Died on Friday, 27th June – Famous Deaths

On 27th June, 97 remarkable people passed away — from 992 to 2024. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

On 27 June 2025, several notable figures are remembered for their contributions to their respective fields. Among those who died on this date was Chris Squire, the English bass guitarist and songwriter who served as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. Born in 1948, Squire passed away in 2015 and left an enduring legacy in rock music through his technical proficiency and distinctive bass work. Another significant figure remembered on this date is Peter L. Berger, an Austrian sociologist born in 1929 who died in 2017. Berger’s work in the sociology of knowledge and religion shaped academic discourse throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, establishing him as a leading theorist in understanding how society constructs meaning and maintains institutions. These deaths represent the loss of influential voices in music and academic scholarship respectively.

The date also marks the passing of several other professionals across different eras and disciplines. Hermann Buhl, an Austrian mountaineer and soldier born in 1924, died in 1957 after establishing himself as one of Europe’s most accomplished climbers. His contributions to mountaineering expeditions remain documented in the historical record of alpine exploration. Furthermore, historical records indicate deaths of various political figures, academics, and artists throughout preceding centuries, reflecting the broad scope of human achievement and influence across generations.

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27/06/2024

Kinky Friedman, American country musician (born 1944)

Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

Martin Mull, American actor (born 1943)

Martin Eugene Mull was an American actor, musician, and painter. He became known on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night, and America 2 Night. His other notable roles included Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film Clue, Leon Carp on Roseanne, Willard Kraft on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom, and Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development. He had a recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Russell, a drug-using, humorous pharmacist.

27/06/2018

Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (born 1928)

Joseph Walter Jackson was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (born 1951)

Liz Jackson was an Australian journalist, TV presenter and barrister noted for her work on the Four Corners and Media Watch television programs. She received nine Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.

William McBride, Australian obstetrician (born 1927)

William Griffith McBride was an Australian obstetrician. He published a letter on the teratogenicity of thalidomide in 1961, following the findings of a midwife named Pat Sparrow. which resulted in the reduction of the number of drugs prescribed during pregnancy. Later in his life, McBride was involved in several trials with the pharma industry accusing him of medical malpractice and scientific fraud for falsifying data in a paper that claimed that the drug Debendox was also responsible for birth defects.

27/06/2017

Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (born 1929)

Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and contributions to sociological theory.

27/06/2016

Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (born 1929)

Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player. He was known for action-comedy and spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner and friend Terence Hill. Spencer and Hill appeared in 18 films together.

27/06/2015

Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (born 1926)

Zvi Elpeleg was an academic, author, and a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute at Tel Aviv University. Born in Poland, Elpeleg served as a colonel in the Israeli army and later received an ambassadorial appointment.

Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (born 1930)

Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works.

Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (born 1948)

Christopher Russell Edward Squire was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and only constant member of the progressive rock band Yes until his death in 2015. In 2017, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.

27/06/2014

Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (born 1954)

Edmond P. Blanchard was a Canadian jurist and politician.

Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932)

Allen R. Grossman was a noted American poet, critic and professor.

Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930)

Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military in a coup d'état.

Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)

Violet Milstead Warren was a Canadian aviator, noted for being the first female Canadian bush pilot and one of only four Canadian women to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during WWII. With over 600 hours of flight time during the war, she was the longest serving female Canadian ATA pilot. She worked as a flight instructor at Barker Field in Toronto, Ontario, and her students included commercial pilot Molly Reilly and author June Callwood. She is a member of the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, the Order of Canada, and the Bush Pilots Hall of Fame.

Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926)

Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country several of whose members became prime ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut.

27/06/2013

Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964)

Stefano Borgonovo was an Italian footballer and manager, who played as a striker. An opportunistic striker, Borgonovo played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, and came to prominence while playing alongside Roberto Baggio with Fiorentina during the 1988–89 season, on loan from Milan. His prolific performances with Fiorentina earned him a permanent move to Milan, where he contributed to the club's European Cup victory in 1990, despite struggling with injuries.

Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945)

Ian Christopher Scott was a New Zealand painter. His work was significant for pursuing an international scope and vision within a local context previously dominated by regionalist and national concerns. Over the course of his career he consistently sought to push his work towards new possibilities for painting, in the process moving between abstraction and representation, and using controversial themes and approaches, while maintaining a highly personal and recognisable style. His work spans a wide range of concerns including the New Zealand landscape, popular imagery, appropriation and art historical references. Scott's paintings are distinctive for their intensity of colour and light. His approach to painting is aligned with the modernist tradition, responding to the formal standards set by the American painters Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski.

27/06/2012

Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918)

Stanley Ernest Walter Cox was a British athlete who competed in two Olympic games in 1948 and 1952. Cox served with Royal Air Force in World War II before competing in the 10,000-metre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Unable to participate in the 1950 British Empire Games, he returned to the Olympics in 1952, although he did not complete his event, the marathon, due to the flu. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he suffered a sunstroke and collapsed within two miles (3 km) of the finish. He retired from running in 1956, but continued to work with UK Athletics for several years and was due to participate in the ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920)

Rosemary de Brissac Dobson was an Australian poet, illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry and has been translated into French and other languages.

27/06/2011

Mike Doyle, English footballer (born 1946)

Michael Doyle was an English footballer, who spent most of his career with Manchester City and also played for Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Rochdale.

27/06/2010

Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)

Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). He was the son of Carl Cohen.

27/06/2009

Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922)

Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955.

27/06/2008

Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (born 1914)

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, nicknamed as Sam Bahadur, was an Indian Army general officer who was the Chief of the army staff during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, and the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His active military career spanned four decades, beginning with service in World War II.

27/06/2007

William Hutt, Canadian actor (born 1920)

William Ian DeWitt Hutt, was a Canadian actor of stage, television and film. Hutt's distinguished career spanned over 50 years and won him many accolades and awards. While his base throughout his career remained at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared on the stage in London, New York and across Canada.

27/06/2006

Eileen Barton, American singer (born 1924)

Eileen Barton was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (born 1960)

Angel Maturino Reséndiz, known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s, some of which involved sexual assault. He had become known as "The Railroad Killer", as most of his crimes were committed near railroads, where he had jumped off the trains which he was using to travel.

27/06/2005

Shelby Foote, American historian and author (born 1916)

Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.

Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)

Raymond Towers Holmes was a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War who is best known for an event that occurred during the Battle of Britain. He became famous when he reportedly saved Buckingham Palace from being hit by German bombing by ramming his Hawker Hurricane into a Dornier Do 17 bomber over London. He was feted by the press as a war hero for saving the Palace. However, different versions of this event have been proposed. Holmes became a King's Messenger after the war, and died at the age of 90 in 2005.

John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (born 1946)

John Thomas Walton was an American war veteran, businessman and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton cofounded the Children's Scholarship Fund, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth.

27/06/2004

George Patton IV, American general (born 1923)

George Smith Patton IV was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George S. Patton Jr. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Darrell Russell, American race car driver (born 1968)

Darrell James Russell was an American National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional class debut.

27/06/2003

David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)

David Newman was an American screenwriter. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until his death in 2003 from a stroke.

27/06/2002

John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer (born 1944)

John Alec Entwistle was an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers", he was the band's only member with formal musical training and also provided backing and occasional lead vocals. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.

Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (born 1920)

Robert Lyman John Long was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as vice chief of Naval Operations from 1977 to 1979 and as commander in chief Pacific from 1979 to 1983.

27/06/2001

Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator, and painter (born 1914)

Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author. She was also a painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.

Jack Lemmon, American actor (born 1925)

John Uhler Lemmon III was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-drama films. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Volpi Cup. He also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1991, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996. The Guardian labeled him as "the most successful tragi-comedian of his age".

