Notable people who died on May 27 include: Procopius, Murong Bao, Eutropius, Ordoño I of Asturias (born 831), Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (born 864).

Notable Deaths on May 27

Q: What is Jawaharlal Nehru known for?

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)

1964 — Jawaharlal Nehru

Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)

May 27 has seen 110 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 366 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 110 people 366 – 2025

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Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister for 16 years

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Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century

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Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s

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Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation

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A well-regarded author, he wrote books such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), that have been read around the world.

Procopius

Roman usurper (born 325)

Procopius was a Roman usurper against Valens, who ruled from 365 to 366.

366

Murong Bao

emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (born 355)

Murong Bao, courtesy name Daoyou (道佑), Xianbei name Kugou (庫勾), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Huimin of Later Yan (後燕惠愍帝), was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Later Yan dynasty. He inherited…

398

Eutropius

bishop of Orange

Eutropius of Orange was bishop of Orange, France, during the 5th century and probably since 463, in succession to Justus.

475

Ordoño I of Asturias (born 831)

Ordoño I was King of Asturias from 850 until his death. He was born in Oviedo, where he spent his early life in the court of Alfonso II. He was probably raised in Lugo, capital of the province of Galicia, where his…

866

Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (born 864)

Simeon I the Great was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 until his death in 927. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion…

927

Dirk III

Count of Holland (born 981)

Dirk III was the count with jurisdiction over what would become the county of Holland, often referred to in this period as "West Frisia", from 993 to 27 May 1039. Until 1005, this was under regency of his mother. It is…

1039

Bruno of Würzburg

imperial chancellor of Italy (born c. 1005)

Bruno of Würzburg, also known as Bruno of Carinthia, was imperial chancellor of Italy from 1027 to 1034 for Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom he was related, and from 1034 until his death prince-bishop of Würzburg.

1045

Godfrey van Rhenen

bishop of Utrecht

Godfried or Godfrey van Rhenen was a bishop of Utrecht from 1156 to 1178.

1178

William de Warenne

5th Earl of Surrey (born 1166)

William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey was the son of Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey and Hamelin de Warenne. His father Hamelin granted him the manor of Appleby, North Lincolnshire.

1240

John Beaufort

1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1404)

John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was a paternal first cousin of King Henry V and the maternal grandfather of…

1444

Ludovico Sforza

Duke of Milan (born 1452)

Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the "arbiter of Italy" by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.

1508

Thomas Müntzer

German mystic and theologian (born 1488)

Thomas Müntzer was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer…

1525

Margaret Pole

Countess of Salisbury (born 1473)

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and his wife Isabel Neville. As a result of Margaret's marriage to Richard Pole, she was also known…

1541

John Calvin

French pastor and theologian (born 1509)

John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including…

1564

François Ravaillac

French assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)

François Ravaillac was a French Catholic who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610.

1610

Diego Ramírez de Arellano

Spanish sailor and cosmographer (born c. 1580)

Diego Ramírez de Arellano was a Spanish sailor and cosmographer. He achieved fame for piloting the Garcia de Nodal expedition to the region of the Strait of Magellan. The expedition discovered the Diego Ramírez Islands,…

1624

John Boteler

1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician (born c. 1566)

John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1626. The Butlers of Hertfordshire claimed descent from Ralph le Boteler, butler to Robert de…

1637

Archibald Campbell

1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born 1607)

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer. The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 1650s known as the Wars of the Three…

1661

Gaspard Dughet

Italian-French painter (born 1613)

Gaspard Dughet, also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.

1675

Giovanni Legrenzi

Italian organist and composer (born 1626)

Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely…

1690

Dominique Bouhours

French priest and critic (born 1628)

Dominique Bouhours was a French Jesuit priest, essayist, grammarian, and neo-classical critic. He was born and died in Paris.

1702

Françoise-Athénaïs

marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (born 1640)

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan, commonly known as Madame de Montespan, was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. During their romantic…

1707

Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Italian physicist and academic (born 1716)

Giovanni Battista Beccaria was an Italian physicist. A fellow of the Royal Society, he published several papers on electrical subjects in the Phil. Trans. Beccaria was one of Benjamin Franklin's more conspicuous…

1781

François-Noël Babeuf

French journalist (born 1760)

François-Noël Babeuf, also known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French proto-communist, revolutionary, and journalist of the French Revolutionary period. His newspaper Le Tribun du Peuple was best known for its advocacy for…

1797

Jedediah Smith

American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)

Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest…

1831

Niccolò Paganini

Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)

Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1…

1840

Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (born 1796)

Thomas Bulfinch was an American author born in Newton, Massachusetts, known best for Bulfinch's Mythology, a posthumous combination of his three volumes of mythologies.

