October 27 in History

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.

A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.

Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.

Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.

Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.

The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people.

United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands.

World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

Ratifications are exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.

The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.

Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.

World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.

Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. Smith defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Brown's Ferry, opening up a supply line to the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.

United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.

The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.

J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata.

Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.

Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.

Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

French troops lay siege to Pavia.

Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Lonzo Ball, American basketball player

James TW, English singer-songwriter

Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player

Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor

Leon Draisaitl, German ice hockey player

Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player

Troy Gentile, American actor

Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player

Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer

Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player

Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer

Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer

Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player

Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer

Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer

Mark Barron, American football player

Brady Ellison, American archer

Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer

Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper

Evan Turner, American basketball player

Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer

Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete

Andrew Bynum, American basketball player

Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player

Chris Butler, American ice hockey player

Anna Cruz, Spanish basketball player

Christine Evangelista, American actress

Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player

Jon Niese, American baseball player

Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer

David Warner, Australian cricketer

Lou Williams, American basketball player

Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete

Alex Soros, American investor and philanthropist

Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player

Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer

Kelly Osbourne, English television personality

Brady Quinn, American football player

Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress

Brent Clevlen, American baseball player

Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player

Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer

Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer

Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player

Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model

Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer

Kristi Richards, Canadian skier

Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist

Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author

Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer

Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout

Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier

Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer

Sheeri Rappaport, American actress

Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer

Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler

Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author

Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer

Predrag Drobnjak, Montenegrin basketball player

Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach

Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer

Jason Johnson, American baseball player

Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist

Lee Clark, English footballer and manager

Elissa, Lebanese singer

Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach

Brad Radke, American baseball player

Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer

Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer

Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician

Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (died 1997)

Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer

Jonathan Stroud, English author

Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor

Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer

Michael Tarnat, German footballer

Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator

Dileep, Indian actor and producer

Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager

Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot

Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager

Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Steve Almond, American author and educator

Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician

Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2007)

Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor

Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor

Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer

Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Ian Wells, English footballer (died 2013)

David Hall, Australian horse trainer

Marla Maples, American model and actress

Tom McKean, Scottish runner

Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach

Gordon Cowans, English footballer

David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer

Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter

Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro

Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (died 2009)

Donnell Thompson, American football player (died 2024)

Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager

Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer

Patty Sheehan, American golfer

Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player

Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California

Jan Duursema, American illustrator

Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (died 2012)

Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist

Peter Firth, English actor

Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter

Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author

Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer

Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (died 2011)

K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter

Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic

Nancy Jacobs, American politician

Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster

Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic

Fran Lebowitz, American author

Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach

A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author

Garry Tallent, American bass player and record producer

Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter

Terry A. Anderson, American journalist (died 2024)

Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer

Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2014)

Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (died 2022)

Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil

Carrie Snodgress, American actress (died 2004)

J. A. Jance, American author and poet

Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach (died 2019)

Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter

Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician

Dave Costa, American football player (died 2013)

Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster

Dick Trickle, American race car driver (died 2013)

Arthur Blessitt, American Christian preacher (died 2025)

Julius Eastman, American composer (died 1990)

John Gotti, American mob boss (died 2002)

Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic

John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer

Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (died 2007)

Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2022)

Lara Parker, American actress and author (died 2023)

Alma Powell, American audiologist (died 2024)

Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (died 2021)

Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist

Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (died 2017)

Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter

Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (died 1997)

Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (died 2002)

Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (died 2007)

Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2020)

Dolores Moore, American baseball player (died 2000)

Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)

Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (died 2021)

Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2012)

Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (died 2017)

Barry Supple, English historian and academic

Myra Carter, American actress (died 2016)

Bill George, American football player (died 1982)

Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire

Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet

Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (died 2019)

Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (died 2010)

Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (died 1943)

H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (died 1993)

Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (died 2010)

Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (died 2011)

Jane Connell, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Paul Fox, English broadcaster (died 2024)

Monica Sims, English radio host and producer (died 2018)

Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (died 1997)

Ned Wertimer, American actor (died 2013)

Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (died 1998)

Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (died 2014)

Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (died 2016)

Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2014)

Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2018)

K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (died 2005)

Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (died 2003)

Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (died 2005)

Augustine Harris, English bishop (died 2007)

Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (died 1993)

Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (died 1994)

Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (died 1979)

Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (died 1953)

Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (died 2016)

Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)

Leif Erickson, American actor (died 1986)

Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1963)

Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (died 2000)

Lee Krasner, American painter (died 1984)

Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (died 1992)

Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (died 1975)

Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (died 2010)

Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (died 1995)

Agda Helin, Swedish actress (died 1984)

Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (died 1978)

Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)

Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (died 1988)

Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (died 1974)

Enid Bagnold, British writer and playwright (died 1981)

Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (died 1948)

Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (died 1944)

Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (died 1949)

George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (died 1943)

William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (died 1928)

Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (died 1958)

Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (died 1935)

Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1936)

Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)

William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (died 1914)

Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)

Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1928)

John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1915)

Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (died 1891)

Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (died 1843)

Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (died 1875)

Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (died 1890)

Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)

Nancy Storace, English soprano (died 1817)

August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (died 1831)

Mary Moser, English painter and academic (died 1819)

Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (died 1771)

Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (died 1728)

Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (died 1691)

Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (died 1578)

Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (died 1621)

Catherine of Valois, Queen consort of England (died 1437)

Taejo of Joseon (died 1408)

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (died 1222)

Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (died 959)

Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (died 908)

Prunella Scales, English actress (born 1932)

Li Keqiang, premier of China (born 1955)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)

Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915)

Ayerdhal, French author (born 1959)

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930)

Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (born 1923)

Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (born 1933)

Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (born 1922)

Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (born 1968)

Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (born 1922)

Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (born 1945)

Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)

Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1928)

Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)

Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1940)

Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (born 1954)

Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)

Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (born 1952)

Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (born 1952)

Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (born 1926)

Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (born 1923)

Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (born 1944)

James Hillman, American psychologist and author (born 1926)

Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (born 1926)

Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)

John David Carson, American actor (born 1952)

August Coppola, American author and academic (born 1934)

David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (born 1940)

Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1990)

Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (born 1936)

Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (born 1923)

Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (born 1932)

Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (born 1925)

Moira Lister, South African actress (born 1923)

Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (born 1940)

Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (born 1969)

Marlin McKeever, American football player (born 1940)

Joe Niekro, American baseball player (born 1944)

Brad Will, American journalist and activist (born 1970)

Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (born 1921)

Lester Lanin, American bandleader (born 1907)

Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (born 1974)

Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (born 1942)

Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (born 1937)

Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (born 1949)

Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (born 1925)

Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (born 1922)

Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1925)

Walter Berry, Austrian lyric bass-baritone (born 1929)

Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (born 1927)

Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (born 1903)

Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (born 1939)

Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1917)

David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (born 1917)

Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (born 1969)

George Barker, English author and poet (born 1913)

Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (born 1900)

Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (born 1910)

Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (born 1914)

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (born 1895)

Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

James M. Cain, American journalist and author (born 1892)

Rex Stout, American detective novelist (born 1886)

C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (born 1938)

Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1878)

Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (born 1927)

Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (born 1906)

James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)

Thomas Wass, English cricketer (born 1873)

Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (born 1916)

William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1872)

Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (born 1905)

Helmuth Hübener, German activist (born 1925)

Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (born 1897)

Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (born 1851)

Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (born 1857)

Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (born 1888)

Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (born 1887)

Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)

Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1822)

Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (born 1761)

Isaac Brock, British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (born 1769)

John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (born 1730)

Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (born 1602)

Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (born 1614)

Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (born 1617)

Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (born 1640)

Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1563)

Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (born 1589)

Akbar, Mughal emperor (born 1542)

Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (born 1499)

Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (born 1510)

Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (born 1511)

George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman

Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)

Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (born 1443)

Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (born 1394)

Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft

Albert II of Germany (born 1397)

Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (born 1350)

Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (born 1273)

Mahaut, Countess of Artois (born 1268)

Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce

Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (born 1262)

John II, Duke of Brabant (born 1275)

Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal

Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England

Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1213)

Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (born c.1220)

Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir

Æthelstan, English king