Notable Deaths on October 27

Q: Who died on October 27?

Notable people who died on October 27 include: Æthelstan, Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Ulrich III, Hugh IV, Walter de Merton.

Q: What is Judy LaMarsh known for?

Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)

116 people 939 – 2025

October 27 has seen 116 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 939 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1980 — Judy LaMarsh

Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)

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In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister

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She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980.

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Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare

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As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967

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After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio

Æthelstan

English king

Æthelstan or Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him…

939

Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad

Uqaylid emir

Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, also known by the honorific Muʿtamid al-Dawla, was the third Uqaylid emir of Mosul, and ruler of other towns in Iraq, from 1001 to 1050. An ambitious ruler, like the other petty rulers of the…

1052

Ulrich III

Duke of Carinthia (born c.1220)

Ulrich III was the ruler in the March of Carniola from c. 1249 and Duke of Carinthia from 1256 until his death, the last ruler from the House of Sponheim. His rule had long-lasting consequences. In Carniola, he acquired…

1269

Hugh IV

Duke of Burgundy (born 1213)

Hugh IV was Duke of Burgundy from 1218 and titular King of Thessalonica from 1266 until his death in 1272. Hugh was the son of Odo III, Duke of Burgundy, and Alice de Vergy.

1272

Walter de Merton

Lord Chancellor of England

Walter de Merton was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester. For the first two years of the reign of Edward I he was – in all but name – Regent of…

1277

Beatrice of Castile

wife of King Afonso III of Portugal

Beatrice of Castile, an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso X of Castile and his mistress Mayor Guillén de Guzmán, was the second Queen consort of Afonso III of Portugal.

1303

John II

Duke of Brabant (born 1275)

John II, also called John the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312). He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders.

1312

Hugh le Despenser

1st Earl of Winchester (born 1262)

Hugh le Despenser, sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II of England. He was created a baron in 1295 and Earl of Winchester in 1322. One day after being…

1326

Elizabeth de Burgh

queen of Robert the Bruce

Elizabeth de Burgh was the second wife and only queen consort of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots. Elizabeth was born sometime around 1289, probably in what is now County Down or County Antrim in Ulster, the northern…

1327

Mahaut

Countess of Artois (born 1268)

Mahaut of Artois also known as Mathilda, ruled as Countess of Artois from 1302 to 1329. She was furthermore regent of the County of Burgundy from 1303 to 1315 during the minority and the absence of her daughter, Joan…

1329

Abulfeda

Arab historian and geographer (born 1273)

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān, better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda, was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local…

1331

Vytautas

Lithuanian ruler (born 1350)

Vytautas the Great was a ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, first as regent for his cousin Jogaila (1392–1401) and then as the Grand Duke alongside him (1401–1430). He was also the prince of Grodno (1370–1382) and…

1430

Albert II of Germany (born 1397)

Albert II, King of the Romans, was a member of the House of Habsburg. By inheritance he became Albert V, Duke of Austria. Through his wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg, he also became King of Hungary, King of Croatia, King…

1439

Margery Jourdemayne

executed for treasonable witchcraft

Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye Next Westminster" was an English woman who was accused of "false belief and witchcraft". She was probably sentenced by a church court; no record survives confirming the charges.…

1441

Ulugh Beg

Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (born 1394)

Mīrzā Muhammad Tarāghāy bin Shāhrukh, better known as Ulugh Beg, was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician.

1449

Rodolphus Agricola

Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (born 1443)

Rodolphus Agricola was a Dutch humanist scholar recognized as the "father of Northern European humanism" for his role in introducing the Italian Renaissance's intellectual disciplines to the North. Known for his mastery…

1485

Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)

Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blind father Vasily II before he officially…

1505

George Manners

11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman

George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros of Helmsley was an English peer.

1513

Michael Servetus

Spanish physician and theologian (born 1511)

Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi…

1553

Lope de Aguirre

Spanish explorer (born 1510)

Lope de Aguirre was a Basque Spanish conquistador who was active in South America. Nicknamed El Loco, he styled himself "Wrath of God." Aguirre is best known for his final expedition down the Amazon River in search of…

1561

Laurentius Petri

Swedish archbishop (born 1499)

Laurentius Petri Nericius was a Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Lutheran reformers…

1573

Akbar

Mughal emperor (born 1542)

Akbar, also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate…

1605

Gabriel Báthory

Prince of Transylvania (born 1589)

Gabriel Báthory was Prince of Transylvania from 1608 to 1613. The Ottomans nicknamed him "Deli Kiral". Born to the Roman Catholic branch of the Báthory family, he was closely related to four rulers of the Principality…

1613

Ralph Winwood

English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1563)

Sir Ralph Winwood was an English diplomat and statesman to the Jacobean court.

