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Eutropius of Orange
Bishop of Orange, France, during the 5th century
Ordoño I of Asturias
King of Asturias from 850 to 866
Simeon I of Bulgaria
First Emperor of the Bulgars from 893 to 927
Bruno (bishop of Würzburg)
Roman Catholic saint
William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
English nobleman and royal official
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
English nobleman and military commander
Eutropius of Orange — Bishop of Orange, France, during the 5th century, who died on May 27 475.
Ordoño I of Asturias — King of Asturias from 850 to 866, who died on May 27 866.
Simeon I of Bulgaria — First Emperor of the Bulgars from 893 to 927, who died on May 27 927.
Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) — Roman Catholic saint, who died on May 27 1045.
William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey — English nobleman and royal official, who died on May 27 1240.
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset — English nobleman and military commander, who died on May 27 1444.
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- 1039DDirk III of HollandCount of Holland from 993 to 1039
- 1178GGodfrey van Rhenen
- 1508
Ludovico SforzaDuke of Milan - 1525
Thomas MüntzerGerman preacher and theologian (c. 1489 – 1525) - 1541
Margaret Pole, Countess of SalisburyEnglish noblewoman and peeress - 1564
John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer - 1610
François RavaillacAssassin of King Henry IV of France - 1624
Diego Ramírez de ArellanoSpanish cosmographer and sailor - 1637JJohn Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of BrantfieldEnglish politician
- 1661
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of ArgyllGoverned Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms - 1675
Gaspard DughetFrench painter - 1690
Giovanni LegrenziItalian composer - 1702
Dominique BouhoursFrench literary critic - 1707
Madame de MontespanMost celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV - 1781
Giovanni Battista BeccariaItalian physicist - 1797
François-Noël BabeufFrench revolutionary and journalist - 1831
Jedediah SmithAmerican explorer - 1840
Niccolò PaganiniItalian violinist and composer - 1867
Thomas BulfinchAmerican compiler of mythologies - 1896
Aleksandr StoletovRussian physicist - 1910
Robert KochGerman physician and bacteriologist - 1918
Ōzutsu Man'emonJapanese sumo wrestler - 1919
Kandukuri VeeresalingamIndian social reformer - 1933
Achille ParocheFrench sport shooter - 1939
Joseph RothAustro-Hungarian novelist and journalist - 1941
Ernst LindemannGerman naval officer - 1941
Günther LütjensGerman admiral - 1942
Muhammed Hamdi YazırTurkish philosopher and theologian - 1943
Gordon CoatesPrime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928 - 1945
Enno LollingSS doctor - 1947
Ed KonetchyAmerican baseball player - 1949
Robert RipleyAmerican cartoonist
- 1953
Jesse BurkettAmerican baseball player - 1960
James Montgomery FlaggAmerican artist - 1963
Grigoris Lambrakis20th-century Greek physician, left-wing politician, and anti-war activist - 1964
Jawaharlal NehruPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 - 1965
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- 1967
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Jeffrey HunterAmerican actor - 1971BBéla JuhosHungarian-Austrian philosopher
- 1971
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- 1984
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Ismail al-FaruqiPalestinian-American Islamic scholar - 1986LLois Lamya al-FaruqiIslamic scholar of ethnomusicology
- 1986
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- 1987
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Hjördis PettersonSwedish actress - 1988
Ernst RuskaGerman physicist - 1989
Arseny TarkovskySoviet Russian poet and translator - 1990
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- 1992UUncle Charlie OsborneAmerican musician
- 1998
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- 2003
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- 2006
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- 2007
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- 2007
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- 2009
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- 2009
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- 2010
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- 2013
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- 2014
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Massimo VignelliItalian designer - 2015
Erik CarlssonSwedish rally driver - 2015
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- 2015MMichael Lou MartinAmerican philosopher
- 2017
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- 2018
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110 people with a Wikipedia article died on May 27, including Eutropius of Orange, Ordoño I of Asturias, Simeon I of Bulgaria. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
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