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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of July 1054 | EVENT | Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland to support Malcolm Canmore against Macbeth of Scotland, who usurped the Scottish throne from Malcolm's father, King Duncan. Macbeth is defeated at Dunsinane. |
| 27th of July 1214 | EVENT | Battle of Bouvines: in France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. |
| 27th of July 1302 | EVENT | Battle of Bapheus: decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest. |
| 27th of July 1549 | EVENT | The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan. |
| 27th of July 1663 | EVENT | The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. |
| 27th of July 1689 | EVENT | Glorious Revolution: the Battle of Killiecrankie ends. |
| 27th of July 1694 | EVENT | A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England. |
| 27th of July 1720 | EVENT | The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy. |
| 27th of July 1778 | EVENT | American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant : British and French fleets fight to a standoff. |
| 27th of July 1789 | EVENT | The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State). |
| 27th of July 1794 | EVENT | French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution". |
| 27th of July 1862 | EVENT | Sailing from San Francisco to Panama City, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231. |
| 27th of July 1866 | EVENT | The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time. |
| 27th of July 1880 | EVENT | Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand : Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan. |
| 27th of July 1914 | EVENT | Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government. |
| 27th of July 1917 | EVENT | The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele. |
| 27th of July 1919 | EVENT | The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. |
| 27th of July 1921 | EVENT | Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin. |
| 27th of July 1928 | EVENT | Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July. |
| 27th of July 1940 | EVENT | The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. |
| 27th of July 1941 | EVENT | Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. |
| 27th of July 1949 | EVENT | Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. |
| 27th of July 1953 | EVENT | The Korean War ends when the United States, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. |
| 27th of July 1955 | EVENT | The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends. |
| 27th of July 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. |
| 27th of July 1974 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. |
| 27th of July 1976 | EVENT | Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals. |
| 27th of July 1981 | EVENT | 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later. |
| 27th of July 1981 | EVENT | British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show. |
| 27th of July 1983 | EVENT | Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days. |
| 27th of July 1987 | EVENT | RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic. |
| 27th of July 1990 | EVENT | The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3. |
| 27th of July 1990 | EVENT | The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'etat in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days. |
| 27th of July 1995 | EVENT | The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. |
| 27th of July 1996 | EVENT | Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured. |
| 27th of July 1997 | EVENT | About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria. |
| 27th of July 2002 | EVENT | Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history. |
| 27th of July 2005 | EVENT | STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft. |
| 27th of July 2006 | EVENT | The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance. |
| 27th of July 2007 | EVENT | Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; |
| 27th of July 1452 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508) |
| 27th of July 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748) |
| 27th of July 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779) |
| 27th of July 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Bare, French explorer (d. 1803) |
| 27th of July 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839) |
| 27th of July 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793) |
| 27th of July 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844) |
| 27th of July 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844) |
| 27th of July 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (d. 1853) |
| 27th of July 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828) |
| 27th of July 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839) |
| 27th of July 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897) |
| 27th of July 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895) |
| 27th of July 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923) |
| 27th of July 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907) |
| 27th of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919) |
| 27th of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Herbst German painter (d. 1915) |
| 27th of July 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian-Russian writer (d. 1921) |
| 27th of July 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921) |
| 27th of July 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Jose de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929) |
| 27th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916) |
| 27th of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953) |
| 27th of July 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Erno Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960) |
| 27th of July 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960) |
| 27th of July 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945) |
| 27th of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965) |
| 27th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970) |
| 27th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972) |
| 27th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (d. 1968) |
| 27th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969) |
| 27th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966) |
| 27th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002) |
| 27th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991) |
| 27th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000) |
| 27th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999) |
| 27th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996) |
| 27th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007) |
| 27th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981) |
| 27th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000) |
| 27th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Cote, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993) |
