Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  On October - 27 rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies  

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 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 October - 27 death of vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)  

1439  Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42 on this day in history.  

1449  On October - 27 ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56  

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

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

1542  On this day in history abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies  

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

1561  On this day in history death of lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)  

1573  Death of Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499) on October - 27.  

1580  On this day in history john Bonga, beggar, dies  

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  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  On October - 27 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 October - 27.  

1771  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies  

1781  Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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

1833  On October - 27 ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66  

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

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 this day in history.  

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

1739  On October - 27 birth of franz Ignaz Kaa, composer  

1744  On this day in history 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 October - 27.