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

1449  Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 on October - 27.  

1485  On October - 27 rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies  

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1505  Ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies on October - 27.  

1542  On October - 27 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 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 October - 27.  

1605  On this day in history death of akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)  

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

1651  On October - 27 jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies  

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

1659  Death of Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged on this day in history.  

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

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

1675  Death of Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) on October - 27.  

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  Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 on October - 27.  

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  On this day in history ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66  

1848  Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46 on this day in history.  

1864  Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1917  On this day in history 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 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 October - 27.  

1728  James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands was born on this day in history.  

1739  Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1760  August W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal was born on October - 27.