Notable Deaths - 1927
1927 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
O'Kane Conwell, Virtuous Wives |
Jan 3 |
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856) |
Jan 4 |
Mévisto, Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor |
Jan 7 |
Frank L. Stanton, Smile |
Jan 9 |
Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 |
Jan 9 |
Sgt. Jiggs, The New Aunt |
Jan 10 |
Travers Vale, Betsy Ross |
Jan 13 |
Arnold Daly, The Exploits of Elaine |
Jan 17 |
Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, dies of breast cancer at 66 |
Jan 19 |
Carlota of Mexico, princess of Belgium and empress consort of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86 |
Jan 21 |
Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 |
Jan 21 |
Oszkár Damó, Ali rózsáskertje |
Jan 26 |
Charles Warren, |
Jan 27 |
Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army |
Jan 27 |
Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop |
Jan 27 |
Victoria Monks, The Love Song |
Jan 29 |
Grace Studdiford, The Branded Woman |
Jan 29 |
Cécile Guyon, Les filles du saltimbanque |
Jan 30 |
Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64 |
Jan 30 |
Ferdinando Russo, Il buon ladrone |
Jan 31 |
Rudolf Del Zopp, Der Dornenweg |
Feb 3 |
Leopold Strassmeyer, Viererzug |
Feb 4 |
Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74 |
Feb 5 |
Inayat Khan, Indian sufi |
Feb 6 |
Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71 |
Feb 6 |
Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879) |
Feb 13 |
Brooks Adams, US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78 |
Feb 19 |
Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85 |
Feb 19 |
Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80 |
Feb 19 |
Georg Brandes, Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder |
Feb 23 |
Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79 |
Feb 25 |
Lynn Reynolds, Sky High |
Feb 27 |
Roi Cooper Megrue, The Bachelor |
Feb 27 |
Stjepan Bojnicic, Gricka vjestica |
Mar 3 |
Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878) |
Mar 3 |
J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884) |
Mar 3 |
Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Ssanin |
Mar 4 |
Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846) |
Mar 5 |
Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840) |
Mar 6 |
Sophus Erhardt, The Firefly |
Mar 7 |
Leo Friedman, Out of Sight |
Mar 12 |
Georges Docquois, A Pair of White Gloves |
Mar 13 |
Helen Howard, My Wild Irish Rose |
Mar 15 |
Joseph Harker, Henry VIII |
Mar 17 |
James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83 |
Mar 17 |
Charles Emmett Mack, The Unknown Soldier |
Mar 23 |
Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859) |
Mar 26 |
Eddie Diggins, Goat Getter |
Mar 27 |
Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842) |
Mar 27 |
Klaus Berntsen, Kong Christian X's proklamation |
Mar 28 |
Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 |
Mar 29 |
LeRoy Armstrong, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River |
Mar 30 |
Hakon Ahnfelt-Rønne, The Isle of the Dead |
Mar 31 |
Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875) |
Apr 1 |
Rube Miller, Rube's Hotel Tangle |
Apr 10 |
Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies |
Apr 12 |
Sam Sihvo, Soldier's Bride |
Apr 15 |
Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 |
Apr 15 |
Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868) |
Apr 15 |
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera |
Apr 17 |
Gilda Leary, The Seventh Noon |
Apr 24 |
Robert Steidl, Auf der Radrennbahn in Friedenau |
Apr 25 |
Earle Williams, The Scarlet Runner |
Apr 27 |
Tom Kerrick, Men in the Raw |
Apr 30 |
Djuro Sudeta, Mor |
May 1 |
Harald Sohlman, Hon fick platsen |
May 1 |
Genevieve Townsend, A Girl of London |
May 2 |
Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866) |
May 2 |
Katherine Corri Harris, The House of Mirth |
May 3 |
Ernest Ball, Flyboys |
May 4 |
Norman Osunn, Fighting Love |
May 5 |
Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies |
May 6 |
Hudson Maxim, Hudson Maxim |
May 7 |
Clem Easton, The Trail of the Upper Yukon |
May 7 |
Bruce McRae, The Chain Invisible |
May 8 |
Georg Grönroos, Ingeborg Holm |
May 8 |
Charles Nungesser, The Sky Raider |
May 9 |
Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies |
