Deaths on 27 October
2000s
Prunella Scales
2025
English actress (1932–2025)
Li Keqiang
2023
Premier of China from 2013 to 2023
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
2019
Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
2018
Thai businessman (1958–2018)
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
2016
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
Ayerdhal
2015
French thriller and science fiction writer
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
2015
Indian pharmacologist
Betsy Drake
2015
American actress, writer, and psychotherapist (1923–2015)
Philip French
2015
English film critic and radio producer (1933–2015)
Daniel Boulanger
2014
French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter
Shin Hae-chul
2014
South Korean musician (1968–2014)
Starke Taylor
2014
American mayor
Noel Davern
2013
Irish politician (1945–2013)
Leonard Herzenberg
2013
American geneticist (1931–2015)
Luigi Magni
2013
Italian screenwriter and film director
Lou Reed
2013
American rock musician (1942–2013)
Michael Wilkes
2013
British Army general
Vinko Coce
2013
Musical artist
Terry Callier
2012
American musician
Angelo Maria Cicolani
2012
Italian politician (1952–2012)
Regina Dourado
2012
Brazilian actress (1952–2012)
Hans Werner Henze
2012
German composer (1926–2012)
Rodney S. Quinn
2012
American politician
Göran Stangertz
2012
Swedish actor (1944–2012)
James Hillman
2011
American psychologist (1926–2011)
Robert Pritzker
2011
American businessman (1926–2011)
Néstor Kirchner
2010
President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007
John David Carson
2009
American actor (1952–2009)
August Coppola
2009
American academic (1934–2009)
David Shepherd (umpire)
2009
English cricket umpire
Taylor Mitchell
2009
Canadian singer-songwriter (1990–2009)
Chris Bryant (writer)
2008
British screenwriter (1936–2008)
Ray Ellis
2008
American record producer, arranger and conductor (1923–2008)
Frank Nagai
2008
Japanese singer (1932–2008)
Roy Stewart
2008
British actor (1925–2008)
Moira Lister
2007
South African-British actress (1923–2007)
Jozsef Gregor
2006
Hungarian operatic bass
Reko Lundán
2006
Marlin McKeever
2006
American football player (1940–2006)
Joe Niekro
2006
American baseball player (1944–2006)
Brad Will
2006
American activist (1970–2006)
Jerry Cooke (photographer)
2005
American photojournalist (1921–2005)
Lester Lanin
2004
Musical artist
Serginho (footballer, born 1974)
2004
Brazilian footballer
Zdenko Runjić
2004
Musical artist
Rod Roddy
2003
American radio and television announcer (1937–2003)
Stephanie Tyrell
2003
Musical artist
Tom Dowd
2002
American recording engineer and producer (1925–2002)
Valve Pormeister
2002
Estonian architect
Pradeep Kumar (actor)
2001
Indian film actor (1925–2001)
Walter Berry (bass-baritone)
2000
Austrian opera singer (1929-2000)
1900s
Robert Mills (physicist)
1999
American physicist (1927–1999)
Charlotte Perriand
1999
French architect and designer
Mahala Andrews
1997
Paleontologist
Arthur Tremblay
1996
Canadian politician (1917–1996)
David Bohm
1992
American-Brazilian-British scientist (1917–1992)
Murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr.
1992
American sailor murdered for being gay (1969–1992)
George Barker (poet)
1991
English poet (1913–1991)
Xavier Cugat
1990
Catalan-American musician and bandleader (1900–1990)
Jacques Demy
1990
French film director (1931–1990)
Elliott Roosevelt (general)
1990
American military official and politician (1910–1990)
Ugo Tognazzi
1990
Italian actor (1922–1990)
Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
1988
English comic actor and theatre director (1914–1988)
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
1982
32nd President of Guatemala (1958-63)
Judy LaMarsh
1980
Canadian broadcaster, writer, lawyer and politician (1924–1980)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1980
American physicist and mathematician (1899–1980)
James M. Cain
1977
American writer (1892–1977)
Rex Stout
1975
American writer (1886–1975)
C. P. Ramanujam
1974
Indian mathematician (1938–1974)
Lise Meitner
1968
Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist (1878–1968)
Rudolf Anderson
1962
USAF pilot (1927–1962)
Enrico Mattei
1962
20th-century Italian politician and businessman
Jim McGirr
1957
Australian politician
Tom Wass
1953
English cricketer
Marcel Cerdan
1949
French boxer
William Fay
1947
Irish actor (1872–1947)
Judith Auer
1944
Swiss resistance fighter (1905–1944)
Helmuth Hübener
1942
German teenager executed for resisting Nazism
Ernest Eldridge
1935
British racing driver (1897–1935)
Ellen Hayes
1930
American mathematician and astronomer
Théodore Tuffier
1929
French surgeon
Squizzy Taylor
1927
Australian gangster
Warren Wood
1926
American golfer
Arthur Rhys-Davids
1917
British World War I flying ace
1800s
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis
1880
Greek politician and the 21st Prime Minister of Greece (1822–1880)
Santō Kyōden
1816
Japanese artist, writer and shopowner (1761 - 1816)
Isaac Brock
1812
British Army officer and colonial administrator (1769–1812)
Before 1800
John Cook (governor)
1789
American planter and politician
Gilles de Roberval
1675
French mathematician (1602–1675)
Hallgrímur Pétursson
1674
17th century Icelandic writer and minister
Vavasor Powell
1670
Welsh minister
Robert Hubert
1666
French watchmaker and scapegoat for the Fire of London
Ralph Winwood
1617
English diplomat and statesman
Gabriel Báthory
1613
Prince of Transylvania
Akbar
1605
Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
Laurentius Petri
1573
Swedish clergyman (1499–1573)
Lope de Aguirre
1561
Basque Spanish conquistador (1510–1561)
Michael Servetus
1553
16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
George Manners, 11th Baron Ros
1513
English peer
Ivan III of Russia
1505
Grand Prince of Moscow from 1462 to 1505
Rodolphus Agricola
1485
15th century Dutch humanist
Ulugh Beg
1449
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
Margery Jourdemayne
1441
English cowherd's wife and accused witch
Albert II of Germany
1439
King of Hungary 1437–1439, King of the Romans 1438-1439, King of Bohemia 1438-1439
Vytautas the Great
1430
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1401 to 1430
Abulfeda
1331
Kurdish historian, geographer and statesman (1273–1331)
Mahaut, Countess of Artois
1329
Countess of Artois
Elizabeth de Burgh
1327
Queen of Scots from 1306 to 1327
Hugh Despenser the Elder
1326
Former Earl of Winchester (1261–1326)
John II, Duke of Brabant
1312
13th and 14th-century duke of Brabant
Beatrice of Castile (1242–1303)
1303
Queen of Portugal from 1253 to 1279
Walter de Merton
1277
Bishop and Chancellor of England (c. 1205 – 1277)
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
1272
Duke of Burgundy from 1218 to 1272
Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia
1269
Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad
1052
Emir of Mosul
Æthelstan
939
King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927,King of the English from 927 to 939