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Events on 27 July

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Important Celebrations and Functions

National Sleepy Head Day

Birthdays

Demis Hassabis [1976]
Computer gamer and game designer
Ernie Chan [1940]
Filipino-American comic book artist
Gary Gygax [1938]
Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
John Tenniel [1819]
English illustrator and cartoonist
George Biddell Airy [1801]
Established the Prime Meridian at Greenwich

Death Anniversaries

Ilya Segalovich [2013]
Co-Founder of Yandex search engine
Ed Emshwiller [1990]
American Illustrator
John Dalton [1844]
English scientist who developed the modern atomic theory
Pierre Louis Maupertuis [1759]
Developer of the principle of least action

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