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February 27th famous deaths

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

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2029 - 2020

Famous deaths on February 27th for the celebrities who died in the years 2029 - 2020

2021

2019 - 2010

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

2019

2018

  • Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2018)

2017

  • Boaz Vaadia was a sculptor known for his unique stone sculptures inspired by nature.

2016

2015

  • Leonard Nimoy

    American actor who was best known for his role as spock, the pointed-eared alien in "star trek," 1965-1967. before then, he was an actor for many years. his 1951 debut made him a star. he has been a rising star in dramatic roles and is well-known on the stage in "equus".

  • Russian politician and academic first deputy prime minister (d. 2015).

  • Famous for his role as Spock in the Star Trek franchise.

  • Lennie Nimoy was an accomplished author and actor, best known for his role as Spock in Star Trek.

  • Russian academic and politician, first deputy prime minister of russia (b. 1959)

2014

  • Margaret Mayer was a renowned journalist known for her investigative reporting.

  • American basketball player (d. 2014.)

  • American game designer and author (b. 1960)

2013

  • American pianist who won the 1958 international tchaikovsky piano competition in moscow. he played against over 90 international pianists. his piano lessons began at age three with rildia bee cliburn his mother, who was a concert pianist. he later studied at juilliard. his incredible virtuosity, emotional excess and blazing speed were remarkable. the quadrennial event was created by cliburn, fort …

  • Dale Robertson

    American actor and singer (d.2013)

  • Ramon Dekkers was a legendary Dutch kickboxer known for his aggressive fighting style and multiple world titles.

  • Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)

2012

2011

  • Duke Snider was a Hall of Fame center fielder who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers.

  • Last american world war i veteran (d. 2011).

  • American director and producer (b. 1961)

  • Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd prime minister of turkey (b. 1926)

2010

2009 - 2000

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

2008

  • German singer who is best known for his russian folk songs. he also performed light classics, opera and folk songs from other countries. his charisma and gusto were his trademark. his career included over 6,000 concerts, including a seven-day, two-year stint at the french opera, where he sang, along with other greats like fiddler on the roof. rebroff performed 12 …

  • American sports journalist and broadcaster known for his work covering the Pittsburgh Steelers.

  • Jr., american author and journalist, founded the national review (b. 1925)

  • American automobile designer (born 1944)

2007

2006

  • American publisher of los angeles times, who succeeded his father in april 1960. he was the son norman chandler and dorothy chandler. they were newspaper family scions for six generations. the paper was purchased by general harrison gray otis for $6,000. otis chandler took over as publisher on the 4/11/1960. his mother was a tireless fund-raiser and civic leader. her …

  • English actress and comedian (d. 2006).

  • Jr., american general and author (b. 1908)

  • Jr., u.s. general, flying tiger and author (born 1908).

2005

2004

  • Japanese historian, author, and academic (d. 2004)

  • The monthly review was founded by american economist and publisher, d. 2004.

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 …

  • English-australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)

2002

  • Spike Milligan

    British writer and director. he is best known for his "the goon show" radio series that began on 5/28/1951. it featured spike milligan and peter sellers as well as harry decombe, harry decombe, michael bentine, and harry decombe. he is the son of a british soldier and was born in india, burma, and ceylon. he arrived in england in 1933. …

1999 - 1990

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

1999

  • American jazz composer and pianist. in 1961, he founded the pan afrikan peoples arkestra, also known as p.a.p.a. or the ark. he led the group through the 1990s. tapscott's arkestra featured jimmy woods, stanley crouch and wilber morris. tapscott's work and the ucla horace tapscott jazz collection are his subjects. he passed away in los angeles, california on february 27, …

1998

  • American physician and pharmacologist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1998)

  • American character actor known for his roles in films like 'A Few Good Men'.

  • American actor (b. 1943)

1997

  • American sociologist known for his work on population studies.

1996

1995

1994

1993

  • 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

1992

1991

1989 - 1980

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

1989

  • Austrian zoologist who was awarded the nobel prize in physiology or medicine (d.89)

  • Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize winner known for his work on animal behavior.

  • Actor (rage rapid, deathtrap and shivers), dies in 66

1987

1986

  • 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

1982

1980

  • 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

1978

1977

1974

  • Toledo ohio actor (roy rodgers show), died at 59

1973

1972

  • American actor and singer (born 1914).

1970

1969 - 1960

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

1969

1968

1964

  • Australian-american costume designer (b. 1897)

1962

1961

1960

  • 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

1955

  • Trixie Friganza was an American actress known for her work in vaudeville and silent films.

  • Comedy comedian, "it pays to be ignorant", dies at the age of 66.

1952

1950

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.

1941

1940

1939 - 1930

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

1939

1937

  • Renowned Romanian painter known for his landscape and portrait paintings.

  • Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)

  • American saint, foundress of the society of the companions of the holy cross (b. 1862)

1936

  • Russian physiologist and physician, nobel prize laureate (b. 1849)

  • 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), …

  • American judge and politician, 2nd united states secretary of commerce (b. 1852)

  • U.s. secretary for commerce under woodrow wilson (born 1852)

  • Russian physiologist (reflexes nobel prize 1904), is dead at 86.

1934

  • Prominent Catalan sculptor known for his expressive works.

1932

1931

1929 - 1920

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

1929

1923

1921

1920

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

1906

1902

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