Famous Deaths on 27 Mar

Famous Deaths on 27 Mar

1191 - Pope Clement III
1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 - Pope Gregory XI
1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1918 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1934 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1988 - Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 - May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridgeplayer (b. 1903)
1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
710 - Rupert of Salzburg
973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony