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August 27th, 2007	Death	Emma Penella, Spanish actress (born in 1930)
August 27th, 2006	Event	Comair Flight 5191 crashed en route from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard the flight were confirmed dead in the hours following the crash
August 27th, 2006	Death	Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (born in 1922)
August 27th, 2006	Death	Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (born in 1889)
August 27th, 2006	Death	Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (born in 1969)
August 27th, 2005	Death	Sean Purcell, Gaelic footballer (born in 1929)
August 27th, 2004	Death	Willie Crawford, American baseball player (born in 1946)
August 27th, 2003	Event	Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
August 27th, 2003	Death	Pierre Poujade, French politician (born in 1920)
August 27th, 2001	Death	Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (born in 1938)

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