Died on Saturday, 27th September – Famous Deaths

27/09/2025

Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1924)

Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before becoming church president, Nelson was a member of its Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly thirty-four years and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. As church president, Nelson was recognized by the church as the prophet, seer, and revelator.

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27/09/2024

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)

Hassan Nasrallah was a Lebanese Shia cleric, a militant, and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.

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Maggie Smith, English actress (born 1934)

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith was a British actress. Known for her wit in both comedic and dramatic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen for over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for six Olivier Awards. Smith is one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting.

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27/09/2023

Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor (born 1940)

Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

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27/09/2021

Madeleine Tchicaya, Ivorian politician (born 1930)

Madeleine Tchicaya was an Ivorian politician. She is known for being the first female graduate of the National School of Administration.

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27/09/2018

Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator (born 1967)

Kavita Mahajan was an Indian author and translator who wrote in Marathi. She is noted for her critically acclaimed novels Brr (2005), Bhinna (2007) and Kuhoo (2011), as well as a non-fiction work Graffiti Wall (2009). She was the winner of the 2011 translation award conferred by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

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Michael Payton, American football quarterback (born 1970)

Michael Payton was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd, where he won the 1992 Walter Payton Award. After college, he played one season in the Arena Football League (AFL) for the Florida Bobcats.

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Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman and politician (born 1935)

Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji Jadeja was an Indian politician.

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Marty Balin, American singer, co-founder of the band Jefferson Airplane (born 1942)

Martyn Jerel Buchwald, known as Marty Balin, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

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27/09/2017

Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)

Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs, quality articles and fiction, and lengthy interviews with politicians, musicians, artists, and writers. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling media interest.

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27/09/2015

Syed Ahmed, Indian author and politician, 16th Governor of Manipur (born 1945)

Syed Ahmed was an Indian politician, author and a member of the Congress Party. He was sworn in as the Governor of Manipur on 16 May 2015, but only served four months before dying in office on 27 September. During his short tenure as governor, the Manipur Tenants, Visitors and Migrant Workers Bill, 2015 was passed by the Manipur Assembly on 15 March.

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Pietro Ingrao, Italian journalist and politician (born 1915)

Pietro Ingrao was an Italian politician and journalist who participated in the Italian resistance movement. For many years, he was a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).

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Kallen Pokkudan, Indian activist and author (born 1937)

Kallen Pokkudan, also known as Kandal Pokkudan, was an Indian environmental activist and writer from Kerala. He was known for his efforts for the protection and proliferation of the mangrove forests in Kerala, since 1989.

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Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach, and journalist (born 1930)

Frank Holmes Tyson was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press, he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets at an average of 18.56 in 17 Test matches.

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27/09/2014

Gaby Aghion, French fashion designer, founded Chloé (born 1921)

Gabrielle Aghion was a French fashion designer and founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase prêt-à-porter.

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Wally Hergesheimer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1927)

Walter Edgar Hergesheimer was a Canadian ice hockey forward.

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Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (born 1939)

Abdelmajid Lakhal was a Tunisian theatre and film actor and theatre director. He was considered to be a professional and versatile interpreter. Recently, he performed classical pieces translated into Arabic, at the Municipal theatre of Tunis, which were well received. He was known on Arab Television for acting in many telefilms.

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James Traficant, American lawyer and politician (born 1941)

James Anthony Traficant Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. A staunch economic populist known for his flamboyant personality, he represented the 17th congressional district, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley.

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27/09/2013

Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

Oscar Castro-Neves, was a Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in bossa nova.

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Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Spanish sherry maker and conservationist (born 1923)

Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Marquis of Bonanza was a Spanish sherry maker and a conservationist. Most of his life he worked for the family company, González Byass, where he increased its exports to a worldwide level. His family estate was located in the wetland region called Doñana in southern Spain and was threatened by drainage efforts in the early 1950s. González-Gordon with the help of researchers and international support managed to preserve the site, while at the same time donating some of his family land to the conservation effort. Afterward, González-Gordon became one of the founders of the Spanish Ornithological Society in 1954. His conservation efforts for Doñana culminated in the creation of the Doñana National Park in 1969. The area was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.

