Notable Deaths on September 27

Q: Who died on September 27?

Notable people who died on September 27 include: Pugu Huai'en, Kyŏn Hwŏn, Vekenega, Bonfilius, Richeza of Berg.

Q: What is Felice della Rovere known for?

Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (born 1483)

102 people 765 – 2025

September 27 has seen 102 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 765 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1536 — Felice della Rovere

illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (born 1483)

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One of the most powerful women of the Italian Renaissance, she was born in Rome around 1483 to Lucrezia Normanni and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere

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Felice was well educated, became accepted into close courtly circles of aristocratic families, and formed friendships with scholars and poets through her education and genuine interest in humanism

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In particular, she negotiated peace between Julius II and the Queen of France, and held the position of Orsini Signora for over a decade following the death of her husband in 1517

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Felice della Rovere, also known as Madonna Felice, was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II

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Through the influence of her father, including an arranged marriage to Gian Giordano Orsini, she wielded extraordinary wealth and influence both within and beyond the Roman Curia

Pugu Huai'en

Chinese general during the Tang dynasty

Pugu Huai'en, formally the Prince of Da'ning (大寧王), was a general of the Chinese Tang dynasty of Tiele ancestry. He was instrumental in the final suppression of the Anshi Rebellion, but rebelled against Emperor Daizong…

765

Kyŏn Hwŏn

king of Later Baekje (born 867)

Kyŏn Hwŏn was the king and founder of Later Baekje, one of the Later Three Kingdoms of Korea, and reigned from 892 to 935. Some records render his name as Chin Hwŏn. He was also the progenitor of the Hwanggan Kyŏn clan.…

936

Vekenega

Croatian Benedictine abbess

Vekenega was a Croatian Benedictine nun from the House of Madi, a noble family from Zadar. She was the daughter of Čika and took over from her mother as abbess of the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar some…

1111

Bonfilius

Italian saint and bishop of Foligno (bornc. 1040)

Bonfilius was an Italian saint, monk and bishop.

1115

Richeza of Berg

Duchess of Bohemia (born c.1095)

Richeza of Berg was Duchess of Bohemia from 1111 to 1117 and again from 1120 until 1125, by her marriage with the Přemyslid duke Vladislav I.

1125

Renaud de Courtenay

Anglo-Norman nobleman (born 1125)

Renaud de Courtenay, was seigneur of Courtenay and fought in the Second Crusade with Louis VII of France. His fate is unknown, either losing his lands from an argument with Louis VII or dying on crusade and his lands…

1194

Raymond VII

Count of Toulouse (born 1197)

Raymond VII was Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death.

1249

William of Wykeham

English bishop (born 1320)

William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of works when much of…

1404

Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born 1497)

Emperor Go-Nara was the 105th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from June 9, 1526, until his death in 1557, during the Sengoku period of the Muromachi Bakufu. His personal…

1557

Pope Urban VII (born 1521)

Pope Urban VII, born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was head of the Catholic Church, and ruler of the Papal States from 15 to 27 September 1590. His papacy was the shortest recognized in history.

1590

Piotr Skarga

Polish Jesuit and polemicist (born 1536)

Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish…

1612

John VII

Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1561)

Count John VII the Middle of Nassau-Siegen, German: Johann VII. der Mittlere Graf von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein, was since 1606 Count of…

1623

Lorenzo Ruiz

Filipino saint (born c.1600)

Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by…

1637

Maximilian I

Elector of Bavaria (born 1573)

Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a prince-elector…

1651

Olimpia Maidalchini

Roman noble (born 1591)

Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, Princess of San Martino, , was the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (Pamphili). She was perceived by her contemporaries as having influence regarding papal appointments.

1657

Vincent de Paul

French priest and saint (born 1581)

Vincent de Paul, CM was a French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor and is best known for founding the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity.

1660

Robert Arnauld d'Andilly

French writer (born 1589)

Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the major poets, writers and translators of…

1674

Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)

Pope Innocent XII, born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 until his death in September 1700.

