Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 27 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 27
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 27
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 683 | Gaozong of Tang, founding emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty (b. 628) |
| 870 | Aeneas of Paris, Frankish bishop |
| 975 | Balderic, bishop of Utrecht (b. 897) |
| 1003 | Emma of Blois, French duchess and regent |
| 1005 | Nilus the Younger, Byzantine abbot (b. 910) |
| 1076 | Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1027) |
| 1087 | Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051) |
| 1381 | Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician (b. 1352) |
| 1518 | Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (b. c. 1470) |
| 1543 | George, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484) |
| 1548 | Francesco Spiera, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1502) |
| 1603 | Thomas Cartwright, English minister and theologian (b. 1535) |
| 1656 | Andrew White, English Jesuit missionary (b. 1579) |
| 1704 | Hans Albrecht von Barfus, Prussian field marshal and politician (b. 1635) |
| 1707 | Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (b. 1632) |
| 1737 | William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663) |
| 1743 | Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659) |
| 1771 | Henri Pitot, French engineer, invented the Pitot tube (b. 1695) |
| 1776 | Johann Rall, Hessian colonel (b. c. 1726) |
| 1782 | Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish judge and philosopher (b. 1697) |
| 1800 | Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (b. 1718) |
| 1812 | Joanna Southcott, English religious leader (b. 1750) |
| 1834 | Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (b. 1775) |
| 1836 | Stephen F. Austin, American soldier and politician (b. 1793) |
| 1858 | Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785) |
| 1896 | John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816) |
| 1900 | William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810) |
| 1914 | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) |
| 1919 | Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846) |
| 1923 | Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832) |
| 1924 | Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866) |
| 1936 | Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873) |
| 1938 | Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889) |
| 1939 | Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877) |
| 1943 | Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1887) |
| 1950 | Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (b. 1884) |
| 1952 | Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian priest, author, and educator (b. 1878) |
| 1953 | Şükrü Saracoğlu, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1887) |
| 1955 | Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1881) |
| 1956 | Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and lexicographer (b. 1870) |
| 1965 | Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901) |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 1974 | Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898) |
| 1978 | Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) |
| 1981 | Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1899) |
| 1982 | Jack Swigert, American pilot, astronaut, and politician (b. 1931) |
| 1985 | Jean Rondeau, French race car driver (b. 1946) |
| 1986 | George Dangerfield, English-American historian and journalist (b. 1904) |
| 1987 | Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist (b. 1897) |
| 1988 | Hal Ashby, American director and producer (b. 1929) |
| 1992 | Kay Boyle, American novelist, poet, and educator (b. 1902) |
| 1993 | Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902) |
| 1994 | Fanny Cradock, English author and critic (b. 1909) |
| 1995 | Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (b. 1909) |
| 1997 | Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (b. 1914) |
| 1999 | Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (b. 1950) |
| 2002 | George Roy Hill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 2003 | Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934) |
| 2004 | Hank Garland, American guitarist (b. 1930) |
| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953) |
| 2008 | Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1939) |
| 2009 | Isaac Schwartz, Ukrainian-Russian composer and educator (b. 1923) |
| 2011 | Catê, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1973) |
| 2012 | Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 2013 | Richard Ambler, English-Scottish biologist and academic (b. 1933) |
| 2014 | Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, American-Israeli religious leader, founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (b. 1939) |
| 2015 | Stein Eriksen, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1927) |
| 2016 | Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker (b. 1956) |
| 2018 | Frank Blaichman, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1922) |
| 2019 | Maria Creveling, American League of Legends player (b. 1995) |
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