Famous Deaths In April - 27

1950  Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1951  Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for S Africa), dies on April - 27.   

1952  Death of Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865) on April - 27.   

1957  On April - 27 mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies   

1959  On April - 27 gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies   

1961  Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1962  Death of A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873) on April - 27.   

1964  Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61   

1969  On April - 27 dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65   

1970  On this day in history arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73   

1972  On this day in history kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62   

1973  Jim Sims, cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies on April - 27.   

1975  On this day in history nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86   

1977  Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61 on April - 27.   

1978  Death of Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered on April - 27.   

1982  On this day in history tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85   

1984  Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history death of david Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)   

1989  Death of Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894) on April - 27.   

1991  Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 on April - 27.   

1992  On April - 27 olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83   

1993  Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1994  Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69 on April - 27.   

1995  Death of Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921) on April - 27.   

1996  Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86 on April - 27.   

1997  Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73 on April - 27.   

1998  Death of Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925) on April - 27.   

1999  On April - 27 death of al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)   

2000  Death of Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954) on this day in history.   

2002  Death of George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947) on this day in history.   

2006  On April - 27 death of julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)   

2007  On this day in history death of mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)   

2009  Death of Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914) on this day in history.   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.   

1495  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566) was born on this day in history.   

1623  On April - 27 birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

1650  On April - 27 birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  On this day in history birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  On April - 27 birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on April - 27.