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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of February 1560 | EVENT | The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland. |
| 27th of February 1594 | EVENT | Henry IV is crowned King of France. |
| 27th of February 1617 | EVENT | Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea. |
| 27th of February 1626 | EVENT | Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci. |
| 27th of February 1700 | EVENT | The island of New Britain is discovered. |
| 27th of February 1801 | EVENT | Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. |
| 27th of February 1812 | EVENT | Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time. |
| 27th of February 1812 | EVENT | Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. |
| 27th of February 1844 | EVENT | The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. |
| 27th of February 1860 | EVENT | Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. |
| 27th of February 1861 | EVENT | Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters. |
| 27th of February 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. |
| 27th of February 1870 | EVENT | The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. |
| 27th of February 1900 | EVENT | The British Labour Party is founded. |
| 27th of February 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. |
| 27th of February 1902 | EVENT | Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria. |
| 27th of February 1921 | EVENT | The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna. |
| 27th of February 1922 | EVENT | A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. |
| 27th of February 1933 | EVENT | Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. |
| 27th of February 1939 | EVENT | United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal. |
| 27th of February 1940 | EVENT | Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 |
| 27th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies |
| 27th of February 1943 | EVENT | The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin |
| 27th of February 1943 | EVENT | The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. |
| 27th of February 1951 | EVENT | The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. |
| 27th of February 1955 | EVENT | Soviet Union regional elections, 1955. |
| 27th of February 1961 | EVENT | The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. |
| 27th of February 1963 | EVENT | The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. |
| 27th of February 1964 | EVENT | The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. |
| 27th of February 1971 | EVENT | Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati. |
| 27th of February 1973 | EVENT | The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. |
| 27th of February 1976 | EVENT | The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. |
| 27th of February 1986 | EVENT | The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. |
| 27th of February 1989 | EVENT | Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots. |
| 27th of February 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". |
| 27th of February 2002 | EVENT | Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya; |
| 27th of February 2002 | EVENT | Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation. |
| 27th of February 2004 | EVENT | A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116. |
| 27th of February 2007 | EVENT | The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years. |
| 27th of February 2010 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. |
| 27th of February 0272 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337) |
| 27th of February 1691 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754) |
| 27th of February 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769) |
| 27th of February 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842) |
| 27th of February 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Rodriguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile (d. 1818) |
| 27th of February 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882) |
| 27th of February 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913) |
| 27th of February 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928) |
| 27th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Parry, English composer (d.1918) |
| 27th of February 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937) |
| 27th of February 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Fisher, American economist (d. 1947) |
| 27th of February 1875 | BIRTHDAY | George Rodocanachi, Greek-British physician (d. 1944) |
| 27th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952) |
| 27th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958) |
| 27th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (d. 1944) |
| 27th of February 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971) |
| 27th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976) |
| 27th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950) |
| 27th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974) |
| 27th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933) |
| 27th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971) |
| 27th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004) |
| 27th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983) |
| 27th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (d. 1943) |
| 27th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993) |
| 27th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978) |
| 27th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) |
| 27th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970) |
| 27th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979) |
| 27th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980) |
| 27th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946) |
| 27th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996) |
| 27th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 27th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951) |
| 27th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Wolf, German politician (d. 1977) |
| 27th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 27th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993) |
| 27th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works) (d. 1990) |
| 27th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948) |
| 27th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995) |
| 27th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Heidenstam, British bodybuilding champion (d. 1991) |
| 27th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990) |
| 27th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984) |
| 27th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989) |
| 27th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Connally, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of the Navy, 39th Governor of Texas, and 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993) |
| 27th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Van Kirk, American navigator of the Enola Gay |
| 27th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977) |
| 27th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990) |
| 27th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004) |
| 27th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 27th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 27th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008) |
| 27th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 27th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul von Rague Schleyer, American chemist |
| 27th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Woodward, American actress |
| 27th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d.2011) |
| 27th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Berry, American football player |
| 27th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Nader, American author, activist and political figure |
| 27th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | N. Scott Momaday, American writer |
| 27th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Van Williams, American actor |
| 27th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992) |
| 27th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mirella Freni, Italian soprano |
| 27th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles |
| 27th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 27th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Babcock, American actress |
| 27th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Thackray, Engish singer-songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 27th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974) |
| 27th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hunter, Australian actor |
| 27th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Hesseman, American actor |
| 27th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy Ashdown, British politician |
| 27th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 27th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Forget, Canadian actor |
| 27th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist |
| 27th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 27th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Morten Lauridsen, American composer |
| 27th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 27th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer |
| 27th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Scruton, British philosopher |
| 27th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004) |
| 27th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Guth, American theoretical physicist and cosmologist |
| 27th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist |
| 27th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress |
| 27th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Neuberger, British rabbi and politician |
| 27th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Atwater, American political figure (d. 1991) |
| 27th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel) |
| 27th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor |
| 27th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriela Svobodova, Czech cross country skier |