Joan Sims, English actress (born 1930)

Irene Joan Marion Sims was an English actress and comedienne, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On franchise, appearing in 24 of the films.

27/06/2000

Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1907)

Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.

27/06/1999

Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after causing a massacre by deploying military riflemen and a tank brigade to attack non-violent protestors to suppress the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was, in turn, overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate in the fall of the regime in 1974. His and the dictatorship's legacy, as well as its methods he constructed and effects on Greek economy and society as a whole, are still fiercely debated.

27/06/1998

Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1935)

Gilles Rocheleau was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded the Bloc Québécois with Lucien Bouchard in 1990.

27/06/1996

Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (born 1909)

Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas. Broccoli's heirs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson continued to produce new Bond films until 2025 when the franchise rights were sold to Amazon.

27/06/1991

Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1921)

Milton Subotsky was an American film and television writer and producer. In 1964, he founded Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg. Amicus means "friend" in Latin. The partnership produced low-budget science fiction and horror films in the United Kingdom.

27/06/1989

A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic (born 1910)

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

27/06/1986

George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (born 1905)

George Nēpia was a New Zealand Māori rugby union and rugby league player. He is remembered as an exceptional full-back and one of the most famous Māori rugby players. He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2004 he was selected as number 65 by the panel of the New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers television show. Nēpia was featured in a set of postage stamps from the New Zealand post office in 1990. Historian Philippa Mein Smith described him as "New Zealand rugby's first superstar".

27/06/1977

Arthur Perdue, American businessman (born 1885)

Arthur W. Perdue (1885–1977) was an American businessman and the founder of Perdue Farms along with his wife Pearl in 1920. The business was started in his backyard, and at the time only produced chicken eggs, and grew into a $4.1 billion company.

27/06/1975

G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (born 1886)

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

27/06/1973

Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (born 1901)

Ida Mett (1901–1973) was a Belarusian anarcho-syndicalist, physician and writer. Following her experiences in the Russian Revolution, she fled into exile in France, where she collaborated with other exiled revolutionary anarchists on the Delo Truda magazine and the constitution of platformism. She then went on to participate in the anarcho-syndicalist movements in Belgium, Spain and France, before repression by the fascist Vichy regime forced her to cease her activities. She spent the final decades of her life working as a nurse and publishing history books.

27/06/1970

Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (born 1902)

Daniel Chapin Kinsey was an American hurdler and scholar in physical education.

27/06/1967

Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (born 1878)

Jaan Lattik was an Estonian politician, writer and a former Estonian Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.

27/06/1962

Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (born 1904)

Paul Viiding was an Estonian poet, author, and literary critic.

27/06/1960

Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (born 1871)

Charlotte Dod was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only 15 in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion.

Harry Pollitt, British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (born 1890)

Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and rise of Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War, support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, both support for and opposition to the war against Nazi Germany, defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

27/06/1957

Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (born 1924)

Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer. His accomplishments include the first ascents of Nanga Parbat in 1953 and Broad Peak in 1957. He is one of the pioneers of the alpine style. Buhl was the father of Austrian-German writer, publisher, and freelance journalist, Kriemhild "Krimi" Buhl.

27/06/1952

Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (born 1878)

Max Wilhelm Dehn was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory. Dehn's early life and career took place in Germany. However, he was forced to retire in 1935 and eventually fled Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.

27/06/1950

Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901)

Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focused on preserving democratic institutions and women's rights.

27/06/1949

Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900)

Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude".

27/06/1948

Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)

Dorothea Frances Bleek was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.

27/06/1946

Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (born 1893)

Wanda Hazel Gág was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator. She is best known for writing and illustrating the children's book Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print. Gág was also a noted print-maker, receiving international recognition and awards. Growing Pains, a book of excerpts from the diaries of her teen and young adult years, received widespread critical acclaim. Two of her books were awarded Newbery Honors and two received Caldecott Honors. The New York Public Library included Millions of Cats on its 2013 list of 100 Great Children's Books.

