In the year 1827, the first African-American owned newspaper in the U.S., Freedom’s Journal, is founded (Mar 16), Beethoven dies in Vienna (Mar 26), the first fountain pen with replaceable ink cartridge is patented in France (May 25), 3/4 of Turku in Finland is destroyed by fire (Sep 4), the Mormon leader Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates - central in the Mormon religion - this date (Sep 22), the term socialist is coined by Robert Owen in his London periodical (Nov), the Greek War of Independence goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1827-0107 Sandford Fleming* Scottish-Canadian engineer/inventor/ standardizer - Kirkcaldy, Scotland (1915/88) 1827-0110 Amanda Cajander* (b Nygren) deaconess/pioneer within medical care in Finland - GD of Finland (1871/44) 1827-0128 Jean-Antoine Villemin* physician - Prey, Kingdom of France (1892/65) 1827-0210 Edward Atkinson* economist/activist - Brookline, MA USA (1905/78) 1827-0217 Elisabeth Blomqvist* educator/painter - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1901/74) 1827-0224 Lydia Becker* suffrage leader/publisher/amateur scientist - Manchester, Lancashire, England (1890/63) 1827-0307 John Hall Gladstone* chemist - London, England (1902/75) 1827-0310 Erkki Jäykkä* reforming farmer/lay judge - Vimpeli, GD of Finland (1858/31) 1827-0321 Andreas Hintze* Finnish general in the Russian army/the first Governor of Sakhalin - Johannes, Karelia, GD of Finland (1898/70) 1827-0405 Joseph Lister* surgeon - Upton House, West Ham, England (1912/84) 1827-0410 Lewis Wallace* general/politician/author (Ben-Hur) - Brookville, IN USA (1905/77) 1827-0411 Jyotirao Phule* businessman/anti-caste social reformer/writer - Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India (1890/63) 1827-0420 1827-0427 Mary Ward* scientist/ the first person killed by a motor vehicle - Ferbane, County Offaly, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1869/42) 1827-0511 Septimus Winner* songwriter/ performer/music publisher - Philadelphia, PA USA (1905/78) 1827-0531 Kusumoto Ine* 楠本 イネ physician/daughter of German physician Philipp von Siebold   - Nagasaki, Japan (1903/76) 1827-06 1827-0611 Oskar Nylander* painter - Oulu, GD of Finland (1849/22) 1827-0613 Alberto Henschel* German-Brazilian photographer/ businessman - Berlin, Prussia (1882/55) 1827-0624 John G. Downey* Irish-American politician/Governor of California/to U.S. at age 14 - County Roscommon, Ireland (1894/66) 1827-0630 Jacques-Louis Soret* chemist/ spectroscopist - Geneva, Switzerland (1890/62) 1827-0701 1827-0705 Miina Lönnrot* niece of Elias Lönnrot/treasurer of his legacy - GD of Finland (1915/88) 1827-0713 Gustav Seyffarth* German-American Egyptologist - Uebigau (1885/89) 1827-0717 Herman Daniel Paul* musician/ lecturer in German at the University of Helsinki/translator of the Kalevala into German - Brandenburg, Prussia (1885/58) 1827-0730 Henry Palmer* surgeon/ educator/mayor - New Hartford, NY USA (1895/67) 1827-0802 Gustav Ferdinand Hertz* lawyer/ senator/father of the pioneering physicist Heinrich Hertz - Hamburg, German Empire (1914/87) 1827-0805 Deodoro da Fonseca* military officer/politician/the first President of Brazil - Alagoas da Lagoa do Sul, Empire of Brazil (1892/65) 1827-0806 George Franklin Drew* businessman/ Governor of Florida - Alton, NH USA (1900/73) 1827-08 1827-0811 Lars Peldan* sailor/ photographer - Pietarsaari, GD of Finland (1873/46) 1827-0827 Henry Edwards* actor/ writer/entomologist - Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (1891/63) 1827-0901 François Xavier Eugène Froidevaux* fire chief in a Paris fire department who died in line of duty - Goumois, France (1882/c.55) 1827-0903 John Drew Sr.* Irish-American actor/theater manager/to U.S. at age 4 - Dublin, Ireland (1862/34) 1827-0927 Hiram Rhodes Revels* politician - Fayetteville, NC USA (1901/73) 1827-1012 Josiah Parsons Cooke* scientist - Boston, MA USA (1894/66) 1827-1016 Arnold Böcklin* symbolist painter - Basel, Swiss Confederation (1901/73) 1827-1025 Marcellin Berthelot* chemist/ politician - Paris, Kingdom of France (1907/79) 1827-1107 Antti Ahlström* businessman/industrialist/legislator - Merikarvia, GD of Finland (1896/68) 1827-1116 Charles Eliot Norton* author/social critic - Cambridge, MA USA (1908/80) 1827-1130 James E. Birch* stagecoach line entrepreneur/founder of the California Stage Company - South Carolina SC USA (1857/29) 1827-1201 1827-1203 Lombe Atthill* obstetrician/ gynaecologist - Magheraculmoney, Northern Ireland (1910/82) 1827-1203 Rajendrasuri* (b Ratna Raj) monk/religious reformer - Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India (1906/80) 1827-1210 1827-1212 Susanna Katarina Sallmén** (b Raja) mother of Maria Sofia Yli-Jussila - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1901/73) 1827-1220 1827-1227 Stanisław Mieroszewski* politician/ writer/historian - Kraków, Poland (1900/72) 1827-1231 1827-0 1827-0 1827-0 Updated 2025-0103 Helsinki Search for another year here