Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  On this day in history rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies  

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

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 this day in history.  

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 October - 27.  

1439  On this day in history albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42  

1449  Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1485  On October - 27 rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies  

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1505  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)  

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 October - 27.  

1617  On October - 27 death of ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)  

1651  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 October - 27.  

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

1725  Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 on October - 27.  

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

1781  Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 on October - 27.  

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

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

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 October - 27 andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58  

1917  On October - 27 death of arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)  

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1156  On October - 27 birth of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)  

1401  Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437) was born on October - 27.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1744  On October - 27 birth of mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)  

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

1760  On October - 27 birth of august W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal