Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 27
- 1960 - Robert C. Thorne died in Vernal, Utah, USA.
- 1967 - Tilly Edinger died of injuries received in a car accident in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA at age 69.
- 2005 - Geneviève Termier died in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, France.