Since I gave up hope, I feel much better.is my saying for today (August 27th)!
Quote of the day: "
One man's pay increase is another man's price increase." by Harold Wilson
Word of the day:
nemoricole - adjective: living in a grove
August 27th is the 239th day of the year (240th in a leap year) and there are 126 days left until the end of the year.
If today is your Birthday,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!If you would like your birthday or a family member, or even a friends included in my "Birthday List", just leave a comment with all the pertinent information like Name, nickname, occupation and date of birth!
Some other,
Famous People who were born on August 27th!1407, Japanese shogun, Ashikaga Yoshikazu (d. 1425)
1471, Duke of Saxony, George (d. 1539)
1487, Queen of Denmark, Anna of Brandenburg (d. 1514)
1637, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland, Charles Calvert (d. 1715)
1665, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician, John Hervey (d. 1751)
1669, Queen of Italy, Anne Marie of Orléans (d. 1728)
1668, Founder of the Chasiddic movement, Baal Shem Tov (d. 1760)
1677, Austrian field marshal, Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun (d. 1748)
1724, Swiss-born Continental Congressman, John Joachim Zubly (d. 1781)
1730, German philosopher, Johann Georg Hamann (d. 1788)
1770, German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (d. 1831)
1803, American theologian, Edward Beecher (d. 1895)
1809, Vice President of the United States of America, Hannibal Hamlin (d. 1891)
1858, Italian mathematician, Giuseppe Peano (d. 1932)
1865, American Egyptologist, James Henry Breasted (d. 1935)
1865, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Charles G. Dawes (d. 1951)
1868, Korean independence activist, Hong Beom-do (d. 1943)
1870, Mexican poet, Amado Nervo (d. 1919)
1871, American author, Theodore Dreiser (d. 1945)
1874, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate, Carl Bosch (d. 1940)
1875, American women's rights activist, Katharine McCormick (d. 1967)
1877, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce, Charles Rolls (d. 1910)
1877, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, Ernst Wetter (d. 1963)
1884, French President, Vincent Auriol (d. 1966)
1886, English composer and violist, Rebecca Helferich Clarke (d. 1979)
1886, English composer, Eric Coates (d. 1957)
1890, American photographer and artist, Man Ray (d. 1976)
1896, Russian actress, Faina Ranevskaya (d. 1984)
1898, French Canadian parliamentarian, Gaspard Fauteux (d. 1963)
1899, British author, C. S. Forester (d. 1966)
1899, American actor, Byron Foulger (d. 1970)
1904, British author, Norah Lofts (d. 1983)
1904, American financier, John Hay Whitney (d. 1982)
1906, American serial killer, Ed Gein (d. 1984)
1908, Australian cricketer, Don Bradman (d. 2001)
1908, 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 1973)
1908, German artist, Kurt Wegner (d. 1985)
1909, Belgian cyclist, Sylvère Maes (d. 1966)
1909, American musician, Lester Young (d. 1959)
1911, British actress, Kay Walsh (d. 2005)
1912, Mexican socialite and writer, Gloria Guinness (d. 1980)
1913, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1914, German actress, Heidi Kabel (d. 2010)
1915, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate, Norman Foster Ramsey
1916, American actress, Martha Raye (d. 1994)
1916, South African cricketer, Tony Harris (d. 1993)
1917, American baseball player, Peanuts Lowrey (d. 1986)
1918, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967, Jelle Zijlstra (d. 2001)
1919, American songwriter and cabaret singer, Murray Grand (d. 2007)
1921, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Georg Alexander (d. 1996)
1921, American film director, Leo Penn (d. 1998)
1924, Australian poet, David Rowbotham
1925, French actor, Darry Cowl (d. 2006)
1925, English footballer, Nat Lofthouse
1926, English actress, Pat Coombs (d. 2002)
1926, Norwegian mathematician, Kristen Nygaard (d. 2002)
1928, South African politician, Mangosuthu Buthelezi
1929, American author, Ira Levin (d. 2007)
1931, Indian guru, Sri Chinmoy (d. 2007)
1931, American baseball player, Joe Cunningham
1932, British author, Antonia Fraser
1935, American baseball player, Ernie Broglio
1935, American film producer, Frank Yablans
1936, American politician, Joel Kovel
1937, American jazz musician, Alice Coltrane (d. 2007)
