Unusual Deaths in 1990(27 Dec 1990)
Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia.
George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia.
Natural disasters in 1990
1990 Iran earthquake
1990 Luzon earthquake
P
eople who died on December 27 (various years)
2005 - William Doody, Canadian politician
2004 - Hank Garland, American musician
2003 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (murdered)
2003 - Alan Bates, English actor
2002 - George Roy Hill, American film director
1997 - Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader
1997 - Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist
1995 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist
1993 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1992 - Kay Boyle, American writer
1988 - Hal Ashby, American film director
1987 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors
1982 - John Swigert, American astronaut
1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer
1978 - Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria
1978 - Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer
1974 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist
1972 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize
1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer
1965 - Edgar Ende, German painter
1956 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer.
1955 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier
1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
1952 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest
1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter
1938 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet
1938 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist
1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect
1914 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor
1900 - William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer
1896 - John Brown, British manufacturer
1858 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer
1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer
1834 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
1812 - Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess.
1812 - Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism
1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters
1782 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher
1771 - Henri Pitot, French engineer
1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter
1737 - William Bowyer, English printer
1707 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat
1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
1548 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist
1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
1076 - Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev
418 - Zosimus, Greek pope
