Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 27

1950  On April - 27 adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70   

1951  On this day in history philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for S Africa), dies   

1952  On this day in history death of guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)   

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

1959  Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67   

1962  On April - 27 death of a. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)   

1964  On April - 27 georg Britting, writer, dies at 73   

1965  Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61 on April - 27.   

1969  Dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1970  Arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73 on April - 27.   

1972  On April - 27 kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62   

1973  On April - 27 jim Sims, cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies   

1975  Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86 on April - 27.   

1977  On April - 27 stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61   

1978  On April - 27 death of mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered   

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

1984  On this day in history piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63   

1988  Death of David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968) on this day in history.   

1989  On April - 27 death of konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)   

1991  Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1992  Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1993  Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 on April - 27.   

1994  Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history death of willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)   

1996  Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1997  Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1998  Death of Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925) on this day in history.   

1999  Death of Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922) on April - 27.   

2000  On April - 27 death of vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)   

2002  Death of George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947) on April - 27.   

2006  On this day in history death of julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)   

2007  On April - 27 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 April - 27.   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on this day in history.   

1495  On this day in history birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  On this day in history birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on April - 27.   

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  On April - 27 birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer