What happened on September 27 ?

1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)

1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier

1404 - William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)

1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)

1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)

1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)

1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)

1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)

1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)

1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)

1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (b. 1705)

1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)

1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)

1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)

1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)

1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)

1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 184)

1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)

1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)

1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)

1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)

1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)

1956 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)

1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (b. 1911)

1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette and social activist (b. 1882)

1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)

1967 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)

1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian (b. 1892)

1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)

1979 - Dame Gracie Fields, Lancastrian comedian and singer (b. 1898)

1981 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)

1985 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)

1986 - Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (b. 1962)

1993 - Jimmy Doolittle, U.S. general and World War II hero (b. 1896)

1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)

1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)

1998 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)

2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor, dancer, and singer (b. 1925)

2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian Comedian and actor (b. 1929)