What happened on July 27 ?

1101 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)

1276 - King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)

1365 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)

1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)

1675 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)

1759 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)

1770 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)

1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)

1844 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)

1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)

1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)

1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1866)

1931 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)

1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)

1958 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (b. 1893)

1962 - Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)

1971 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)

1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)

1981 - William Wyler, French-born film director ((b. 1902)

1984 - James Mason, English actor and conscientious objector (b. 1909)

1992 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)

1993 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball star (b. 1965)

1999 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (b. 1912)

2001 - Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)

2001 - Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler. Stage name: Bertha Faye (b. 1961)

2003 - Vance Hartke, U.S. Senator from Indiana (b. 1919)

2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)

2005 - Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)