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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of May 0893 | EVENT | Simeon I of Bulgaria is crowned Emperor of the first Bulgarian empire. |
| 27th of May 0927 | EVENT | Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army. |
| 27th of May 1120 | EVENT | Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. |
| 27th of May 1153 | EVENT | Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. |
| 27th of May 1328 | EVENT | Philip VI is crowned King of France. |
| 27th of May 1703 | EVENT | Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. |
| 27th of May 1798 | EVENT | The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland. |
| 27th of May 1799 | EVENT | War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's loaction at the junction of seven cross-roads. |
| 27th of May 1812 | EVENT | Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army. |
| 27th of May 1813 | EVENT | War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George. |
| 27th of May 1849 | EVENT | The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. |
| 27th of May 1860 | EVENT | Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification. |
| 27th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson. |
| 27th of May 1883 | EVENT | Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. |
| 27th of May 1896 | EVENT | The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD). |
| 27th of May 1905 | EVENT | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. |
| 27th of May 1907 | EVENT | Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California. |
| 27th of May 1919 | EVENT | The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. |
| 27th of May 1927 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. |
| 27th of May 1930 | EVENT | The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
| 27th of May 1933 | EVENT | New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. |
| 27th of May 1933 | EVENT | The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 27th of May 1933 | EVENT | The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" |
| 27th of May 1935 | EVENT | New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). |
| 27th of May 1937 | EVENT | In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. |
| 27th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive. |
| 27th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". |
| 27th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. |
| 27th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague. |
| 27th of May 1957 | EVENT | Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format. |
| 27th of May 1958 | EVENT | The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight. |
| 27th of May 1960 | EVENT | In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office. |
| 27th of May 1962 | EVENT | The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts. |
| 27th of May 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. |
| 27th of May 1967 | EVENT | Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census. |
| 27th of May 1967 | EVENT | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. |
| 27th of May 1968 | EVENT | The meeting of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. |
| 27th of May 1971 | EVENT | The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. |
| 27th of May 1975 | EVENT | The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 : the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. |
| 27th of May 1980 | EVENT | The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. |
| 27th of May 1987 | EVENT | Saint Paul, Minnesota's mayor George Latimer names May 27 "August Wilson Day" in honor of the only person to win a Pulitzer Prize hailing from the state. |
| 27th of May 1995 | EVENT | In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. |
| 27th of May 1996 | EVENT | First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. |
| 27th of May 1997 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office. |
| 27th of May 1998 | EVENT | Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. |
| 27th of May 1999 | EVENT | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. |
| 27th of May 2005 | EVENT | Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia. |
| 27th of May 2006 | EVENT | The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people. |
| 27th of May 1332 | BIRTHDAY | Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406) |
| 27th of May 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594) |
| 27th of May 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649) |
| 27th of May 1601 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648) |
| 27th of May 1623 | BIRTHDAY | William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687) |
| 27th of May 1626 | BIRTHDAY | William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650) |
| 27th of May 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729) |
| 27th of May 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orleans (d. 1722) |
| 27th of May 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1796) |
| 27th of May 1756 | BIRTHDAY | King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825) |
| 27th of May 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877) |
| 27th of May 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894) |
| 27th of May 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Ward Howe, American poet (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) (d. 1910) |
| 27th of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904) |
| 27th of May 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892) |
| 27th of May 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892) |
| 27th of May 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876) |
| 27th of May 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887) |
| 27th of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941) |
| 27th of May 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (d. 1938) |
| 27th of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931) |
| 27th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958) |
| 27th of May 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Stanier, British railway engineer (d. 1965) |
| 27th of May 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945) |
| 27th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Buhler, German linguist and psychologist (d. 1963) |
| 27th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962) |
| 27th of May 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Max Brod, Czech-born writer, literary executor of Franz Kafka (d. 1968) |
| 27th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979) |
| 27th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965) |
| 27th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Dornemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005) |
| 27th of May 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Ferdinand Celine, French writer (d. 1961) |
| 27th of May 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961) |
| 27th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 27th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | U?adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933) |
| 27th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997) |
| 27th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 2009) |
| 27th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and art critic (d. 1988) |
| 27th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964) |
| 27th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist |
| 27th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (d. 1978) |
