Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 27

Births

 * 1877 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
 * 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976)
 * 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author (d. 1966)
 * 1908 – Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
 * 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
 * 1910 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997)
 * 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
 * 1952 – Paul Reubens, American actor (d. 2023)

Deaths

 * 1577 – Titian, Italian artist (pictured)
 * 1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
 * 1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
 * 1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)