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February 27th famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on February 27th

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2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

2011
  • American professional football player (Born in 1926)

  • Last American World War I veteran (d. 2011).

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

200820072006200520042003
  • English-Australian composer, conductor (d. 2003).

  • American actor, who is known as Mr. Rogers. He is a screenwriter and producer and a writer of children's literature. Fred Rogers, a veteran actor and screenwriter, greeted children for the final time on "Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood", his PBS TV program. His career lasted 34 years. The showaEUR(tm), which has producers from PBS, hopes to transition into reruns without too …

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

1996199519941993
  • American actress and star of silent film. Although she was a star on the stage, she was not as bright in "talkies". Two-year-old sister Dorothy was also featured in many films after 1912. She was a natural actress and acted in over 100 films during a career that lasted 75 years.

  • Lillian Gish

    American actress and star of silent film. Although she was a star on the stage, she was not as bright in "talkies". Two-year-old sister Dorothy was also featured in many films after 1912. She was a natural actress and acted in over 100 films during a career that lasted 75 years.

  • Actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72

19921991

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

198919871986
  • Canadian hockey player known as "Jake The Snake". A 19-season NHL goalie with the Montreal Canadians 1952-1973. He won five Stanley Cup Championships consecutively.

1985
  • Huffman Coding was developed by an American computer scientist (d. 1999).

  • American politician (Senator-Republican/diplomat) dies at age 82.

19821980
  • American actor Abner Kravitz – Bewitched, dies at the age of 78 (born in 1901).

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

197819771974
  • Toledo Ohio actor (Roy Rodgers Show), died at 59

19731972
  • American actor and singer (Born 1914).

1970

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

196919681964196219611960
  • Italian industrialist, member of the Italian parliament. Camillo, the founder's son, expanded Olivetti and added economic and social privileges to workers.

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

1958
  • CEO of Columbia Pictures, dies from a heart attack

1956
  • Music at Meadowbrook Orchestra leader, dies at 54

1955
  • Comedy comedian, "It Pays To Be Ignorant", dies at the age of 66.

19521950

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

1945
  • Dutch chaplain / resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen

1943
  • Greek poet twice nominated to the Nobel prize (Born in 1859).

1942
  • Dutch Rear Admiral (Java Sea), killed while in action at the age of 52.

19411940

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

19391936
  • Russian physiologist, best known for his work on classical conditioning. Pavlov was an intellectual genius from his childhood. He also had an extraordinary energy that he called "the instinct for research". Pavlov was inspired by the innovative ideas that D. I. Pisarev (the most eminent Russian literary critics in the 1860s) and I. M. Sechenov (the father of Russian physiology), …

  • U.S. Secretary for Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (Born 1852)

  • Russian physiologist (reflexes Nobel Prize 1904), is dead at 86.

1932

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

192919231920

1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

1913

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

1902
  • Australian soldier executed in Second Boer War (Born 1869).

  • Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (Born 1864).

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