DEATH | Mark Priestley, Australian actor (Born 1970) |
| 27th of August 2009 | DEATH | Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (Born 1913) |
| 27th of August 2010 | DEATH | Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (Born 1962) |