Famous Deaths for Year 1927
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Months in Year 1927: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 98 of 98
Jan 3rd - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
Jan 9th - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
Jan 17th - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
Jan 19th - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86
Jan 19th - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
Jan 21st - Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
Jan 27th - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
Jan 27th - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
Jan 30th - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
Feb 4th - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74
Feb 5th - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
Feb 6th - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
Feb 6th - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
Feb 13th - Brooks Adams, US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
Feb 19th - Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85
Feb 19th - Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80
Feb 23rd - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
Mar 3rd - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
Mar 3rd - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
Mar 4th - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
Mar 5th - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
Mar 17th - James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
Mar 23rd - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
Mar 27th - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
Mar 28th - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
Mar 31st - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
Apr 10th - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
Apr 15th - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
Apr 15th - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
May 2nd - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
May 5th - Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
May 9th - Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies
May 11th - Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
May 11th - Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40
May 17th - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
May 18th - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
May 25th - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
May 28th - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
May 28th - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
Jun 1st - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
Jun 2nd - Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
Jun 2nd - Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85
Murderer Lizzie Borden (Jun 2nd)
Jun 2nd - Lizzie Borden, American, acquitted of murder, dies at 68
Jun 5th - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
Jun 7th - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
Jun 7th - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
Jun 11th - William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies
Jun 13th - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
Jun 14th - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
Jun 14th - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
Jun 14th - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
Jul 5th - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
Jul 7th - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
Jul 9th - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
Jul 10th - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
Jul 13th - James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
Jul 20th - Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
Jul 21st - J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
Jul 23rd - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
Jul 24th - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
Jul 25th - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
Jul 30th - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
Aug 4th - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
Aug 5th - Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies
Aug 13th - James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
Aug 17th - Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
Aug 23rd - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
Sep 12th - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
Sep 12th - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
Sep 14th - Isadora Duncan, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel
Sep 15th - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
Sep 19th - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
Sep 20th - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
Sep 22nd - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44
Sep 29th - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
Sep 29th - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
Oct 1st - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68
Oct 2nd - Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies
Oct 10th - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
Oct 20th - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78
Oct 22nd - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
Oct 22nd - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
Oct 28th - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
Oct 29th - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
Nov 1st - Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
Nov 3rd - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
Nov 9th - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
Nov 17th - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
Nov 20th - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
Nov 23rd - S Przybyszewski, writer, dies
Nov 26th - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
Nov 28th - Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
Nov 29th - George Giffen, cricketer (251 FC games, 11758 runs, 1023 wkts), dies
Dec 12th - Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
Dec 14th - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
Dec 16th - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
Dec 21st - Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
Dec 25th - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
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