March 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg
• 973 – Herman, Duke of Saxony
• 1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
• 1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1462 – Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
• 1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American military figure on the Texas Army and leader during the Texas Revolution (b. 1804)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
• 1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
• 1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 1889 – John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educator and politician (b. 1817)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-born athlete (b. 1881)
• 1923 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Madeleine Astor, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand Prime Minister (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan industrialist (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Eve Meyer, American model (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur, founder of White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Betty Schade, German-born American actress (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English musician (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster and World Chess Champion (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American critic and essayist (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)