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 October - 27.  

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

1331  On October - 27 aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies  

1430  On October - 27 death of vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)  

1439  On October - 27 albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42  

1449  On this day in history ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56  

1485  Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies on this day in history.  

1505  On October - 27 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  Death of Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy on October - 27.  

1561  Death of Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510) on this day in history.  

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 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 October - 27.  

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  Death of Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) on October - 27.  

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

1789  On October - 27 death of john Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)  

1796  Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1822  On this day in history christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55  

1833  On this day in history ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66  

1848  On October - 27 alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46  

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 October - 27.  

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 this day in history 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