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  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 this day in history.  

1430  On this day in history 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  Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

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

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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 October - 27 death of michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy  

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

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

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  Death of Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563) on this day in history.  

1651  Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies on October - 27.  

1652  Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies on this day in history.  

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

1670  Death of Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) on this day in history.  

1674  Death of Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) on October - 27.  

1675  Death of Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) on October - 27.  

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

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

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

1789  On October - 27 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  On October - 27 christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55  

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

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

1864  Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58 on October - 27.  

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 October - 27.  

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  On this day in history birth of james Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands  

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

1744  Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819) was born on this day in history.  

1746  Georg Anton Kreusser, composer was born on this day in history.  

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