27 October Deaths

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 894)
1269 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
1277 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
1303 – Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1326 – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262)
1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
1329 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
1331 – Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
1441 – Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (b. 1443)
1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1513 – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
1613 – Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
1617 – Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1563)
1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1816 – Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1761)
1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
1929 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
1949 – Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1957 – James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
1976 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919)
1977 – James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1982 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
1990 – Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (b. 1969)
1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 – Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
2003 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
2005 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2008 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
2009 – August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
2009 – David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
2011 – Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (b. 1926)
2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
2012 – Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (b. 1926)
2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (b. 1923)
2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
2013 – Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
2013 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
2013 – Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
2013 – Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940)
2013 – Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954)
2014 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014 – Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
2014 – Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922)
2015 – Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959)
2015 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)
2015 – Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923)
2015 – Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933)
2016 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915)

Source: wikipedia