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Deaths on August 27

1208 : Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
1521 : Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 : Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75
1576 : Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1590 : Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
1608 : Hendrik van Kinschot, [Henricus Kinschotus], lawyer, dies at 66
1611 : Tom s L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1635 : Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1651 : Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1667 : Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
1746 : Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1748 : James Thomson, dies
1827 : Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1828 : Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1830 : Louis H J Cond‚, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1840 : William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1841 : Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
1846 : Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64
1846 : Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
1855 : Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
1865 : Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
1867 : Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
1868 : Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
1874 : Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
1874 : John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
1879 : Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1883 : August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
1887 : Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
1910 : Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1914 : John Weiss, German new testament, dies
1919 : Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies
1922 : Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
1930 : Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
1931 : Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
1943 : Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1948 : Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74
1948 : Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1949 : Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
1950 : Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1953 : Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
1955 : Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
1958 : Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1962 : Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
1963 : W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1963 : William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
1964 : Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
1964 : Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 : Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
1965 : Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies
1965 : Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1965 : Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
1967 : Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 : Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
1968 : Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1968 : William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1969 : Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1969 : Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
1969 : Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies
1969 : Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
1971 : Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 : Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1975 : Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1977 : George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1977 : Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 : Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1979 : Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82
1979 : Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 : Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1980 : Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1981 : Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1984 : Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 : Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1990 : Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
1990 : Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
1991 : Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1991 : Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1993 : Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
1994 : Roberto Goyeneche, [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies
1995 : Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78
1995 : Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88
1995 : Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70
1996 : Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
1996 : Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies
1996 : Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61
1997 : Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
1997 : Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman & Robin), dies of heart failure at 40

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