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Jul 27 1502

Francesco Corteccia Italian composer born in Florence (d. 1571)

Jul 27 1518

Elizabeth Talbot Countess of Shrewsbury and builder of country houses born in Derbyshire England (d. 1608)

Jul 27 1609

Heinrich Pape German composer and organist born in Ratzeburg (d. 1663)

Jul 27 1612

Murad IV Sultan of Turkey (1623-40) who conquered Baghdad born in Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1640)

Jul 27 1625

Edward Montagu 1st Earl of Sandwich English soldier admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys born in Barnwell (d. 1672)

Jul 27 1667

Jean Bernoulli Swiss mathematician born in Basel Switzerland (d. 1748)

Jul 27 1733

Jeremiah Dixon English surveyor and astronomer born in Cockfield County Durham England (d. 1779)

Jul 27 1734

Jakob Zupan Slovenian composer born in Schrott Upper Styria (d. 1810)

Jul 27 1740

Jeanne Bar French explorer born in Loire Valley France (d. 1803)

Jul 27 1741

Franois-Hippolyte Barthlmon French composer born in Bordeaux France (d. 1808)

Jul 27 1752

Samuel Smith American politician Senator and Representative from Maryland born in Carlisle Pennsylvania (d. 1839)

Jul 27 1768

Charlotte Corday French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath born in Saint-Saturnin France (d. 1793)

Jul 27 1773

Jakob Aall Norwegian journalist and statesman born in Porsgrunn Norway (d. 1844)

Jul 27 1777

Thomas Campbell Scottish poet (Hohenlinden Battle of the Baltic) born in Glasgow Scotland (d. 1844)

Jul 27 1781

Mauro Giuliani Italian musician and composer born in Bisceglie Italy (d. 1829)

Jul 27 1784

George Onslow English-French composer (chamber music) born in Clermont-Ferrand France (d. 1853)

Jul 27 1784

Denis Davydov Russian general and poet born in Moscow Russia (d. 1839)

Jul 27 1801

George Biddell Airy English mathematician and 7th Astronomer Royal born in Alnwick Northumberland England (d. 1892)

Jul 27 1802

Benedikt Randhartinger Austrian composer born in Ruprechtshofen Austria (d. 1893)

Jul 27 1812

Thomas Lanier Clingman American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Huntsville North Carolina (d. 1897)

Jul 27 1820

John Franklin Farnsworth American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Eaton Canada (d. 1897)

Jul 27 1833

Thomas George Bonney English geologist born in Rugeley United Kingdom (d. 1923)

Jul 27 1835

Giosu Carducci Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy born in Pietrasanta Italy (d. 1907)

Jul 27 1840

Ranald Slidell Mackenzie American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Westchester County New York (d. 1889)

Jul 27 1848

Vladimir de Pachmann Russian-German pianist born in Odessa Ukraine (d. 1933)

Jul 27 1848

Lornd Etvs Hungarian physicist born in Buda Hungary (d. 1919)

Jul 27 1848

Friedrich Ernst Dorn German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium born in Guttstadt Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland) (d. 1916)

Jul 27 1849

John Hopkinson British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinsons Law) born in Manchester (d. 1898)

Jul 27 1853

Vladimir Korolenko Russian writer (The Blind Musician) born in Zhitomir Volhynian Governorate Russian Empire (d. 1921)

Jul 27 1857

E. A. Wallis Budge English orientalist and museum curator (British Museum) born in Bodmin Cornwall England (d. 1934)

Jul 27 1857

Jos Celso Barbosa Puerto Rican physician sociologist and political leader born in Bayamn Puerto Rico (d. 1921)

Jul 27 1867

Enrique Granados Spanish opera composer (Goyescas) born in Lrida Spain (d. 1916)

Jul 27 1870

Hilaire Belloc Anglo-French author (Path to Rome) born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud Seine-et-Oise France (d. 1953)

Jul 27 1230 Treaty of San Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX

Jul 27 1280 Sogen Mugaku founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

Jul 27 1298 Albert (Albrecht) I son of Rudolf of Habsburg crowned King of the Germans

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