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27/09/2012

Eddie Bert, American trombonist (born 1922)

Edward Joseph Bertolatus, also known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist.

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Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (born 1917)

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and precise, elegant elocution saw him cast as criminals or suave villains in his younger years, and professional men and nobles as he aged. Highly versatile, he was also known to legions of comedy fans as the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther film series.

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27/09/2011

David Croft, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Major David John Croft was an English television comedy screenwriter, television producer and director. He produced and wrote a string of BBC sitcoms with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo!

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Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (born 1935)

Imre Makovecz was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.

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Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

"Country" Johnny Mathis was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a successful solo performer and one half of the duo Jimmy & Johnny. Mathis is credited with penning more than 500 tunes over the course of his long career.

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27/09/2010

Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (born 1955)

Balaji Sadasivan was a Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon. He attended Raffles Institution, Siglap Secondary School and National Junior College, and studied medicine at the University of Singapore. After graduating in 1979, he continued his education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1984. He also trained at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, from 1985 to 1989, and became a Fellow of Harvard University in 1990. He worked as a neurosurgeon until 2001, publishing over 50 book chapters and journal articles.

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27/09/2009

Ivan Dykhovichny, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1947)

Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny was a Russian film director and screenwriter.

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27/09/2008

Henri Pachard, American director and producer (born 1939)

Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan .

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27/09/2007

Dale Houston, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Dale & Grace was an American singing duo consisting of Dale Houston and Grace Broussard. They had two Billboard chart hits. The first was the No. 1 gold record "I'm Leaving It Up to You" in 1963. "Stop and Think It Over" reached No. 8 in 1964. The duo broke up in 1965, but they reunited onstage on several occasions. Their recordings are highly regarded examples of the Louisiana-Texas style known as "Swamp Pop".

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Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (born 1957)

Kenji Nagai was a Japanese photojournalist who took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world.

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27/09/2006

Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (born 1910)

Helmut Kallmeyer was a German chemist in the era of National Socialism. He served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery for gasification methods. Later, he worked in the Technical Institute for the Detection of Crime. He was involved in Action T4, Nazi Germany's program to murder people with disabilities.

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27/09/2005

Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (born 1929)

Ronald Golias was a Brazilian comedian and actor.

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Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (born 1918)

Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

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27/09/2004

John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (born 1929)

John Edward Mack was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T. E. Lawrence.

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27/09/2003

Jean Lucas, French racing driver (born 1927)

Jean Lucas was a French racing driver. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on 11 September 1955. Lucas was then manager of the Gordini team, and when regular driver Robert Manzon was unable to race, he stepped in to take his place. His retired his car with engine failure and scored no championship points.

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Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1925)

Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule.

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27/09/1998

Doak Walker, American football player (born 1927)

Ewell Doak Walker II was an American football player who was a halfback and kicker. He played college football for the SMU Mustangs, winning the Maxwell Award in 1947 and the Heisman Trophy in 1948. He then played professionally for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1950 to 1955. Walker was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. The Doak Walker Award, awarded annually since 1990 to the top running back in college football, is named after him.

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27/09/1997

Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (born 1915)

Walter Trampler was a German musician and teacher of the viola and viola d'amore.

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27/09/1996

Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan physician and politician, seventh President of Afghanistan (born 1947)

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as the fifth president of Afghanistan from 1987 until his resignation in April 1992, shortly after the Afghan mujahideen's takeover of Kabul. He was also the General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1986 to 1992. After a failed attempt to flee to India, Najibullah remained in Kabul, and lived in the United Nations headquarters until his assassination during the Taliban's first capture of Kabul in 1996.

