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On This Day · The 117th day of the year

April 27

As calendar dates go, April 27 keeps a short memory — its record stays close to the present. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on April 27?

April 27 is the 117th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1805 and 2012. Famous people born on April 27 include Lara Gut-Behrami, Ulysses S. Grant and Otto, King of Bavaria.

Released on April 27

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game The Amazing Digital Dating Sim
  • Game Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth

2023

  • Game Bramble: The Mountain King
  • Game The Last Case of Benedict Fox
  • TV Citadel

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1805

    First Barbary War

  2. 1911

    Second Guangzhou Uprising

  3. 1941

    World War II

  4. 1967

    Expo 67

  5. 1992

    Russia

  6. 1993

    Zambia national football team

  7. 2005

    Airbus A380

  8. 2007

    Estonia

  9. 2011

    2011 Super Outbreak

  10. 2012

    2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions

Famous birthday twins

Born on April 27

Lara Gut-Behrami

b. 1991

Ulysses S. Grant

b. 1822

Otto, King of Bavaria

b. 1848

Sergei Prokofiev

b. 1891

Theo Angelopoulos

b. 1935

Frank Bainimarama

b. 1954

Luz Long

b. 1913

Hans Hartwig von Beseler

b. 1850

Deaths

  • 2023Jerry Springer
  • 1972Kwame Nkrumah
  • 1938Edmund Husserl
  • 1882Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 1694John George IV
  • 1521Ferdinand Magellan

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast days: Assicus
  • —Christian feast days: Floribert of Liège
  • —Christian feast days: John of Constantinople
  • —Christian feast days: Liberalis of Treviso
  • —Christian feast days: Blessed María Antonia Bandrés Elósegui
  • —Christian feast days: Blessed Osanna of Cattaro
  • —Christian feast days: Pedro Armengol
  • —Christian feast days: Pollio

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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