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March1827

Famous People Who Died in March 1827

Mar 1 Christopher Gore, American lawyer and politician (8th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 68

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)

Mar 5 Italian physicist and inventor of the 1st battery, dies at 82

Alessandro Volta

Mar 5 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system), dies at 77
Mar 9 Franz Xaver Gerl, Austrian bass singer and composer, dies at 62

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Mar 26 German composer (5th Symphony; Ode to Joy), dies of liver disease at 56

Ludwig van Beethoven

Mar 27 François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)

Famous People by Cause of Death