July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining.
- 1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author (+ 1895)
- 1886 - Ernst May[?], architect (+ 1970)
- 1901 - Rudy Vallee, singer (+ 1986)
- 1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov[?], actor (+ 1966)
- 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 (+ 1991)
- 1905 - Leo Durocher[?], member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (+ 1991)
- 1912 - Hilde Domin[?], writer
- 1915 - Mario Del Monaco[?], tenor (+ 1982)
- 1916 - Elizabeth Hardwick[?], novelist
- 1916 - Keenan Wynn[?], actor (+ 1986)
- 1917 - Bourvil[?] (André Raimbourg), actor (+ 1970)
- 1922 - Norman Lear, television producer
- 1940 - Pina Bausch[?], dancer
- 1948 - Peggy Fleming[?], Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
- 1967 - Juliana Hatfield, musician
- 1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers[?], actor
- 1276 - James I of Aragon
- 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, author
- 1844 - John Dalton, English chemist
- 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey[?], Southern secession leader
- 1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, surgeon and biologist
- 1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
- 1958 - Claire Chennault, World War II aviator
- 1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi[?], Shah of Iran
- 1981 - Ryann Lea Forester[?], president of UAH PRCA
- 1981 - William Wyler, film director
- 1984 - James Mason, actor
- 2001 - Leon Wilkeson[?], bass (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
See Also:
July 26 - July 28 - June 27 - August 27 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December