| 60931 | May.27 | Death | 1941 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889) |
| 60932 | May.27 | Death | 1942 – Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878) |
| 60933 | May.27 | Death | 1945 – Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888) |
| 60934 | May.27 | Death | 1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885) |
| 60935 | May.27 | Death | 1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890) |
| 60936 | May.27 | Death | 1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1868) |
| 60937 | May.27 | Death | 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) |
| 60938 | May.27 | Death | 1963 – Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912) |
| 60939 | May.27 | Death | 1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889) |
| 60940 | May.27 | Death | 1967 – W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880) |
| 60941 | May.27 | Death | 1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician (b. 1889) |
| 60942 | May.27 | Death | 1968 – Denise Legeay, French actress (b. 1898) |
| 60943 | May.27 | Death | 1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (b. 1926) |
| 60944 | May.27 | Death | 1971 – Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935) |
| 60945 | May.27 | Death | 1980 – Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932) |
| 60946 | May.27 | Death | 1984 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923) |
| 60947 | May.27 | Death | 1986 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921) |
| 60948 | May.27 | Death | 1986 – Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901) |
| 60949 | May.27 | Death | 1986 – Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918) |
| 60950 | May.27 | Death | 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| 60951 | May.27 | Death | 1988 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908) |
| 60952 | May.27 | Death | 1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| 60953 | May.27 | Death | 1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907) |
| 60954 | May.27 | Death | 1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908) |
| 60955 | May.27 | Death | 1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904) |
| 60956 | May.27 | Death | 1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890) |
| 60957 | May.27 | Death | 1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955) |
| 60958 | May.27 | Death | 1994 – Charles Rodman Campbell, American murderer (b. 1954) |
| 60959 | May.27 | Death | 1998 – Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905) |
| 60960 | May.27 | Death | 2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912) |