Deaths in History on November 27

Roman Republican poet (Odes), dies at 56

450 Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58
511 Clovis, king of Salische France, founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
640 Saint Acharius of Noyon, French bishop of Noyon–Tournai, dies of natural causes
835 Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam, dies at 24
1026 Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies
1198 Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1570 Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader, dies at 40
1673 Anthonie Palamedes [Palamedesz], Dutch painter, dies at about 72
1680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest and inventor (magic lantern), dies at 79
1720 Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 85
1754 Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), dies at 87
1811 Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1836 Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer, dies at 78

English mathematician considered the first Computer Programmer, and writer and daughter of poet Lord Byron, dies of uterine cancer at 36

1887 Frank Dalton, American lawman of the Old West (Deputy US Marshal - Oklahoma Territory), brother of the Dalton Gang of outlaws, killed in the line of duty at 28
1894 Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1899 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest and poet, dies at 69
1901 Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist, dies at 81
1921 Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
1925 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor and painter, dies of tuberculosis at 40

American bank robber and gangster who killed more FBI agents than any other criminal, shot by the FBI in a shoot out at 25

1934 Herman Hollis, FBI agent, shot and killed by Baby Face Nelson
1934 Sam Cowley, FBI agent, shot and killed by Baby Face Nelson
1936 Edward Bach, British bacteriologist, homeopathic doctor (Bach flower remedies), dies at 50
1943 Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan, killed by a German bomb at 27
1944 Camille Looten, French-Flemish priest and literature historian, dies at 86
1944 Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)

American playwright (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), dies of cerebellar cortical atrophy at 65

1953 T. F. Powys, British novelist & short-story writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green), dies at 77
1955 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
1957 Margo Scharten-Antink, Dutch writer (Catherina, Sprotje), dies at 88
1960 Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1971 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary figure and art historian, dies at 70
1974 Louis B Russell Jr, American longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
1975 Ross McWhirter, English Guinness Book of Records co-founder, assassinated by the IRA at 50
1977 John Little McClellan, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
1978 George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (1976-78) shot and killed by Dan White aged 49

American politician, gay activist and first openly gay person elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48

1980 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1983 Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
1984 Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1992 Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
1995 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
1995 Simon Bailey, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, dies at 40
1996 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1997 Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
1999 Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (Kryptonite), dies at 87
2006 Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006 Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2007 Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of Gatorade, dies at 80
2008 V.P. [Vishwanath Pratap] Singh, Indian politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (1989-90), dies at 77
2010 Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
2014 P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy], Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime and mystery writer (Cover Her Face, Death in Holy Orders), dies at 94
2015 Gwyn Jones Francis, Welsh UK Forestry commissioner, dies at 85