January 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
• 661 – Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam
• 1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
• 1540 – Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
• 1595 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer (b. c.1540)
• 1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
• 1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. 1585?)
• 1689 – Robert Aske, merchant whose charitable foundation operates Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls (b. 1619)
• 1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (b. 1655)
• 1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
• 1794 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French royalist commander and counterrevolutionary (b. 1765)
• 1812 – Captain John Perkins, first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy
• 1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
• 1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
• 1837 – Alexandr Pushkin, Russian poet (b. 1799)
• 1851 – John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)
• 1857 – Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
• 1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
• 1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
• 1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1910 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
• 1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
• 1921 – Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
• 1922 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (b. 1864)
• 1927 – Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871)
• 1931 – Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25^th Yokozuna (b. 1880)
• 1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
• 1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
• 1956 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Roger Chaffee – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1935)
• 1967 – Virgil "Gus" Grissom – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1926)
• 1967 – Edward White – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1930)
• 1967 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1972 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1973 – William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
• 1989 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
• 1989 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1992 – Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (b. 1909)
• 1993 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
• 2000 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
• 2003 – Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948).
• 2006 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Alberta Davis, American supercentenerian ( b. 1881)
• 2008 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (b. 1910)
• 2009 – John Updike, American novelist (b. 1932)
• 2009 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
• 2010 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)