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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of April 1296 | EVENT | Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England. |
| 27th of April 1509 | EVENT | Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict. |
| 27th of April 1521 | EVENT | Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. |
| 27th of April 1539 | EVENT | Re-founding of the city of Bogota, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastian de Belalcazar. |
| 27th of April 1565 | EVENT | Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. |
| 27th of April 1578 | EVENT | Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. |
| 27th of April 1650 | EVENT | The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army. |
| 27th of April 1667 | EVENT | The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for ?10. |
| 27th of April 1749 | EVENT | First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. |
| 27th of April 1773 | EVENT | The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. |
| 27th of April 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut. |
| 27th of April 1805 | EVENT | First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn). |
| 27th of April 1810 | EVENT | Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Fur Elise. |
| 27th of April 1813 | EVENT | War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada). |
| 27th of April 1840 | EVENT | Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. |
| 27th of April 1861 | EVENT | President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. |
| 27th of April 1865 | EVENT | The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. |
| 27th of April 1865 | EVENT | The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons. |
| 27th of April 1904 | EVENT | The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. |
| 27th of April 1909 | EVENT | Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. |
| 27th of April 1911 | EVENT | Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. |
| 27th of April 1914 | EVENT | Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
| 27th of April 1927 | EVENT | Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. |
| 27th of April 1936 | EVENT | The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor. |
| 27th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. |
| 27th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: German troops enter Athens. |
| 27th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. |
| 27th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier. |
| 27th of April 1950 | EVENT | Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races. |
| 27th of April 1953 | EVENT | Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots. |
| 27th of April 1959 | EVENT | The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China. |
| 27th of April 1960 | EVENT | Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship. |
| 27th of April 1961 | EVENT | Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. |
| 27th of April 1967 | EVENT | Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day. |
| 27th of April 1974 | EVENT | 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon |
| 27th of April 1977 | EVENT | 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. |
| 27th of April 1978 | EVENT | Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. |
| 27th of April 1981 | EVENT | Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. |
| 27th of April 1987 | EVENT | The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. |
| 27th of April 1992 | EVENT | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. |
| 27th of April 1992 | EVENT | Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. |
| 27th of April 1992 | EVENT | Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
| 27th of April 1993 | EVENT | All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. |
| 27th of April 1994 | EVENT | South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force. |
| 27th of April 1996 | EVENT | The 1996 Lebanon war ends. |
| 27th of April 2002 | EVENT | The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10. |
| 27th of April 2005 | EVENT | The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. |
| 27th of April 2006 | EVENT | Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. |
| 27th of April 2007 | EVENT | Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. |
| 27th of April 2011 | EVENT | The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history. |
| 27th of April 1623 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722) |
| 27th of April 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714) |
| 27th of April 1701 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773) |
| 27th of April 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) |
| 27th of April 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1775) |
| 27th of April 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794) |
| 27th of April 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833) |
| 27th of April 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836) |
| 27th of April 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (d. 1797) |
| 27th of April 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872) |
| 27th of April 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878) |
| 27th of April 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883) |
| 27th of April 1812 | BIRTHDAY | William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886) |
| 27th of April 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903) |
| 27th of April 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885) |
| 27th of April 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911) |
| 27th of April 1848 | BIRTHDAY | King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916) |
| 27th of April 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921) |
| 27th of April 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914) |
| 27th of April 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (d. 1914) |
| 27th of April 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-born American actor (d. 1930) |
| 27th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917) |
| 27th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917) |
| 27th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Draza Mihailovic, Serbian-born Yugoslav military commander (d. 1946) |
| 27th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939) |
| 27th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | George Petty, American pin-up artist (d. 1975) |
| 27th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995) |
| 27th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963) |
| 27th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994) |
| 27th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Stoneham, American baseball team owner (d. 1990) |
| 27th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973) |
| 27th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972) |
| 27th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Yorgos Theotokas, Greek novelist (d. 1966) |
| 27th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-born Taiwanese politician; son of Chiang Kai-shek (d. 1988) |
| 27th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Beger, German anthropologist (d. 2009) |
| 27th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Zohra Segal, Indian stage and film actress |
| 27th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004) |
| 27th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Luz Long, German athlete (d. 1943) |
