Deaths

• Lou Reed, American rock musician died on October 27, 2013 -- liver disease. 
• 27 Killed in Connecticut Shooting, Including 18 Children on December 14, 2012. The second largest mass school shooting.
• Amy Winehouse, died on July 23rd, 2011 at age 27.
• J.D. Salinger died on January 27, 2010. He wrote The Catcher in the Rye, which has 26 chapters and it is believed this missing chapter was number 27.
• Joseph Merrick aka "The Elephant Man". He died strangely of suffocation at the age of 27. born: august 5, 1862 died: April 11, 1890
  
• The First Blood Shed for the Revolution - The first casualty associated with the start of the American Revolutionary War was a man named Crispus Attucks, who died alongside several associates during the infamous "Boston Massacre." Attucks was 27 years old and a natural born leader, according to his friends. He was also an escaped slave.
• Kurt Cobain - April 5, 1994 - 27 - heroin OD/shotgun to the head
• Masaccio - June, 1428 - 27 - poisoned?
• Jimi Hendrix - September 18, 1970 - 27 - vomit inhalation from drugs
• Janice Joplin - October of 1970 - 27 - drug overdose
• Jim Morrison - July 3, 1971 - 27 - heart failure
• Brian Jones - 3rd of July, 1969 - 27 - drowning
• Thuy Trang - September 3rd 2001 - 27 - car crash
• Jeremy Ward - May 25, 2003 - 27 - Drug Overdose
• Keiko - December 12, 2003 - 27 - pneumonia
• Jean-Michel Basquiat - 08/12/1988 - 27 - drug overdose
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - 03/08/1973 - 27 - liver failure
• Kristen Pfaff - 06/16/1994 - 27 - drug overdose
• Freaky Tah/Raymon Rogers - 03/28/1999 - 27 - murder
• Robert Johnson - August 16, 1938 - 27 - poisoned
• Highest Death Toll From An Airplane Disaster - The worst ever air disaster took place on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747s, operated by Pan-Am and KLM, collided on the runway at Tenerife, Canary Islands, killing 583 people
• 11/20/2003 - Istanbul explosions kill 27 and target British Consulate and HSBC Bank - These are the worst two attacks of their kind in the history of Turkey.
• Teen idol Jonathan Brandis dies at 27 from an attempted suicide the day before.
• Bob Hope died on July 27th at the age of 100
• Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, known as the world's first computer programmer lived from December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852.
• Al Wilson of Canned Heat died at 27 from Suicide
• Wallace Yohn from Chase died in an Airplane Crash at the age of 27