Famous Deaths In October - 27

0925  Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies on this day in history.   

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  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 October - 27.   

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 October - 27.   

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

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

1561  On October - 27 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 this day in history.   

1605  Death of Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542) on this day in history.   

1617  On October - 27 death of ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)   

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

1670  Death of Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) on October - 27.   

1674  On this day in history death of hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)   

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

1725  On this day in history jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71   

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

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 this day in history.   

1796  On this day in history anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45   

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

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 October - 27 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 this day in history.   

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

1744  On October - 27 birth of mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)   

1746  On October - 27 birth of georg Anton Kreusser, composer   

1760  On this day in history birth of august W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal