December 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 418 – Pope Zosimus
• 1076 – Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (b. 1027)
• 1087 – Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (b. 1051)
• 1381 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
• 1543 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (b. 1484)
• 1548 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)
• 1603 – Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
• 1704 – Hans Albrecht von Barfus, Brandenburg and Prussian field marshal and prime minister (b. 1635)
• 1707 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632)
• 1737 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
• 1743 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
• 1771 – Henri Pitot, French engineer (b. 1695)
• 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697)
• 1800 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)
• 1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
• 1812 – Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess (b. 1750)
• 1834 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
• 1836 – Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
• 1858 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (b. 1785)
• 1896 – John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
• 1900 – William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (b. 1810)
• 1914 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
• 1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
• 1925 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
• 1938 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
• 1938 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (b. 1891)
• 1950 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
• 1953 – Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
• 1955 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English naval officer (b. 1881)
• 1956 – Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer (b. 1870)
• 1958 – Harry Warner, American studio executive (b. 1881)
• 1965 – Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1905)
• 1972 – Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Chris Bell American musician (b. 1951)
• 1978 – Houari Boumediène, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
• 1978 – Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer (b. 1937)
• 1979 – Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
• 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (b. 1899)
• 1982 – John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1931)
• 1986 – Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
• 1988 – Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Kay Boyle, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1993 – André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 1994 – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
• 2002 – George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Vestal Goodman, American Gospel singer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Hank Garland, American musician (b. 1930)
• 2005 – William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Delaney Bramlett, American musician (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Robert Graham, Mexican Sculptor (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Isaac Schwartz, Ukrainian Composer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Catê, Brazilian footballer (b. 1973)
• 2011 – Michael Dummett, British philosopher (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Johnny Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)