Famous Deaths In April - 27

1950  On April - 27 adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70   

1951  Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for S Africa), dies on April - 27.   

1952  On April - 27 death of guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)   

1957  On this day in history mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies   

1959  Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies on April - 27.   

1961  On April - 27 roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67   

1962  Death of A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873) on this day in history.   

1964  Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1965  Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65   

1970  On April - 27 arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73   

1972  Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1973  On this day in history jim Sims, cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies   

1975  Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86 on April - 27.   

1977  Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history death of mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered   

1982  On April - 27 tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85   

1984  Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1988  On April - 27 death of david Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)   

1989  Death of Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894) on this day in history.   

1991  Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1992  On April - 27 olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83   

1993  Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1994  Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history death of willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)   

1996  On this day in history joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86   

1997  On this day in history paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73   

1998  Death of Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925) on April - 27.   

1999  Death of Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922) on April - 27.   

2000  On this day in history death of vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)   

2002  On April - 27 death of george Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)   

2006  On April - 27 death of julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)   

2007  On this day in history death of mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)   

2009  Death of Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914) on April - 27.   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on this day in history.   

1495  On April - 27 birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.   

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on April - 27.   

1701  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on April - 27.   

1718  On this day in history birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.