| 60961 | May.27 | Death | 2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917) |
| 60962 | May.27 | Death | 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921) |
| 60963 | May.27 | Death | 2001 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929) |
| 60964 | May.27 | Death | 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (b. 1925) |
| 60965 | May.27 | Death | 2006 – Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b. 1949) |
| 60966 | May.27 | Death | 2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939) |
| 60967 | May.27 | Death | 2006 – Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966) |
| 60968 | May.27 | Death | 2006 – Alex Toth, American illustrator and animator (b. 1928) |
| 60969 | May.27 | Death | 2006 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor and composer (b. 1944) |
| 60970 | May.27 | Death | 2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Zard) (b. 1967) |
| 60971 | May.27 | Death | 2007 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (b. 1932) |
| 60972 | May.27 | Death | 2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, created the hot air balloon (b. 1919) |
| 60973 | May.27 | Death | 2008 – Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier (b. 1900) |
| 60974 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and academic (b. 1931) |
| 60975 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934) |
| 60976 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Mona Grey, British nursing administrator Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) |
| 60977 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917) |
| 60978 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (b. 1946) |
| 60979 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author (b. 1933) |
| 60980 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913) |
| 60981 | May.27 | Death | 2009 – Paul Sharratt, English-American television host (b. 1933) |
| 60982 | May.27 | Death | 2010 – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (b. 1929) |
| 60983 | May.27 | Death | 2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (b. 1950) |
| 60984 | May.27 | Death | 2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (b. 1974) |
| 60985 | May.27 | Death | 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949) |
| 60986 | May.27 | Death | 2012 – Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (b. 1934) |
| 60987 | May.27 | Death | 2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) |
| 60988 | May.27 | Death | 2012 – Zita Kabátová, Czech actress (b. 1913) |
| 60989 | May.27 | Death | 2012 – David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic (b. 1936) |
| 60990 | May.27 | Death | 2012 – Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967) |