Famous Deaths on 27 Apr

Famous Deaths on 27 Apr

1404 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
1599 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 - Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
1625 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1695 - John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
1702 - Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
1782 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
1873 - William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1921 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
1932 - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1936 - Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1941 - Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1969 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 - Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana (b. 1909)
1973 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1996 - William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
1998 - John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
1998 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
1999 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
2002 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2002 - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
2002 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
630 - King Ardashir III of Persia