Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 27

Births

• 1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
• 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (d. 1797)
• 1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872) (pictured)
• 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)

Deaths

• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
• 1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
• 1813 - Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
• 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
• 1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)