1867

Aleksandr Stoletov

Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1839)

Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.

1896

Robert Koch

German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

1910

Ōzutsu Man'emon

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (born 1869)

Ōzutsu Man'emon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture. He was the sport's 18th yokozuna.

1918

Kandukuri Veeresalingam

Indian author and activist (born 1848)

Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissance movement. He was one of the early…

1919

Achille Paroche

French target shooter (born 1868)

Nicolas Achille Paroche was a French sport shooter who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and 1920 Summer Olympics.

1933

Joseph Roth

Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)

Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and…

1939

Ernst Lindemann

German captain (born 1894)

Otto Ernst Lindemann was a German Kapitän zur See. He was the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II.

1941

Günther Lütjens

German admiral (born 1889)

Johann Günther Lütjens was a German admiral whose military service spanned more than 30 years and two world wars. Lütjens is best known for his actions during World War II and his command of the battleship Bismarck…

1941

Muhammed Hamdi Yazır

Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (born 1878)

Muhammed Hamdi Yazır also known as Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır and Elmalılı was a Turkish Maturidi theologian, logician, Qur'an translator, Qur'anic exegesis scholar, Islamic legal academic, philosopher and encyclopedist.

1942

Gordon Coates

New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1878)

Joseph Gordon Coates served as the 21st prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive Reform prime minister since 1912.

1943

Enno Lolling

German physician (born 1888)

Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration camps. Lolling committed suicide in…

1945

Ed Konetchy

American baseball player and manager (born 1885)

Edward Joseph Konetchy, nicknamed "Big Ed" and "the Candy Kid", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball for a number of teams, primarily in the National League, from 1907 to 1921. He played for the St.…

1947

Robert Ripley

American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)

LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature…

1949

Jesse Burkett

American baseball player and manager (born 1868)

Jesse Cail Burkett, nicknamed "Crab", was an American professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1890 to 1905 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos /…

1953

James Montgomery Flagg

American painter and illustrator (born 1877)

James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917…

1960

Grigoris Lambrakis

Greek physician and politician (born 1912)

Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer. He participated in track and field sports and was a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens. A member of…

1963

John Rinehart Blue

American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (born 1905)

John Rinehart Blue was an American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Blue was a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing…

1965

W. Otto Miessner

American composer and educator (born 1880)

William Otto Miessner was an American composer and music educator. Most of his life was spent in the midwest, particularly Indiana and Wisconsin.

1967

Ernst Niekisch

German academic and politician (born 1889)

Ernst Niekisch was a German writer and political theorist. Initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany (ASPD), he later became a prominent exponent of the…

1967

Jeffrey Hunter

American actor and producer (born 1926)

Jeffrey Hunter was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as The Searchers and King of Kings. On television, Hunter is known for his 1965 role as Captain Christopher Pike in…

1969

Béla Juhos

Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)

Béla Juhos was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle.

1971

Armando Picchi

Italian footballer and coach (born 1935)

Armando Picchi was an Italian football player and coach. Regularly positioned as a libero, he captained the Inter Milan side known as "La Grande Inter".

1971

Gün Sazak

Turkish agronomist and politician (born 1932)

Gün Sazak was a Turkish nationalist politician and former government minister of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). He was assassinated by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front after his police guard was…

1980

Vasilije Mokranjac

Serbian composer (born 1923)

Vasilije Mokranjac was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was one of the most prominent Serbian composers in the…

1984

Murder of the Faruqis:

Ismaʿil Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar of religion. He contributed significantly to Islamic studies, ethics, and interfaith dialogue, and is best known for pioneering the…

1986

Murder of the Faruqis:

Lois Lamya al-Faruqi was an American scholar and expert on Islamic art and music. She made contributions to the field of ethnomusicology, particularly in the study of Islamic musical culture, and co-authored the work…

1986

Ajoy Mukherjee

Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1901)

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian independence activist and politician who served three short terms as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He hailed from Tamluk, Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal.