1937, American actor and singer, Tommy Sands
1939, American author, William Least Heat-Moon
1940, American jazz guitarist, Sonny Sharrock (d. 1994)
1941, American actor, Harrison Page
1942, American keyboardist, Daryl Dragon
1942, Canadian politician, Brian Peckford
1943, American actress Tuesday Weld
1944, American actor, G. W. Bailey
1946, West Indian cricketer, Tony Howard
1947, American actress, Barbara Bach
1947, American actor, Harry Reems
1947, New Zealand cricketer, John Morrison
1947, South African cricketer, Gavin Pfuhl (d. 2002)
1948, Greek musician, Pavlos Sidiropoulos (d. 1990)
1948, American professional wrestler, Sgt. Slaughter
1949, Vocals, guitar, keyboards, Bass, Fiddle, Banjo and mandolin player, Jeff Cook
1950, American actor, Charles Fleischer
1951, American baseball player-manager, Buddy Bell
1951, American University of Texas Head Football Coach, Mack Brown
1952, American actor, (aka Pee-wee Herman), Paul Reubens
1953, Canadian guitarist, Alex Lifeson
1953, Swedish-born actor, Peter Stormare
1954, British tennis player, John Lloyd
1954, British race car driver, Derek Warwick
1955, Dutch singer, Laura Fygi
1955, American cinematographer, Robert Richardson
1955, American actress, Diana Scarwid
1957, American author and game designer, Jeff Grubb
1957, German golfer and two-time Masters champion, Bernhard Langer
1958, Canadian comedian and television and radio host, Normand Brathwaite
1958, Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev
1958, Belgian author, Tom Lanoye
1959, Austrian racing driver and F1 team co-owner, Gerhard Berger
1959, Colombian artist, Juan Fernando Cobo
1959, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ, Downtown Julie Brown
1961, American gospel singer, Yolanda Adams
1961, American fashion designer, Tom Ford
1962, Canadian hockey player, Adam Oates
1962, American photographer, Thomas Duggan
1962, American voice actor, Vic Mignogna
1964, American actor, Robert Bogue
1965, Zimbabwean cricketer, Wayne James
1966, Prime Minister of Estonia, Juhan Parts
1967, Filipino singer and actor, Ogie Alcasid
1969, British actor and comedian, Reece Shearsmith
1969, England cricketer, Mark Ealham
1969, Mexican dog trainer, Cesar Millan
1969, American actress, Chandra Wilson
1970, Australian cricketer, Andy Bichel
1970, English snooker player, Peter Ebdon
1970, England cricketer, Mark Ilott
1970, English musician, Tony Kanal
1970, Irish footballer, Jeff Kenna
1970, American baseball player, Jim Thome
1970, Italian mountaineer, Karl Unterkircher (d. 2008)
1971, Hong Kong actor and singer, Julian Cheung
1971, Dutch footballer and coach, Ernest Faber
1971, German politician, Aygül Özkan
1972, American musician, Jimmy Pop
1972, Dutch field hockey player, Jaap-Derk Buma
1972, English heptathlete, Denise Lewis
1972, Indian professional wrestler, The Great Khali
1973, American professional wrestler, Carlene Begnaud
1973, Welsh footballer, Danny Coyne
1973, German footballer, Dietmar Hamann
1973, Swedish author, Johan Norberg
1973, Turkish pop singer, Burak Kut
1973, Canadian actor, Cory Bowles
1974, Puerto Rican baseball player, José Vidro
1974, Pakistani cricketer, Mohammad Yousuf
1974, New Zealand cricketer, Michael Mason
1975, American skier, Jonny Moseley
1975, Swedish guitarplayer,, Björn Gelotte
1975, Australian footballer, Mark Rudan
1976, Canadian actress, Sarah Chalke
1976, Spanish tennis player, Carlos Moyà
1976, Japanese professional wrestler, Milano Collection Akihito Terui
1976, Australian racing driver, Mark Webber
1977, Portuguese footballer, Deco
1977, American rapper, Mase
1979, American filmmaker and actor, Giovanni Capitello
1979, American actor, Aaron Paul
1979, Chinese diver, Tian Liang
1979, Canadian musician, Sarah Neufeld
1979, American shorttracker, Rusty Smith
1980, Indian model and actress, Neha Dhupia
1980, American actor, Kyle Lowder
1981, American actress, Demetria McKinney
1981, Spanish footballer, Maxwell Cabelino Andrade
1982, French cyclist, Damien Monier
1983, Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984, English footballer, David Bentley
1984, Ghanaian footballer, Sulley Muntari
1985, Romanian/American artist, Alexandra Nechita
1986, American R&B singer, Mario
1987, American football player, Darren McFadden
1988, American actress, Alexa Vega
1993, Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
Famous People who Died on August 27th!
