From: famous.deaths.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France, dies at 47   
      
   1773 - Philippe Buache, French geographer and cartographer (pioneered use of   
   contour lines), dies at 72   
      
   1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral in the American   
   Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at 92   
      
   1850 - Philipp Roth, German composer, dies at 70   
      
   1936 - Johnny Golden, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1922, 26, 27 3rd; Ryder Cup   
   1927, 29 [3-0-0 record]; 9 x PGA Tour titles), dies of pneumonia at 39   
      
   1995 - Geoffrey Parsons, Australian-British concert pianist, accompanist, and   
   harpsichord player. dies of cancer at 65   
      
   2009 - John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)   
      
   2012 - Kevin White, American politician, dies at 82   
      
   2022 - Charanjit Singh, Indian field hockey captain (Olympic gold 1964, silver   
   1960), dies from a heart attack at 90   
      
   2023 - Sylvia Syms, English actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine),   
   dies at 89   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/january/27   
      
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