July 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 432 – Pope Celestine I
• 1101 – Conrad II of Italy (b. 1074)
• 1276 – James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
• 1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
• 1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
• 1675 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French marshal (b. 1611)
• 1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
• 1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, English statesman (b. 1693)
• 1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet, and painter (b. 1814)
• 1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
• 1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (b. 1811)
• 1883 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1916 – Charles Fryatt, English navy captain (b. 1872)
• 1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French army general and marshal (b. 1854)
• 1938 – John Exley, American rower (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
• 1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
• 1948 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Claire Lee Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
• 1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Babe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Bob Heffron, Australian politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian ruler (b. 1919)
• 1981 – William Wyler, German-American director (b. 1902)
• 1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1986 – Nikos Nikolaou, Greek sculpture (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor, invented the ice resurfacer (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (b. 1928)
• 1991 – John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and con-artist (b. 1950)
• 1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photographer (b. 1960)
• 1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Binnie Barnes, English actress (b. 1903)
• 1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sweets Edison, American trumpet player (Count Basie Orchestra) (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling announcer (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch writer and illustrator (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – James Oyebola, English boxer (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Bejaratana Rajasuda, Thai princess (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2012 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Carl-Ludwig Wagner, German politician (b. 1930)