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Dudley Moore first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s.
Notable Deaths on March 27
2002 — Dudley Moore
English actor (born 1935)
March 27 has 139 recorded notable deaths across history, from 710 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
139 source records
710 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on March 27
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- 1866 President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9. Source
- 2014 Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. Source
- 1999 Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. Source
- 1901 Philippine–American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans. Source
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As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr.
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Another war film, The Purple Heart (1944), followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific.
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Mary of Burgundy, nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy, and ruler in her own right over much of the Valois-Burgundian lands, from 1477 to 1482.
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After the American Civil War, he became a political journalist who entertained America's foremost intellectuals at his homes in Washington and Boston.
More major people who died on March 27
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2002
Milton Berle
American comedian and actor (born 1908)
Milton Berle was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television.
2011
Farley Granger
American actor (born 1925)
Farley Earle Granger Jr. was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star (1943), a controversial…
1482
Mary of Burgundy
Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)
Mary of Burgundy, nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy, and ruler in her own right over much of the Valois-Burgundian lands, from 1477 to 1482.
1918
Henry Adams
American journalist, historian, and author (born 1838)
Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents.
1992
James E. Webb
American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (born 1906)
James Edwin Webb was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.
2006
Rudolf Vrba
Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (born 1924)
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1931
Arnold Bennett
English author and playwright (born 1867)
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically.
1624
Ulrik of Denmark
Danish prince-bishop (born 1578)
Prince Ulrik John of Denmark, was a son of King Frederick II of Denmark and his consort, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
1927
Joe Start
American baseball player and manager (born 1842)
Joseph Start, nicknamed "Old Reliable", was one of the most durable regulars of baseball's earliest era, and one of the top first basemen of his time.
1926
Kick Kelly
American baseball player, manager, and umpire (born 1856)
John O. "Kick" Kelly, also nicknamed "Honest John" and "Diamond John", was an American catcher, manager and umpire in Major League Baseball who went on to become a boxing referee and to run gambling houses in his native…
1945
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1866)
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright.
2006
Stanisław Lem
Ukrainian-Polish author (born 1921)
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.
2012
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (born 1929)
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist.
1968
Yuri Gagarin
Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1934)
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight.
1613
Sigismund Báthory (born 1573)
Sigismund Báthory was Prince of Transylvania several times between 1586 and 1602, and Duke of Racibórz and Opole in Silesia in 1598.
1988
Charles Willeford
American author, poet, and critic (born 1919)
Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.
973
Hermann Billung
Frankish lieutenant (born 900)
Hermann Billung was a prominent German noble from Saxony in the East Frankish Kingdom, who was a notable military commander and count, serving as royal governor of the Duchy of Saxony during the reign of king and…
1564
Lütfi Pasha
Turkish historian and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1488)
Lütfi Pasha was an Ottoman-Albanian statesman, general, and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent from 1539 to 1541.
1994
Lawrence Wetherby
American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (born 1908)
Lawrence Winchester Wetherby was an American politician who served as 40th lieutenant governor and the 48th governor of Kentucky.