27/06/1944

Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1878)

Milan Hodža was a Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. As a proponent of regional integration, he was known for his attempts to establish a democratic federation of Central European states.

27/06/1935

Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (born 1857)

Eugène Augustin Lauste was a French inventor instrumental in the technological development of the history of cinema.

27/06/1934

Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (born 1876)

Francesco Buhagiar was the second Prime Minister of Malta (1923–1924). He was elected from the Maltese Political Union.

27/06/1920

Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1839)

Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem "O Canada". He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec, to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur.

27/06/1919

Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885)

Peter Johnson Sturholdt was an American boxer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Sturholdt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota. In 1904, he finished fourth in the lightweight class after losing the bronze medal fight to Russell van Horn.

27/06/1917

Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (born 1896)

Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace credited with 30 aerial victories. The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning promotion via battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916. As Manfred von Richthofen's protege, Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score a constant string of aerial victories until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder was shot down near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be abused as propaganda by the Nazis.

27/06/1912

George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (born 1855)

George John Bonnor was an Australian cricketer, known for his big hitting, who played Test cricket between 1880 and 1888.

27/06/1911

Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (born 1882)

Victor John Surridge was an English motor-cycle racer who raced for the Rudge team. After the works Rudge factory team visited the Isle of Man TT Races for the first time, Victor Surridge while practising for the 1911 Isle of Man TT Races was killed on the Glen Helen section on the new Isle of Man TT Mountain Course used for the first-time in 1911.

27/06/1907

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (born 1822)

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.

27/06/1905

Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (born 1867)

Harold Segerson Mahony was a Scottish-born Irish tennis player who is best known for winning the singles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1896. His career lasted from 1888 until his death in 1905. Mahony was born in Scotland but lived in Ireland for the majority of his life; his family were Irish including both of his parents, the family home was in County Kerry, Southwestern Ireland. He was the last Scottish born man to win Wimbledon until the victory of Andy Murray at the 2013 championships. He remains the most recent Irish singles champion at the All England Club.

27/06/1896

John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1825)

John Berryman VC was a British Army non-commissioned officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

27/06/1894

Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)

Giorgio Costantino Schinas was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent.

27/06/1878

Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (born 1800)

Sidney Breese, a lawyer, soldier, author and jurist born in New York, became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".

27/06/1844

Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (born 1800)

Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, and was killed with his brother at Carthage Jail where they were being held awaiting trial.

Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805)

Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religious movement he founded is followed by millions of global adherents and several churches, the largest of which is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

27/06/1839

Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (born 1780)

Ranjit Singh, born as Buddh Singh, was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.

27/06/1831

Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (born 1776)

Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence under the pseudonym of Monsieur Le Blanc with famous mathematicians, such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. Because of prejudice against her sex, she was unable to make a career out of mathematics, but she worked independently throughout her life. Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. On 27 June 1831, she died from breast cancer. At the centenary of her life, a street and a girls' school were named after her. The Academy of Sciences established the Sophie Germain Prize in her honour.

Konstantin Pavlovich, grand duke of Russia and the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia (born 1779)

Konstantin Pavlovich was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir presumptive for most of his elder brother Alexander I's reign, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823. For 25 days after the death of Alexander I; from 19 November (O.S.)/1 December to 14 December (O.S.)/26 December 1825, he was known as His Imperial Majesty Konstantin I Emperor and Sovereign of Russia, although he never reigned and never acceded to the throne. His younger brother Nicholas became tsar in 1825. The succession controversy became the pretext of the Decembrist revolt.

27/06/1829

James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (born 1765)

James Smithson was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name.

27/06/1827

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (born 1754)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

27/06/1794

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (born 1711)

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg was an Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman in the Habsburg monarchy. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he held the office of State Chancellor for about four decades and was responsible for the foreign policies during the reigns of Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Leopold II. In 1764, he was elevated to the noble rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichfürst).

