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May 27th
118 Notable deaths
Arseny Tarkovsky
Soviet poet and translator.
Born June 24th, 1907 in Kropyvnytskyi. [ref]
Died May 27th, 1989 at 81 years old in Moscow (disease). [ref]
William Wallace Denslow
American illustrator and caricaturist.
Born May 5th, 1856 in Philadelphia.
Died May 27th, 1915 at 59 years old in Knickerbocker Hospital (pneumonia). [ref]
Little Tony
Sammarinese rock singer (1941-2013).
Born February 9th, 1941 in Tivoli.
Died May 27th, 2013 at 72 years old in Rome (lung cancer).
Franz Künstler
German centenarian, austro-hungarian military personnel of world war i.
Born July 24th, 1900 in Șoșdea.
Died May 27th, 2008 at 107 years old in Bad Mergentheim. [ref]
Clive Granger
British economist.
Born September 4th, 1934 in Swansea. [ref]
Died May 27th, 2009 at 74 years old in La Jolla. [ref]
Murray MacLehose
British politician (1917-2000).
Born October 16th, 1917 in Glasgow. [ref]
Died May 27th, 2000 at 82 years old in Ayrshire. [ref]
Poul Schlüter
Danish politician (1929-2021).
Born April 3rd, 1929 in Tønder.
Died May 27th, 2021 at 92 years old in Frederiksberg. [ref]
Ilya Kabakov
Soviet and american conceptual artist.
Born September 30th, 1933 in Dnipro. [ref]
Died May 27th, 2023 at 89 years old in Long Island. [ref]
Juan Ramón Verón
Argentine footballer.
Born March 17th, 1944 in La Plata.
Died May 27th, 2025 at 81 years old in La Plata. [ref]
George Boolos
Philosopher and mathematical logician (1940-1996).
Born September 4th, 1940 in New York City.
Died May 27th, 1996 at 55 years old in Cambridge.
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