1986

Giorgos Tzifos

Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1918)

Giorgos Tzifos was a Greek actor in theater and movies. He played mostly secondary roles in comedies, even Law 4000 of Giorgos Dalianidis. I Will Make You Queen and I de gyni na fovitai ton andra as a chauffeur. In…

1986

John Howard Northrop

American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)

John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation,…

1987

Hjördis Petterson

Swedish actress (born 1908)

Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 140 films. She was born in Visby, Sweden and died in Stockholm. She had one child with her second husband, Fred Renstroem.

1988

Ernst Ruska

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

1988

Arseny Tarkovsky

Russian poet and translator (born 1907)

Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky.

1989

Robert B. Meyner

American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (born 1908)

Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner represented Warren County in the New…

1990

Leopold Nowak

Austrian musicologist and theorist (born 1904)

Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some of those works, most of which had been…

1991

Uncle Charlie Osborne

American fiddler (born 1890)

Charles Nelson Osborne, affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was born in what is now known as Cowan Osborne Hollow, named for his father, in…

1992

Minoo Masani

Indian lawyer and politician (born 1905)

Minocher Rustom "Minoo" Masani was an Indian politician, a leading figure of the erstwhile Swatantra Party. He was a three-time Member of Parliament, representing Gujarat's Rajkot constituency in the second, third and…

1998

Kazimierz Leski

Polish engineer and pilot (born 1912)

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl, was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp (1938) and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and…

2000

Murray MacLehose

Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917)

Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch,, was a British politician, diplomat and colonial official who served as the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. He was the longest-serving governor of the…

2000

Maurice Richard

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1921)

Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals…

2000

Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson

Scottish historian (born 1909)

Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson was a Scottish historian and paleographer.

2002

Luciano Berio

Italian composer and educator (born 1925)

Luciano Berio was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work, and for his pioneering work in electronic music. His early work was influenced by Igor Stravinsky and experiments with serial and electronic…

2003

Rob Borsellino

American journalist (born 1949)

Rob Borsellino was a newspaper columnist who worked for the Des Moines Register. His columns, which appeared three times weekly, became popular due to Borsellino's colloquial writing style and ability to tell a story…

2006

Paul Gleason

American actor (born 1939)

Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor. He was known for his roles on television series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places, and Die Hard.

2006

Craig Heyward

American football player (born 1966)

Craig William Heyward, nicknamed "Ironhead", was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He then played…

2006

Izumi Sakai

Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1967)

Sachiko Kamachi , known professionally as Izumi Sakai , was a Japanese pop singer and core member of the group Zard. As Sakai was the only member in the group for the majority of the 16 years which it was active, Zard…

2007

Gretchen Wyler

American actress and dancer (born 1932)

Gretchen Wyler was an American actress and dancer. She was also an animal rights advocate and founder of the Genesis Awards for animal protection.

2007

Ed Yost

American inventor, created the modern hot air balloon (born 1919)

Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the…

2007

Franz Künstler

Hungarian soldier (born 1900)

Franz Künstler was, at age 107, the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following the death of 110-year-old Ottoman veteran Yakup Satar on 2 April 2008, he was…

2008

Thomas M. Franck

American lawyer and academic (born 1931)

Thomas Martin Franck was an American legal scholar and expert on international law. Franck was the Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University and advised many nations on legal matters, even helping…

2009

Clive Granger

Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the…

2009

Mona Grey

British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (born 1910)

Mona Elizabeth Clara Grey was a British nurse who was named Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in 1960.

2009

Abram Hoffer

Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (born 1917)

Abram Hoffer was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders. According to Hoffer, megavitamin therapy and other nutritional interventions are…

2009

Gérard Jean-Juste

Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946)

Gérard Jean-Juste was a Haitian Catholic priest who served as rector of Saint Claire's Church for the Poor in Port-au-Prince. He was also a liberation theologian and a supporter of the Fanmi Lavalas political party, as…

2009

Carol Anne O'Marie

American nun and author (born 1933)

Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, C.S.J., was a Roman Catholic sister in the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was also a mystery writer.

2009

William Refshauge

Australian soldier and physician (born 1913)

Major General Sir William Dudley Duncan Refshauge, was an Australian soldier and public health administrator. He was Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II (1955–64), director-general of the Australian Government…

2009

Paul Sharratt

English-American television host (born 1933)

Paul William Sharratt, was an English-born Australian entertainer and television personality, and later an American television producer.

