Famous Deaths on May 27, Who Died on May 27
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1039 | Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. 981) |
| 1045 | Bruno of Würzburg, imperial chancellor of Italy (b. c. 1005) |
| 1178 | Godfrey van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht |
| 1240 | William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166) |
| 1444 | John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1404) |
| 1508 | Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452) |
| 1525 | Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian (b. 1488) |
| 1541 | Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) |
| 1564 | John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (b. 1509) |
| 1610 | François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) |
| 1624 | Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580) |
| 1637 | John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician (b. c. 1566) |
| 1661 | Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1607) |
| 1675 | Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b. 1613) |
| 1690 | Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1626) |
| 1702 | Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (b. 1628) |
| 1707 | Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640) |
| 1781 | Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716) |
| 1797 | François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (b. 1760) |
| 1831 | Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799) |
| 1840 | Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782) |
| 1867 | Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796) |
| 1896 | Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) |
| 1910 | Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) |
| 1919 | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848) |
| 1933 | Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868) |
| 1939 | Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894) |
| 1941 | Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894) |
| 1942 | Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878) |
| 1943 | Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878) |
| 1945 | Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888) |
| 1947 | Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885) |
| 1953 | Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1868) |
| 1960 | James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) |
| 1963 | Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912) |
| 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889) |
| 1965 | John Rinehart Blue, American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (b. 1905) |
| 1967 | W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880) |
| 1969 | Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (b. 1926) |
| 1971 | Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901) |
| 1980 | Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932) |
| 1984 | Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923) |
| 1986 | Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921) |
| 1987 | John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| 1988 | Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908) |
| 1989 | Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907) |
| 1990 | Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908) |
| 1991 | Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904) |
| 1992 | Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890) |
| 1998 | Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905) |
| 2000 | Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912) |
| 2002 | Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1909) |
| 2003 | Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (b. 1925) |
| 2006 | Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b. 1949) |
| 2007 | Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1967) |
| 2008 | Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier (b. 1900) |
| 2009 | Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and academic (b. 1931) |
| 2010 | Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (b. 1929) |
| 2011 | Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (b. 1950) |
| 2012 | Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (b. 1934) |
| 2013 | Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (b. 1917) |
| 2014 | Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (b. 1936) |
| 2015 | Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929) |
| 2017 | Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1947) |
| 2018 | Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947) |
| 2020 | Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935) |
| 2021 | Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929) |
| 366 | Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 325) |
| 398 | Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355) |
| 475 | Eutropius, bishop of Orange |
| 866 | Ordoño I of Asturias (b. 831) |
| 927 | Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (b. 864) |
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