1700

George Smalridge

English bishop (born 1662)

George Smalridge was Bishop of Bristol (1714–1719).

1719

Laurence Eusden

English poet and author (born 1688)

Laurence Eusden was an English poet who became Britain's youngest Poet Laureate in 1718.

1730

Peter Artedi

Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (born 1705)

Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist and collaborator of Carolus Linnaeus. He is sometimes known as the "father of ichthyology" for his pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups.

1735

Hugh Boulter

Irish archbishop (born 1672)

Hugh Boulter was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death. He also served as the chaplain to George I from 1719.

1742

Étienne Bézout

French mathematician and theorist (born 1730)

Étienne Bézout was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon, France.

1783

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

German philosopher and author (born 1781)

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher whose doctrines became known as Krausism. Krausism, when considered in its totality as a complete, stand-alone philosophical system, had only a small following in…

1832

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Indian humanitarian and reformer (born 1772)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian social reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He…

1833

Bernard Courtois

French chemist and pharmacist (born 1777)

Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, was a French chemist credited with first isolating iodine, making early photography possible.

1838

Braxton Bragg

American general (born 1817)

Braxton Bragg was an American military officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War. He later served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War, seeing action in the Western Theater. His most…

1876

Charles Gordon Greene

American journalist and politician (born 1804)

Charles Gordon Greene was an American journalist.

1886

Ivan Goncharov

Russian author and critic (born 1812)

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

1891

Thomas Joseph Byrnes

Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (born 1860)

Thomas Joseph Byrnes was an Australian politician and barrister. He was Premier of Queensland from April 1898 until his death in September of the same year, having previously served in several ministerial positions in…

1898

Auguste Michel-Lévy

French geologist and academic (born 1844)

Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.

1911

Remy de Gourmont

French novelist, poet, and critic (born 1858)

Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is…

1915

Edgar Degas

French painter and sculptor (born 1834)

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

1917

Adelina Patti

Italian-French opera singer (born 1843)

Adela Juana Maria Patti, commonly known as Adelina Patti was a Spanish-Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang…

1919

Engelbert Humperdinck

German composer and educator (born 1854)

Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).

1921

Ellen Willmott

English horticulturalist (born 1858)

Ellen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour, awarded to British horticulturists living in the…

1934

Alan Gray

English composer and organist (born 1855)

Alan Gray was an English organist and composer.

1935

Walter Benjamin

German philosopher and critic (born 1892)

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and…

1940

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value…

1940

Douglas Albert Munro

United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (born 1919)

Douglas Albert Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal…

1942

Aimee Semple McPherson

Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (born 1890)

Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and '30s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson…

1944

Gerald Finzi

English composer and educator (born 1901)

Gerald Raphael Finzi was an English composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and string…

1956

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

American basketball player and golfer (born 1911)

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics before…

1956

Sylvia Pankhurst

English activist (born 1882)

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East…

1960

H.D.

American poet, novelist, and memoirist (born 1886)

Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group…

1961

Clara Bow

American actress (born 1905)

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought…

1965

William Stanier

English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (born 1876)

Sir William Arthur Stanier was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

1965

Felix Yusupov

Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1887)

Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina…

1967

S. R. Ranganathan

Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (born 1892)

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was an Indian librarian and mathematician. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification…

1972

Silvio Frondizi

Argentinian lawyer and academic (born 1907)

Silvio Frondizi was an Argentine intellectual and lawyer, brother of President Arturo Frondizi and of the philosopher Risieri Frondizi. He became active in leftist groups, and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple A…

1974

Jack Lang

Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1876)

John Thomas "Jack" Lang, nicknamed as The Big Fella, was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1932. He was the state leader of the Australian…

1975

Gracie Fields

English actress and singer (born 1898)

Dame Gracie Fields was a British actress, singer and comedian. A star of cinema and music hall, she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the…