| 27th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007) |
| 27th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 27th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Cheever, American author (d. 1982) |
| 27th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002) |
| 27th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995) |
| 27th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Wols, German painter (d. 1951) |
| 27th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Sore, Chilean musician (d. 1996) |
| 27th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Wouk, American writer |
| 27th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician |
| 27th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960) |
| 27th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lee, English actor |
| 27th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Kissinger, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 27th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur |
| 27th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Ingenito, American mass murderer (d. 1995) |
| 27th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008) |
| 27th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Barth, American novelist |
| 27th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Sessions, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| 27th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress |
| 27th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Sommer, Spanish comic artist (d. 2007) |
| 27th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 2008) |
| 27th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Harlan Ellison, American author |
| 27th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Meriwether, Miss America (1955) and actress |
| 27th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ramsey Lewis, American pianist |
| 27th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles (d. 1976) |
| 27th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Masse, Canadian politician |
| 27th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Gossett Jr., American actor |
| 27th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman |
| 27th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Don Williams, American country singer |
| 27th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Baca, American law enforcement official |
| 27th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Cilla Black, English singer and presenter |
| 27th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Weitz, American actor |
| 27th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Dodd, American politician, senior Senator from Connecticut |
| 27th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter |
| 27th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician |
| 27th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Niels-Henning ?rsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (d. 2005) |
| 27th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Collins, English actor |
| 27th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer |
| 27th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant |
| 27th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Belen, Spanish singer and actress |
| 27th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Hanson, Australian politician |
| 27th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Slater, American football player |
| 27th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter |
| 27th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Schiff, American actor |
| 27th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor |
| 27th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) |
| 27th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer, 1980 gold medalist |
| 27th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House) |
| 27th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Linnea Quigley, American actress |
| 27th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Peri Gilpin, American actress |
| 27th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Brill, American film writer and director |
| 27th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer |
| 27th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Borner, Australian basketball player |
| 27th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality |
| 27th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Zheng Geping, Singaporean actor |
| 27th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Bridges, American actor |
| 27th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Cash, Australian tennis player |
| 27th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gascoigne, English footballer |
| 27th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player |
| 27th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Frank E. Thomas, American baseball player |
| 27th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dondre Whitfield, American actor |
| 27th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Hundley, American baseball player |
| 27th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver |
| 27th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist |
| 27th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Farron, British politician |
| 27th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Cherry Pie Picache, Filipino actress |
| 27th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Fiennes, English actor |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Monika Schnarre, Canadian model and actress |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bettany, English actor |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002) |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kaur Kender, Estonian author |
| 27th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Sharpe, English Footballer |
| 27th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Demsey, American golfer |
| 27th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer |
| 27th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby union player |
| 27th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian |
| 27th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call) |
| 27th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Wuerffel, American football player |
| 27th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andre 3000, American rapper (OutKast) |
| 27th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer |
| 27th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jadakiss, American rapper (D-Block) |
| 27th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Oliver, English chef and television personality |
| 27th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | RJD2, American hip-hop producer |
| 27th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 27th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete |
| 27th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer |
| 27th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Adin Brown, American footballer |
| 27th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Manning, British actor |
| 27th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer |
| 27th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater |
| 27th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance and cross country runner |
| 27th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ozgur Cevik, Turkish singer and actor |
| 27th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Bonan. Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Miloy, Angolan footballer |
| 27th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer |
