February 27 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 956 – Theophylact, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 917)
  • 1659 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
  • 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
  • 1706 – John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
  • 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
  • 1735 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
  • 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
  • 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American businessman (b. 1786)
  • 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
  • 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
  • 1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869)
  • 1902 – Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
  • 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
  • 1931 – Chandrasekhar Azad,Indian revolutionaries (b. 1906)
  • 1932 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
  • 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
  • 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1849)
  • 1941 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
  • 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (b. 1859)
  • 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
  • 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
  • 1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
  • 1970 – Marie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (b. 1934)
  • 1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
  • 1973 – Bill Everett, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
  • 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
  • 1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
  • 1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
  • 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
  • 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (b. 1929)
  • 1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
  • 1987 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)
  • 1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
  • 1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
  • 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
  • 1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
  • 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
  • 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
  • 1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
  • 1999 – Horace Tapscott American musician (b. 1934)
  • 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
  • 2003 – John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
  • 2003 – Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
  • 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
  • 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
  • 2005 – Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
  • 2006 – Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
  • 2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
  • 2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
  • 2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
  • 2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German and Russian Singer (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and commentator (b. 1925)
  • 2008 – Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)
  • 2008 – Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
  • 2010 – Madeleine Ferron, Canadian writer (b. 1922)
  • 2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian Politician (b.1916)
  • 2011 – Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
  • 2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player (b. 1926)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “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)