Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies on October - 27.  

0939  On this day in history aethelstan III, king of England, dies  

1271  Death of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213) on October - 27.  

1312  Death of John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275) on October - 27.  

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

1331  On this day in history aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies  

1430  On October - 27 death of vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)  

1439  On October - 27 albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42  

1449  On October - 27 ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56  

1485  On this day in history rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies  

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

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

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

1561  On October - 27 death of lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)  

1573  Death of Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499) on this day in history.  

1580  John Bonga, beggar, dies on October - 27.  

1605  Death of Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542) on this day in history.  

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

1651  Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies on this day in history.  

1652  Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies on October - 27.  

1659  Death of Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged on October - 27.  

1670  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1725  Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1771  Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies on October - 27.  

1781  On this day in history herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66  

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

1796  On this day in history anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45  

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

1833  On this day in history ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66  

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

1864  On this day in history andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58  

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

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1156  On this day in history birth of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)  

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

1466  On October - 27 birth of erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)  

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

1739  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Kaa, composer  

1744  Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819) was born on October - 27.  

1746  Georg Anton Kreusser, composer was born on October - 27.  

1760  On this day in history birth of august W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal