July 27 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 432 – Pope Celestine I
  • 1101 – Conrad II of Italy (b. 1074)
  • 1276 – James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
  • 1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
  • 1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
  • 1675 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French marshal (b. 1611)
  • 1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
  • 1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, English statesman (b. 1693)
  • 1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet, and painter (b. 1814)
  • 1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
  • 1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
  • 1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (b. 1811)
  • 1883 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
  • 1916 – Charles Fryatt, English navy captain (b. 1872)
  • 1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
  • 1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
  • 1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
  • 1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French army general and marshal (b. 1854)
  • 1938 – John Exley, American rower (b. 1867)
  • 1941 – Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
  • 1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
  • 1948 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver (b. 1898)
  • 1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (b. 1880)
  • 1958 – Claire Lee Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
  • 1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
  • 1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
  • 1965 – Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
  • 1968 – Babe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1882)
  • 1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
  • 1971 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer (b. 1924)
  • 1978 – Bob Heffron, Australian politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
  • 1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
  • 1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian ruler (b. 1919)
  • 1981 – William Wyler, German-American director (b. 1902)
  • 1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
  • 1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (b. 1889)
  • 1986 – Nikos Nikolaou, Greek sculpture (b. 1909)
  • 1987 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • 1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor, invented the ice resurfacer (b. 1901)
  • 1990 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (b. 1928)
  • 1991 – John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and con-artist (b. 1950)
  • 1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
  • 1992 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (b. 1932)
  • 1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
  • 1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photographer (b. 1960)
  • 1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
  • 1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • 1998 – Binnie Barnes, English actress (b. 1903)
  • 1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
  • 1999 – Sweets Edison, American trumpet player (Count Basie Orchestra) (b. 1915)
  • 2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling announcer (b. 1929)
  • 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
  • 2001 – Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)
  • 2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
  • 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American actor (b. 1903)
  • 2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch writer and illustrator (b. 1912)
  • 2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
  • 2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – James Oyebola, English boxer (b. 1961)
  • 2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director (b. 1926)
  • 2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
  • 2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
  • 2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
  • 2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
  • 2011 – Bejaratana Rajasuda, Thai princess (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1949)
  • 2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
  • 2012 – Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
  • 2012 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Carl-Ludwig Wagner, German politician (b. 1930)

Read more about this topic:  July 27

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “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)

    “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)