| 27th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 27th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008) |
| 27th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010) |
| 27th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Krasnosel'skii, Ukrainian-born Soviet mathematician (d. 1997) |
| 27th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956) |
| 27th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | James R. Mann, American attorney and politician (d. 2010) |
| 27th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Stott, British theologian and clergyman |
| 27th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer and Holocaust survivor |
| 27th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Klugman, American actor |
| 27th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001) |
| 27th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006) |
| 27th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988) |
| 27th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist |
| 27th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Pik Botha, South African politician |
| 27th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Anouk Aimee, French actress |
| 27th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999) |
| 27th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Kasem, American actor and radio personality |
| 27th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker and screenwriter |
| 27th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer |
| 27th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman |
| 27th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992) |
| 27th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001) |
| 27th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Caron, French-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) |
| 27th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Carne, British actress and comedian |
| 27th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Mercer, Canadian musician |
| 27th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal |
| 27th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jennings Michael Burch, American author |
| 27th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Choate, American economist |
| 27th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Roy Jordan, American football player |
| 27th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Keltner, American drummer |
| 27th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver |
| 27th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fish, British meteorologist |
| 27th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient) |
| 27th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | August Wilson, American dramatist (d. 2005) |
| 27th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Hodgman, Australian novelist |
| 27th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Peebles, American singer |
| 27th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician |
| 27th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975) |
| 27th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003) |
| 27th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Frank William Abagnale, Jr., American con artist |
| 27th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's) |
| 27th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician |
| 27th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Chapman, Australian politician |
| 27th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss) |
| 27th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver |
| 27th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | George Gervin, American basketball player |
| 27th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Elder, American political commentator |
| 27th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress |
| 27th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Edwards, American pro football player and coach |
| 27th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas P., English musician (Death in June, Crisis) |
| 27th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Harvey, American musician (d. 2006) |
| 27th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bristow, English darts player |
| 27th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rosanna Scotto, American news anchor |
| 27th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian |
| 27th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sheena Easton, Scottish singer |
| 27th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Pearson, British actor |
| 27th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist |
| 27th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Krushelnyski, Montreal ice hockey player |
| 27th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Schlafly, American attorney, political activist and founder of Conservapedia |
| 27th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | James LeGros, American actor |
| 27th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Comizzo, Argentine footballer |
| 27th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Im Sang-soo, South Korean film director and screenwriter |
| 27th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer |
| 27th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Cali Timmins, Canadian actress |
| 27th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter |
| 27th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Wilcox, American actress |
| 27th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Reeves, American film writer, director and producer |
| 27th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer |
| 27th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician |
| 27th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Thomson, Australian actor |
| 27th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter |
| 27th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Dutch royal |
| 27th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Milbank, American reporter and columnist |
| 27th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Booker, American politician |
| 27th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Darcey Bussell, British ballerina |
| 27th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mica Paris, British singer and presenter |
| 27th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer |
| 27th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kylie Travis, English actress and model |
| 27th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tess Daly, British television presenter |
| 27th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Barker, English fashion photographer |
| 27th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmet Kurtulus, German/Turkish actor |
| 27th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | David Lascher, American actor |
| 27th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Maura West, American actress |
| 27th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dusko Adamovic, Serbian footballer |
| 27th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Gower, American actor |
| 27th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Lareau, French/Canadian tennis player |
| 27th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 27th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player |
| 27th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Johnson, Australian footballer |
| 27th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rabih Abdullah, American pro football player |
