August 27 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles


• 827 - Pope Eugene II


• 1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)


• 1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)


• 1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)


• 1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer


• 1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)


• 1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer


• 1577 - Titian, Italian artist


• 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)


• 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)


• 1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)


• 1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)


• 1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)


• 1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)


• 1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)


• 1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)


• 1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)


• 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)


• 1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)


• 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)


• 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)


• 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)


• 1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)


• 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)


• 1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)


• 1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)


• 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)


• 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)


• 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)


• 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)


• 1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)


• 1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)


• 1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)


• 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)


• 1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)


• 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)


• 1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)


• 1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (b. 1948)


• 1984 - Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)


• 1987 - Scott La Rock, American hip-hop artist Boogie Down Productions (b. 1962)


• 1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)


• 1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)


• 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)


• 1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)


• 1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)


• 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)


• 2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)


• 2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)


• 2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)


• 2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)


• 2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)


• 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)


• 2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)