Today in History: Turkish Cinema and Theater Artist Haluk Kurdoğlu Dies

September 27 is the 270th (271th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 95.

Railways

• 27 September 1825 First passenger train commenced service. The British engineer George Stephenson produced a steam locomotive, between Darlington-Stocton and the 24 km per hour. 450 quickly passed as the first train to date by carrying passengers.
• 27 September 1971 Van-Kotur line was completed and opened at a ceremony held at the Turkish-Iranian Railway Van Ferry Pier. The opening ceremony was attended by President Cevdet Sunay and Shah Pahlavi. The discovery was made on the Turkey-Iran line xnumx't.
• 27 September 1972 Electric train started to work in Ankara Suburb (Xinjiang-Kayas).
• 27 September 2009 10. Transport Council held.
• 27 September First Passengers from 2017 BTK Railway Project Arrived in Kars from Georgia

Events

• 1529 – The First Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army under the command of Suleiman the Magnificent began.
• 1540 – The Order of Jesus (Jesuits) is officially recognized by the Papacy.
• 1590 – VII. Urbanus died 13 days after his election, without even seeing his coronation, making him the shortest reigning Pope in history.
• 1669 – With the fall of Heraklion Castle after a 21-year siege, the Ottomans conquered all of Crete.
• 1919 – The British occupied Merzifon and left the city.
• 1922 – Greek King Constantine I had to leave his throne after the Anatolian defeat.
• 1940 - Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan sign the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
• 1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) was established. Colonel Salal took power. On May 22, 1990, it united with South Yemen and became the Republic of Yemen.
• 1970 – Arab Summit convenes in Egypt; King Hussein of Jordan and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat signed a ceasefire agreement.
• 1996 – Najibullah, the last President of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, was captured by the Taliban in Kabul and tortured to death.
• 1998 – Google website launched.
• 2000 – Novel by Irish writer James Joyce UlyssesThe ban on the film adapted from 'Ireland' was lifted after 33 years.
• 2020 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts began.

Births

• 808 – Ninmyō, 54th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 850)
• 823 – Ermentrude of Orleans, Queen of the Franks (d. 869)
• 1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker and politician (d. 1464)
• 1533 – Stephen Báthory, prince of Erdel (Transylvania) (1571-76) and king of Poland (1575-86) (d. 1586)
• 1601 – XIII. Louis, King of France (d. 1643)
• 1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop (d. 1704)
• 1696 – Alfonso de Liguori, Italian lawyer and bishop (founder of the Redemptorist order) (d. 1787)
• 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and aphorist (d. 1800)
• 1722 – Samuel Adams, American politician (d. 1803)
• 1783 – Agustín de Iturbide, successful politician during the Mexican War of Independence (d. 1824)
• 1840 – Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (d. 1902)
• 1821 – Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1881)
• 1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1883 – Heinrich Krippel, Austrian sculptor (d. 1941)
• 1913 – Albert Ellis, American psychotherapist (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (d. 1984)
• 1919
  • Jayne Meadows, American actress (d. 2015)
  • James H. Wilkinson, British computer scientist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (d. 2014)
• 1922 Arthur Penn, American director (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Robert G. Edwards, British physiologist, reproductive medicine (d. 2013)
• 1931 - Freddy Quinn, German singer
• 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate in Economics (d. 2020)
• 1933 - Lina Medina, Peruvian world's youngest known mother
• 1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d. 2020)
• 1936 – Don Cornelius, American TV host, writer, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Vasil Durdinets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat
• 1940 – Bedrettin Cömert, Turkish critic and translator (d. 1978)
• 1941 – Peter Bonetti, English international football player (d. 2020)
• 1946 – Nikos Anastasiadis, Cypriot lawyer and 7th President of the Republic of Cyprus
• 1947
  • Dick Advocaat, Dutch football player and manager
  • Orhan Aydın, Turkish theater actor, actor and writer
  • Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
  • Meat Loaf, American rock music singer
• 1948 – Jean de Gliniasty, French ambassador
• 1949 – Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (d. 2020)
• 1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actress and filmmaker
• 1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian air force pilot
• 1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian former football player and football coach
• 1954 – Larry Wall, American programmer and author
• 1956 – Daniel Kovac, Slovenian singer
• 1957 – Ann-Christin Ahlberg, Swedish politician
• 1958 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
• 1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, French-American actor
• 1961 – Seray Gözler, Turkish cinema and theater actress
• 1961 – Antonella Mularoni, politician from San Marino
• 1963
  • Marc Maron, American stand-up comedian, podcaster, author and actor
  • Ivana Chýlkova. czech actress
• 1965
  • Hubertus Albers, German actor and comedian (using the stage name “Atze Schröder”)
  • Peter MacKay, Canadian conservative politician, lawyer and former minister
  • Steve Kerr, American former NBA player
• 1966 Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
• 1967 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian national football player
• 1968 – Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland
• 1968 – Oktay Usta, Turkish cook and presenter
• 1970 – Tamara Taylor, Canadian television actress
• 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress and Oscar winner
• 1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech football player
• 1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American musician, actress, writer, director, and comedian
• 1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian football player
• 1979
  • Aslı Güngör, Turkish singer, composer and lyricist
  • Shinji Ono, Japanese national football player
• 1980
  • Asashōryū Akinori, retired professional sumo wrestler of Mongolian descent
  • Anna Artamonova, Russian volleyball player
• 1982
  • Jon McLaughlin, American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
  • Markus Rosenberg, Swedish football player
  • Lil Wayne, American singer and songwriter
• 1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean singer, actress and model
• 1984
  • Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
  • Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (d. 2011)
• 1985
  • Daniel Pudil, Czech international football player
  • Ibrahim Touré, Ivory Coast football player
• 1987 – Ádám Bogdan, Hungarian football player
• 1989 – Park Tae Hwan, South Korean swimmer
• 1991 – Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player
• 1992
  • Luc Castaignos, Dutch football player
  • Pak Kwang-Ryong, North Korean international football player
  • Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Brazilian football player
  • Granit Xhaka, Kosovo-Swiss national football player
  • Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer, songwriter and former actor
• 1994 – Anya Olsen, American pornographic film actress
• 1995 – Christian Wood, American professional basketball player
• 1996 – Rikiya Motegi, Japanese football player
• 2002 – Jenna Ortega, American actress and internet celebrity

