Deaths in History on May 27

Ludovico Sforza

1508 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55

1525 Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1541 Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) beheaded for treason in Tower of London by Henry VIII
1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns

John Calvin

1564 John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)

1569 François de Coligny d'Andelot, French general (Jarnac) and Ruler of van Andelot, dies at 48
1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1610 François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)

1615 Marguerite de Valois, 1st Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1627 Eberhard Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer, dies at 73
1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
1675 Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1702 Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
1768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
1781 Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist, dies at 64
1790 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89
1797 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1831 Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1848 Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, 5th daughter of King George III, dies at 70
1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
1855 Nikolaj Bestuzhev, Russian Navy officer, writer and painter (Decembrist revolt), dies at 64
1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31
1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
1887 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
1896 Allard Pierson, Dutch theologist, philosopher and art historian, dies at 65
1896 Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies

Robert Koch

1910 Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), dies at 66

1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
1916 Joseph Gallieni, French general (Battle of Marne) and military governor of Paris, dies at 67
1918 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
1919 Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer from Andhra Pradesh, dies at 71

1926 Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1934 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies
1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44
1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
1951 Thomas Blamey, Australian general (WWI, WWII), dies at 67
1954 Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies
1958 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
1960 James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, dies at 82
1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered

Jawaharlal Nehru

1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, dies of an assumed heart attack at 74

1967 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
1986 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
1986 Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
1987 John H. Northrop, American biochemist (crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946)), dies at 95
1989 Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 Robert B. Meyner, American politician (44th Governor of New Jersey), dies at 81
1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
1992 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
1992 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
1992 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
1994 Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95
1996 Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter (City Music Society), dies at 82
1996 Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85
2000 Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000 Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2006 Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
2007 Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and known as "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon.", dies at 87
2008 Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)