Famous Deaths In October - 27

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

0939  Aethelstan III, king of England, dies on this day in history.  

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

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  Death of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350) on this day in history.  

1439  Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42 on this day in history.  

1449  Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 on October - 27.  

1485  Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies on this day in history.  

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1505  On October - 27 ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies  

1542  On this day in history abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies  

1553  On October - 27 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 October - 27 death of laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)  

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 October - 27 death of ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)  

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

1652  On October - 27 henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies  

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

1670  Death of Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) on October - 27.  

1674  Death of Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) on this day in history.  

1675  On October - 27 death of gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)  

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

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

1781  Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1789  Death of John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730) on October - 27.  

1796  On October - 27 anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45  

1822  On this day in history christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55  

1833  Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1848  Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46 on October - 27.  

1864  On October - 27 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 October - 27.  

1739  On October - 27 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 October - 27 birth of august W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal