Famous Deaths on 27 Sep

Famous Deaths on 27 Sep

1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
1404 - William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
1956 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1979 - Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)
1981 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
1985 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
1986 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
1991 - Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and 4th wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)
1993 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
1998 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)
1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)