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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of March 1306 | EVENT | Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone. |
| 27th of March 1309 | EVENT | Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population. |
| 27th of March 1329 | EVENT | Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. |
| 27th of March 1613 | EVENT | The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy. |
| 27th of March 1625 | EVENT | Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. |
| 27th of March 1782 | EVENT | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 27th of March 1794 | EVENT | The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. |
| 27th of March 1794 | EVENT | Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact. |
| 27th of March 1809 | EVENT | Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real. |
| 27th of March 1814 | EVENT | War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. |
| 27th of March 1836 | EVENT | Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre : Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas. |
| 27th of March 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas. |
| 27th of March 1851 | EVENT | First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans. |
| 27th of March 1854 | EVENT | Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia. |
| 27th of March 1871 | EVENT | The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. |
| 27th of March 1881 | EVENT | Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army. |
| 27th of March 1884 | EVENT | A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse. |
| 27th of March 1886 | EVENT | Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. |
| 27th of March 1890 | EVENT | A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. |
| 27th of March 1910 | EVENT | A fire during a barn-dance in Okoritofulpos, Hungary, kills 312. |
| 27th of March 1915 | EVENT | Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. |
| 27th of March 1918 | EVENT | Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania. |
| 27th of March 1938 | EVENT | Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place. |
| 27th of March 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup. |
| 27th of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands : In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. |
| 27th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. |
| 27th of March 1948 | EVENT | The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened. |
| 27th of March 1958 | EVENT | Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| 27th of March 1963 | EVENT | Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. |
| 27th of March 1964 | EVENT | The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. |
| 27th of March 1975 | EVENT | Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. |
| 27th of March 1976 | EVENT | The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens. |
| 27th of March 1977 | EVENT | Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. |
| 27th of March 1980 | EVENT | The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. |
| 27th of March 1980 | EVENT | Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. |
| 27th of March 1981 | EVENT | The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours. |
| 27th of March 1986 | EVENT | A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people. |
| 27th of March 1990 | EVENT | The United States begins broadcasting TV Marti to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. |
| 27th of March 1993 | EVENT | Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
| 27th of March 1993 | EVENT | Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. |
| 27th of March 1994 | EVENT | One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90. |
| 27th of March 1994 | EVENT | The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany. |
| 27th of March 1998 | EVENT | The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. |
| 27th of March 2000 | EVENT | A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71. |
| 27th of March 2002 | EVENT | Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel. |
| 27th of March 2004 | EVENT | HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. |
| 27th of March 2009 | EVENT | Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people. |
| 27th of March 2009 | EVENT | A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan. |
| 27th of March 0972 | BIRTHDAY | King Robert II of France (d. 1031) |
| 27th of March 1416 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480) |
| 27th of March 1627 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716) |
| 27th of March 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Francis II Rakoczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735) |
| 27th of March 1696 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760) |
| 27th of March 1702 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762) |
| 27th of March 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779) |
| 27th of March 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795) |
| 27th of March 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786) |
| 27th of March 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767) |
| 27th of March 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841) |
| 27th of March 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Csoma de Koros, Hungarian philologist (d. 1842) |
| 27th of March 1785 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795) |
| 27th of March 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863) |
| 27th of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891) |
| 27th of March 1810 | BIRTHDAY | William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886) |
| 27th of March 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888) |
| 27th of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891) |
| 27th of March 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Rontgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923) |
| 27th of March 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) |
| 27th of March 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931) |
| 27th of March 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936) |
| 27th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927) |
| 27th of March 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924) |
| 27th of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933) |
| 27th of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Smith Hill, American educator (d. 1946) |
| 27th of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938) |
| 27th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950) |
| 27th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929) |
| 27th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980) |
| 27th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969) |
| 27th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934) |
| 27th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ferde Grofe, American composer (d. 1972) |
| 27th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947) |
| 27th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Schade, German-born American film actress (d. 1982) |
| 27th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958) |
| 27th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (d. 1937) |
| 27th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983) |
| 27th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963) |
| 27th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975) |
| 27th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000) |
| 27th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971) |
| 27th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998) |
