Timeline Sunday 16 October 1927

Events on Sunday 16 October 1927 2

• 1927 – 2015 Günter Grass Writer, sculptor, Nobel laureate, 1927-2015 Günter Grass (1927-2015) — novelist, poet, playwright, sculptor and printmaker. Author of The Tin Drum (1959), the defining work of post-war German literature; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1999); political activist and speechwriter for Willy Brandt; and, in his final decades, the man who shattered his own image as Germany's moral conscience by revealing his Waffen-SS service sixty years after the fact.
• 1927 Günter Grass born in Danzig Günter Wilhelm Grass is born in Langfuhr, a suburb of the Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland), to Wilhelm Grass, a Protestant German grocer, and Helene née Knoff, a Catholic Polish-German woman. The family runs a small grocery shop whose customers are often too poor to pay their bills.