May 11 |
Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 |
May 11 |
Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40 |
May 13 |
Heinrich Peer, Im stillen Ozean |
May 16 |
Sam Bernard, Because He Loved Her |
May 17 |
Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884) |
May 18 |
Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer commits suicide (b. 1872) |
May 18 |
Maurice Mouvet, The Quest of Life |
May 21 |
Gordon Standing, Outlaws of the Sea |
May 25 |
Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876) |
May 26 |
Béla Szenes, Az okos mama |
May 27 |
J. Alfred Tanner, The Vagabond's Valse |
May 27 |
Oscar Stribolt, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
May 28 |
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies |
May 28 |
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878) |
May 31 |
Giuseppe Campanari, Webb Singing Pictures |
May 31 |
Benedito Calixto, Amor e Boemia |
Jun 1 |
J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861) |
Jun 1 |
Lizzie Andrew Borden, Dance Theatre of Harlem: Fall River Legend |
Jun 2 |
Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67 |
Jun 2 |
Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85 |
Jun 2 |
Lizzie Borden, American, acquitted of murder, dies at 68 |
Jun 2 |
Bror Nernst, Cirkus Bimbini |
Jun 3 |
Einar Hanson, The Joyless Street |
Jun 4 |
Czeslaw Knapczynski, Ludzie bez jutra |
Jun 4 |
Robert McKim, The Mark of Zorro |
Jun 5 |
Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89 |
Jun 6 |
Robert Hilliard, The Ex-Convict |
Jun 6 |
William K. Ziegfeld, The Black Panther's Cub |
Jun 7 |
Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered |
Jun 7 |
Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847) |
Jun 8 |
Polin, Papillon dit Lyonnais Le Juste |
Jun 9 |
Victoria Woodhull, American woman's suffrage leader and first woman to be nominated for US presidency dies aged 88 |
Jun 11 |
William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies |
Jun 13 |
Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82 |
Jun 13 |
Albert Price, Noedebo Vicarage |
Jun 13 |
Marie Sloot, La renzoni |
Jun 14 |
Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79 |
Jun 14 |
Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894) |
Jun 14 |
Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859) |
Jun 14 |
Sam Ehrlich, When My Baby Smiles at Me |
Jun 14 |
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat |
Jun 20 |
Clara Louise Burnham, Heart's Haven |
Jun 29 |
Frank A. Vanderlip, The Dollar and the Law |
Jul 2 |
Julius Elias, Wenn der junge Wein blüht |
Jul 3 |
Harry L. Franklin, The Secret Gift |
Jul 5 |
Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853) |
Jul 6 |
Emmy Raabe-Burg, The Missing Woman |
Jul 7 |
Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846) |
Jul 9 |
John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853) |
Jul 9 |
Gregory Kelly, The Show Off |
Jul 10 |
Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated |
Jul 13 |
James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies |
Jul 17 |
Florence Roberts, Sapho |
Jul 18 |
Ludwik Dybizbanski, Tajemnica pokoju nr 100 |
Jul 20 |
Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61 |
Jul 20 |
Mortimer E. Stinson, Hold Your Horses |
Jul 21 |
J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies |
Jul 23 |
Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74 |
Jul 23 |
Reginald Dyer, |
Jul 24 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892) |
Jul 24 |
Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon |
Jul 25 |
Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies |
Jul 25 |
Matilde Serao, Episode #1.4 |
Jul 26 |
June Mathis, Greed |
Jul 26 |
Gustaf Uddgren, Miss Julie |
Jul 26 |
Federico De Roberto, I vicerè |
Jul 28 |
Virginia Chester, The Yaqui Girl |
Jul 30 |
Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies |
Jul 30 |
Robert de Flers, Ihana seikkailu |
Aug 4 |
John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75 |
Aug 4 |
Marianne Abonyi, Az ördög mátkája |
Aug 5 |
Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies |
Aug 5 |
Ilmari Mattson, Elämän maantiellä |
Aug 13 |
James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49 |
Aug 13 |
James Oliver Curwood, The Bear |
Aug 17 |
Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged |
Aug 23 |
