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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of October 0312 | EVENT | Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. |
| 27th of October 0710 | EVENT | Saracen invasion of Sardinia. |
| 27th of October 0939 | EVENT | Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. |
| 27th of October 1275 | EVENT | Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. |
| 27th of October 1524 | EVENT | Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia. |
| 27th of October 1553 | EVENT | Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. |
| 27th of October 1644 | EVENT | Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. |
| 27th of October 1682 | EVENT | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. |
| 27th of October 1795 | EVENT | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. |
| 27th of October 1806 | EVENT | The French Army enters Berlin. |
| 27th of October 1810 | EVENT | United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. |
| 27th of October 1827 | EVENT | Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano |
| 27th of October 1838 | EVENT | Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. |
| 27th of October 1870 | EVENT | Marshal Francois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. |
| 27th of October 1904 | EVENT | The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. |
| 27th of October 1914 | EVENT | World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. |
| 27th of October 1916 | EVENT | Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu. |
| 27th of October 1922 | EVENT | A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. |
| 27th of October 1924 | EVENT | The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. |
| 27th of October 1936 | EVENT | Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. |
| 27th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: German forces capture Banska Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. |
| 27th of October 1948 | EVENT | Leopold Sedar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. |
| 27th of October 1953 | EVENT | British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. |
| 27th of October 1954 | EVENT | Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. |
| 27th of October 1958 | EVENT | Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'etat by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. |
| 27th of October 1961 | EVENT | NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. |
| 27th of October 1961 | EVENT | Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations. |
| 27th of October 1962 | EVENT | Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. |
| 27th of October 1962 | EVENT | A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. |
| 27th of October 1964 | EVENT | Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing". |
| 27th of October 1967 | EVENT | Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. |
| 27th of October 1971 | EVENT | The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. |
| 27th of October 1973 | EVENT | The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado. |
| 27th of October 1981 | EVENT | The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. |
| 27th of October 1986 | EVENT | The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. |
| 27th of October 1988 | EVENT | Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure. |
| 27th of October 1991 | EVENT | Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 27th of October 1992 | EVENT | United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. |
| 27th of October 1994 | EVENT | The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history. |
| 27th of October 1994 | EVENT | Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. |
| 27th of October 1995 | EVENT | Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. |
| 27th of October 1995 | EVENT | Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. |
| 27th of October 1997 | EVENT | October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. |
| 27th of October 1999 | EVENT | Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. |
| 27th of October 2004 | EVENT | The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. |
| 27th of October 2005 | EVENT | Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. |
| 27th of October 2005 | EVENT | The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. |
| 27th of October 1156 | BIRTHDAY | Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222) |
| 27th of October 1401 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437) |
| 27th of October 1728 | BIRTHDAY | James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779) |
| 27th of October 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819) |
| 27th of October 1760 | BIRTHDAY | August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831) |
| 27th of October 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Storace, the first soprano to sing Susanna in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro (d. 1817) |
| 27th of October 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840) |
| 27th of October 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Seguin, Tejano commander during Texas Revolution (d. 1890) |
| 27th of October 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875) |
| 27th of October 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843) |
| 27th of October 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891) |
| 27th of October 1838 | BIRTHDAY | John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915) |
| 27th of October 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928) |
| 27th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916) |
| 27th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914) |
| 27th of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919) |
| 27th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958) |
| 27th of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948) |
| 27th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960) |
| 27th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 27th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Sigrid Hjerten, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948) |
| 27th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978) |
| 27th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997) |
| 27th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974) |
| 27th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010) |
| 27th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975) |
| 27th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984) |
| 27th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963) |
| 27th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986) |
| 27th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist |
| 27th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953) |
| 27th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994) |
| 27th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007) |
| 27th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993) |
| 27th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 27th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005) |
| 27th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Nanette Fabray, American actress |
| 27th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist |
