Deaths in History on September 27

1249 Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1259 Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies
1404 William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
1557 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1566 Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
1590 Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies
1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
1615 Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1617 Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
1641 Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1651 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1660 Vincent de Paul, French Roman Catholic Saint, dies at 79
1674 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
1674 Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
1700 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85
1719 George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)

1730 Laurence Eusden, English poet, Poet Laureate (1718-30), dies at 42
1735 Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor, dies at 57
1742 Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1821 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
1831 Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
1831 Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1832 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher, dies at 51
1844 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1868 Alexander Walewski, French earl and Foreign Minister, dies at 58
1870 Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1876 Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1883 Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (founded Brahmo Sabha), dies at 61
1891 Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
1915 Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
1915 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, dies at 57
1916 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
1917 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter, sculptor and artist (The Bellelli Family), dies at 83
1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1940 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1942 Douglas Munro, only US Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
1944 Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), dies at 53

1944 Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82
1944 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer and chemist, dies at 81
1953 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
1955 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78
1961 Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1967 Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, dies at 80
1972 S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1981 Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77
1982 Saad Sayd, [Abu Walid], Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies
1988 William V. Shannon, American journalist and ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1991 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
1991 Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
1992 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
1993 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38

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1993 James Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96

1994 Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
1995 Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
1996 Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (1987-92), executed at 49
1997 Walter Trampler, American violist (Beaux Arts Trio), dies at 82
2004 John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2007 Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)