| 27th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980) |
| 27th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969) |
| 27th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973) |
| 27th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994) |
| 27th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | James Callaghan, British politician (d. 2005) |
| 27th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 27th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 27th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (d. 2009) |
| 27th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006) |
| 27th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002) |
| 27th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Jacques, British illustrator (d. 1995) |
| 27th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000) |
| 27th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010) |
| 27th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011) |
| 27th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003) |
| 27th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet |
| 27th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996) |
| 27th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990) |
| 27th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007) |
| 27th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Lewis, American journalist and writer |
| 27th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 27th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Glover, British actor |
| 27th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Rother, American Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981) |
| 27th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer |
| 27th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter |
| 27th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cale Yarborough, American race car driver |
| 27th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Pendleton, American actor |
| 27th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 27th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Gasparovic, Slovakian politician |
| 27th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 27th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael York, English actor |
| 27th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007) |
| 27th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008) |
| 27th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers) |
| 27th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Jones, British balloonist |
| 27th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Mossberg, American journalist |
| 27th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis) |
| 27th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician |
| 27th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 27th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011) |
| 27th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Seguin, Quebec singer and songwriter |
| 27th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lefteris Pantazis, Greek singer |
| 27th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist |
| 27th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier |
| 27th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Hawkins, British politician |
| 27th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and football manager |
| 27th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997) |
| 27th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS) |
| 27th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Pflugler, German footballer |
| 27th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996) |
| 27th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z) |
| 27th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist |
| 27th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John O'Farrell, British author and satirist |
| 27th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jann Arden, Canadian musician |
| 27th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician |
| 27th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Cunningham, American football player |
| 27th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer |
| 27th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Koz, American saxophonist |
| 27th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Xuxa, Brazilian television personality |
| 27th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter |
| 27th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Trickey, American actress |
| 27th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist |
| 27th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Talisa Soto, American actress |
| 27th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 27th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | David Bavaro, American football player |
| 27th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model |
| 27th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer |
| 27th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990) |
| 27th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Corrigan, American actor |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler) |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mariah Carey, American pop singer |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman) |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001) |
| 27th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Rosenberg, German board game designer (Agricola, Bohnanza) |
| 27th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor |
| 27th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver |
| 27th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer |
| 27th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001) |
| 27th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer |
| 27th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer |
| 27th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor |
| 27th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter |
| 27th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas) |
| 27th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer |
| 27th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Fortson, American basketball player |
| 27th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model |
| 27th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver |
| 27th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer |
| 27th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player |
| 27th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer and songwriter |
| 27th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer |
| 27th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carey Davis, American pro football player |
| 27th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer |
| 27th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty pageant contestant |
| 27th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer |
| 27th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Franks, New Zealander rugby player |
| 27th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer |
| 27th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer |
| 27th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel |
| 27th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Stern (Baby M), American custody case figure |
| 27th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet |
| 27th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio, Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Posey, American baseball player |
| 27th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player |
| 27th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Song, American actress |
| 27th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie J, British singer |
