Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies on this day in history.   

0939  Aethelstan III, king of England, dies on October - 27.   

1271  On October - 27 death of hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)   

1312  On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)   

1327  Death of Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289) on October - 27.   

1331  Aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies on October - 27.   

1430  Death of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350) on October - 27.   

1439  On this day in history albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42   

1449  Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1485  Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies on October - 27.   

1505  On this day in history ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies   

1542  Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies on October - 27.   

1553  On this day in history death of michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy   

1561  Death of Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510) on October - 27.   

1573  On this day in history death of laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)   

1580  On October - 27 john Bonga, beggar, dies   

1605  On this day in history death of akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)   

1617  On this day in history death of ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)   

1651  On October - 27 jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies   

1652  Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies on this day in history.   

1659  On October - 27 death of marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged   

1670  On October - 27 death of vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)   

1674  On October - 27 death of hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)   

1675  Death of Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) on October - 27.   

1725  On October - 27 jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71   

1771  On October - 27 johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies   

1781  Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 on October - 27.   

1789  On this day in history death of john Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)   

1796  Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45 on October - 27.   

1822  Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55 on October - 27.   

1833  On October - 27 ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66   

1848  On this day in history alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46   

1864  Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1917  On this day in history death of arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)   

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1156  Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222) was born on this day in history.   

1401  Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437) was born on this day in history.   

1466  Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536) was born on this day in history.   

1728  James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands was born on this day in history.   

1739  On October - 27 birth of franz Ignaz Kaa, composer   

1744  On this day in history birth of mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)   

1746  Georg Anton Kreusser, composer was born on this day in history.   

1760  On October - 27 birth of august W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal