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Births On This Day,
June, 27

  • 1985 Svetlana Kuznetsova

    Russian tennis player

  • 1969 Viktor Petrenko

    Ukrainian figure skater

  • 1886 Charlie Macartney

    Australian cricketer

  • 1869 Emma Goldman

    Lithuanian/American activist, writer

  • 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell

    Irish politician, founder of the Irish Parliamentary Party

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 27

  • 2001 Jack Lemmon

    American actor, singer, director

  • 1999 Georgios Papadopoulos

    Greek colonel, politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece

  • 1844 Joseph Smith

    American religious leader, founder, leader of the Latter Day Saint movement

  • 1839 Ranjit Singh

    Indian founder of the Sikh Empire

  • 1831 Sophie Germain

    French mathematician, physicist, philosopher