April 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 630 – King Ardashir III of Persia
• 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)
• 1967 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
• 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)
• 1988 – Fred Bear, American bow-hunter (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
• 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 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)
• 1998 – H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
• 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
• 2002 – Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
• 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)
• 2008 – Marios Tokas, Cypriot songwriter (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983)