1617

Robert Hubert

French watchmaker (born 1640)

Robert Hubert was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.

1666

Vavasor Powell

Welsh minister (born 1617)

Vavasor Powell was a Welsh Puritan and Fifth Monarchist, imprisoned for his role in a plot to depose King Charles II.

1670

Hallgrímur Pétursson

Icelandic minister and poet (born 1614)

Hallgrímur Pétursson was an Icelandic poet and a minister at Hvalsneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. Being one of the most prominent Icelandic poets, the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and the Hallgrímskirkja in…

1674

Gilles de Roberval

French mathematician and academic (born 1602)

Gilles Personne de Roberval was a French mathematician born at Roberval near Beauvais, France. His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, with Roberval the place of his birth.

1675

John Cook

American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (born 1730)

John Cook (1730–1789) was an American planter and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.

1789

Isaac Brock

British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (born 1769)

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Guernsey. He is best remembered for his victory at the siege of Detroit and his death at the Battle of Queenston Heights during…

1812

Santō Kyōden

Japanese poet and painter (born 1761)

Santō Kyōden was a Japanese artist, writer, and the owner of a tobacco shop during the Edo period. His real name was Iwase Samuru , and he was also known popularly as Kyōya Denzō . He began his professional career…

1816

Thrasyvoulos Zaimis

Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1822)

Thrasyvoulos Zaimis was a Greek politician and the 21st Prime Minister of Greece. Zaimis was born in Kerpini, Kalavryta on 29 October 1822, the son of Andreas Zaimis, a soldier and government leader before the…

1880

Arthur Rhys-Davids

English lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)

Arthur Percival Foley Rhys-Davids, was an English flying ace of the First World War.

1917

Warren Wood

American golfer and soldier (born 1887)

Warren Kenneth Wood was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

1926

Squizzy Taylor

Australian gangster (born 1888)

Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian gangster from Melbourne. He appeared repeatedly and sometimes prominently in Melbourne news media because of suspicions, formal accusations and some convictions…

1927

Théodore Tuffier

French surgeon (born 1857)

Théodore-Marin Tuffier was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia.

1929

Ellen Hayes

American mathematician and astronomer (born 1851)

Ellen Amanda Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was a controversial figure, both for being a female college professor and for embracing many radical causes.

1930

Ernest Eldridge

English race car driver (born 1897)

Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge was a British racing driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road.

1935

Helmuth Hübener

German activist (born 1925)

Helmuth Günther Guddat Hübener was a German youth who was executed at age 17 by beheading for his opposition to the Nazi regime. He was the youngest person of the German resistance to Nazism to be sentenced to death by…

1942

Judith Auer

German World War II resistance fighter (born 1905)

Judith Auer was a Swiss resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany.

1944

William Fay

Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1872)

William George Fay was an actor and theatre producer who was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre.

1947

Marcel Cerdan

Algerian-French boxer (born 1916)

Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French professional boxer and world middleweight champion in 1948-1949. He was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best…

1949

Thomas Wass

English cricketer (born 1873)

Thomas George Wass was a Nottinghamshire cricketer, a bowler best remembered, alongside Albert Hallam, for bowling that gave Nottinghamshire a brilliant County Championship win in 1907. Wass also holds the record for…

1953

James McGirr

Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)

James McGirr was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1947 to 1952, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He led the party to victory at the 1947 and 1950 New…

1957

Rudolf Anderson

American soldier and pilot (born 1927)

Rudolf Anderson Jr. was an American Air Force major and pilot. He was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and decoration for valor. The only U.S. fatality…

1962

Enrico Mattei

Italian businessman and politician (born 1906)

Enrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian petroleum agency Agip, a state enterprise established by Fascist Italy. Instead, Mattei enlarged…

1962

Lise Meitner

Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1878)

Elise "Lise" Meitner was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.

1968

C. P. Ramanujam

Indian mathematician and academic (born 1938)

Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973.

1974

Rex Stout

American detective novelist (born 1886)

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas or…

1975

James M. Cain

American journalist and author (born 1892)

James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.

1977

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.

1980

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (born 1895)

José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 32nd president of Guatemala from 1958 to March 1963. He was also the main challenger to Jacobo Árbenz during the 1950…

1982

Charles Hawtrey

English actor, singer, and pianist (born 1914)

George Frederick Joffre Hartree, known professionally as Charles Hawtrey, was an English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director.

1988

Xavier Cugat

Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (born 1900)

Xavier Cugat was an American musician and bandleader who was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music in the United States. Originally from Girona, Catalonia in Spain, he spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba,…

1990

Jacques Demy

French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their…

1990

Elliott Roosevelt

American general and author (born 1910)

Elliott Roosevelt was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady…

1990

Ugo Tognazzi

Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.

