Famous Deaths on 27 May

Famous Deaths on 27 May

1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland
1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
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 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 - Marquise 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 (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)
1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
1941 - Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (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 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
1973 - P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
1984 - Vincent James McMahon, was a U.S. professional wrestling promoter.
1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1993 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
1993 - Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2008 - Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
735 - Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)
866 - Ordoño I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)
927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)