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Who died on 27 May?
Celebrities who died on 27 May
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Gregg Allman
American recording artist; musician, singer-songwriter
Larry Kramer
American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist
Bill Buckner
American baseball player
Sam Johnson
American politician; U.S. Representative for Texas
Jeffrey Hunter
actor
Jeff Conaway
American actor
Carla Fracci
Italian ballet dancer and actress
Angelo Sodano
cardinal of the Catholic Church
Foster Friess
American businessman
Alex Toth
Cartoonist
Lorina Kamburova
Bulgarian actress
Chips Rafferty
actor
Peggy Pope
American actress
Cornelis de Jager
Dutch astronomer, university professor, pioneer of space science, science communicator and opponent of pseudoscience
Joseph Roth
austrian novelist and journalist
Oscar Lambert
American football and baseball player
Jaime Lerner
Brazilian politician and architect
Vasilije Mokranjac
Serbian composer
Samella Lewis
African American artist, art historian, art collector and art critic
Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif
Indonesian academic
William C. Heiss
American football player and coach of multiple sports
Duncan Thompson
Australian tennis player
Michael Sela
Israeli immunologist
Poul Schlüter
Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Veeru Devgan
Indian filmmaker, Ajay Devgn's father
Robert Hogan
American actor
Nelson Sargento
Brazilian musician
Peter Millett, Baron Millett
British judge
George Zucco
actor
Margo Dydek
Polish basketball player
Werner Stocker
German actor
Donald H. Peterson
American astronaut
Rani
Pakistani actress and model
Tony Horwitz
American journalist
Florida Friebus
Actress, screenwriter
Jesse Burkett
Major League Baseball outfielder
Ruth McDevitt
actress
Patrick Sky
American singer
Howard Porter
American basketball player
Ed Konetchy
American baseball player
Edward Brophy
American actor and comedian
János Pilinszky
Hungarian writer
Little Tony
Sammarinese rock singer
John DiFronzo
American mobster
Helma Sanders-Brahms
German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress
Gretchen Wyler
Actress, dancer, animal rights activist
Guy Jansen
New Zealand music educator and choral musician
Laurie Hendren
Canadian computer scientist