August 27
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Art and culture
- 1966 - 120 minutes dédiées au divin Marquis, French happening by Jean-Jacques Lebel which took place on at the Festival de Cassis
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Births
- 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
- 1767 - Louis Marie de Sade, oldest son of Marquis de Sade (d. 1809)
- 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
- 1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- 1929 - Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
- 1937 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
- 1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1947 - Harry Reems, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor
- 1956 - Glen Matlock, original bass guitarist of the Sex Pistols
- 1968 - Uwe Schmidt, German composer
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Deaths
- 1577 - Titian, Italian artist
- 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
- 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
- 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
- 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
- 1973 - Carlo Mollino, Italian architect and designer (b. 1905)
- 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
- 1978 - Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943)
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