1927 suicides

The list 1927 suicides includes Andrew Kehoe, Lynn Reynolds, Adolph Joffe, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Bill Gannon. The list consists of 34 members.

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1927

Calendar year

1.

Andrew Kehoe

American murderer

Overview: Andrew Philip Kehoe (February 1, 1872 – May 18, 1927) was an American mass murderer. Kehoe, a Michigan farmer who had become disgruntled when he lost reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1872

Date of death: 18 May 1927

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Murder–suicides in Michigan 2T

Catholics from Michigan 113T

Bombers (people) 45T
2.

Lynn Reynolds

Film director

Overview: Lynn Fairfield Reynolds (May 7, 1889 – February 25, 1927) was an American director and screenwriter. Reynolds directed 81 films between 1915 and 1928. He also wrote for 58 films between 1914 and ...

Date of birth: 7 May 1891

Date of death: 25 February 1927

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

Film directors from Iowa 22T
3.

Walter Bentley (actor)

Actor

Overview: Walter Bentley (born William Begg; 7 October 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Scottish actor who specialised in Shakespearean roles and productions. He became popular in his adopted country of Australia ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1849

Date of death: 19 September 1927

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Scottish male actors who committed suicide 2T

Scottish male Shakespearean actors 20T

Male actors from Edinburgh 49T
4.

Reginald Geare

Architect

Overview: Reginald Wycliffe Geare (1889-August 20, 1927) was an American architect known for his design of theaters. His career was ended by the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (January 28, 1922), when a record ...

Date of birth: 1889

Date of death: 20 August 1927

Age: 38 (age at death)

Occupation: Architect

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20th-century American architects 1,474T

Architects who committed suicide 25T

1927 deaths 2,612T
5.

Benny Marinelli

American jockey

Overview: Benny Marinelli (c. 1902 – October 22, 1927) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey best known for winning the Classic Preakness Stakes in 1923.

Date of birth: 1902

Date of death: 22 October 1927

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jockey

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Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey 265T

American jockeys 347T

Year of birth uncertain 4,715T
6.

Adolph Joffe

Soviet diplomat

Overview: Adolph Abramovich Joffe (Russian: Адо́льф Абра́мович Ио́ффе, alternative transliterations Adol'f Ioffe or, rarely, Yoffe) (10 October 1883 in Simferopol – 16 November 1927 in Moscow) was a Russian re ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1883

Date of death: 16 November 1927

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Diplomat

Gender: Male

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk negotiators 19T

Soviet Trotskyists 15T

Russian male journalists 151T
7.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Japanese writer

Overview: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father ...

Date of birth: 1 March 1892

Date of death: 24 July 1927

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Japanese haiku poets 51T

Japanese male writers who committed suicide 12T

Barbiturates-related deaths 101T
8.

Marceline Orbes

Spanish clown

Overview: Marceline Orbes (May 15, 1873 - November 5, 1927), best known simply as Marceline, was a world-renowned clown during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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19th-century circus performers 26T

20th-century circus performers 22T

Spanish circus performers 8T
9.

Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

American painter

Overview: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (June 10, 1871 – March 12, 1927) was an American painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paris, and Concord, Massachusetts. She established the Jennie Sesnan ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1871

Date of death: 12 March 1927

Age: 55 (age at death)

Occupation: Painter

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People from Hopkinton, New Hampshire 22T

20th-century American painters 4,629T

Alumni of the Académie Julian 584T
10.

Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño

Ecuadorian poet

Overview: Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño (August 2, 1889 – December 7, 1927) was an Ecuadorian poet and a member of the "Generación decapitada" (The Decapitated Generation).

Date of birth: 2 August 1889

Date of death: 7 December 1927

Age: 38 (age at death)

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Ecuadorian male poets 18T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

20th-century Ecuadorian poets 26T
11.

Paul Davidson (producer)

German film producer

Overview: Paul Davidson (30 March 1867 – 18 July 1927) was a German film producer.

Date of birth: 30 March 1867

Date of death: 18 July 1927

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Male

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People from Giżycko 18T

Businesspeople from Frankfurt 55T

People from the Province of Prussia 196T
12.

Bertram Boltwood

American geologist

Overview: Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry.

Date of birth: 27 July 1870

Date of death: 15 August 1927

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Radiochemistry 16T

American geologists 599T

Yale University faculty 1,340T
13.

Wang Guowei

Chinese historian

Overview: Wang Guowei (Chinese: 王國維; 2 December 1877 – 2 June 1927) or Wang Kuo-wei, courtesy name Jing'an (靜安) or Boyu (伯隅), was a Chinese historian and poet. A versatile and original scholar, he made ...

Date of birth: 2 December 1877

Date of death: 2 June 1927

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Historian

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Suicides by drowning in China 7T

Chinese male writers who committed suicide 4T

People from Haining 11T
14.

Jake Wells

American baseball player

Overview: Jacobs Wells (August 9, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA – March 16, 1927 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA) was a right-handed Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Detroit Wolverines in ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1863

Date of death: 16 March 1927

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players 504T

Atlanta (minor league baseball) players 6T

Acid Iron Earths players 6T
15.

Bill Gannon

American baseball player

Overview: William Patrick Gannon (March 17, 1873 – April 26, 1927) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. He committed suicide in Fort Worth, Texas.

Date of birth: 17 March 1873

Date of death: 26 April 1927

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Suicides by drowning in the United States 38T

Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut 121T

Cortland Wagonmakers players 9T
16.

Drummond Brown

American baseball player

Overview: Drummond Nicol Brown (January 31, 1885 – January 27, 1927) was a Major League Baseball catcher.

Date of birth: 31 January 1885

Date of death: 27 January 1927

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Suicides by firearm in Missouri 18T

Vernon Tigers players 127T

Kansas City Packers players 33T
17.

Richard Caton Woodville

English painter

Overview: Richard Caton Woodville Jr. RI ROI (7 January 1856 – 17 August 1927) was an English artist and illustrator, who is best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes ...

Date of birth: 7 January 1856

Date of death: 17 August 1927

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 50T

Members of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters 22T

English male painters 2,044T
18.

Laura Upthegrove

American outlaw

Overview: Laura Beatrice Upthegrove (October 5, 1896 - August 6, 1927) was a 20th-century American outlaw, bank robber, bootlegger, and occasional pirate active in southern Florida during the 1910s and 1920s, along ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1896

Date of death: 6 August 1927

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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19.

James Wall (comedian)

American comedian and minstrel

Overview: James "Jimmy" Lee Wall (1863 – June 12, 1927) was an American actor and singer, best known as a comedian and minstrel.

Date of birth: 1863

Date of death: 12 June 1927

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

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20.

Hermann Georg Scheffauer

American poet and translator

Overview: Herman George Scheffauer (born February 3, 1876, San Francisco, California – died October 7, 1927, Berlin) was a German-American poet, architect, writer, dramatist, journalist, and translator.

Date of birth: 3 February 1876

Date of death: 7 October 1927

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Architect

Gender: Male

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