| 27th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998) |
| 27th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Galabru, French actor |
| 27th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Kiner, American baseball player |
| 27th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997) |
| 27th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Dee, American actress |
| 27th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011) |
| 27th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | H.R. Haldeman, American political aide and 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993) |
| 27th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter |
| 27th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General |
| 27th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer |
| 27th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007) |
| 27th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 27th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963) |
| 27th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997) |
| 27th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director |
| 27th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Adonis, American actor |
| 27th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Parker, American actress |
| 27th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Cleese, British actor and writer |
| 27th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Gotti, American crime boss (d. 2002) |
| 27th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer |
| 27th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Trickle, American auto racer |
| 27th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Greenwood, American singer |
| 27th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician |
| 27th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Rook, American basketball player |
| 27th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Argenziano, American actor |
| 27th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil |
| 27th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Kane, actor/writer |
| 27th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 27th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director |
| 27th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band) |
| 27th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006) |
| 27th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Fran Lebowitz, American writer |
| 27th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Supler, Slovak ice-hockey coach |
| 27th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest) |
| 27th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Jacobs, American politician |
| 27th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist |
| 27th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Morena, French singer |
| 27th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher |
| 27th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher |
| 27th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor |
| 27th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer |
| 27th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Picardo, American actor |
| 27th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Firth, British actor |
| 27th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Duursema, American comic book artist |
| 27th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Bowen, American politician |
| 27th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Hart, American porn actress |
| 27th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer |
| 27th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Hoddle, English footballer |
| 27th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff East, American actor |
| 27th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran) |
| 27th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Carter, American jurist |
| 27th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009) |
| 27th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach |
| 27th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Nieto, American baseball player |
| 27th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Arzte) |
| 27th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Marla Maples, American actress and model |
| 27th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999) |
| 27th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Drudge, American blogger |
| 27th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007) |
| 27th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Almond, American author |
| 27th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dejan Raickovic, Montenegrin footballer |
| 27th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver) |
| 27th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer |
| 27th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vinny Samways, English footballer |
| 27th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Peter O'Meara,Irish Actor |
| 27th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer |
| 27th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player |
| 27th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth) |
| 27th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer |
| 27th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer |
| 27th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer |
| 27th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Clark, English footballer |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Elissa, Lebanese singer |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Radke, American baseball player |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea) |
| 27th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete |
| 27th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher |
| 27th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach |
| 27th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Junior, Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 27th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Jarosik, Czech footballer |
| 27th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 27th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist |
| 27th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician |
| 27th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tanel Padar, Estonian singer |
| 27th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress |
| 27th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier |
| 27th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Salem Al Fakir, Swedish musician and singer |
| 27th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Fugit, American actor |
| 27th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor |
| 27th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Moran, American computer hacker |
| 27th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Clevlen, American baseball player |
| 27th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Prado, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 27th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Bam Doyne, American basketball player |
| 27th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brady Quinn, American football player |
| 27th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer |
| 27th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Osbourne, English television personality |
