Historical Deaths Today: 27 September

Deaths

• 1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)


• 1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier


• 1404 - William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)


• 1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)


• 1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)


• 1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)


• 1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)


• 1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)


• 1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)


• 1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)


• 1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)


• 1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)


• 1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)


• 1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)


• 1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)


• 1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)


• 1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)


• 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)


• 1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)


• 1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)


• 1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)


• 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)


• 1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)


• 1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)


• 1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)


• 1956 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)


• 1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)


• 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)


• 1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)


• 1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)


• 1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)


• 1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)


• 1979 - Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)


• 1981 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)


• 1985 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)


• 1986 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)


• 1991 - Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and 4th wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)


• 1993 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)


• 1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)


• 1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)


• 1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)


• 1998 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)


• 2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)


• 2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)