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)