May 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
• 866 – Ordoño I of Asturias (b. 831)
• 927 – Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 865)
• 1039 – Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. 989)
• 1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
• 1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian ruler, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
• 1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader (b. c. 1488)
• 1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
• 1564 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
• 1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• 1615 – Margaret of Valois (b. 1553)
• 1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (b. 1607)
• 1675 – Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
• 1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• 1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic (b. 1628)
• 1707 – Athénaïs de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
• 1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
• 1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (b. 1760)
• 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian activist (b. 1848)
• 1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 – Achille Paroche, French sports shooter (b. 1868)
• 1941 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain, victim of the German battleship Bismarck sinking (b. 1894)
• 1941 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral, victim of the German battleship Bismarck sinking (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Enno Lolling, German SS physician (b. 1888)
• 1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and entrepreneur founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
• 1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
• 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
• 1967 – W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
• 1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer, and composer (b. 1922)
• 1986 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor (b. 1918)
• 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
• 1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
• 1993 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
• 1994 – Charles Rodman Campbell, American convicted rapist and murder (b. 1954)

• 1997 – Matt Gunther, American porn actor (b. 1963)
• 2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, pilot (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
• 2006 – Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Howard Porter, American basketball player (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Zard) (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the modern hot air balloon (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Franz Künstler, Austro-Hungarian soldier (b. 1900)
• 2009 – Thomas Franck, American lawyer (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Clive Granger, English economist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Abram Hoffer, Canadian psychiatrist (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian priest and activist (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and novelist (b. 1933)
• 2009 – William Refshauge, Australian soldier and public health administrator (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Paul Sharratt, English-American television producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician, and author (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Zita Kabátová, Czech actress (b. 1913)
• 2012 – David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)