| 27th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Schon, American musician (Journey) |
| 27th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director |
| 27th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator |
| 27th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Markin, Russian athlete |
| 27th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Spall, English actor |
| 27th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden) |
| 27th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Spungen, American murder victim (d. 1978) |
| 27th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer |
| 27th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
| 27th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Gomez, Ecuadorian tennis player |
| 27th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | James Worthy, American basketball player |
| 27th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Baldwin, American actor |
| 27th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Show, American actor |
| 27th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Par Nuder, Swedish politician |
| 27th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Bodine, American race car driver |
| 27th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Emmerich, American actor |
| 27th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist |
| 27th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Sundstrom, Swedish sound editor and sound designer |
| 27th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Donal Logue, Canadian actor |
| 27th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player |
| 27th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Vander Ark, American musician |
| 27th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michael A. Burstein, American writer |
| 27th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Desormeaux, American jockey |
| 27th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Petibon, French opera singer |
| 27th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Lechner, German art director |
| 27th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hudson, BBC Look North Weatherman. |
| 27th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist |
| 27th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC) |
| 27th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor: Palau) (d. 2010) |
| 27th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Andre, Australian singer |
| 27th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead) |
| 27th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer |
| 27th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer |
| 27th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Carte Goodwin, American politician, junior senator of West Virginia |
| 27th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete |
| 27th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006) |
| 27th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gonzalez, American football player |
| 27th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James Wan, Australian film director |
| 27th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ji Sung, South Korean actor |
| 27th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | James Beattie, English footballer |
| 27th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby V, American singer |
| 27th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton |
| 27th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Prince, Australian Rugby League Player |
| 27th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Groban, American singer |
| 27th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Ling, Australian Rules footballer |
| 27th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Elodie Ouedraogo, Belgian athlete |
| 27th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Duje Draganja, Croatian swimmer |
| 27th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Devin Harris, American basketball player |
| 27th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Mara, American actress |
| 27th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress |
| 27th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | David Noel, American basketball player |
| 27th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer |
| 27th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer |
| 27th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Braydon Coburn, Canadian hockey player |
| 27th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer |
| 27th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Juliana Imai, Brazilian model |
| 27th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player |
| 27th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician |
| 27th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer |
| 27th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer |
| 27th of February 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player |
| 27th of February 0956 | DEATH | Theophylact, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Born 917) |
| 27th of February 1659 | DEATH | Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (Born 1609) |
| 27th of February 1699 | DEATH | Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (Born c.1625) |
| 27th of February 1706 | DEATH | John Evelyn, English diarist (Born 1620) |
| 27th of February 1720 | DEATH | Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (Born 1653) |
| 27th of February 1735 | DEATH | John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (Born 1667) |
| 27th of February 1795 | DEATH | Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (Born 1750) |
| 27th of February 1844 | DEATH | Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (Born 1786) |
| 27th of February 1887 | DEATH | Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (Born 1833) |
| 27th of February 1892 | DEATH | Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (Born 1821) |
| 27th of February 1902 | DEATH | Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (Born 1869) |
| 27th of February 1902 | DEATH | Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (Born 1864) |
| 27th of February 1921 | DEATH | Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (Born 1871) |
| 27th of February 1932 | DEATH | William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (Born 1843) |
| 27th of February 1936 | DEATH | Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1849) |
| 27th of February 1936 | DEATH | Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (Born 1852) |
| 27th of February 1941 | DEATH | William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (Born 1895) |
| 27th of February 1943 | DEATH | Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (Born 1859) |
| 27th of February 1964 | DEATH | Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (Born 1897) |
| 27th of February 1968 | DEATH | Frankie Lymon, American singer (Born 1942) |
| 27th of February 1969 | DEATH | Marius Barbeau, Canadian folklorist (Born 1883) |
| 27th of February 1970 | DEATH | Marie Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (Born 1934) |
| 27th of February 1972 | DEATH | Pat Brady, American actor and singer (Born 1914) |
| 27th of February 1973 | DEATH | Bill Everett, American comic book artist, co-created Daredevil and Namor the Sub-Mariner for Marvel Comics (Born 1917) |
| 27th of February 1977 | DEATH | John Dickson Carr, American author (Born 1905) |
| 27th of February 1978 | DEATH | Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (Born 1912) |
| 27th of February 1980 | DEATH | George Tobias, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 27th of February 1981 | DEATH | Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (Born 1920) |
| 27th of February 1985 | DEATH | Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (Born 1902) |
| 27th of February 1986 | DEATH | Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (Born 1929) |
| 27th of February 1987 | DEATH | Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (Born 1921) |
| 27th of February 1987 | DEATH | Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (Born 1921) |
| 27th of February 1989 | DEATH | Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1903) |
| 27th of February 1989 | DEATH | Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (Born 1897) |
| 27th of February 1990 | DEATH | Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (Born 1903) |
| 27th of February 1992 | DEATH | S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (Born 1906) |
| 27th of February 1993 | DEATH | Lillian Gish, American actress (Born 1893) |
| 27th of February 1998 | DEATH | J. T. Walsh, American actor (Born 1943) |
| 27th of February 1998 | DEATH | George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1905) |
| 27th of February 2002 | DEATH | Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (Born 1918) |
| 27th of February 2003 | DEATH | Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (Born 1928) |
| 27th of February 2003 | DEATH | John Lanchbery, English composer (Born 1923) |
| 27th of February 2004 | DEATH | Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (Born 1910) |
| 27th of February 2004 | DEATH | Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (Born 1928) |
| 27th of February 2005 | DEATH | Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (Born 1995) |
| 27th of February 2006 | DEATH | Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (Born 1927) |
| 27th of February 2006 | DEATH | Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (Born 1908) |
| 27th of February 2006 | DEATH | Linda Smith, British comedian (Born 1958) |
| 27th of February 2007 | DEATH | Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (Born 1914) |
| 27th of February 2007 | DEATH | Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (Born 1924) |
| 27th of February 2008 | DEATH | William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (Born 1925) |
| 27th of February 2008 | DEATH | Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (Born 1944) |
| 27th of February 2008 | DEATH | Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (Born 1929) |
| 27th of February 2011 | DEATH | Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (Born 1901) |
| 27th of February 2011 | DEATH | Duke Snider, American professional baseball player (Born 1926) |