Famous Deaths on December 27, Who Died on December 27
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1003 | Emma of Blois, French duchess and regent |
| 1005 | Nilus the Younger, Byzantine abbot (b. 910) |
| 1076 | Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1027) |
| 1087 | Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051) |
| 1381 | Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician (b. 1352) |
| 1518 | Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (b. c. 1470) |
| 1543 | George, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484) |
| 1548 | Francesco Spiera, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1502) |
| 1603 | Thomas Cartwright, English minister and theologian (b. 1535) |
| 1656 | Andrew White, English Jesuit missionary (b. 1579) |
| 1704 | Hans Albrecht von Barfus, Prussian field marshal and politician (b. 1635) |
| 1707 | Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (b. 1632) |
| 1737 | William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663) |
| 1743 | Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659) |
| 1771 | Henri Pitot, French engineer, invented the Pitot tube (b. 1695) |
| 1776 | Johann Rall, Hessian colonel (b. c. 1726) |
| 1782 | Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish judge and philosopher (b. 1697) |
| 1800 | Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (b. 1718) |
| 1812 | Joanna Southcott, English religious leader (b. 1750) |
| 1834 | Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (b. 1775) |
| 1836 | Stephen F. Austin, American soldier and politician (b. 1793) |
| 1858 | Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785) |
| 1896 | John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816) |
| 1900 | William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810) |
| 1914 | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) |
| 1919 | Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846) |
| 1923 | Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832) |
| 1924 | Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866) |
| 1936 | Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873) |
| 1938 | Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889) |
| 1939 | Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877) |
| 1943 | Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1887) |
| 1950 | Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (b. 1884) |
| 1952 | Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian priest, author, and educator (b. 1878) |
| 1953 | Şükrü Saracoğlu, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1887) |
| 1955 | Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1881) |
| 1956 | Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and lexicographer (b. 1870) |
| 1965 | Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901) |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 1974 | Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898) |
| 1978 | Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) |
| 1981 | Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1899) |
| 1982 | Jack Swigert, American pilot, astronaut, and politician (b. 1931) |
| 1985 | Jean Rondeau, French race car driver (b. 1946) |
| 1986 | George Dangerfield, English-American historian and journalist (b. 1904) |
| 1987 | Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist (b. 1897) |
| 1988 | Hal Ashby, American director and producer (b. 1929) |
| 1992 | Kay Boyle, American novelist, poet, and educator (b. 1902) |
| 1993 | Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902) |
| 1994 | Fanny Cradock, English author and critic (b. 1909) |
| 1995 | Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (b. 1909) |
| 1997 | Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (b. 1914) |
| 1999 | Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (b. 1950) |
| 2002 | George Roy Hill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 2003 | Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934) |
| 2004 | Hank Garland, American guitarist (b. 1930) |
| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953) |
| 2008 | Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1939) |
| 2009 | Isaac Schwartz, Ukrainian-Russian composer and educator (b. 1923) |
| 2011 | Catê, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1973) |
| 2012 | Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 2013 | Richard Ambler, English-Scottish biologist and academic (b. 1933) |
| 2014 | Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, American-Israeli religious leader, founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (b. 1939) |
| 2015 | Stein Eriksen, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1927) |
| 2016 | Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker (b. 1956) |
| 2018 | Frank Blaichman, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1922) |
| 2019 | Maria Creveling, American League of Legends player (b. 1995) |
| 683 | Gaozong of Tang, founding emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty (b. 628) |
| 870 | Aeneas of Paris, Frankish bishop |
| 975 | Balderic, bishop of Utrecht (b. 897) |
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