| 27th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982) |
| 27th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961) |
| 27th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007) |
| 27th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 27th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970) |
| 27th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984) |
| 27th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003) |
| 27th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Lear, American television writer and producer |
| 27th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986) |
| 27th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994) |
| 27th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000) |
| 27th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sat Mahajan, Indian politician |
| 27th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007) |
| 27th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Higgins, British novelist |
| 27th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007) |
| 27th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Williams, British politician |
| 27th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Van Dyke, American actor |
| 27th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician |
| 27th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Reynolds, American folk singer |
| 27th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995) |
| 27th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer |
| 27th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | J. Robert Hooper, American politician |
| 27th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 27th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Aubret, French singer |
| 27th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (Dungeons & Dragons) (d. 2008) |
| 27th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet |
| 27th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009) |
| 27th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Boesch, Austrian baritone |
| 27th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Ralston, American tennis player |
| 27th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Butler, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 27th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Pleshette, American actor |
| 27th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter |
| 27th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist |
| 27th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003) |
| 27th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rade Serbedzija, Croatian actor |
| 27th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008) |
| 27th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Thomas, American actor and film director |
| 27th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Fleming, American figure skater |
| 27th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 27th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (d. 2010) |
| 27th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen McGovern, American singer |
| 27th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rankin, English novelist |
| 27th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Jones, English actor |
| 27th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Roxanne Hart, American actress |
| 27th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Hannu-Pekka Hanninen, Finnish sports commentator |
| 27th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian |
| 27th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Alliot, French race car driver |
| 27th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | G. S. Bali, Indian politician |
| 27th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Cat Bauer, American novelist |
| 27th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Border, Australian cricketer |
| 27th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Leifer, American actress |
| 27th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Engvall, American comedian |
| 27th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Simmons, British Scrabble player |
| 27th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Dean, English figure skater |
| 27th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Green, American football player |
| 27th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 27th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yiannos Papantoniou, Greek politician |
| 27th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005) |
| 27th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Karrin Allyson, American Jazz vocalist |
| 27th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Donnie Yen, Hong Kong film actor |
| 27th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Brown, American bassist (Pantera) |
| 27th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer |
| 27th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (Blake Babies, Some Girls) |
| 27th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Mitchell, American actor |
| 27th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Smith, English cricketer |
| 27th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 27th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Goodwin, American baseball player |
| 27th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor |
| 27th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Julian McMahon, Australian actor |
| 27th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver |
| 27th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress |
| 27th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Maas, German electronica DJ |
| 27th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Triple H, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer |
| 27th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor |
| 27th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Takako Fuji, Japanese actress |
| 27th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian |
| 27th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian astronaut, the first Malaysian in space |
| 27th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Arrington, American sports reporter |
| 27th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Cunningham, American drummer (Deftones) |
| 27th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 27th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Nijs, Belgian long jumper |
| 27th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 27th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer |
| 27th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player |
| 27th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Mascherino, American guitarist (Taking Back Sunday) |
| 27th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player |
| 27th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer |
| 27th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005) |
| 27th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor |
| 27th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist |
| 27th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Irish Hurler |