Philippe de Noailles, French general (born 1715)

Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles and later prince de Poix, duc de Mouchy, and duc de Poix à brevêt, was a younger brother of Louis de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother. He was the son of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.

27/06/1729

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichord player and composer (born 1665)

Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer. Jacquet de La Guerre was a significant figure in French Baroque music, particularly in the development of cantata and keyboard traditions. She was one of the earliest women in France to achieve recognition as a composer and to have her works widely performed and published. She was among the first French composers to write cantatas, helping establish the genre in France. She was closely associated with the court of Louis XIV, where her career was shaped by royal patronage and the musical culture of Versailles. Her music blends French stylistic traditions with elements of Italian influence, particularly in her vocal and instrumental works.

27/06/1720

Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and author (born 1639)

Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and wit, was born at Fontenay, Province of Normandy.

27/06/1672

Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (born 1597)

Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet, of Roydon Hall near East Peckham in Kent, was an English historian and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1640.

27/06/1655

Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress (born 1598)

Eleonora Gonzaga, was born a princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga, and by marriage to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

27/06/1654

Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German theologian (born 1586)

Johannes Valentinus Andreae, also known as Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian and writer.

27/06/1636

Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (born 1567)

Date Masamune was a Japanese samurai and daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he was made all the more iconic for his missing eye, as Masamune was often called dokuganryū (独眼竜), or the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū". As a legendary warrior and leader, Masamune is a character in a number of Japanese period dramas.

27/06/1627

John Hayward, English historian, journalist, and politician (born 1564)

Sir John Hayward was an English historian, lawyer and politician.

27/06/1603

Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop (born 1539)

Jan Dymitr Solikowski was a Polish writer, diplomat, Archbishop of Lwów.

27/06/1601

Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (born 1525)

Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys of Rycote in Oxfordshire, was an English politician and diplomat, who belonged to an old Berkshire family, many members of which had held positions at the English court.

27/06/1574

Giorgio Vasari, Italian historian, painter, and architect (born 1511)

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

27/06/1497

Michael An Gof, rebel leader

Michael Joseph, better known as Michael An Gof, was one of the leaders of the Cornish rebellion of 1497, along with Thomas Flamank.

Thomas Flamank, rebel leader

Thomas Flamank was a lawyer and former MP from Cornwall, who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish rebellion of 1497, a protest against taxes imposed by Henry VII of England.

27/06/1458

Alfonso V of Aragon (born 1396)

Alfonso the Magnanimous was King of Aragon and King of Sicily and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples from 1442 until his death. He was involved with struggles to the throne of the Kingdom of Naples with Louis III of Anjou, Joanna II of Naples and their supporters, but ultimately failed and lost Naples in 1424. He recaptured it in 1442 and was crowned king of Naples. He had good relations with his vassal, Stjepan Kosača, and his ally, Skanderbeg, providing assistance in their struggles in the Balkans. He led diplomatic contacts with the Ethiopian Empire and was a prominent political figure of the early Renaissance, being a supporter of literature as well as commissioning several constructions for the Castel Nuovo.

27/06/1296

Floris V, Count of Holland (born 1254)

Floris V reigned as Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256 until 1296. His life was documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler. He is credited with a mostly peaceful reign, modernizing administration, policies beneficial to trade, generally acting in the interests of his peasants at the expense of nobility, and reclaiming land from the sea. His dramatic murder, said by some to have been arranged by King Edward I of England and Guy, Count of Flanders, made him a hero in Holland.

27/06/1194

King Sancho VI of Navarre (born 1132)

Sancho Garcés VI, called the Wise was King of Navarre from 1150 until his death in 1194. He was the first monarch to officially drop the title of King of Pamplona in favour of King of Navarre, thus changing the designation of his kingdom. Sancho Garcés was responsible for bringing his kingdom into the political orbit of Europe. He was the eldest son of García Ramírez, the Restorer and Margaret of L'Aigle.