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12/27/1856
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Andre Gedalge, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1858
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Alexandre Pierre Fran‡ois Boely, composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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12/27/1859
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William Henry Hadow, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1862
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Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
Type: Event
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12/27/1862
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Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
Type: Event
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12/27/1867
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Ontario and Qu‚bec legislatures hold 1st meeting
Type: Event
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12/27/1869
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Aur‚lien FM Lugn‚-Poe, French actor/stage manager (La Parade)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1871
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World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
Type: Event
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12/27/1877
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Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
Type: Death
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12/27/1879
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Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1879
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Robert Greig, Australia, actor (Horse Feathers)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1880
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Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75
Type: Death
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12/27/1884
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Bernard van Dieren, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1884
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Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State
Type: Event
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12/27/1887
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
Type: Event
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12/27/1890
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Maurice Schoemaker, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1892
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Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1892
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N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
Type: Event
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12/27/1892
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Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
Type: Event
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12/27/1895
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Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor (Holiday in Havana)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1896
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Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1896
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Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright
Type: Birth
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12/27/1896
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Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1896
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Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1897
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Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw
Type: Birth
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12/27/1897
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Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2
Type: Event
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12/27/1899
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Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1900
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William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr crane), dies at 90
Type: Death
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12/27/1900
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Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
Type: Event
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12/27/1901
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Irene Handl, London England, actress (Riding High, Morgan)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1901
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Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1902
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Ferenc Szabo, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1903
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"Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
Type: Event
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12/27/1904
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W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin
Type: Event
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12/27/1904
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Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
Type: Event
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12/27/1905
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M A Noble scores 281 (369 mins, 21 fours) NSW v Victoria
Type: Event
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12/27/1906
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Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1906
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Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1906
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Ivan Brkanovic, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1906
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1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
Type: Event
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12/27/1907
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Jan Willem van Otterloo, Dutch composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1907
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Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher
Type: Birth
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12/27/1907
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Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwijk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1907
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Nils-Eric Ringbom, composer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1908
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Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1909
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Johan[nes B] Schmitz, Dutch actor/reciter (Lucifer, MacBeth)
Type: Birth
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12/27/1910
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Jack Massey, groundsman
Type: Birth
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12/27/1910
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Neville Crump, racehorse trainer
Type: Birth
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12/27/1911
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Endre Szervanszky, composer [or Jan 1]
Type: Birth
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12/27/1914
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Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter
Type: Birth
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