| 27th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer |
| 27th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Obiang, Spanish-born Equatoguinean footballer |
| 27th of March 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Atelian, American actress |
| 27th of March 0710 | DEATH | Rupert of Salzburg |
| 27th of March 0973 | DEATH | Herman, Duke of Saxony |
| 27th of March 1191 | DEATH | Pope Clement III (Born 1130) |
| 27th of March 1350 | DEATH | King Alfonso XI of Castile (Born 1312) |
| 27th of March 1378 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XI (Born 1336) |
| 27th of March 1462 | DEATH | Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (Born 1415) |
| 27th of March 1482 | DEATH | Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (Born 1457) |
| 27th of March 1555 | DEATH | William Hunter, Protestant martyr |
| 27th of March 1572 | DEATH | Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (Born c. 1523) |
| 27th of March 1625 | DEATH | King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (Born 1566) |
| 27th of March 1635 | DEATH | Robert Naunton, English politician (Born 1563) |
| 27th of March 1676 | DEATH | Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (Born 1597) |
| 27th of March 1697 | DEATH | Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (Born 1603) |
| 27th of March 1757 | DEATH | Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (Born 1717) |
| 27th of March 1770 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (Born 1696) |
| 27th of March 1809 | DEATH | Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (Born 1716) |
| 27th of March 1827 | DEATH | Francois Alexandre Frederic, French social reformer (Born 1747) |
| 27th of March 1836 | DEATH | James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (Born 1804) |
| 27th of March 1843 | DEATH | Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (Born 1769) |
| 27th of March 1849 | DEATH | Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (Born 1776) |
| 27th of March 1850 | DEATH | Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (Born 1797) |
| 27th of March 1864 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Ampere, French scholar (Born 1800) |
| 27th of March 1865 | DEATH | Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (Born 1786) |
| 27th of March 1873 | DEATH | Amedee Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (Born 1797) |
| 27th of March 1875 | DEATH | Edgar Quinet, French historian (Born 1803) |
| 27th of March 1878 | DEATH | Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (Born 1811) |
| 27th of March 1879 | DEATH | Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (Born 1868) |
| 27th of March 1889 | DEATH | John Bright, English statesman (Born 1811) |
| 27th of March 1897 | DEATH | Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (Born 1826) |
| 27th of March 1898 | DEATH | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (Born 1817) |
| 27th of March 1910 | DEATH | Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (Born 1835) |
| 27th of March 1918 | DEATH | Henry Adams, American historian (Born 1838) |
| 27th of March 1923 | DEATH | Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (Born 1842) |
| 27th of March 1924 | DEATH | Walter Parratt, English composer (Born 1841) |
| 27th of March 1925 | DEATH | William Bligh, Canadian MP (Born 1887) |
| 27th of March 1926 | DEATH | Georges Vezina, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1887) |
| 27th of March 1927 | DEATH | Joe Start, American baseball player (Born 1842) |
| 27th of March 1931 | DEATH | Arnold Bennett, British novelist (Born 1867) |
| 27th of March 1934 | DEATH | Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (Born 1844) |
| 27th of March 1940 | DEATH | Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (Born 1872) |
| 27th of March 1967 | DEATH | Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1890) |
| 27th of March 1967 | DEATH | Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (Born 1906) |
| 27th of March 1968 | DEATH | Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1934) |
| 27th of March 1972 | DEATH | Sharkey Bonano, American musician (Born 1904) |
| 27th of March 1972 | DEATH | M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (Born 1898) |
| 27th of March 1977 | DEATH | A. P. Hamann, American politician (Born 1909) |
| 27th of March 1977 | DEATH | Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (Born 1927) |
| 27th of March 1977 | DEATH | Diana Hyland, American actress (Born 1936) |
| 27th of March 1978 | DEATH | Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur (Born 1902) |
| 27th of March 1981 | DEATH | Mao Dun, Chinese writer (Born 1895) |
| 27th of March 1982 | DEATH | Betty Schade, German-born American actress (Born 1895) |
| 27th of March 1988 | DEATH | Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (Born 1934) |
| 27th of March 1989 | DEATH | Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (Born 1936) |
| 27th of March 1989 | DEATH | May Allison, American actress (Born 1890) |
| 27th of March 1991 | DEATH | Ralph Bates, British actor (Born 1940) |
| 27th of March 1991 | DEATH | Aldo Ray, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 27th of March 1992 | DEATH | Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (Born 1903) |
| 27th of March 1993 | DEATH | Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (Born 1931) |
| 27th of March 1993 | DEATH | Paul Laszlo, Hungarian interior designer and architect (Born 1900) |
| 27th of March 1996 | DEATH | Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (Born 1944) |
| 27th of March 1998 | DEATH | Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (Born 1909) |
| 27th of March 1998 | DEATH | David McClelland, American psychologist (Born 1917) |
| 27th of March 2000 | DEATH | Ian Dury, English musician (Born 1942) |
| 27th of March 2002 | DEATH | Dudley Moore, British actor (Born 1935) |
| 27th of March 2002 | DEATH | Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (Born 1908) |
| 27th of March 2002 | DEATH | Billy Wilder, American director (Born 1906) |
| 27th of March 2003 | DEATH | Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (Born 1927) |
| 27th of March 2003 | DEATH | Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker (Born 1960) |
| 27th of March 2003 | DEATH | Paul Zindel, American writer (Born 1936) |
| 27th of March 2004 | DEATH | Adan Sanchez, Mexican-American singer (Born 1984) |
| 27th of March 2005 | DEATH | Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (Born 1913) |
| 27th of March 2005 | DEATH | Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian prominent actor (Born 1949) |
| 27th of March 2005 | DEATH | Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (Born 1921) |
| 27th of March 2005 | DEATH | Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (Born 1925) |
| 27th of March 2006 | DEATH | Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (Born 1928) |
| 27th of March 2006 | DEATH | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (Born 1925) |
| 27th of March 2006 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Lem, Polish writer (Born 1921) |
| 27th of March 2006 | DEATH | Ruari McLean, British typographer (Born 1917) |
| 27th of March 2006 | DEATH | Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (Born 1924) |
| 27th of March 2007 | DEATH | Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1929) |
| 27th of March 2008 | DEATH | Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (Born 1921) |
| 27th of March 2008 | DEATH | George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (Born 1947) |
| 27th of March 2009 | DEATH | Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (Born 1913) |
| 27th of March 2010 | DEATH | Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (Born 1921) |