| 27th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Govou, French footballer |
| 27th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer |
| 27th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Davis, Australian cyclist |
| 27th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player |
| 27th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer |
| 27th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Weselek, German rugby player |
| 27th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Harbisson, British-born Spanish artist |
| 27th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer |
| 27th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Martijn Maaskant, Dutch cyclist |
| 27th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Iekeliene Stange, Dutch high fashion model |
| 27th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player |
| 27th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player |
| 27th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor |
| 27th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress |
| 27th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Kupets, American gymnast |
| 27th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Hill, American basketball player |
| 27th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jacoby Ford, American football player |
| 27th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marek Hamsik, Slovakian footballer |
| 27th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Biddle, Australian footballer |
| 27th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress |
| 27th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gloriana) |
| 27th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Indiana Evans, Australian actress |
| 27th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Hogan, American reality TV star |
| 27th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor |
| 27th of July 1101 | DEATH | Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (Born 1074) |
| 27th of July 1276 | DEATH | King James I of Aragon (Born 1208) |
| 27th of July 1365 | DEATH | Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (Born 1339) |
| 27th of July 1656 | DEATH | Salomo Glassius, German theologian (Born 1593) |
| 27th of July 1675 | DEATH | Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (Born 1611) |
| 27th of July 1759 | DEATH | Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (Born 1698) |
| 27th of July 1770 | DEATH | Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (Born 1693) |
| 27th of July 1841 | DEATH | Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet and painter (Born 1814) |
| 27th of July 1844 | DEATH | John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (Born 1776) |
| 27th of July 1863 | DEATH | William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (Born 1813) |
| 27th of July 1876 | DEATH | Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (Born 1811) |
| 27th of July 1883 | DEATH | Montgomery Blair, American politician (Born 1813) |
| 27th of July 1917 | DEATH | Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (Born 1841) |
| 27th of July 1924 | DEATH | Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (Born 1866) |
| 27th of July 1931 | DEATH | Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (Born 1848) |
| 27th of July 1934 | DEATH | Hubert Lyautey, French army general and marshal (Born 1854) |
| 27th of July 1941 | DEATH | Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (Born 1858) |
| 27th of July 1946 | DEATH | Gertrude Stein, American writer (Born 1874) |
| 27th of July 1948 | DEATH | Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (Born 1898) |
| 27th of July 1948 | DEATH | Joe Tinker, American baseball player (Born 1880) |
| 27th of July 1958 | DEATH | Claire Chennault, American military leader (Born 1893) |
| 27th of July 1962 | DEATH | Richard Aldington, English poet (Born 1892) |
| 27th of July 1962 | DEATH | James H. Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (Born 1895) |
| 27th of July 1965 | DEATH | Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (Born 1901) |
| 27th of July 1968 | DEATH | Babe Adams, American baseball player (Born 1882) |
| 27th of July 1970 | DEATH | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese statesman (Born 1889) |
| 27th of July 1971 | DEATH | Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (Born 1924) |
| 27th of July 1978 | DEATH | Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (Born 1907) |
| 27th of July 1980 | DEATH | Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Pahlavi Shah of Iran (Born 1919) |
| 27th of July 1981 | DEATH | William Wyler, German-born American film director (Born 1902) |
| 27th of July 1981 | DEATH | Adam Walsh, American kidnap and murder victim and son of John Walsh (Born 1974) |
| 27th of July 1984 | DEATH | James Mason, English actor (Born 1909) |
| 27th of July 1985 | DEATH | Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (Born 1889) |
| 27th of July 1987 | DEATH | Travis Jackson, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 27th of July 1988 | DEATH | Frank Zamboni, American inventor (Born 1901) |
| 27th of July 1990 | DEATH | Bobby Day, American singer (Born 1928) |
| 27th of July 1992 | DEATH | Max Dupain, Australian photographer (Born 1911) |
| 27th of July 1993 | DEATH | Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (Born 1965) |
| 27th of July 1994 | DEATH | Kevin Carter, South African photographer (Born 1960) |
| 27th of July 1995 | DEATH | Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-born American composer (Born 1907) |
| 27th of July 1995 | DEATH | Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (Born 1905) |
| 27th of July 1998 | DEATH | Binnie Barnes, British actress (Born 1903) |
| 27th of July 1999 | DEATH | Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (Born 1912) |
| 27th of July 1999 | DEATH | Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1915) |
| 27th of July 2000 | DEATH | Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (Born 1929) |
| 27th of July 2001 | DEATH | Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (Born 1952) |
| 27th of July 2001 | DEATH | Rhonda Sing, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1961) |
| 27th of July 2003 | DEATH | Vance Hartke, American politician (Born 1919) |
| 27th of July 2003 | DEATH | Bob Hope, English-born American entertainer (Born 1903) |
| 27th of July 2005 | DEATH | Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (Born 1912) |
| 27th of July 2006 | DEATH | Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (Born 1925) |
| 27th of July 2007 | DEATH | Lucky Grills, Australian actor (Born 1928) |
| 27th of July 2007 | DEATH | James Oyebola, English heavyweight boxer (Born 1961) |
| 27th of July 2008 | DEATH | Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (Born 1926) |
| 27th of July 2008 | DEATH | Horst Stein, German conductor (Born 1928) |
| 27th of July 2008 | DEATH | Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (Born 1923) |
| 27th of July 2010 | DEATH | Jack Tatum, American football player (Born 1948) |
| 27th of July 2010 | DEATH | Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (Born 1949) |