The 239th day of the year, the 240th in a leap year
Born on 27 August
Every 27 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 27 August in any year.
Which weekday 27 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 27 August falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 27 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,774 babies were born on 27 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 301st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 27 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | 1770–1831 | German philosopher and theologian |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908–1973 | president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 |
| Abu Bakr al-Razi | 865–925 | Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist |
| Sebastian Kurz | 1986– | Chancellor of Austria from 2017 to 2019 and from 2020 to 2021 |
| Ivan Franko | 1856–1916 | Ukrainian poet and writer |
| Theodore Dreiser | 1871–1945 | American novelist and journalist |
| Charles G. Dawes | 1865–1951 | vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 |
| Carl Bosch | 1874–1940 | German chemical engineer |
| Cesária Évora | 1941–2011 | Cape Verdean singer-songwriter |
| Deco | 1977– | Portuguese footballer |
| Man Ray | 1890–1976 | American and French visual artist |
| Norman Ramsey Jr. | 1915–2011 | American physicist |
| Giuseppe Peano | 1858–1932 | Italian mathematician |
| Mark Webber | 1976– | Australian professional racing driver |
| Vincent Auriol | 1884–1966 | 16th President of the French Republic |
| Paul Reubens | 1952–2023 | American actor and comedian |
| Sulley Muntari | 1984– | Ghanaian footballer |
| Aaron Paul | 1979– | American actor |
Died on 27 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Le Corbusier | 1887–1965 | Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer |
| Lope de Vega | 1562–1635 | Spanish playwright and poet |
| Haile Selassie | 1892–1975 | Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 |
| Titian | 1490–1576 | Italian painter |
| Ernest Lawrence | 1901–1958 | American nuclear physicist |
| Pope Sixtus V | 1521–1590 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590 |
| Francisco de Zurbarán | 1598–1664 | Spanish painter |
| Cesare Pavese | 1908–1950 | Italian writer, literary critic, and translator |
| Ratko Mladić | 1942–2026 | Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and war crimes in 2017 |
| Pope Eugene II | died 827 | pope |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 1868–1963 | American sociologist and activist |
| Lord Mountbatten | 1900–1979 | British statesman and naval officer |
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