| 27th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matty Pattison, English footballer |
| 27th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Niese, American baseball player |
| 27th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Bynum, American basketball player |
| 27th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Franke, French-born German rugby player |
| 27th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer |
| 27th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (birth date disputed) |
| 27th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer |
| 27th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Turner, American basketball player |
| 27th of October 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Alderson, American actor |
| 27th of October 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Cooper Pillot, American actor |
| 27th of October 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress |
| 27th of October 0939 | DEATH | King Athelstan I of England (Born 895) |
| 27th of October 1271 | DEATH | Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (Born 1213) |
| 27th of October 1312 | DEATH | John II, Duke of Brabant (Born 1275) |
| 27th of October 1327 | DEATH | Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (Born 1289) |
| 27th of October 1331 | DEATH | Abu al-Fida, Kurdish historian, geographer, and tribal leader (Born 1273) |
| 27th of October 1430 | DEATH | Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania (Born 1350) |
| 27th of October 1439 | DEATH | Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1397) |
| 27th of October 1449 | DEATH | Ulugh Beg, Persian ruler and astronomer (Born 1394) |
| 27th of October 1505 | DEATH | Ivan III of Russia (Born 1440) |
| 27th of October 1553 | DEATH | Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (Born 1511) |
| 27th of October 1561 | DEATH | Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (Born 1510) |
| 27th of October 1573 | DEATH | Laurentius Petri, Swedish religious figure (Born 1499) |
| 27th of October 1605 | DEATH | Emperor Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar of Mughal (Born 1542) |
| 27th of October 1617 | DEATH | Ralph Winwood, English politician (Born 1563) |
| 27th of October 1670 | DEATH | Vavasor Powell, Welsh religious figure (Born 1617) |
| 27th of October 1674 | DEATH | Hallgrimur Petursson, Icelandic poet (Born 1614) |
| 27th of October 1675 | DEATH | Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (Born 1602) |
| 27th of October 1789 | DEATH | John Cook, American farmer and politician (Born 1730) |
| 27th of October 1917 | DEATH | Arthur Rhys Davids, British pilot (Born 1897) |
| 27th of October 1927 | DEATH | Squizzy_Taylor, Australian organized crime figure (Born 1888) |
| 27th of October 1935 | DEATH | E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (Born 1897) |
| 27th of October 1942 | DEATH | Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Nazi activist (Born 1925) |
| 27th of October 1947 | DEATH | William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (Born 1872) |
| 27th of October 1949 | DEATH | Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (Born 1916) |
| 27th of October 1949 | DEATH | Ginette Neveu, French violinist (Born 1919) |
| 27th of October 1953 | DEATH | Thomas Wass, English cricketer (Born 1873) |
| 27th of October 1962 | DEATH | Rudolf Anderson, American pilot and officer (Born 1927) |
| 27th of October 1962 | DEATH | Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (Born 1906) |
| 27th of October 1968 | DEATH | Lise Meitner, German physicist (Born 1878) |
| 27th of October 1975 | DEATH | Rex Stout, American novelist (Born 1886) |
| 27th of October 1977 | DEATH | James M. Cain, American novelist (Born 1892) |
| 27th of October 1980 | DEATH | Steve Peregrin Took, British singer and songwriter (Born 1949) |
| 27th of October 1980 | DEATH | John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1899) |
| 27th of October 1980 | DEATH | Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (Born 1924) |
| 27th of October 1990 | DEATH | Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (Born 1900) |
| 27th of October 1990 | DEATH | Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (Born 1901) |
| 27th of October 1990 | DEATH | Elliott Roosevelt, American author and advertising executive (Born 1910) |
| 27th of October 1990 | DEATH | Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (Born 1922) |
| 27th of October 1990 | DEATH | Jacques Demy, French film director (Born 1931) |
| 27th of October 1991 | DEATH | George Barker, British poet (Born 1913) |
| 27th of October 1992 | DEATH | David Bohm, American-born British quantum physicist (Born 1917) |
| 27th of October 1996 | DEATH | Morey Amsterdam, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 27th of October 1996 | DEATH | Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (Born 1917) |
| 27th of October 1999 | DEATH | Robert Mills, American physicist (Born 1927) |
| 27th of October 1999 | DEATH | Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (Born 1903) |
| 27th of October 2000 | DEATH | Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (Born 1929) |
| 27th of October 2001 | DEATH | Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (Born 1925) |
| 27th of October 2002 | DEATH | Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (Born 1925) |
| 27th of October 2003 | DEATH | Rod Roddy, American television announcer (Born 1937) |
| 27th of October 2003 | DEATH | Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and record producer (Born 1949) |
| 27th of October 2004 | DEATH | Zdenko Runjic, Croatian composor (Born 1942) |
| 27th of October 2004 | DEATH | Serginho, Brazilian footballer (Born 1974) |
| 27th of October 2004 | DEATH | Lester Lanin, American bandleader (Born 1907) |
| 27th of October 2005 | DEATH | Bob Broeg, American sportswriter (Born 1918) |
| 27th of October 2006 | DEATH | Joe Niekro, American baseball player (Born 1944) |
| 27th of October 2006 | DEATH | Brad Will, American anarchist and journalist (Born 1970) |
| 27th of October 2006 | DEATH | Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (Born 1940) |
| 27th of October 2006 | DEATH | Reko Lundan, Finnish writer (Born 1969) |
| 27th of October 2006 | DEATH | Marlin McKeever, American football player (Born 1940) |
| 27th of October 2007 | DEATH | Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (Born 1931) |
| 27th of October 2007 | DEATH | Moira Lister, South African actress (Born 1923) |
| 27th of October 2008 | DEATH | Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (Born 1932) |
| 27th of October 2008 | DEATH | Chris Bryant, British screenwriter (Born 1936) |
| 27th of October 2008 | DEATH | Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (Born 1923) |
| 27th of October 2008 | DEATH | Roy Stewart, Jamacian-born British actor and fitness industry figure (Born 1925) |
| 27th of October 2009 | DEATH | David Shepherd, British cricket umpire (Born 1940) |
| 27th of October 2009 | DEATH | John David Carson, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 27th of October 2009 | DEATH | August Coppola, American academic; father of Nicolas Cage (Born 1934) |
| 27th of October 2010 | DEATH | Nestor Kirchner, Argentine politician (Born 1950) |
| 27th of October 2010 | DEATH | James Wall, American actor and stage manager (Born 1917) |
| 27th of October 2010 | DEATH | Denise Borino, American actress (Born 1964) |