Also on This Day in History June 27
Discover what happened on June 27 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, June 27
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1901
Merle Antony Tuve
American research physicist and geophysicist who (with Gregory Breit) made the first use pulsed radio waves to explore the ionosphere.
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1872
Heber Curtis
He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way.
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2024
Alexis Bouvard
He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the Solar System.
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1806
Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician best known for formulating De Morgan's laws.
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1940
Daniel Gray Quillen
He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.
Deaths on This Day, June 27
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1932
Louis Winslow Austin
American physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions.
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1831
Sophie Germain
French mathematician who is known for her work in number theory and contributions to the applied mathematics of acoustics and elasticity.
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1876
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist, microscopist, explorer and micropaleontologist who has been called the founder of micropaleontology (the study of fossil microorganisms).
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1907
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.
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1980
Walter Robert Dornberger
Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II.