What happened on November 27 ?

8 BC - Horace, Roman poet and satirist (b. 65 BC)

511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks

835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)

1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)

1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer

1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)

1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)

1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)

1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)

1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)

1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)

1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)

1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)

1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, French author (b. 1824)

1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)

1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)

1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)

1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)

1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)

1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)

1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)

1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. *1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)

1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)

1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)

1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)

1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)

1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)

1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)

1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)

1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)

1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)

1992 - Ivan Generali?, Croatian painter (b. 1914)

2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)

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