Famous Deaths In October - 27

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

0939  On October - 27 aethelstan III, king of England, dies  

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

1312  On October - 27 death of john II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)  

1327  On this day in history death of elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)  

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 this day in history.  

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

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1505  Ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies on this day in history.  

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

1553  Death of Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy on this day in history.  

1561  Death of Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510) on this day in history.  

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

1580  John Bonga, beggar, dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history death of marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged  

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

1674  On this day in history death of hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)  

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 this day in history johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies  

1781  On October - 27 herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66  

1789  Death of John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730) on this day in history.  

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

1822  On October - 27 christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55  

1833  Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66 on October - 27.  

1848  Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46 on this day in history.  

1864  On October - 27 andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58  

1917  Death of Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897) on October - 27.  

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

1401  On October - 27 birth of catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)  

1466  On this day in history birth of erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)  

1728  James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands was born on October - 27.  

1739  Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1760  August W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal was born on October - 27.