Deaths on 27 April
2000s
Jiggly Caliente
2025
Filipino-American drag performer (1980β2025)
C. J. Sansom
2024
British author of crime fiction (1952β2024)
Jerry Springer
2023
American TV personality and politician (1944β2023)
Liao Guoxun
2022
Chinese politician (1963β2022)
Manoj Das
2021
Indian author (1934β2021)
Vinod Khanna
2017
Indian film actor, director and politician (1946-2017)
Sadanoyama Shinmatsu
2017
Japanese sumo wrestler (1938β2017)
Gene Fullmer
2015
American boxer (1931β2015)
Verne Gagne
2015
American professional wrestler and football player (1926β2015)
Alexander Rich
2015
American biologist (1924β2015)
Yigal Arnon
2014
Israeli lawyer
Vujadin BoΕ‘kov
2014
Yugoslavian footballer and manager (1931β2014)
Dan Colchico
2014
American football player (1935β2014)
Harry Firth
2014
Australian racing driver (1918β2014)
AΓda Bortnik
2013
Argentine screenwriter
Lorraine Copeland
2013
British archaeologist (1921β2013)
Antonio DΓaz (footballer, born 1969)
2013
Spanish footballer
JΓ©rΓ΄me Louis Heldring
2013
Dutch journalist (1917β2013)
Aloysius Jin Luxian
2013
Chinese Catholic prelate (1916β2013)
Mutula Kilonzo
2013
Kenyan lawyer and politician (born 1948)
Daniel Boatwright
2012
American politician (1930β2012)
Bill Skowron
2012
American baseball player (1930β2012)
Marian Mercer
2011
American actress
Frankie Manning
2009
American dancer and choreographer (1914β2009)
Woo Seung-yeon
2009
South Korean model and actress (1983β2009)
Feroz Khan (actor)
2009
Indian actor and filmmaker (1939β2009)
Mstislav Rostropovich
2007
Russian-American cellist and conductor (1927β2007)
Julia Thorne
2006
American writer (1944β2006)
Red Horner
2005
Ice hockey player
George Alec Effinger
2002
American science fiction author (1947β2002)
Ruth Handler
2002
American business magnate and inventor (1916β2002)
1900s
Al Hirt
1999
American trumpeter and bandleader (1922β1999)
Dale C. Thomson
1999
Canadian political scientist, author and historian
Cyril Washbrook
1999
English cricketer
John W. H. Bassett
1998
Canadian media proprietor and politician (1915β1998)
Carlos Castaneda
1998
American anthropologist (1925β1998)
Anne Desclos
1998
French journalist and novelist (1907β1998)
Browning Ross
1998
American middle and long-distance runner, steeplechaser
William Colby
1996
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 1976
Gilles Grangier
1996
French film director (1911β1996)
Katherine DeMille
1995
American actress (1911β1995)
Willem Frederik Hermans
1995
Dutch writer (1921β1995)
Olivier Messiaen
1992
French composer (1908β1992)
Gerard K. O'Neill
1992
American physicist, author, and inventor (1927β1992)
KΕnosuke Matsushita
1989
Japanese industrialist (1894β1989)
Fred Bear
1988
American bow hunter (1902β1988)
Stanley Adams (actor)
1977
American actor and screenwriter
Carlos Menditeguy
1973
Argentine racing driver (1914β1973)
Kwame Nkrumah
1972
Ghanaian politician (1909β1972)
Arthur Shields
1970
Irish actor (1896β1970)
RenΓ© Barrientos
1969
President of Bolivia (1964β1966, 1966β1969)
William Douglas Cook
1967
New Zealand writer
Edward R. Murrow
1965
American broadcast journalist (1908β1965)
Jack Critchley
1964
Australian politician (1892β1964)
A. K. Fazlul Huq
1962
Pakistani statesman and jurist (1873β1962)
Roy Del Ruth
1961
American filmmaker (1893β1961)
Guido Castelnuovo
1952
Italian mathematician (1865β1952)
Benjamin Faunce
1949
American druggist and businessman
Edmund Husserl
1938
Austrian-German philosopher (1859β1938)
Antonio Gramsci
1937
Albanian-Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891β1937)
Karl Pearson
1936
English eugenicist and polymath (1857β1936)
Hart Crane
1932
American poet (1899β1932)
John Labatt
1915
Canadian businessman (1838β1915)
Alexander Scriabin
1915
Russian composer and pianist (1872β1915)
1800s
Henry Parkes
1896
Australian politician (1815β1896)
John Ballance
1893
Premier of New Zealand from 1891 to 1893
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1882
American philosopher (1803β1882)
William Macready
1873
English actor (1793β1873)
Zebulon Pike
1813
American general and explorer (1779β1813)
Before 1800
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot
1782
British politician (1710β1782)
Jean Bart
1702
French admiral and privateer (1650β1702)
John Trenchard (politician)
1695
English politician and landowner (1649β1695)
John George IV
1694
Elector of Saxony from 1691 to 1694
Jan van Goyen
1656
Dutch landscape painter (1596β1656)
Robert Abercromby (Jesuit)
1613
Scottish Jesuit missionary
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell
1607
English peer
Pope Leo XI
1605
Head of the Catholic Church in 1605
Maeda Toshiie
1599
General of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period
Ferdinand Magellan
1521
Portuguese explorer (1480β1521)
Isidore of Kiev
1463
Byzantine Greek prelate (1385β1463)
Philip the Bold
1404
Duke of Burgundy from 1363 to 1404
Maria of Bosnia
1403
Duchess of Bosnia, Countess of Helfenstein
Simeon of Moscow
1353
Russian ruler (1317β1353)
NicolΓ² Albertini
1321
Catholic friar and cardinal (1250β1321)
Zita
1272
Italian saint
Rudolf I, Count of Bregenz
1160
Count of Bregenz
Ardashir III
630
Shah of the Sasanian Empire from 628 to 630