1979

Jimmy McCulloch

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)

James McCulloch was a Scottish musician best known for playing lead guitar and bass as a member of Paul McCartney's band Wings from 1974 to 1977. McCulloch was a member of the Glasgow psychedelic band One in a Million,…

1979

Robert Montgomery

American actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1904)

Robert Montgomery was an American actor, director, and producer. He began his acting career on the stage, but was soon hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Initially assigned roles in comedies, he soon proved he was able…

1981

Wilfred Burchett

Australian journalist and author (born 1911)

Wilfred Graham Burchett was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the…

1983

Chronis Exarhakos

Greek actor (born 1932)

Hronis Exarhakos was a Greek actor.

1984

Lloyd Nolan

American actor (born 1902)

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creating the role of Captain Queeg in Herman…

1985

Cliff Burton

American bass player and songwriter (born 1962)

Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician who served as the bassist for the heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship and influence.

1986

Joe Hulme

English footballer and cricketer (born 1904)

Joseph Harold Anthony Hulme was an English footballer and cricketer.

1991

Zhang Leping

Chinese comic artist (born 1910)

Zhang Leping was a Chinese comic artist born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. He played a key role in the development of modern manhua in China, and is mostly remembered for his creation of the manhua Sanmao.

1992

Jimmy Doolittle

American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896)

James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early…

1993

Fraser MacPherson

Canadian saxophonist and educator (born 1928)

John Fraser MacPherson CM was a Canadian jazz musician from Saint Boniface, Manitoba.

1993

Mohammad Najibullah

Afghan physician and politician, seventh President of Afghanistan (born 1947)

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as the fifth president of Afghanistan from 1987 until his resignation in April 1992, shortly after the Afghan mujahideen's takeover…

1996

Walter Trampler

American viola player and educator (born 1915)

Walter Trampler was a German musician and teacher of the viola and viola d'amore.

1997

Doak Walker

American football player (born 1927)

Ewell Doak Walker II was an American football player who was a halfback and kicker. He played college football for the SMU Mustangs, winning the Maxwell Award in 1947 and the Heisman Trophy in 1948. He then played…

1998

Jean Lucas

French racing driver (born 1927)

Jean Lucas was a French racing driver. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on 11 September 1955. Lucas was then manager of the Gordini team, and when regular driver Robert Manzon was unable…

2003

Donald O'Connor

American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1925)

Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule.

2003

John E. Mack

American psychiatrist and author (born 1929)

John Edward Mack was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize…

2004

Ronald Golias

Brazilian comedian and actor (born 1929)

Ronald Golias was a Brazilian comedian and actor.

2005

Mary Lee Settle

American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (born 1918)

Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

2005

Helmut Kallmeyer

German chemist and soldier (born 1910)

Helmut Kallmeyer was a German chemist in the era of National Socialism. He served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery for gasification methods. Later, he worked in the Technical Institute for the Detection of…

2006

Dale Houston

American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Dale & Grace was an American singing duo consisting of Dale Houston and Grace Broussard. They had two Billboard chart hits. The first was the No. 1 gold record "I'm Leaving It Up to You" in 1963. "Stop and Think It…

2007

Kenji Nagai

Japanese photographer and journalist (born 1957)

Kenji Nagai was a Japanese photojournalist who took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world.

2007

Henri Pachard

American director and producer (born 1939)

Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan .

2008

Ivan Dykhovichny

Russian director and screenwriter (born 1947)

Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny was a Russian film director and screenwriter.

2009

Balaji Sadasivan

Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (born 1955)

Balaji Sadasivan was a Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon. He attended Raffles Institution, Siglap Secondary School and National Junior College, and studied medicine at the University of Singapore. After graduating…

2010

David Croft

English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Major David John Croft was an English television comedy screenwriter, television producer and director. He produced and wrote a string of BBC sitcoms with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd, including Dad's Army, Are…

2011

Imre Makovecz

Hungarian architect (born 1935)

Imre Makovecz was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.

