Famous Deaths on 27 Dec

Famous Deaths on 27 Dec

1076 - Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (b. 1027)
1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
1548 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)
1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
1707 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632)
1737 - William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
1771 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (b. 1695)
1782 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697)
1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)
1812 - Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
1812 - Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess.
1834 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
1858 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (b. 1785)
1896 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
1900 - William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (b. 1810)
1914 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
1938 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
1938 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (b. 1891)
1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
1952 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
1955 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)
1956 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (b. 1870)
1965 - Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)
1972 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897)
1974 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b. 1898)
1978 - Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
1978 - Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer (b. 1937)
1979 - Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (b. 1899)
1982 - John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
1987 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
1988 - Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
1992 - Kay Boyle, American writer (b. 1902)
1993 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1994 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (b. 1909)
1994 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)
1995 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (b. 1909)
1997 - Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
1997 - Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
2003 - Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
2003 - Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1962)
2004 - Hank Garland, American musician (b. 1930)
2005 - William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
2007 - Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (assassinated) (b. 1953)
2007 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
418 - Zosimus, Greek pope