Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 27

Births

 * 1781 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
 * 1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, notable martial artist and founder of Kyokushin karate (d. 1994)
 * 1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
 * 1957 - Bill Engvall, American comedian
 * 1969 - Triple H, WWE wrestler
 * 1974 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
 * 1975 - Alex Rodriguez, (pictured) baseball player
 * 1977 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
 * 1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician

Deaths

 * 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
 * 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
 * 1844 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
 * 1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
 * 2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)

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