| 27th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Carpenter, American baseball player |
| 27th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player |
| 27th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer |
| 27th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Hawkins, English film actress |
| 27th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer |
| 27th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower |
| 27th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Faisal Saif, Indian filmmaker |
| 27th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Khalid Zoubaa, French runner |
| 27th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Will Boyd, American musician |
| 27th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer |
| 27th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player |
| 27th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist |
| 27th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver |
| 27th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 27th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer |
| 27th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Gathright, American baseball player |
| 27th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer |
| 27th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Katrina Johnson, American actress |
| 27th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Widiker, German rugby player |
| 27th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Graynor, American actress |
| 27th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy) |
| 27th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Holdsworth, Australian rugby player |
| 27th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Antonio de Miranda da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player |
| 27th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer |
| 27th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player |
| 27th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | William Moseley, British actor |
| 27th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater |
| 27th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress |
| 27th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 27th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Thackray, British footballer |
| 27th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Rios, American actress |
| 27th of April 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Braun, German singer |
| 27th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Iraheta, American singer |
| 27th of April 0630 | DEATH | King Ardashir III of Persia |
| 27th of April 1272 | DEATH | Zita, Roman Catholic Saint (Born1212) |
| 27th of April 1404 | DEATH | Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1342) |
| 27th of April 1521 | DEATH | Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (Born 1480) |
| 27th of April 1530 | DEATH | Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Born 1458) |
| 27th of April 1599 | DEATH | Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (Born 1538) |
| 27th of April 1605 | DEATH | Pope Leo XI (Born 1535) |
| 27th of April 1613 | DEATH | Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (Born 1532) |
| 27th of April 1625 | DEATH | Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (Born 1553) |
| 27th of April 1656 | DEATH | Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (Born 1596) |
| 27th of April 1694 | DEATH | John George IV, Elector of Saxony (Born 1668) |
| 27th of April 1695 | DEATH | John Trenchard, English statesman (Born 1640) |
| 27th of April 1702 | DEATH | Jean Bart, French admiral (Born 1651) |
| 27th of April 1782 | DEATH | William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (Born 1710) |
| 27th of April 1813 | DEATH | Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (Born 1779) |
| 27th of April 1873 | DEATH | William Charles Macready, English actor (Born 1793) |
| 27th of April 1882 | DEATH | Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (Born 1803) |
| 27th of April 1896 | DEATH | Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (Born 1815) |
| 27th of April 1915 | DEATH | Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Born 1872) |
| 27th of April 1921 | DEATH | Arthur Mold, English cricketer (Born 1863) |
| 27th of April 1932 | DEATH | Hart Crane, American writer (Born 1899) |
| 27th of April 1936 | DEATH | Karl Pearson, English statistician (Born 1857) |
| 27th of April 1937 | DEATH | Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (Born 1891) |
| 27th of April 1941 | DEATH | Penelope Delta, Greek author (Born 1874) |
| 27th of April 1952 | DEATH | Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (Born 1865) |
| 27th of April 1961 | DEATH | Roy Del Ruth, American film director (Born 1893) |
| 27th of April 1962 | DEATH | A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (Born 1873) |
| 27th of April 1965 | DEATH | Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (Born 1908) |
| 27th of April 1967 | DEATH | William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (Born 1884) |
| 27th of April 1969 | DEATH | Rene Barrientos, President of Bolivia (Born 1919) |
| 27th of April 1970 | DEATH | Arthur Shields, Irish actor (Born 1896) |
| 27th of April 1972 | DEATH | Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana (Born 1909) |
| 27th of April 1973 | DEATH | Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (Born 1914) |
| 27th of April 1977 | DEATH | Stanley Adams, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 27th of April 1988 | DEATH | Fred Bear, American bow-hunter (Born 1902) |
| 27th of April 1988 | DEATH | David Scarboro, British actor (Born 1968) |
| 27th of April 1989 | DEATH | Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (Born 1894) |
| 27th of April 1992 | DEATH | Olivier Messiaen, French composer (Born 1908) |
| 27th of April 1992 | DEATH | Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (Born 1927) |
| 27th of April 1995 | DEATH | Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Born 1921) |
| 27th of April 1996 | DEATH | William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Born 1920) |
| 27th of April 1998 | DEATH | John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (Born 1915) |
| 27th of April 1998 | DEATH | Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (Born 1925) |
| 27th of April 1998 | DEATH | H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (Born 1924) |
| 27th of April 1998 | DEATH | Dominique Aury, French novelist (Born 1907) |
| 27th of April 1999 | DEATH | Al Hirt, American trumpeter (Born 1922) |
| 27th of April 1999 | DEATH | Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (Born 1927) |
| 27th of April 2000 | DEATH | Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (Born 1954) |
| 27th of April 2002 | DEATH | Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (Born 1916) |
| 27th of April 2002 | DEATH | George Alec Effinger, American author (Born 1947) |
| 27th of April 2002 | DEATH | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (Born 1921) |
| 27th of April 2006 | DEATH | Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (Born 1944) |
| 27th of April 2007 | DEATH | Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (Born 1927) |
| 27th of April 2008 | DEATH | Marios Tokas, Cypriot songwriter (Born 1954) |
| 27th of April 2009 | DEATH | Feroz Khan, Indian actor (Born 1939) |
| 27th of April 2009 | DEATH | Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (Born 1983) |
| 27th of April 2009 | DEATH | Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (Born 1914) |
| 27th of April 2011 | DEATH | Marian Mercer, American actress (Born 1935) |