Deaths on 27 September
2000s
Russell M. Nelson
2025
LDS Church president (1924β2025)
Hassan Nasrallah
2024
Secretary-General of Hezbollah from 1992 to 2024
Maggie Smith
2024
British actress (1934β2024)
Michael Gambon
2023
Irish-English actor (1940β2023)
Madeleine Tchicaya
2021
Ivorian politician (1930β2021)
Kavita Mahajan
2018
Indian writer
Michael Payton
2018
American football player (1970β2018)
Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji
2018
Indian cricketer
Marty Balin
2018
American singer, songwriter, and musician (1942β2018)
Hugh Hefner
2017
American magazine publisher (1926β2017)
Syed Ahmed (politician)
2015
Governor of Jharkhand, Indian politician, author (1945β2015)
Pietro Ingrao
2015
Italian politician and journalist (1915β2015)
Kallen Pokkudan
2015
Indian author and activist
Frank Tyson
2015
England cricketer (1930β2015)
Gaby Aghion
2014
French Jewish fashion designer (1921β2014)
Wally Hergesheimer
2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Abdelmajid Lakhal
2014
Tunisian theatre director and actor
James Traficant
2014
American politician (1941β2014)
Oscar Castro-Neves
2013
Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer
Mauricio GonzΓ‘lez-Gordon y DΓez
2013
Spanish sherry maker and conservationist
Eddie Bert
2012
American jazz trombonist (1922β2012)
Herbert Lom
2012
Czech actor (1917β2012)
David Croft (TV producer)
2011
English writer, producer and director (1922β2011)
Imre Makovecz
2011
Hungarian architect (1935β2011)
"Country" Johnny Mathis
2011
American country music singer-songwriter (1930β2011)
Balaji Sadasivan
2010
Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (1955β2010)
Ivan Dykhovichny
2009
Russian film director
Henri Pachard
2008
American erotic film director (1939β2008)
Dale and Grace
2007
American music duo (1963β1965)
Kenji Nagai
2007
Japanese journalist (1957β2007)
Helmut Kallmeyer
2006
German chemist (1910β2006)
Ronald Golias
2005
Brazilian comedian and actor (1929β2005)
Mary Lee Settle
2005
American writer (1918β2005)
John E. Mack
2004
American psychiatrist (1929β2004)
Jean Lucas (racing driver)
2003
French racing driver (1917β2003)
Donald O'Connor
2003
American film actor (1925β2003)
1900s
Doak Walker
1998
American football player (1927β1998)
Walter Trampler
1997
German violist (1915 - 1997)
Mohammad Najibullah
1996
Leader of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992
Jimmy Doolittle
1993
American general and aviator (1896β1993)
Fraser MacPherson
1993
Canadian jazz musician (1928β1993)
Zhang Leping
1992
Chinese cartoonist (1910β1992)
Joe Hulme
1991
English footballer and cricketer (1904-1991)
Cliff Burton
1986
American bassist (1962β1986)
Lloyd Nolan
1985
American actor (1902β1985)
Chronis Exarhakos
1984
Greek actor
Wilfred Burchett
1983
Australian journalist
Robert Montgomery (actor)
1981
American actor (1904β1981)
Gracie Fields
1979
British actress, singer and comedian (1898β1979)
Jimmy McCulloch
1979
Scottish musician (1953β1979)
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
1975
Australian politician (1876β1975)
Silvio Frondizi
1974
Argentine intellectual and lawyer
S. R. Ranganathan
1972
Indian mathematician and librarian
Felix Yusupov
1967
Russian aristocrat (1887β1967)
Clara Bow
1965
American actress (1905β1965)
William Stanier
1965
English railway engineer (1876β1965)
H.D.
1961
American poet and novelist (1886β1961)
Sylvia Pankhurst
1960
English activist, writer and artist (1882β1960)
Gerald Finzi
1956
English composer (1901β1956)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1956
American golfer and athlete (1911β1956
Aimee Semple McPherson
1944
Canadian-American celebrity evangelist (1890β1944)
Douglas Albert Munro
1942
U.S. Coast Guard Medal of Honor recipient (1919β1942)
Walter Benjamin
1940
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892β1940)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1940
Austrian physician and nobelist (1857β1940)
Alan Gray
1935
English organist and composer
Ellen Willmott
1934
English horticulturist (1858β1934)
Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)
1921
German composer (1854β1921)
Adelina Patti
1919
Italian opera singer (1843β1919)
Edgar Degas
1917
French Impressionist artist (1834β1917)
Remy de Gourmont
1915
French writer (1858β1915)
Auguste Michel-LΓ©vy
1911
French geologist
1800s
Thomas Joseph Byrnes
1898
Australian politician
Ivan Goncharov
1891
Russian novelist and official (1812β1891)
Charles Gordon Greene
1886
American journalist and politician
Braxton Bragg
1876
Confederate general (1817β1876)
Bernard Courtois
1838
19th-century French chemist
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
1833
Indian reformer and writer (1772β1833)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
1832
German philosopher (1781β1832)
Before 1800
Γtienne BΓ©zout
1783
French mathematician (1730β1783)
Hugh Boulter
1742
Anglican bishop (1672β1742)
Peter Artedi
1735
Swedish zoologist (1705β1735)
Laurence Eusden
1730
English poet (1688β1730)
George Smalridge
1719
Bishop of Bristol
Pope Innocent XII
1700
Head of the Catholic Church from 1691 to 1700
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly
1674
French conseiller d'Γtat and writer (1589β1674)
Vincent de Paul
1660
French priest and saint (1581-1660)
Olimpia Maidalchini
1657
Italian noblewoman (1591β1657)
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
1651
Duke/Elector of Bavaria from 1597 to 1651
Lorenzo Ruiz
1637
First Filipino saint and Martyr
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
1623
German count and military theorist (1561β1623)
Piotr Skarga
1612
Polish writer
Pope Urban VII
1590
Head of the Catholic Church in 1590
Emperor Go-Nara
1557
Emperor of Japan from 1526 to 1557
Felice della Rovere
1536
Illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II
William of Wykeham
1404
14th-century Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse
1249
Count of Toulouse
Renaud de Courtenay
1194
French nobleman
Richeza of Berg
1125
Bohemian noblewoman (c.1095β1125)
Bonfilius
1115
Italian Roman Catholic saint
Vekenega
1111
Croatian Benedictine nun, C11th/12th abbess of Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar
KyΕn HwΕn
936
King of Later Baekje (r. 892β935)
Pugu Huai'en
765
General of the Chinese Tang dynasty