| 27th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nattie Neidhart, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 27th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Convey, American footballer |
| 27th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Ahearn, American basketball player |
| 27th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player |
| 27th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player |
| 27th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer |
| 27th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Conor Cummins, Manx motorbike racer |
| 27th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Descamps, Flemish actor and singer |
| 27th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Kolelas, French actor |
| 27th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Colfer, American actor |
| 27th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure skater |
| 27th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Danny McKinnon, Canadian actor |
| 27th of May 0366 | DEATH | Procopius, Roman usurper (Born 326) |
| 27th of May 0735 | DEATH | The Venerable Bede, English historian and theologian (Born 672 or 673) |
| 27th of May 0866 | DEATH | King Ordono I of Asturias (Born 831) |
| 27th of May 0927 | DEATH | Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (Born 864 or 865) |
| 27th of May 1039 | DEATH | Dirk III, Count of Holland (Born between 981 and 989) |
| 27th of May 1444 | DEATH | John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (Born 1404) |
| 27th of May 1508 | DEATH | Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Born 1452) |
| 27th of May 1525 | DEATH | Thomas Muntzer, German rebel leader (Born c. 1488) |
| 27th of May 1541 | DEATH | Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (Born 1473) |
| 27th of May 1564 | DEATH | John Calvin, French religious reformer (Born 1509) |
| 27th of May 1610 | DEATH | Francois Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (Born 1578) |
| 27th of May 1615 | DEATH | Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Henry IV of France (Born 1553) |
| 27th of May 1661 | DEATH | Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (Born 1607) |
| 27th of May 1675 | DEATH | Gaspard Dughet, French painter (Born 1613) |
| 27th of May 1690 | DEATH | Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (Born 1626) |
| 27th of May 1702 | DEATH | Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic (Born 1628) |
| 27th of May 1707 | DEATH | Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (Born 1640) |
| 27th of May 1781 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (Born 1716) |
| 27th of May 1797 | DEATH | Francois-Noel Babeuf, French revolutionary (Born 1760) |
| 27th of May 1831 | DEATH | Jedediah Smith, American explorer (Born 1799) |
| 27th of May 1840 | DEATH | Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (Born 1782) |
| 27th of May 1896 | DEATH | Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (Born 1839) |
| 27th of May 1910 | DEATH | Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1843) |
| 27th of May 1918 | DEATH | Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (Born 1869) |
| 27th of May 1919 | DEATH | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (Born 1848) |
| 27th of May 1926 | DEATH | Srecko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (Born 1904) |
| 27th of May 1941 | DEATH | Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (Born 1894) |
| 27th of May 1941 | DEATH | Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (Born 1889) |
| 27th of May 1945 | DEATH | Enno Lolling, German SS-Standartenfuhrer died by suicide (Born 1888) |
| 27th of May 1947 | DEATH | Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (Born 1885) |
| 27th of May 1949 | DEATH | Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (Born 1890) |
| 27th of May 1953 | DEATH | Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (Born 1868) |
| 27th of May 1960 | DEATH | James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (Born 1877) |
| 27th of May 1963 | DEATH | Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (Born 1912) |
| 27th of May 1964 | DEATH | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (Born 1889) |
| 27th of May 1967 | DEATH | W. Otto Miessner, American composer and music educator (Born 1880) |
| 27th of May 1967 | DEATH | Ernst Niekisch, German politician (Born 1889) |
| 27th of May 1969 | DEATH | Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 27th of May 1973 | DEATH | P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter (Born 1922) |
| 27th of May 1986 | DEATH | Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor (Born 1918) |
| 27th of May 1986 | DEATH | Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (Born 1921) |
| 27th of May 1987 | DEATH | John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1891) |
| 27th of May 1989 | DEATH | Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (Born 1907) |
| 27th of May 1990 | DEATH | Robert B. Meyner, 44th Governor of New Jersey (Born 1908) |
| 27th of May 1991 | DEATH | Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (Born 1904) |
| 27th of May 1992 | DEATH | Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (Born 1890) |
| 27th of May 1993 | DEATH | Mary Philbin, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 27th of May 1993 | DEATH | Werner Stocker, German actor (Born 1955) |
| 27th of May 1994 | DEATH | Charles Rodman Campbell, Executed American rapist and killer (Born 1954) |
| 27th of May 1997 | DEATH | Matt Gunther, American pornographic actor (Born 1963) |
| 27th of May 2000 | DEATH | Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (Born 1912) |
| 27th of May 2000 | DEATH | Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (Born 1917) |
| 27th of May 2000 | DEATH | Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (Born 1921) |
| 27th of May 2001 | DEATH | Ramon Bieri, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 27th of May 2003 | DEATH | Luciano Berio, Italian composer (Born 1925) |
| 27th of May 2006 | DEATH | Craig Heyward, American football player (Born 1966) |
| 27th of May 2006 | DEATH | Paul Gleason, American actor (Born 1939) |
| 27th of May 2006 | DEATH | Rob Borsellino, American columnist (Born 1949) |
| 27th of May 2006 | DEATH | Alex Toth, American cartoonist (Born 1928) |
| 27th of May 2006 | DEATH | Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (Born 1944) |
| 27th of May 2007 | DEATH | Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (Born 1967) |
| 27th of May 2007 | DEATH | Gretchen Wyler, American actress (Born 1932) |
| 27th of May 2007 | DEATH | Ed Yost, American inventor (Born 1919) |
| 27th of May 2008 | DEATH | Franz Kunstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (Born 1900) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Sir William Refshauge, Australian public health administrator (Born 1913) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Sir Clive Grainger, British economist and Nobel Prize winner (Born 1934) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Thomas Franck, American lawyer (Born 1931) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Abram Hoffer, Canadian Orthomolecular psychiatrist (Born 1917) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Gerard Jean-Juste, Roman Catholic priest and Haitian political activist (Born 1946) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Carol Anne O'Marie, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist (Born 1933) |
| 27th of May 2009 | DEATH | Paul Sharratt, British-born American television producer (Born 1933) |
| 27th of May 2010 | DEATH | Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (Born 1929) |