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Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister, holding office for 16 years 286 days.
Notable Deaths on May 27
1964 — Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
May 27 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 366 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
110 source records
366 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on May 27
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- 2016 Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. Source
- 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. Source
- 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station. Source
- 1996 First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. Source
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Gregg Allman wrote several of the band's most popular songs, including "Whipping Post", "Melissa", and "Midnight Rider".
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John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
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François-Noël Babeuf, also known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French proto-communist, revolutionary, and journalist of the French Revolutionary period.
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In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth.
More major people who died on May 27
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2017
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.
1564
John Calvin
French pastor and theologian (born 1509)
John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
1797
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.
1939
Joseph Roth
Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)
Moses Joseph Roth was an 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…
1661
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.
1919
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.
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.
1984
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.
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.
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.
2025
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).
2007
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.
2021
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.
1963
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.
1831
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…
2018
Gardner Dozois
American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor.
927
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.
1525
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.
1781
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.