Deaths on 27 July
2000s
Edna O'Brien
2024
Irish writer (1930–2024)
Pavel Kushnir
2024
Russian musician and dissident (1984–2024)
Tony Dow
2022
American actor (1945–2022)
Marco Aurelio Denegri
2018
Peruvian linguist, journalist, television host and sexologist
Sam Shepard
2017
American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
Einojuhani Rautavaara
2016
Finnish composer (1928–2016)
James Alan McPherson
2016
American essayist and short-story writer
Jerry Doyle
2016
American talk radio host and actor (1956–2016)
Piet de Jong
2016
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971
Rickey Grundy
2015
Musical artist
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2015
President of India from 2002 to 2007
Samuel Pisar
2015
Polish-American lawyer (1929-2015)
Anthony Shaw (British Army officer)
2015
British general (1930–2015)
Richard Bolt (RNZAF officer)
2014
Royal New Zealand Air Force officer (1923–2014)
George Freese
2014
American baseball player (1926–2014)
Wallace Jones
2014
American basketball player (1926–2014)
Francesco Marchisano
2014
Italian Cardinal
Paul Schell
2014
Former mayor of Seattle
Fernando Alonso (dancer)
2013
Cuban ballet dancer
Lindy Boggs
2013
American politician (1916–2013)
Bud Day
2013
United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient (1925–2013)
Kidd Kraddick
2013
U.S. radio personality and voice actor (1959–2013)
Ilya Segalovich
2013
Russian businessman (1964–2013)
Norman Alden
2012
American actor (1924–2012)
R. G. Armstrong
2012
American actor (1917–2012)
Darryl Cotton
2012
Australian pop singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor (1949–2012)
Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
2012
English actor (1944–2012)
Tony Martin (American singer)
2012
American actor and singer (1913–2012)
Jack Taylor (referee)
2012
English association football referee
Maury Chaykin
2010
American-Canadian actor (1949–2010)
Jack Tatum
2010
American football player (1948–2010)
Youssef Chahine
2008
Egyptian film director (1926–2008)
Horst Stein
2008
German conductor
Isaac Saba Raffoul
2008
Mexican businessman of Syrian Jewish descent (1923–2008)
James Oyebola
2007
Nigerian-British boxer
Maryann Mahaffey
2006
American politician
Al Held
2005
American painter (1928 - 2005)
Marten Toonder
2005
Dutch comics artist (1912–2005)
Vance Hartke
2003
American politician (1919–2003)
Bob Hope
2003
American entertainer (1903–2003)
Rhonda Sing
2001
Canadian professional wrestler
Leon Wilkeson
2001
American bass guitarist (1952–2001)
Gordon Solie
2000
American wrestling announcer
1900s
Aleksandr Aleksandrov (mathematician)
1999
Russian mathematician (1912–1999)
Harry Edison
1999
American jazz trumpeter (1915–1999)
Binnie Barnes
1998
English actress (1903–1998)
Melih Esenbel
1995
Turkish diplomat and politician
Rick Ferrell
1995
American baseball player (1905–1995)
Miklós Rózsa
1995
Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
Kevin Carter
1994
South African photojournalist (1960–1994)
Reggie Lewis
1993
American basketball player (1965–1993)
Max Dupain
1992
Australian photographer (1911–1992)
Tzeni Karezi
1992
Greek actress (1932–1992)
John Friedrich (fraudster)
1991
Australian conman (1950–1991)
Bobby Day
1990
American singer and producer (1930–1990)
René Toribio
1990
French politician (1912–1990)
Frank Zamboni
1988
American inventor and engineer (1901–1988)
Travis Jackson
1987
American baseball player (1903-1987)
Smoky Joe Wood
1985
American baseball player (1889–1985)
James Mason
1984
British actor (1909–1984)
William Wyler
1981
German-born American filmmaker (1902–1981)
Elizabeth Rona
1981
Hungarian chemist (1890–1981)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1980
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
Rushdy Abaza
1980
Egyptian actor (1926–1980)
Bob Heffron
1978
Former Premier of New South Wales (1890–1978)
Willem van Otterloo
1978
Dutch conductor and composer
Alfred Duraiappah
1975
Sri Lankan politician (1926–1975)
Kristian Welhaven
1975
Norwegian police chief (1883–1975)
Charlie Tully
1971
Northern Irish footballer and manager
António de Oliveira Salazar
1970
Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968
Babe Adams
1968
American baseball player (1882–1968)
Tone Peruško
1967
Croatian educator, social worker and writer
Henri Daniel-Rops
1965
French Roman Catholic writer and historian
Winifred Lenihan
1964
American actor, writer and director (1898–1964)
Hooks Dauss
1963
American baseball player (1889–1963)
Garrett Morgan
1963
American inventor and entrepreneur
Richard Aldington
1962
English writer and poet (1892–1962)
James H. Kindelberger
1962
American businessman (1895–1962)
Julie Vinter Hansen
1960
Danish astronomer (1890-1960)
Claire Lee Chennault
1958
American military aviator (1893–1958)
Paul Kogerman
1951
Estonian chemist
Woolf Barnato
1948
British financier and racing driver
Joe Tinker
1948
American baseball player and manager (1880–1948)
Gertrude Stein
1946
American author (1874–1946)
Karl Pärsimägi
1942
Estonian painter
Hermann Brauneck
1942
German physician and SA general (1894–1942)
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe
1941
Tom Crean (explorer)
1938
Irish Antarctic explorer (1877–1938)
Auguste Forel
1931
Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848–1931)
Ferruccio Busoni
1924
Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)
Myrddin Fardd
1921
Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar
Emil Theodor Kocher
1917
Swiss physician and Nobel laureate (1841–1917)
Charles Fryatt
1916
British mariner (1872–1916)
William Jonas
1916
English footballer (1890–1916)
1800s
Montgomery Blair
1883
American lawyer and politician (1813–1883)
Albertus van Raalte
1876
Dutch American clergyman
Aleksander Kunileid
1875
Estonian composer (1845–1875)
Jean-Joseph Dassy
1865
French painter
William L. Yancey
1863
American politician (1814–1863)
John Dalton
1844
British chemist and physicist (1766–1844)
Mikhail Lermontov
1841
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
Before 1800
Robert Dinwiddie
1770
Scottish colonial administrator (1692–1770)
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
1759
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters (1698–1759)
John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
1689
Scottish army officer (1648–1689)
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
1675
French nobleman, general, Marshal of France (1611–1675)
Salomo Glassius
1656
German theologian (1593–1656)
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1469)
1469
Welsh nobleman and politician
Joanna I of Naples
1382
Queen of Naples from 1343 to 1381
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
1365
Duke of Austria (1358–1365)
James I of Aragon
1276
King of Aragon from 1213 to 1276
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
1158
French nobleman (1134–1158)
Salomea of Berg
1144
High Duchess consort of Poland
Conrad II of Italy
1101
Duke of Lower Lorraine
Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester
1101
Anglo-Norman nobleman (c. 1047–1101)
Pope Nicholas II
1061
Head of the Catholic Church from 1059 to 1061
Chai Rong
959
Later Zhou dynasty emperor from 954 to 959
Abdallah II of Ifriqiya
903
Emir of Ifriqiya (902 – 903)