2009

Payut Ngaokrachang

Thai animator and director (born 1929)

Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai cartoonist and animator. He created Thai cinema's first cel-animated feature film, The Adventure of Sudsakorn.

2010

Jeff Conaway

American actor and singer (born 1950)

Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway was an American actor. He portrayed Kenickie in the film Grease and had roles in three television series: struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in Taxi (1978–1982), Prince Erik Greystone…

2011

Margo Dydek

Polish-American basketball player (born 1974)

Małgorzata Teresa Dydek-Twigg, better known as Margo Dydek, was a Polish professional basketball player. Standing 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) tall, she was the tallest professional female basketball player in the world. Playing…

2011

Gil Scott-Heron

American singer-songwriter and poet (born 1949)

Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American jazz poet, singer, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues…

2011

Simeon Daniel

Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (born 1934)

Simeon Daniel was the first Premier of Nevis.

2012

Friedrich Hirzebruch

German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as "the…

2012

Anahit Perikhanian

Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (born 1928)

Anahit Georgievna Perikhanian was a Soviet-born Armenian academic. An Iranologist, Perikhanian specialized in Sasanian jurisprudence, history and society. In addition to her work on many aspects of ancient and medieval…

2012

David Rimoin

Canadian-American geneticist and academic (born 1936)

David Lawrence Rimoin was a Canadian American geneticist. He was especially noted for his research into the genetics of skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism), inheritable diseases such as Tay–Sachs disease, and diabetes.

2012

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri

Indian politician (born 1917)

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was an Indian politician. He was the oldest surviving member of the founding Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

2013

Bill Pertwee

English actor (born 1926)

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee was an English actor and comedian. He played Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army and P.C. Wilson in You Rang, M'Lord?.

2013

Abdoulaye Sékou Sow

Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931)

Abdoulaye Sékou Sow was a Malian politician who served as Prime Minister of Mali from 12 April 1993 to 4 February 1994 under President Alpha Oumar Konaré.

2013

Robert Genn

Canadian painter and author (born 1936)

Robert Douglas Genn was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 135,000…

2014

Helma Sanders-Brahms

German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940)

Helma Sanders-Brahms was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.

2014

Roberto Vargas

Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a Puerto Rican pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in which he was named a Negro League…

2014

Massimo Vignelli

Italian-American graphic designer (born 1931)

Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer active in graphic design, industrial design, furniture, and architecture. He worked within the modernist tradition, emphasizing simplicity through the use of basic geometric…

2014

Erik Carlsson

Swedish rally driver (born 1929)

Erik Hilding Carlsson was a Swedish rally driver for Saab. He was nicknamed "Carlsson på taket" as well as Mr. Saab.

2015

Nils Christie

Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (born 1928)

Nils Christie was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Considered a leading figure of his field, Christie is one of two Norwegian social…

2015

Andy King

English footballer and manager (born 1956)

Andrew Edward King was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 350 appearances and scored 92 goals in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s, and also played abroad. He was capped…

2015

Michael Martin

American philosopher and academic (born 1932)

Michael Lou Martin was an American philosopher and former professor at Boston University. Martin specialized in the philosophy of religion, although he also worked on the philosophies of science, law, and social…

2015

Gregg Allman

American musician, singer and songwriter (born 1947)

Gregory LeNoir Allman was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Brothers Band…

2017

Gardner Dozois

American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004),…

2018

Larry Kramer

American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)

Laurence David Kramer was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to…

2020

Poul Schlüter

former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)

Poul Holmskov Schlüter was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first member of the Conservative People's Party to become prime minister, as well as the first…

2021

Elizabeth MacRae

American actress (born 1936)

Elizabeth Hendon MacRae was an American actress who performed in dozens of television series and in nine feature films, working predominantly in productions released between 1958 and the late 1980s. Among her more…

2024

Bill Walton

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1952)

William Theodore Walton III was an American basketball player and television sportscaster. He played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins and professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland…

2024

Freddie Aguilar

Filipino musician and singer-songwriter (born 1953)

Ferdinand "Freddie" Pascual Aguilar, also known by his Muslim name Abdul Farid, was a Filipino musician regarded as one of the pillars and icons of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He was best known for his international…

2025

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Yeltsin Meets Chechen Rebel Leaders in Historic First Talks — May 27, 1996

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Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Wikipedia →

2016

Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. Wikipedia →

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