Famous people died on August 27

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Joe the Plumber 11

American Celebrity

Holly Lisle 7

Writer

Stevie Ray Vaughan 29

American Musician

Barbara Johnson 5

American Critic

L. Neil Smith 116

American Writer

Victor J. Stenger 13

Physicist

Brian Epstein 5

British Businessman

Edwin Louis Cole 68

American Author

John H. Disher 2

Edmond H. Fischer 3

Swiss Scientist

Sam Levenson 28

American Author

Hélder Câmara 4

Cesare Pavese 159

Italian Writer

Margaret Bourke-White 4

American Photographer

Ernest Lawrence 7

American Scientist

Lord Mountbatten 25

British Soldier

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1

British Statesman

Anandamoyi Ma 5

Hindu Saint

Gracie Allen 46

American Actress

Haile Selassie 55

Ethiopian Statesman

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges 1

Le Corbusier 22

French Architect

Ivy Compton-Burnett 18

English Novelist

W. E. B. Du Bois 96

American Sociologist

Charles Evans Hughes 40

American Judge

Constantin Brunner 8

Childe Hassam 2

American Artist

Frank Harris 13

Irish-American Writer

William Hall 2

Canadian Soldier

Frederick William Thomas 1

Writer

Thomas Chandler Haliburton 19

British Politician

Rowland Hill 2

English Inventor

John Pierpont 2

American Poet

James Thomson (poet) 56

Scottish Musician

Lope de Vega 12

Spanish Playwright

Pope Sixtus V 4

See also: Famous people born on August 27