Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1894 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
1943 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 - Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 - Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
2007 - Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007 - Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
450 - Galla Placidia, daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla (b. 392)
511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466)
8 BC - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)