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass |
Aug 23 |
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, |
Aug 25 |
Georgia Woodthorpe, Kultur |
Aug 27 |
Nicola Sacco, |
Aug 27 |
Manuel Jovés, Gran Casino |
Aug 29 |
Emil Sondermann, Die zweite Mutter |
Sep 5 |
Marcus Loew, The Saphead |
Sep 8 |
Walter Spencer, None So Blind |
Sep 12 |
Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61 |
Sep 12 |
Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847) |
Sep 14 |
Isadora Duncan, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel |
Sep 14 |
Isadora Duncan, Isadora |
Sep 14 |
Arthur Bourchier, The Great Day |
Sep 15 |
Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 |
Sep 15 |
Bruno Rahn, Dirnentragödie |
Sep 16 |
Elfie Fay, Kid Tricks |
Sep 19 |
Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849) |
Sep 20 |
George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62 |
Sep 22 |
Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44 |
Sep 24 |
Joseph Klein, A Venetian Night |
Sep 27 |
Leopold Wharton, The Exploits of Elaine |
Sep 29 |
Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67 |
Sep 29 |
Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858) |
Oct 1 |
Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68 |
Oct 2 |
Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies |
Oct 2 |
John Dalzell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
Oct 5 |
Sam Warner, A Dangerous Adventure |
Oct 8 |
Mary Webb, Gone to Earth |
Oct 8 |
Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra |
Oct 10 |
Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874) |
Oct 10 |
August Kitzberg, Libahunt |
Oct 10 |
Robert Scholz, Wenn der junge Wein blüht |
Oct 13 |
Hughie Mack, How Fatty Made Good |
Oct 13 |
William Le Queux, Sadounah |
Oct 18 |
Frederik Henriksen, Fodsporet |
Oct 19 |
Tom Lewis, Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
Oct 19 |
Oskar Fuchs, The Dance to Death |
Oct 20 |
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78 |
Oct 22 |
Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30 |
Oct 22 |
Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876) |
Oct 22 |
Borisav Stankovic, Sofka |
Oct 27 |
Emmi Elert, Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach |
Oct 27 |
Volmer Hjorth-Clausen, Detektivens barnepige |
Oct 28 |
Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 |
Oct 29 |
Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45 |
Oct 31 |
Charles O. Seessel, Anne of Green Gables |
Oct 31 |
John Luther Long, Harakiri |
Nov 1 |
Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32 |
Nov 3 |
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860) |
Nov 3 |
Karel Matej Capek-Chod, Humoreska |
Nov 4 |
Valli Valli, Her Debt of Honor |
Nov 5 |
Marceline, The Mishaps of Marceline |
Nov 9 |
Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77 |
Nov 10 |
István Szomaházy, The Office Girl |
Nov 11 |
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory, dies at 70 |
Nov 12 |
Jere Austin, Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler |
Nov 15 |
Garry McGarry, The Wrong Mr. Wright |
Nov 17 |
Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44 |
Nov 18 |
Emma Carus, Actors' Fund Field Day |
Nov 20 |
Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56 |
Nov 23 |
S Przybyszewski, writer, dies |
Nov 23 |
Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Mocny czlowiek |
Nov 26 |
Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47 |
Nov 28 |
Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies |
Nov 29 |
George Giffen, cricketer (251 FC games, 11758 runs, 1023 wkts), dies |
Nov 29 |
Henry W. Savage, Excuse Me |
Dec 1 |
Cora Williams, One Way to Advertise |
Dec 4 |
Alexander Kolowrat, Pampulik hat Hunger |
Dec 12 |
Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67 |
Dec 14 |
Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842) |
Dec 15 |
Romaine Fielding, The Rattlesnake |
Dec 16 |
Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88 |
Dec 18 |
Diana Miller, The Rainbow Trail |
Dec 20 |
Courtice Pounds, The Broken Melody |
Dec 21 |
Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies |
Dec 21 |
Axel Ringvall, Life in the Country |
Dec 25 |
Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 |
Dec 25 |
Frederick Lewis, Bought |
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