Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 27

Births

 * 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (d. 1406)
 * 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
 * 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
 * 1907 - Rachel Carson, (pictured) American ecologist (d. 1964)
 * 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
 * 1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
 * 1922 - Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)
 * 1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 * 1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality

Deaths

 * 1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
 * 1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
 * 1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
 * 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
 * 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)

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