September 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1249 – Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
• 1304 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
• 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)
• 1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)
• 1876 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
• 1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (b. 1804)
• 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)
• 1965 – Sir William Stanier, British railway engineer (b. 1876)
• 1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian prince, participated in the murder of Grigori Rasputin (b. 1887)
• 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Rory Storm, British singer (b. 1939)
• 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)
• 1979 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1953)
• 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 football player (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 – Dale Houston, American singer (Dale & Grace) (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
• 2008 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Charles Houston, American mountaineer (b. 1913)
• 2009 – William Safire, American Columnist (b. 1929)
• 2010 – George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)