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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