October 27 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 895)
  • 1271 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
  • 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
  • 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, Scottish wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
  • 1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
  • 1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
  • 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician, and sultan (b. 1394)
  • 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
  • 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
  • 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
  • 1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
  • 1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
  • 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
  • 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh preacher (b. 1617)
  • 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
  • 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
  • 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
  • 1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
  • 1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
  • 1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887)
  • 1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
  • 1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
  • 1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
  • 1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer (b. 1872)
  • 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
  • 1949 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
  • 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
  • 1954 – Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886)
  • 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927)
  • 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
  • 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
  • 1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
  • 1975 – Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
  • 1976 – Deryck Cooke, English author and historian (b. 1919)
  • 1977 – James M. Cain, American author (b. 1892)
  • 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian lawyer, politician, and author (b. 1924)
  • 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (T. Rex, Shagrat, and Steve Took's Horns) (b. 1949)
  • 1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
  • 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
  • 1990 – Jacques Demy, French director (b. 1931)
  • 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American air force officer and author (b. 1910)
  • 1990 – Princess Sophie von Hohenberg (b. 1901)
  • 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
  • 1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
  • 1992 – David Bohm, American physicist (b. 1917)
  • 1996 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
  • 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
  • 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
  • 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
  • 2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian opera singer (b. 1929)
  • 2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer (b. 1925)
  • 2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
  • 2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
  • 2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
  • 2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
  • 2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian composer (b. 1942)
  • 2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
  • 2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
  • 2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
  • 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
  • 2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
  • 2007 – Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
  • 2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
  • 2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  • 2008 – Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (b. 1923)
  • 2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
  • 2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
  • 2009 – August Coppola, American academic and author (b. 1934)
  • 2009 – David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
  • 2010 – Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
  • 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
  • 2010 – James Wall, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Ian Buist, English diplomat (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian politician (b. 1952)
  • 2012 – Jacques Dupin, French poet (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (b. 1951)
  • 2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American politician (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
  • 2012 – Bill White, American illustrator (b. 1961)

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