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27/09/1993

Jimmy Doolittle, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896)

James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early coast-to-coast flights and record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop and flight-test instrument flying. According to the FAA, he was the first pilot ever to perform a successful instrument flight.

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Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist and educator (born 1928)

John Fraser MacPherson CM was a Canadian jazz musician from Saint Boniface, Manitoba.

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27/09/1992

Zhang Leping, Chinese comic artist (born 1910)

Zhang Leping was a Chinese comic artist born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. He played a key role in the development of modern manhua in China, and is mostly remembered for his creation of the manhua Sanmao.

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27/09/1991

Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (born 1904)

Joseph Harold Anthony Hulme was an English footballer and cricketer.

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27/09/1986

Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (born 1962)

Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician who served as the bassist for the heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship and influence.

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27/09/1985

Lloyd Nolan, American actor (born 1902)

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creating the role of Captain Queeg in Herman Wouk's play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in the mid-1950s. Nolan won a Best Actor Emmy Award reprising the part in 1955 TV play based on Wouk's tale of military justice. Additionally, he starred in the Mike Shayne detective films, and the groundbreaking sitcom Julia starring Diahann Carroll.

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27/09/1984

Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (born 1932)

Hronis Exarhakos was a Greek actor.

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27/09/1983

Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (born 1911)

Wilfred Graham Burchett was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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27/09/1981

Robert Montgomery, American actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1904)

Robert Montgomery was an American actor, director, and producer. He began his acting career on the stage, but was soon hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Initially assigned roles in comedies, he soon proved he was able to handle dramatic ones, as well. He appeared in a wide variety of roles, such as the weak-willed prisoner Kent in The Big House (1930), the psychotic Danny in Night Must Fall (1937), and Joe, the boxer mistakenly sent to Heaven in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). The last two earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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27/09/1979

Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (born 1898)

Dame Gracie Fields was a British actress, singer and comedian. A star of cinema and music hall, she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. Fields was known affectionately as Our Gracie and the Lancashire Lass and for never losing her strong, native Lancashire accent. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979.

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Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)

James McCulloch was a Scottish musician best known for playing lead guitar and bass as a member of Paul McCartney's band Wings from 1974 to 1977. McCulloch was a member of the Glasgow psychedelic band One in a Million, Thunderclap Newman, and Stone the Crows. His brother is drummer Jack McCulloch.

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27/09/1975

Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1876)

John Thomas "Jack" Lang, nicknamed as The Big Fella, was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1932. He was the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1923 to 1939 and his Lang Labor faction was an influential force in both state and federal politics, breaking away from the official ALP on several occasions.

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27/09/1974

Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (born 1907)

Silvio Frondizi was an Argentine intellectual and lawyer, brother of President Arturo Frondizi and of the philosopher Risieri Frondizi. He became active in leftist groups, and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple A right-wing death squad that operated under the Isabel Perón government.

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27/09/1972

S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (born 1892)

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was an Indian librarian and mathematician. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental thinking in the field. His birthday is observed every year as National Librarian Day in India.

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27/09/1967

Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1887)

Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina Alexandrovna, a niece of Emperor Nicholas II.

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27/09/1965

Clara Bow, American actress (born 1905)

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.

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William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (born 1876)

Sir William Arthur Stanier was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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27/09/1961

H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (born 1886)

Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecting the trauma she experienced in London during the Blitz, H.D.'s poetic style from World War II until her death pivoted towards complex long poems on esoteric and pacifist themes.

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27/09/1960

Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (born 1882)

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and conferred in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime.

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27/09/1956

Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (born 1901)

Gerald Raphael Finzi was an English composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and string orchestra, and his concertos for cello and clarinet.

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (born 1911)

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships.

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27/09/1944

Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (born 1890)

Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and '30s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch.

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27/09/1942

Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (born 1919)

Douglas Albert Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard.

