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April 27:

Book releases
 * 2010 - Burned, by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
 * 2010 - The Lost Fleet: Victorious, by Jack Campbell
 * 2010 - Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay

Births
 * 1899 - Walter Lantz (d. 1994), an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker

Deaths
 * 1988 - Clifford D. Simak (b. 1904), an American science fiction writer