2011

Johnny "Country" Mathis

American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

"Country" Johnny Mathis was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a successful solo performer and one half of the duo Jimmy & Johnny. Mathis is credited with penning more than 500 tunes over the course…

2011

Eddie Bert

American trombonist (born 1922)

Edward Joseph Bertolatus, also known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist.

2012

Herbert Lom

Czech-English actor (born 1917)

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and precise, elegant elocution saw him cast…

2012

Oscar Castro-Neves

Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

Oscar Castro-Neves, was a Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in bossa nova.

2013

Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez

Spanish sherry maker and conservationist (born 1923)

Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Marquis of Bonanza was a Spanish sherry maker and a conservationist. Most of his life he worked for the family company, González Byass, where he increased its exports to a worldwide…

2013

Gaby Aghion

French fashion designer, founded Chloé (born 1921)

Gabrielle Aghion was a French fashion designer and founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase prêt-à-porter.

2014

Wally Hergesheimer

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1927)

Walter Edgar Hergesheimer was a Canadian ice hockey forward.

2014

Abdelmajid Lakhal

Tunisian actor and director (born 1939)

Abdelmajid Lakhal was a Tunisian theatre and film actor and theatre director. He was considered to be a professional and versatile interpreter. Recently, he performed classical pieces translated into Arabic, at the…

2014

James Traficant

American lawyer and politician (born 1941)

James Anthony Traficant Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. A staunch economic populist known for his flamboyant personality, he…

2014

Syed Ahmed

Indian author and politician, 16th Governor of Manipur (born 1945)

Syed Ahmed was an Indian politician, author and a member of the Congress Party. He was sworn in as the Governor of Manipur on 16 May 2015, but only served four months before dying in office on 27 September. During his…

2015

Pietro Ingrao

Italian journalist and politician (born 1915)

Pietro Ingrao was an Italian politician and journalist who participated in the Italian resistance movement. For many years, he was a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).

2015

Kallen Pokkudan

Indian activist and author (born 1937)

Kallen Pokkudan, also known as Kandal Pokkudan, was an Indian environmental activist and writer from Kerala. He was known for his efforts for the protection and proliferation of the mangrove forests in Kerala, since…

2015

Frank Tyson

English-Australian cricketer, coach, and journalist (born 1930)

Frank Holmes Tyson was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon…

2015

Hugh Hefner

American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)

Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs, quality articles and fiction, and lengthy…

2017

Kavita Mahajan

Indian author and translator (born 1967)

Kavita Mahajan was an Indian author and translator who wrote in Marathi. She is noted for her critically acclaimed novels Brr (2005), Bhinna (2007) and Kuhoo (2011), as well as a non-fiction work Graffiti Wall (2009).…

2018

Michael Payton

American football quarterback (born 1970)

Michael Payton was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd, where he won the 1992 Walter Payton Award. After college, he played one season in the Arena Football…

2018

Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji

Indian nobleman and politician (born 1935)

Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji Jadeja was an Indian politician.

2018

Marty Balin

American singer, co-founder of the band Jefferson Airplane (born 1942)

Martyn Jerel Buchwald, known as Marty Balin, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

2018

Madeleine Tchicaya

Ivorian politician (born 1930)

Madeleine Tchicaya was an Ivorian politician. She is known for being the first female graduate of the National School of Administration.

2021

Michael Gambon

Irish-English actor (born 1940)

Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three…

2023

Hassan Nasrallah

Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)

Hassan Nasrallah was a Lebanese Shia cleric, a militant, and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.

2024

Maggie Smith

English actress (born 1934)

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith was a British actress. Known for her wit in both comedic and dramatic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen for over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable…

2024

Russell M. Nelson

17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1924)

Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before becoming church…

2025

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Known forOne of the most powerful women of the Italian Renaissance, she was born in Rome around 1483 to Lucrezia Normanni and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere

Deaths on this date102 (765 – 2025)

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