Deaths on 27 May
2000s
Freddie Aguilar
2025
Filipino musician (1953–2025)
Elizabeth MacRae
2024
American actress (1936–2024)
Bill Walton
2024
American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
Poul Schlüter
2021
Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Larry Kramer
2020
American playwright and gay rights activist (1935–2020)
Gardner Dozois
2018
American science fiction author and editor (1947–2018)
Gregg Allman
2017
American musician (1947–2017)
Erik Carlsson
2015
Swedish rally driver (1929–2015)
Nils Christie
2015
Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (1928–2015)
Andy King (footballer, born 1956)
2015
English footballer (1956–2015)
Michael Lou Martin
2015
American philosopher (1932–2015)
Robert Genn
2014
Canadian artist (1936–2014)
Helma Sanders-Brahms
2014
German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress (1940–2014)
Roberto Vargas
2014
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1929)
Massimo Vignelli
2014
Italian designer (1931–2014)
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri
2013
Indian politician (1917–2013)
Bill Pertwee
2013
English actor (1926–2013)
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow
2013
Malian politician
Simeon Daniel
2012
Friedrich Hirzebruch
2012
German mathematician (1927–2012)
Anahit Perikhanian
2012
David Rimoin
2012
American physician (1936–2012)
Jeff Conaway
2011
American actor (1950–2011)
Margo Dydek
2011
Polish basketball player (1974–2011)
Gil Scott-Heron
2011
American soul and jazz poet, musician and author (1949–2011)
Payut Ngaokrachang
2010
Thai cartoonist and animator
Thomas M. Franck
2009
Clive Granger
2009
British economist and Nobel laureate (1934–2009)
Mona Grey
2009
Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer
Abram Hoffer
2009
Canadian biochemist
Gérard Jean-Juste
2009
Haitian activist
Carol Anne O'Marie
2009
American writer
William Refshauge
2009
Australian general and public health administrator (1913 - 2009)
Paul Sharratt
2009
Australian entertainer, American television producer (1933–2009)
Franz Künstler
2008
German centenarian
Izumi Sakai
2007
Japanese singer (1967–2007)
Gretchen Wyler
2007
American actress (1932–2007)
Ed Yost
2007
American balloonist inventor
Rob Borsellino
2006
Paul Gleason
2006
American actor (1939–2006)
Craig Heyward
2006
American football player (1966–2006)
Luciano Berio
2003
Italian composer (1925–2003)
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
2002
Scottish historian
Kazimierz Leski
2000
Polish engineer and inventor
Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch
2000
British politician, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong (1917–2000)
Maurice Richard
2000
Canadian ice hockey player (1921–2000)
1900s
Minoo Masani
1998
Indian politician (1905–1998)
Uncle Charlie Osborne
1992
American musician
Leopold Nowak
1991
Austrian musicologist
Robert B. Meyner
1990
American politician (1908–1990)
Arseny Tarkovsky
1989
Soviet Russian poet and translator (1907–1989)
Hjördis Petterson
1988
Swedish actress
Ernst Ruska
1988
German physicist (1906–1988)
John Howard Northrop
1987
American biochemist (1891–1987)
Ismail al-Faruqi
1986
Palestinian-American Islamic scholar (1921-1986)
Lois Lamya al-Faruqi
1986
Islamic scholar of ethnomusicology
Ajoy Mukherjee
1986
Indian politician (1901–1986)
Giorgos Tzifos
1986
Greek actor
Vasilije Mokranjac
1984
Serbian composer and musicologist (1923–1984)
Gün Sazak
1980
Turkish politician
Béla Juhos
1971
Hungarian-Austrian philosopher
Armando Picchi
1971
Italian footballer (1935–1971)
Jeffrey Hunter
1969
American actor (1926–1969)
W. Otto Miessner
1967
American composer and music educator (1880–1967)
Ernst Niekisch
1967
German National-Bolshevik politician (1889–1967)
John Rinehart Blue
1965
American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician
Jawaharlal Nehru
1964
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
Grigoris Lambrakis
1963
20th-century Greek physician, left-wing politician, and anti-war activist
James Montgomery Flagg
1960
American artist (1877–1960)
Jesse Burkett
1953
American baseball player (1868–1953)
Robert Ripley
1949
American cartoonist (1890–1949)
Ed Konetchy
1947
American baseball player (1885–1947)
Enno Lolling
1945
SS doctor
Gordon Coates
1943
Prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır
1942
Turkish philosopher and theologian (1878-1942)
Ernst Lindemann
1941
German naval officer (1894–1941)
Günther Lütjens
1941
20th-century German admiral
Joseph Roth
1939
Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
Achille Paroche
1933
French sport shooter
Kandukuri Veeresalingam
1919
Indian social reformer (1848–1919)
Ōzutsu Man'emon
1918
Japanese sumo wrestler
Robert Koch
1910
German physician and bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1800s
Aleksandr Stoletov
1896
Russian physicist
Thomas Bulfinch
1867
American compiler of mythologies (1796–1867)
Niccolò Paganini
1840
Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
Jedediah Smith
1831
American explorer (1799–1831)
Before 1800
François-Noël Babeuf
1797
French revolutionary and journalist (1760–1797)
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
1781
Italian physicist
Madame de Montespan
1707
Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV
Dominique Bouhours
1702
French literary critic
Giovanni Legrenzi
1690
Italian composer (1626–1690)
Gaspard Dughet
1675
French painter (1615–1675)
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
1661
Governed Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms
John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield
1637
English politician
Diego Ramírez de Arellano
1624
Spanish cosmographer and sailor
François Ravaillac
1610
Assassin of King Henry IV of France
John Calvin
1564
French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
1541
English peeress and beatified martyr of the Catholic Church (1473–1541)
Thomas Müntzer
1525
German preacher and theologian (c. 1489 – 1525)
Ludovico Sforza
1508
Duke of Milan (1452–1508)
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
1444
English nobleman and military commander (1404–1444)
William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
1240
English nobleman and royal official
Godfrey van Rhenen
1178
Bruno (bishop of Würzburg)
1045
Roman Catholic saint
Dirk III, Count of Holland
1039
Count of Holland from 993 to 1039
Simeon I of Bulgaria
927
First Emperor of the Bulgars from 893 to 927
Ordoño I of Asturias
866
King of Asturias from 850 to 866
Eutropius of Orange
475
Bishop of Orange, France, during the 5th century
Murong Bao
398
Emperor of Later Yan
Procopius (usurper)
366
Roman usurper from 365 to 366