Famous Deaths Happened In October - 27

0925  Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies on this day in history.   

0939  Aethelstan III, king of England, dies on October - 27.   

1271  On this day in history death of hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)   

1312  On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)   

1327  On October - 27 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 October - 27.   

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

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

1485  Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies on October - 27.   

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

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 October - 27.   

1561  Death of Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510) on October - 27.   

1573  On this day in history 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  Death of Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563) on October - 27.   

1651  On this day in history jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies   

1652  On this day in history henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies   

1659  Death of Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged on this day in history.   

1670  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies   

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  Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45 on October - 27.   

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

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

1917  Death of Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897) on this day in history.   

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

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

1466  Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536) was born on this day in history.   

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

1739  Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer was born on October - 27.   

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.