27-Dec
Louis Pasteur (Scientist)
Louis Pasteur (Scientist)
Rutherford B Hayes (Politician, former U.S. President)
Gregor Mendel (Austrian monk and geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity)
Ulysses S. Grant (Former President, Northern General during Civil War)
Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
A massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire took place following a rebellion attempt.