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 this day in history.  

1271  Death of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213) on this day in history.  

1312  On October - 27 death of john II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)  

1327  Death of Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289) on this day in history.  

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  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  On this day in history 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 October - 27 death of laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)  

1580  John Bonga, beggar, dies on October - 27.  

1605  On October - 27 death of akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)  

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  Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies on October - 27.  

1659  On October - 27 death of marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged  

1670  On October - 27 death of vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)  

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  On October - 27 herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66  

1789  Death of John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730) on October - 27.  

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  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  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 this day in history.  

1466  On October - 27 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 October - 27 birth of franz Ignaz Kaa, composer  

1744  On this day in history birth of mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)  

1746  On this day in history birth of georg Anton Kreusser, composer  

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