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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)