1990

George Barker

English author and poet (born 1913)

George Granville Barker was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the…

1991

David Bohm

American-English physicist and philosopher (born 1917)

David Joseph Bohm was an American physicist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and…

1992

Allen R. Schindler

Jr. American sailor (born 1969)

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was an American radioman petty officer third class in the United States Navy who was murdered for being gay. He was killed in a public toilet in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, by Terry M. Helvey, who…

1992

Arthur Tremblay

Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1917)

Arthur Julien Tremblay, was a Canadian politician.

1996

Mahala Andrews

British vertebrae palaeontologist (born 1939)

Mahala Andrews was a British vertebrae palaeontologist who worked for the National Museum of Scotland.

1997

Robert Mills

American physicist and academic (born 1927)

Robert Laurence Mills was an American physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory.

1999

Charlotte Perriand

French architect and designer (born 1903)

Charlotte Perriand was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society. In her article "L'Art de Vivre" from 1981…

1999

Walter Berry

Austrian lyric bass-baritone (born 1929)

Walter Berry was an Austrian lyric bass-baritone who enjoyed a prominent career in opera. He has been cited as one of several exemplary operatic bass-baritones of his era.

2000

Pradeep Kumar

Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1925)

Pradeep Kumar was an Indian actor who is recognized for his work in Hindi, Punjabi and English-language films.

2001

Tom Dowd

American record producer and engineer (born 1925)

Thomas John Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recordings that…

2002

Valve Pormeister

Estonian architect (born 1922)

Valve Pormeister née Ulm was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming one of the country's most inventive…

2002

Rod Roddy

American game show announcer (born 1937)

Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy was an American radio and television announcer. He was primarily known for his role as an offstage announcer on game shows. Among the shows that Roddy announced are the CBS game shows Whew! and…

2003

Stephanie Tyrell

American songwriter and producer (born 1949)

Stephanie Georgia Manteris Tyrell was an American record producer, television composer, songwriter, and the wife of jazz composer, Steve Tyrell. She produced the soundtrack albums for The Brady Bunch Movie, Mystic Pizza…

2003

Lester Lanin

American bandleader (born 1907)

Nathaniel Lester Lanin was an American jazz and pop music bandleader. He was famous for long, smoothly arranged medleys, at a consistent rhythm and tempo, which were designed for continuous dancing. Lanin's career began…

2004

Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva

Brazilian footballer (born 1974)

Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, better known as Serginho, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a defender.

2004

Zdenko Runjić

Croatian songwriter and producer (born 1942)

Zdenko Runjić was a Croatian songwriter. His career spanned decades in the former Yugoslavia and Croatia.

2004

Jerry Cooke

Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (born 1921)

Jerry Cooke was an American photojournalist from the 1940s-1990s.

2005

Jozsef Gregor

Hungarian opera singer (born 1940)

József Gregor was a renowned Hungarian operatic bass who enjoyed success first in Hungary, then in France, Belgium and Canada, and finally in the United States. Gregor was born in Rákosliget, a small town that is now…

2006

Reko Lundán

Finnish journalist and author (born 1969)

Reko Lundán was a Finnish television presenter, writer, screen writer and journalist best known for his work on Aamu-TV in 2003. He had worked with actors such as Pasi Heikura.

2006

Marlin McKeever

American football player (born 1940)

Marlin Thomas McKeever was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) who played linebacker and tight end during his 13-year career. He was an All-American college football player at…

2006

Joe Niekro

American baseball player (born 1944)

Joseph Franklin Niekro was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 22-year baseball career, he pitched from 1967 to 1988 for seven different teams, primarily for the Houston Astros.

2006

Brad Will

American journalist and activist (born 1970)

Bradley Roland Will was an American activist, videographer, and journalist. He was affiliated with Indymedia. On October 27, 2006, during a labor dispute in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, Will was shot twice, by…

2006

Moira Lister

South African actress (born 1923)

Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of Orthez was a South African-British film, stage and television actress and writer.

2007

Chris Bryant

English actor and screenwriter (born 1936)

Christopher Bryan Spencer Dobson, who wrote for the screen as Chris Bryant, was an English screenwriter and occasional actor.

2008

Ray Ellis

American conductor and producer (born 1923)

Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist. He was responsible for the orchestration in Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin (1958).

2008

Frank Nagai

Japanese singer (born 1932)

Frank Nagai was a Japanese singer. Known for his attractive baritone voice. His real name was Kiyoto Nagai.

2008

Roy Stewart

Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (born 1925)

Roy Stewart was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.

