Deaths on 27 February
2000s
Boris Spassky
2025
Russian chess grandmaster (1937–2025)
Gérard Latortue
2023
Prime Minister of Haiti from 2004 to 2006
Ng Man-tat
2021
Hong Kong actor (1952–2021)
France-Albert René
2019
President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004
Steve Folkes
2018
Australian rugby league player and coach (1959–2018)
Lee Cheol-seung
2016
South Korean politician (1922–2016)
James Z. Davis
2016
American judge (1943–2016)
Boris Nemtsov
2015
Russian scientist, statesman, and politician (1959–2015)
Leonard Nimoy
2015
American actor (1931–2015)
Julio César Strassera
2015
Argentine lawyer and jurist
Aaron Allston
2014
American science fiction writer and game designer (1960–2014)
Terry Rand
2014
American basketball player (1934–2014)
Van Cliburn
2013
American pianist (1934–2013)
Ramon Dekkers
2013
Dutch professional Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer
Dale Robertson
2013
American actor (1923–2013)
Adolfo Zaldívar
2013
Chilean politician
Ma Jiyuan
2012
Chinese warlord (1921–2012)
Tina Strobos
2012
Dutch resistance member (1920–2012)
Helga Vlahović
2012
Croatian journalist, producer and television personality
Frank Buckles
2011
United States Army soldier and supercentenarian
Necmettin Erbakan
2011
Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997
Duke Snider
2011
American baseball player (1926–2011)
Gary Winick
2011
American filmmaker (1961–2011)
Nanaji Deshmukh
2010
Indian social reformer (1916–2010)
William F. Buckley Jr.
2008
American conservative author and commentator (1925–2008)
Myron Cope
2008
American sports journalist (1929–2008)
Ivan Rebroff
2008
German singer (1931–2008)
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
2007
German military officer
Otis Chandler
2006
American newspaper publisher
Robert Lee Scott Jr.
2006
Brigadier General in the United States Air Force
Linda Smith (comedian)
2006
English comedian
Yoshihiko Amino
2004
Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual
Paul Sweezy
2004
American Marxist economist (1910–2004)
John Lanchbery
2003
Australian composer
Fred Rogers
2003
American television host and author (1928–2003)
Spike Milligan
2002
Irish comedian and writer (1918–2002)
1900s
Horace Tapscott
1999
American jazz pianist and composer (1934–1999)
George H. Hitchings
1998
Nobel Prize-winning American doctor (1905–1998)
J. T. Walsh
1998
American actor (1943–1998)
Lillian Gish
1993
American actress (1893–1993)
S. I. Hayakawa
1992
Canadian-American academic and politician (1906–1992)
Konrad Lorenz
1989
Austrian zoologist (1903–1989)
Bill Holman (cartoonist)
1987
American cartoonist
Franciszek Blachnicki
1987
Polish Roman Catholic priest
Jacques Plante
1986
Canadian ice hockey player (1929–1986)
Ray Ellington
1985
English musician and bandleader (1916–1985)
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
1985
American politician and diplomat (1902–1985)
J. Pat O'Malley
1985
English actor (1904–1985)
George Tobias
1980
American actor (1901–1980)
John Dickson Carr
1977
American mystery novelist and playwright (1906–1977)
Bill Everett
1973
American comic book artist
Marius Barbeau
1969
Canadian ethnographer
Frankie Lymon
1968
American singer (1942–1968)
Orry-Kelly
1964
Australian-American Hollywood costume designer
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
1956
20th-century Indian politician
Kostis Palamas
1943
Greek poet (1859–1943)
Charles Donnelly (poet)
1937
Irish poet and activist
Hosteen Klah
1937
Navajo artist, medicine person, and weaver
Emily Malbone Morgan
1937
Social and religious leader
Joshua W. Alexander
1936
American politician (1852–1936)
Ivan Pavlov
1936
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
Chandra Shekhar Azad
1931
Indian revolutionary (1906–1931)
Schofield Haigh
1921
English cricketer
Breaker Morant
1902
British officer executed for war crimes (1864–1902)
1800s
Louis Vuitton (designer)
1892
French malletier (1821–1892)
Alexander Borodin
1887
Russian Romantic composer and chemist (1833–1887)
Nicholas Biddle
1844
American financier (1786–1844)
Before 1800
Tanikaze Kajinosuke
1795
Japanese sumo wrestler (1750–1795)
Count of St. Germain
1784
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
John Arbuthnot
1735
Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667–1735)
Samuel Parris
1720
Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials
Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet
1712
English politician
John Evelyn
1706
English writer, gardener and diarist (1620–1706)
Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton
1699
English politician (1630–1699)
Henry Dunster
1659
Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College
Pau Claris i Casademunt
1641
Catalan lawyer & clergyman (1586-1641)
Johann Faber of Heilbronn
1558
Catholic preacher and author (1504–1558)
Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
1558
William VIII, Marquis of Montferrat
1483
Marquess of Montferrat
Vasily I of Moscow
1425
Grand Prince of Moscow from 1389 to 1425
1416
Robert of Melun
1167
12th-century English theologian and Bishop of Hereford
Theophylact of Constantinople
956
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 933 to 956
Conrad, Duke of Thuringia
906
9th century Thuringian ruler
Pepin of Landen
640
Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia under King Dagobert I (623-629)