542, Saint Caesarius of Arles
827, Pope Eugene II
1312, Duke of Brittany, Arthur II (b. 1262)
1394, Emperor of Japan, Chokei (b. 1343)
1450, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician, Reginald West (b. 1395)
1521, Flemish composer, Josquin des Prez
1545, Polish Catholic archbishop, Piotr Gamrat (b. 1487)
1572, French composer, Claude Goudimel
1577, Titian, Italian artist
1590, Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635, Spanish poet and playwright, Félix Lope de Vega (b. 1562)
1664, Spanish painter, Francisco Zurbarán (b. 1598)
1748, Scottish poet, James Thomson (b. 1700)
1773, Prussian general, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (b. 1721)
1857, American literary critic and editor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (b. 1815)
1865, Canadian author, Thomas Chandler Haliburton (b. 1796)
1871, American politician, William Whiting Boardman (b. 1794)
1875, American banker, William Chapman Ralston (b. 1826)
1909, Danish fermentation physiologist, Emil Christian Hansen (b. 1842)
1929, Slovenian rocket scientist, Herman Potocnik Noordung (b. 1892)
1931, Irish author and editor, Frank Harris (b. 1856)
1931, American borax magnate, Francis Marion Smith (b. 1846)
1944, German nobleman, Georg von Boeselager (b. 1915)
1948, U.S. Supreme Court justice, Charles Evans Hughes (b. 1862)
1958, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Ernest Lawrence (b. 1901)
1963, American inventor, Garrett Morgan (b. 1877)
1963, American civil rights activist and scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois (b. 1868)
1963, Pakistani scholar and politician, Allama Mashriqi (b. 1888)
1964, American actress and comedienne, Gracie Allen (b. 1895)
1965, Swiss architect, Le Corbusier (b. 1887)
1967, English manager of The Beatles, Brian Epstein (b. 1934)
1968, Duchess of Kent, Princess Marina (b. 1906)
1969, English novelist, Ivy Compton-Burnett (b. 1884)
1969, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann, Erika Mann (b. 1905)
1971, American publisher and television personality, Bennett Cerf (b. 1898)
1971, American photo-journalist, Margaret Bourke-White (b. 1906)
1975, Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I (b. 1892)
1976, Indian playback singer, Mukesh (b. 1923)
1979, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated), Louis Mountbatten (b. 1900)
1980, American humorist, Douglas Kenney (b. 1947)
1981, Soviet hockey player, Valeri Kharlamov (b. 1948)
1984, English actor, Bernard Youens (b. 1914)
1987, American DJ, Scott La Rock (b. 1962)
1988, British psychiatrist, William Sargant (b. 1907)
1988, Filipino actor, Mario Montenegro (b. 1928)
1990, American guitarist, Stevie Ray Vaughan (b. 1954)
1996, American actor, Greg Morris (b. 1933)
1997, Greek singer, Sotiria Bellou (b. 1921)
1999, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop, Hélder Câmara (b. 1909)
2001, Leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ali Mustafa (b. 1938)
2001, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, Michael Dertouzos (b. 1936)
2002, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN), Dr. Edwin Louis Cole (b. 1922)
2003, French politician, Pierre Poujade (b. 1920)
2004, American baseball player, Willie Crawford (b. 1946)
2005, Greek songwriter and musician, Giorgos Mouzakis (b. 1922)
2005, Gaelic footballer, Seán Purcell (b. 1929)
2006, Indian film director, Hrishikesh Mukherjee (b. 1922)
2006, Oldest living person from 2004–2006, María Capovilla (b. 1889)
2006, Mexican-born guitarist, Jesse Pintado (b. 1969)
2007, Spanish actress, Emma Penella (b. 1930)
2008, Australian actor, Mark Priestley (b. 1970)
2009, Russian writer and poet, Sergey Mikhalkov (b. 1913)
2010, Professional Wrestler, Luna Vachon (b. 1962)
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