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What Happened In July 1927 In History

Historical Events for July, 1927

  • 4th » The Lockheed Vega first flew.
  • 15th » July Revolt of 1927 or Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • 16th » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first Dive bomber named dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • 23rd » The first station of the All India Radio e.g Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Mumbai named Bombay.
  • 24th » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1927

  • 1st » Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (d. 1997)
  • 2nd » James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor or Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
  • 2nd » Brock Peters, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2005)
  • 3rd » Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
  • 4th » Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer
  • 4th » Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter
  • 6th » Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player (d. 1988)
  • 6th » Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host (d. 2006)
  • 6th » Janet Leigh, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
  • 6th » Pat Paulsen, American comedian and actor (d. 1997)
  • 6th » Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
  • 7th » Alan J. Dixon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 2014)
  • 7th » Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Louvin Brothers) (d. 2011)
  • 7th » Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player (The Tonight Show Band)
  • 8th » Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
  • 9th » Ed Ames, American singer and actor (Ames Brothers)
  • 9th » Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
  • 9th » Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
  • 10th » Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic
  • 10th » David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
  • 11th » Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007)
  • 12th » Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist, conductor, and educator (d. 1993)
  • 12th » Conte Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2001)
  • 12th » Jack Harshman, American baseball player (d. 2013)
  • 12th » Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (d. 2011)
  • 12th » Frank Windsor, English actor
  • 13th » Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of the European Parliament
  • 14th » John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996)
  • 14th » Mike Esposito (comics) named Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (d. 2010)
  • 14th » Peggy Parish, American author (d. 1988)
  • 15th » Gloria Pall, American model and actress (d. 2012)
  • 15th » Joe Turkel, American actor
  • 15th » Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
  • 16th » Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (d. 2013)
  • 16th » Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator
  • 16th » John Warr, English cricketer
  • 17th » Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Australian-English dentist and politician
  • 17th » Kenneth Stowe, English civil servant
  • 18th » Don Bagley, American bassist (d. 2012)
  • 18th » Kurt Masur, Polish-German conductor and educator
  • 20th » Barbara Bergmann, American economist
  • 20th » Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer
  • 20th » Ian P. Howard, English-Canadian psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
  • 22nd » Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
  • 23rd » Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • 24th » Zara Mints, Russian-Estonian philologist and academic (d. 1990)
  • 25th » Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
  • 25th » Midge Decter, American journalist and author
  • 25th » Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) named Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
  • 25th » Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982)
  • 26th » Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
  • 27th » Sat Mahajan, Indian politician (d. 2012)
  • 27th » C. Rajadurai, Sri Lankan politician, 1st Mayor of Batticaloa
  • 27th » John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
  • 28th » John Ashbery, American poet and academic
  • 29th » Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 2010)
  • 30th » Richard Johnson (actor) or Richard Johnson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 30th » Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
  • 30th » Victor Wong (actor born 1927) known as Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
  • 31st » Peter Nichols, English author and playwright

Famous Deaths for July 1927

  • 5th » Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
  • 7th » Émile Coste, French fencer (b. 1862)
  • 7th » Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (b. 1846)
  • 9th » John Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
  • 20th » Ferdinand I of Romania (b. 1865)
  • 24th » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)

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