November 27 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 8 BC – Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
  • 395 – Rufinus, Roman consul and praetorian prefect
  • 450 – Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
  • 511 – Clovis I, King of the Franks (b. c. 466)
  • 602 – Maurice, Byzantine emperor, (b. 539) and his younger sons (executed)
  • 835 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
  • 1198 – Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
  • 1474 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
  • 1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
  • 1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
  • 1632 – John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
  • 1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
  • 1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
  • 1811 – Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
  • 1852 – Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
  • 1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
  • 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
  • 1901 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
  • 1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
  • 1919 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian Politician and business. Founder of the Republic. (b. 1857)
  • 1920 – Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (b. 1853)
  • 1921 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
  • 1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
  • 1932 – Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
  • 1934 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
  • 1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek financier and arms dealer (b. 1849)
  • 1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
  • 1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
  • 1944 – Leonid Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
  • 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
  • 1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
  • 1958 – Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
  • 1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch nobleman, lawyer, conservative statesman and prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
  • 1973 – Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
  • 1975 – Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (assassinated) (b. 1925)
  • 1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician, civil rights activist (assassinated) (b. 1930)
  • 1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
  • 1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
  • 1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
  • 1983 – Kostas Mentis, Greek actor (b. 1913)
  • 1987 – Sian Kingi, Australian murder victim (b. 1974)
  • 1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
  • 1988 – Jan Hein Donner, a Dutch chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
  • 1990 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)
  • 1990 – Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek theoretical physicist (assassinated) (b. 1951)
  • 1992 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
  • 1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
  • 1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
  • 1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
  • 1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
  • 2000 – Malcolm Bradbury, English author (b. 1932)
  • 2000 – Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
  • 2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
  • 2005 – Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
  • 2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
  • 2006 – Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
  • 2007 – Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
  • 2007 – Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
  • 2008 – V. P. Singh, Indian Prime Minister (b. 1931)
  • 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1969)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)