2008

John David Carson

American actor (born 1952)

John David Carson was an American actor known for his work in film and television. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began his career as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Space Ghost (1966–1968). He…

2009

August Coppola

American author and academic (born 1934)

August Floyd Coppola was an American academic, author, film executive, and member of the Coppola family.

2009

David Shepherd

English cricketer and umpire (born 1940)

David Robert Shepherd was a first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Gloucestershire, and later became one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June…

2009

Taylor Mitchell

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1990)

Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow, known by her stage name Taylor Mitchell, was a Canadian country folk singer and songwriter from Toronto. Her debut and sole studio album, For Your Consideration (2009), received…

2009

Néstor Kirchner

Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)

Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz…

2010

James Hillman

American psychologist and author (born 1926)

James Hillman was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing…

2011

Robert Pritzker

American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (born 1926)

Robert Alan Pritzker was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Pritzker family.

2011

Terry Callier

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)

Terrence Orlando "Terry" Callier was an American soul, folk and jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter.

2012

Angelo Maria Cicolani

Italian engineer and politician (born 1952)

Angelo Maria Cicolani was an Italian politician. He was a Member of the Italian Senate from 2001 until his death, and a Quaestor in the Senate from 2011. Cicolani died in October 2012 after a long illness. He was 60.

2012

Regina Dourado

Brazilian actress (born 1952)

Regina Dourado was a Brazilian film and television actress.

2012

Hans Werner Henze

German composer and educator (born 1926)

Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools…

2012

Rodney S. Quinn

American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (born 1923)

Rodney Sharon Quinn was an American politician from Maine. A Democrat, he served as the Secretary of State of Maine from 1979 to 1988. He was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1974, after running…

2012

Göran Stangertz

Swedish actor and director (born 1944)

Göran Nils Robert Stangertz was a Swedish actor, director and artistic leader at Helsingborgsteatern. He won Sweden's most prestigious film award Guldbagge Award twice in the category best male leading role for his…

2012

Noel Davern

Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (born 1945)

Noel Davern was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister of State from 1997 to 2002 and Minister for Education from 1991 to 1992. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary South constituency from…

2013

Leonard Herzenberg

American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)

Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg was an immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University. His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their specific…

2013

Luigi Magni

Italian director and screenwriter (born 1928)

Luigi Magni was an Italian screenwriter and film director.

2013

Lou Reed

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)

Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician, songwriter and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. Although…

2013

Michael Wilkes

English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1940)

General Sir Michael John Wilkes, was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1993 to 1995.

2013

Vinko Coce

Croatian opera and pop singer (born 1954)

Vinko Coce was a prominent Croatian opera and pop singer. He is considered one of his generation's greatest representatives of Croatian music.

2013

Daniel Boulanger

French actor and screenwriter (born 1922)

Daniel Boulanger was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter.

2014

Shin Hae-chul

South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (born 1968)

Shin Hae-chul was a South Korean singer-songwriter and the frontman, vocalist of rock band N.EX.T. He was a record producer known for being a pioneer of Korean experimental rock music. He was referred to by fans as the…

2014

Starke Taylor

American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (born 1922)

Austin Starke Taylor Jr. was mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1983 to 1987, and a cotton investor.

2014

Ayerdhal

French author (born 1959)

Yal Ayerdhal was a French thriller and science fiction writer from Lyon. His later work preferred the thriller genre; Transparences, Resurgences and Rainbow Warriors play with various genres. Rainbow Warriors flirts…

2015

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury

Indian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930)

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, was an Indian clinical pharmacologist, medical academic and health planner, who headed the National Committee for formulating the policy and guidelines on drugs and clinical trials in India. He was…

2015

Betsy Drake

French-American actress and singer (born 1923)

Betsy Drake was an American actress, writer, and psychotherapist. She was the third wife of actor Cary Grant.

2015

Philip French

English journalist, critic, and producer (born 1933)

Philip Neville French was an English film critic and radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a film critic. He began writing…

2015

Takahito

Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915)

Takahito, Prince Mikasa was a Japanese prince, the youngest of the four sons of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako). He was their last surviving child. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa…

2016

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner, and chairman of King Power. He was the owner of Premier League team Leicester City from 2010 until his death in a helicopter crash just…

2018

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)

Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and first leader of the Islamic State (IS), who…

2019

Li Keqiang

premier of China (born 1955)

Li Keqiang was a Chinese politician and economist who served as Premier of China from 2013 to 2023 and was the second-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2022.

2023

Prunella Scales

English actress (born 1932)

Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) and her…

2025

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1980 — Judy LaMarsh

In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister

She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980.

Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare

As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967

After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio

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