September 27 Deaths

Hugh Hefner (1926 - 2017)

American magazine publisher

Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)

French painter

Clara Bow (1905 - 1965)

American actress

Oona O'Neill (1925 - 1991)

Bermudian-Swiss wife of Charlie Chaplin

Ram Mohan Roy (1774 - 1833)

Indian reformer

Aimee Semple McPherson (1890 - 1944)

Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Cliff Burton (1962 - 1986)

American bass player and songwriter

Donald O'Connor (1925 - 2003)

American actor, singer, and dancer

Jimmy Doolittle (1896 - 1993)

American general

Yūko Takeuchi (1980 - 2020)

Japanese actress

Herbert Lom (1917 - 2012)

Czech-English actor

Maria Rasputin (1898 - 1977)

Daughter of Grigori Rasputin; memoirist, circus performer

Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660)

French saint

Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911 - 1956)

American professional golfer, track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist

Pope Innocent XII (1615 - 1700)

Pope

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)

German composer

Anne Jeffreys (1923 - 2017)

American actor

Marty Balin (1942 - 2018)

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961)

American poet and novelist

Gracie Fields (1898 - 1979)

English singer and comedienne

William Safire (1929 - 2009)

American journalist

Aristide Maillol (1861 - 1944)

French sculptor and painter

Charles Snead Houston (1913 - 2009)

Physician; Mountaineer; Scientist; Peace Corps Administrator

Pope Urban VII (1521 - 1590)

Pope

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