August 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles
• 827 – Pope Eugene II
• 1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
• 1394 – Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
• 1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
• 1521 – Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer
• 1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
• 1572 – Claude Goudimel, French composer
• 1577 – Titian, Italian artist
• 1590 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
• 1635 – Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• 1664 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
• 1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
• 1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
• 1857 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1815)
• 1865 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)
• 1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
• 1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
• 1931 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
• 1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
• 1948 – Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
• 1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
• 1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
• 1963 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
• 1968 – Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
• 1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
• 1979 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
• 1981 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1984 – Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
• 1988 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
• 1996 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN) (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
• 2006 – María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)
• 2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)
• 2009 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)