Famous Deaths on June 27 ·

26 Sep 2024, 00:00

June 27 Calendar

King of Aragon, Sicily and Naples (Alfonso I), dies at 61 or 62

1543 Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur, dies at 49
1574 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian (Vasari's Lives), dies at 62
1603 Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 John Hayward, English historian
1638 Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies
1641 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter, dies at 74
1654 Johann Valentin Andreae, German theologian and writer (claimed to have written Rosicrucian text), dies at 67
1672 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist, dies at 74
1679 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer, dies at 68
1720 Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1729 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer (Les pièces de clavessin; Céphale et Procris), dies at 64
1757 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent, banker and merchant, dies at 59
1773 Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1776 Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
1794 Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1794 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1814 Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer, dies at 61
1827 Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 James Smithson, English scientist dies at about 64, his will leaves half a million dollars to the United States to establishes the Smithsonian Institute
1829 Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, dies at 64

1832 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, French army officer, and composer ("La Marseillaise" -the French national anthem), dies at 72
1839 Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies

American founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shot by a mob at 38

1848 Denis-Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-Philippe, shot to death at 54
1848 Heinrich Zschokke, German Swiss writer, dies at 77
1859 Jean Chrétien Baud, Dutch gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69
1862 Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
1863 Martin E Green, Confederate brigadier general, shot dead at 38
1864 Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brigadier general, dies at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain battle at 26
1873 Hiram Powers, American sculptor (Greek Slave), dies at 67
1876 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist and zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1876 Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies at 48
1889 Whitney Eugene Thayer, American composer, dies at 50
1905 Harold Mahony, Scottish tennis player (Wimbledon 1896), dies in a bicycling accident at 38
1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, dies at 84
1912 Frank Furness, American architect (University of Pennsylvania Library; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), dies at 72 [1]
1912 George Bonnor, Australian cricket batsman (17 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 128; NSW CA, Victoria CA), dies from a heart attack at 57
1917 Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism), dies at 79
1917 Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying Ace, dies at 21
1920 Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist ("O Canada"), dies at 81
1935 Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (1st sound-on-film recording), dies at 77
1939 David Werner Amram, American lawyer, legal and Talmudic scholar, Zionist, and author (The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy), dies at 73
1944 Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1944 Werner Wehrli, Swiss composer, pedagogue, and conductor, dies at 52
1948 George Templeton Strong, American composer, dies at 92
1950 Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952 Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), dies at 73
1954 Francis L Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 83
1957 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Under the Volcano, Ultramarine), dies at 48
1958 Robert Greig, Australian actor (Sullivan's Travels, Horse Feathers), dies at 78
1960 Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69

British all-round athlete (Wimbledon 1887-88, 1891-93), dies at 88

1961 Harry Hooton, Australian poet, dies of cancer at 52
1961 Muchtar Auezov, Kazakh writer and playwright (Enilik-Kebek), dies at 63
1961 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor and director (White Heat, Cyrano de Bergerac), dies of a heart attack at 58
1962 Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, dies at 58
1964 Daniel Lazarus, French composer, dies at 65
1965 Anthony Veiller, American writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge), dies at 62
1966 Arthur D Waley [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1968 Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for South Africa), dies at 87
1969 Richard Maxfield, American instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music composer, jumps to his death from a hotel window at 42
1970 Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1973 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1974 Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter, dies at 80
1980 Albany "Barney" Bigard, Creole-American jazz clarinetist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-42 - "Mood Indigo"), dies at 74
1982 Jack Mullaney, American actor (South Pacific; My Living Doll, It's About Time; Spinout), dies of a stroke at 52
1983 Don Ida, American hot air balloonist, dies in a crash at 49
1983 Maxie Anderson, American hot air balloonist (1st Trans-Atlantic crossing, 1978' 1st Trans-North America crossing, 1980; 1st Trans-Pacific crossing, 1981), dies in a balloon crash at 48
1985 Jane Ross [Breslaw], American actress (Star Trek, Rocket Attack U.S.A., Wild Is My Love), dies at 53
1986 (Otis W.) "Joe" Maphis, American session and country music guitarist ("Dim Lights"), dies of lung cancer at 75
1986 Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
1986 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
1986 George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 81
1986 Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 80
1988 Léonie Adams, American poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
1989 A. J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies at 78
1989 Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
1991 Jason Christmas, American actor (That's Adequate), dies of a gunshot wound during robbery in NYC at 49
1991 Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
1991 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races; Showboat), dies at 84
1992 Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
1992 Stefanie Ann Sargent, American guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of alcohol and heroin overdose at 24
1993 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1994 Jeremy Brooks, English writer (Jampot Smith), dies at 67
1995 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), dies at 94
1995 Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61
1996 Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond films), sometimes known as "Cubby", dies at 87
1996 Peter Adair, American documentary filmmaker (Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives), dies of AIDS at 52
1998 Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, Soviet cosmonaut, dies at 67
1998 Desmond Heap, British lawyer and authority on British planning law, dies at 90
1998 Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician, dies at 62
1998 Joyce Wieland, Canadian experimental filmmaker and conceptual artist (1st women to have a retrospective at the Canadian National Gallery), dies at 67 [1]
1999 Brian O'Hara, English rock guitarist and singer (The Foremost - "A Little Loving"), commits suicide at 57
1999 Einar Englund, Finnish composer, dies at 83
1999 Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military officer who led coup d'etat of 21 April 1967, and dictator (Leader of Greece, 1967-73), dies at 80
1999 Marion Motley, American NFL fullback (all-time leading AAFC rusher), dies at 79
1999 Truus van Aalten [Geertruida van Aalten], Dutch silent and sound screen actress (Flaming Youth; The Beggar Student; The Girl in the Blue Hat), dies at 88
2000 Larry Kelley, American College Football Hall of Fame tight end (Heisman Trophy 1936; unanimous All-American 1936; Yale), commits suicide at 85
2000 Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (briefly French Prime Minister 1958), dies at 93
2000 Rudy Cafaro, American jazz guitarist, dies at 80

American actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing), dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at 76

Finnish author and illustrator (Moomins), dies at 86

2002 John Entwistle, English rock bassist (The Who - "Boris The Spider"), dies in his sleep of a cocaine fueled heart attack in his Las Vegas hotel room at 57
2002 Russ Freeman, American classically trained bebop and cool jazz pianist and composer (Art Pepper; Charlie Parker; Chet Baker; Clifford Brown; Shelly Manne), dies at 76
2003 David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 George Patton IV, American general in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, dies of Parkinson's disease at 80
2005 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2005 Frank Harte, traditional Irish singer and song collector, dies of a heart attack at 72
2005 John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2006 Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 Leonard Pennario, American concert pianist (Rózsa's Piano Concerto with L.A. Philharmonic), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 83
2008 Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
2009 Fayette Pinkney, American pop and disco singer (The Three Degrees, 1963-76 - "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"; "When Will I See You Again?"), and psychologist, dies of acute respiratory failure at 61
2009 Gale Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle], American singer ("I Hear You Knockin'"), and actress (My Little Margie; The Gale Storm Show), dies at 87
2010 Dolph Briscoe, American businessman and 41st Governor of Texas (1973-79), dies at 87
2011 Betty Callaway, English figure skating coach (Torvill & Dean, Regőczy & Sallay), dies after a fall at 83
2011 Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (The Bad and the Beautiful, Take the High Ground), dies at 81
2011 Gisèle Rabesahala, Malagasy politician (1st female minister) and human righter activist, dies at 82
2011 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
2012 Bill Gilbert, American sports author (Sports Illustrated, National Geographic), dies at 85
2012 Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), dies from cancer at 68
2013 Alain Mimoun, Algerian-French distance runner (Olympic marathon gold 1956; 3 x silver 1948, 52), dies at 92
2013 Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpeter, and avant garde and film score composer, dies at 73
2014 Bobby Womack, American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer ("It's All Over Now"; "Woman's Got to Have It"; "Across 110th Street"), dies at 70
2015 Chris Squire, British progressive rock bassist, founding and longest serving member of Yes, 1969-2014 ("The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)"), dies of acute erythroid leukemia at 67
2015 Denis Vigay, British cellist (BBC Symphony; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), dies at 89
2015 Harvey McGregor, British barrister and administrator (Warden of New College-Oxford, 1985-96), dies at 86
2016 Alvin Toffler, American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave), dies at 87
2016 Bud Spencer, Italian actor (Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It), dies at 86
2016 Harry Halbreich, German-Belgian musicologist (Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů), dies at 85
2016 Mack Rice, American musician and songwriter ("Mustang Sally"; "Respect Yourself"), dies at 82
2017 Geri Allen, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and educator, dies of cancer at 60 [1]

English writer (Paddington Bear), dies at 91

2018 Joe Jackson, American talent manager (Jackson 5), and patriarch of the Jackson family, dies of pancreatic cancer at 89
2020 (Jesse) "Pete" Carr, American session guitarist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), dies at 70
2020 (Lionel) Frederick "Freddy" Cole, American jazz singer and pianist, dies at 88 [1]
2020 Ilija Petković, Serbian soccer midfielder (43 caps, Yugoslavia; Troyes, OFK Beograd) and manager (Serbia & Montenegro), dies from COVID-19 at 74
2020 Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), dies at 94
2020 Linda Cristal, Argentinian actress (High Chapparal), dies at 89
2020 Mihai Romilă, Romanian soccer midfielder (19 caps; Politehnica Iași 367 games), dies at 69
2021 Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill, Cuban Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz composer, arranger, and conductor, dies of pneumonia at 79
2021 Noel Furlong, Irish businessman and poker player (World Series of Poker main event 1999), dies at 83
2022 Eileen Barton, American singer (Broadway Open House; "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake"), dies of ovarian cancer at 81
2022 Jack Gordon, Canadian ice hockey coach (Minnesota North Stars 1970-75) and executive (GM Minnesota NS 1974-78, Vancouver Canucks 1985-87), dies at 94
2022 Marlin Briscoe, American College Football HOF quarterback/wide receiver (Uni Nebraska–Omaha; Super Bowl 1972, 73 Miami Dolphins; Pro Bowl 1970 Buffalo Bills), dies of pneumonia at 76
2023 Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass mandolin player (The Osborne Brothers - "Rocky Top"), dies at 91
2023 Julian Sands, English actor (A Room With a View; Arachnophobia; 24), confirmed dead after remains are identified, six months after failing to return from a hike at 65
2024 Jack Petchey English businessman, philanthropist and football executive (Chairman Watford FC 1987-94), dies at 98
2024 Landry Nguémo, Cameroonian soccer defensive midfielder (41 caps; Nancy, Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne), dies in a car accident at 38
2024 Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese soccer striker (31 caps; Sporting CP 218 games) and manager (Vitória Setúbal), dies at 73
2024 Martin Mull, American comic singer-songwriter and character actor (Fernwood 2-Night; Roseanne; Clue), dies at 80 [1]

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Famous Deaths on June 27

King of Aragon, Sicily and Naples (Alfonso I), dies at 61 or 62 American founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shot by a mob at 38 British all-round athlete (Wimbledon 1887-88, 1891-93), dies at 88

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