Famous Deaths In October - 27

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

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  On October - 27 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  On this day in history aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies   

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  On this day in history ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56   

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

1505  On this day in history ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies   

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

1553  On this day in history death of michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy   

1561  On October - 27 death of lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)   

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 October - 27.   

1617  Death of Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563) on October - 27.   

1651  Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies on this day in history.   

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 October - 27.   

1670  On this day in history death of vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)   

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

1675  Death of Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) on this day in history.   

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

1771  Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies on October - 27.   

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

1822  Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)   

1466  Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536) was born on October - 27.   

1728  On October - 27 birth of james Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands   

1739  On October - 27 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 this day in history.   

1760  August W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal was born on this day in history.