Today in history

• 1777

  Thomas Campbell: On the 27th of July 1777 Thomas Campbell is born in Glasgow, Scotland [Glasgow, United Kingdom]

• 1870

  Hilaire Belloc: Hilaire Belloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud in France to a French father and an English mother. He would grow up mostly in the Sussex countryside, an area he would often be homesick for. [La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France]

• 1916

  Siegfried Sassoon: On the 27th of July 1916 he is awarded the Military Cross [London, United Kingdom]

• 1922

  Marcus Garvey: On July the 27th 1922 Garvey marries Amy Jacques [Baltimore, Maryland, United States]

• 1946

  Gertrude Stein: Stein died in 1946 at the age of 72 after a battle with stomach cancer. [Neuilly-sur-Seine, France]

• 1962

  Richard Aldington: On July the 27th, 1962 Richard Aldington passes away in Sury-en-Vaux, France [Sury-en-Vaux, France]

• 1975

  Anne Spencer: On July the 27th, 1975 Anne Spencer passes away in Lynchburg, Virginia [Lynchburg, Virginia, United States]

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