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27/09/1940

Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (born 1892)

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, aesthetics and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica".

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27/09/1935

Alan Gray, English composer and organist (born 1855)

Alan Gray was an English organist and composer.

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27/09/1934

Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (born 1858)

Ellen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour, awarded to British horticulturists living in the UK by the society, in 1897. Willmott was said to have cultivated more than 100,000 species and cultivars of plants and sponsored expeditions to discover new species. Inherited wealth allowed Willmott to buy large gardens in France and Italy to add to the garden at her home, Warley Place in Essex. More than 60 plants have been named after her or her home, Warley Place.

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27/09/1921

Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (born 1854)

Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).

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27/09/1919

Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (born 1843)

Adela Juana Maria Patti, commonly known as Adelina Patti was a Spanish-Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique.

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27/09/1917

Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (born 1834)

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

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27/09/1915

Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (born 1858)

Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.

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27/09/1911

Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (born 1844)

Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.

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27/09/1898

Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (born 1860)

Thomas Joseph Byrnes was an Australian politician and barrister. He was Premier of Queensland from April 1898 until his death in September of the same year, having previously served in several ministerial positions in his parliamentary career. He was the first Roman Catholic Premier of Queensland and the first to die in office.

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27/09/1891

Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (born 1812)

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

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27/09/1886

Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (born 1804)

Charles Gordon Greene was an American journalist.

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27/09/1876

Braxton Bragg, American general (born 1817)

Braxton Bragg was an American military officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War. He later served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War, seeing action in the Western Theater. His most important role was the commander of the Army of Mississippi, later renamed the Army of Tennessee, from June 1862 until December 1863.

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27/09/1838

Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (born 1777)

Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, was a French chemist credited with first isolating iodine, making early photography possible.

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27/09/1833

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and reformer (born 1772)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian social reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He has been dubbed the "Father of the Indian Renaissance." He was given the title of Raja by Mughal emperor Akbar II.

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27/09/1832

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (born 1781)

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher whose doctrines became known as Krausism. Krausism, when considered in its totality as a complete, stand-alone philosophical system, had only a small following in Germany, France, and Belgium, in contradistinction to certain other philosophical systems that had a much larger following in Europe at that time. However, Krausism became very popular and influential in Restoration Spain not as a complete, comprehensive philosophical system per se, but as a broad cultural movement. In Spain, Krausism was known as "Krausismo", and Krausists were known as "Krausistas". Outside of Spain, the Spanish Krausist cultural movement was referred to as Spanish Krausism.

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27/09/1783

Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (born 1730)

Étienne Bézout was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon, France.

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27/09/1742

Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (born 1672)

Hugh Boulter was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death. He also served as the chaplain to George I from 1719.

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27/09/1735

Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (born 1705)

Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist and collaborator of Carolus Linnaeus. He is sometimes known as the "father of ichthyology" for his pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups.

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27/09/1730

Laurence Eusden, English poet and author (born 1688)

Laurence Eusden was an English poet who became Britain's youngest Poet Laureate in 1718.

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27/09/1719

George Smalridge, English bishop (born 1662)

George Smalridge was Bishop of Bristol (1714–1719).

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27/09/1700

Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)

Pope Innocent XII, born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 until his death in September 1700.

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27/09/1674

Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (born 1589)

Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the major poets, writers and translators of 17th century French classicism. A fervent Catholic, he played an important role in the history of Jansenism and was one of the Solitaires of Port-Royal-des-Champs. He was also renowned for his part in the development of the pruning of fruit trees, to which he was devoted.

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27/09/1660

Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (born 1581)

Vincent de Paul, CM was a French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor and is best known for founding the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity.

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27/09/1657

Olimpia Maidalchini, Roman noble (born 1591)

Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, Princess of San Martino, , was the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (Pamphili). She was perceived by her contemporaries as having influence regarding papal appointments.

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27/09/1651

Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (born 1573)

Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg.

