What happened on February 27 ?

1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)

1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)

1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)

1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)

1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)

1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)

1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)

1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)

1902 - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)

1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)

1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)

1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)

1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)

1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)

1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)

1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)

1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)

1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)

1980 - George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)

1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)

1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)

1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)

1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)

1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)

1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)

1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)

2002 - Spike Milligan, British comedian (b. 1918)

2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)

2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)

2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)

2006 - Otis Chandler, Former Publisher of the L.A. Times (b. 1927)

2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, author (b. 1908)

2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)

2006 - John Prestwich, Longest surviving iron lung patient [1] (b. 1938)