Deaths

• 1557 – Go-Nara, 105th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1495)
• 1590 – VII. Urban, 228th Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1521)
• 1657 – Olimpia Maidalchini, wife of Pope Innocent X (1644 – 1655) brother (b. 1594)
• 1660 – Vincent de Paul, French Catholic priest canonized in 1737 (b. 1581)
• 1700 – XII. Innocentius, 242nd Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1615)
• 1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
• 1833 – Ram Mohan Roy, prominent reformer of Hinduism and founder of Brahmo Samaj (b. 1772)
• 1877 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai, soldier, and politician (b. 1828)
• 1882 – Amedeo Preziosi, Maltese painter (b. 1816)
• 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (b. 1812)
• 1915 – Remy de Gourmont, French writer and poet (b. 1858)
• 1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
• 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and conductor (b. 1854)
• 1937 – Alihan Bökeyhan, Kazakh politician (b. 1866)
• 1940 – Walter Benjamin, German literary critic, philosopher, cultural historian, and aesthetic theorist (b. 1892)
• 1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
• 1941 – Necip Ali Küçüka, Turkish politician and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1942 – Jonas Smilgevičius, Lithuanian economist, investor, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1956 – Babe Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
• 1965 – William Stanier, English mechanical engineer (b.1876)
• 1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian aristocrat (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Feridun Nafiz Uzluk, Turkish medical doctor and medical historian (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German soldier and politician (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Muhittin Önür, Turkish soldier (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Cliff Burton, American musician and bassist of Metallica (b. 1962)
• 1990 – Matvey Blanter, Russian composer (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Jiuli Shartava, Abkhazian politician (b. 1944)
• 1996 – Mohammed Najibullah, Afghan politician and last President of the Communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
• 2003 – Donald O'Connor, American dancer, singer, and actor (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Şevki Koru, Turkish athlete and one of Turkey's first national marathoners (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Haluk Kurdoğlu, Turkish cinema and theater artist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Alpaslan Dikmen, Turkish photo-journalist (founder of Galatasaray supporter group ultrAslan) (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Beklan Algan, Turkish actor, writer and director (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Ernesto Álvarez, Chilean former international football player (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Sally Menke, American film editor (b. 1953)
• 2011 – Jesús María Pereda, Spanish former football player and manager (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Herbert Lom, Czech film and theater actor (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Tuncel Kurtiz, Turkish actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2013 – AC Lyles, American film producer (b. 1918)
• 2015 – John Guillermin, British film director (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Jamshid Amuzegar, Ancient Iranian economist and politician (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Sebastian Papaiani, Romanian actor (b. 1936)
• 2017 – Edmond Abelé, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Dwijen Bandyopadhyay, Indian actor and stage actor from West Bengal (b. 1949)
• 2017 – Joy Fleming, German singer (b. 1944)
• 2017 – Hugh Hefner, American businessman and Playboy magazine owner (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2018 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician (b. 1942)
• 2018 – Carles Canut, Spanish actor (b. 1944)
• 2020 – Mahbubey Alam, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer (b. 1949)
• 2020 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress (b. 1980)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Tourism Day