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27/09/1637

Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (born c.1600)

Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century. Lorenzo Ruiz is the patron saint of, among others, the Philippines and the Filipino people.

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27/09/1623

John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1561)

Count John VII the Middle of Nassau-Siegen, German: Johann VII. der Mittlere Graf von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein, was since 1606 Count of Nassau-Siegen, a part of the County of Nassau, and the progenitor of the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau.

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27/09/1612

Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (born 1536)

Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet".

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27/09/1590

Pope Urban VII (born 1521)

Pope Urban VII, born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was head of the Catholic Church, and ruler of the Papal States from 15 to 27 September 1590. His papacy was the shortest recognized in history.

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27/09/1557

Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born 1497)

Emperor Go-Nara was the 105th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from June 9, 1526, until his death in 1557, during the Sengoku period of the Muromachi Bakufu. His personal name was Tomohito (知仁).

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27/09/1536

Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (born 1483)

Felice della Rovere, also known as Madonna Felice, was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II. One of the most powerful women of the Italian Renaissance, she was born in Rome around 1483 to Lucrezia Normanni and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. Felice was well educated, became accepted into close courtly circles of aristocratic families, and formed friendships with scholars and poets through her education and genuine interest in humanism. Through the influence of her father, including an arranged marriage to Gian Giordano Orsini, she wielded extraordinary wealth and influence both within and beyond the Roman Curia. In particular, she negotiated peace between Julius II and the Queen of France, and held the position of Orsini Signora for over a decade following the death of her husband in 1517. Felice further increased her power through a castle that she bought with money received from her father, the Castle at Palo, and through her involvement in the grain trade.

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27/09/1404

William of Wykeham, English bishop (born 1320)

William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of works when much of Windsor Castle was built.

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27/09/1249

Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (born 1197)

Raymond VII was Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death.

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27/09/1194

Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (born 1125)

Renaud de Courtenay, was seigneur of Courtenay and fought in the Second Crusade with Louis VII of France. His fate is unknown, either losing his lands from an argument with Louis VII or dying on crusade and his lands going to his daughter Elizabeth's husband, Peter.

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27/09/1125

Richeza of Berg, Duchess of Bohemia (born c.1095)

Richeza of Berg was Duchess of Bohemia from 1111 to 1117 and again from 1120 until 1125, by her marriage with the Přemyslid duke Vladislav I.

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27/09/1115

Bonfilius, Italian saint and bishop of Foligno (bornc. 1040)

Bonfilius was an Italian saint, monk and bishop.

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27/09/1111

Vekenega, Croatian Benedictine abbess

Vekenega was a Croatian Benedictine nun from the House of Madi, a noble family from Zadar. She was the daughter of Čika and took over from her mother as abbess of the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar some time after entering the order in 1072. Vekenaga is also known for the richly illuminated evangelistary which she commissioned from the scriptorium of the monastery of St. Krševan in Zadar in 1096.

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27/09/0936

Kyŏn Hwŏn, king of Later Baekje (born 867)

Kyŏn Hwŏn was the king and founder of Later Baekje, one of the Later Three Kingdoms of Korea, and reigned from 892 to 935. Some records render his name as Chin Hwŏn. He was also the progenitor of the Hwanggan Kyŏn clan. Substantial accounts of his life are preserved in the Samguk sagi, which presents a single narrative, and the Samguk yusa, which presents excerpts about him from various sources.

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27/09/0765

Pugu Huai'en, Chinese general during the Tang dynasty

Pugu Huai'en, formally the Prince of Da'ning (大寧王), was a general of the Chinese Tang dynasty of Tiele ancestry. He was instrumental in the final suppression of the Anshi Rebellion, but rebelled against Emperor Daizong in fear that he was being accused of treason. After an initial defeat by other Tang generals, he led his own forces, allied with forces of the Uyghur Khaganate and Tibetan Empire, to attack the Tang capital Chang'an, but died on the way.

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