Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies on October - 27.  

0939  Aethelstan III, king of England, dies on this day in history.  

1271  On this day in history death of hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)  

1312  On this day in history 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  On October - 27 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 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  

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 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  Death of Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542) on October - 27.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1674  On October - 27 death of hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)  

1675  On this day in history death of gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)  

1725  Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

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

1781  On this day in history 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  On this day in history alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46  

1864  On October - 27 andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58  

1917  Death of Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897) on this day in history.  

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1156  On this day in history 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  Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536) was born on October - 27.  

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

1739  Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer was born on October - 27.  

1744  Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819) was born on October - 27.  

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

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