January 27
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January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining after January 27 until the end of the year (339 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1443 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
- 1571 – Abbas I of Persia (d. 1629)
- 1662 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
- 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
- 1774 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
- 1805 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen Consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
- 1805 – Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
- 1814 – Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
- 1832 – Lewis Carroll, English writer (d. 1898)
- 1850 – Edward J. Smith, British captain (d. 1912)
- 1859 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
- 1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
- 1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and journalist (d. 1967)
- 1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese political figure and spouse of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
- 1901 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
- 1903 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neurospychologist (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Edward Kardelj, Yugoslavian politician (d. 1979)
- 1912 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972)
- 1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
- 1924 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
- 1930 – Aloysius Ambrozic, Slovenian-Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman and billionaire
- 1934 – Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France
- 1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
- 1937 – John Ogdon, British pianist (d. 1989)
- 1940 – Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
- 1940 – James Cromwell, American actor
- 1942 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and musician (d. 1986)
- 1944 – Mairead Corrigan, Irish activist
- 1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
- 1946 – Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
- 1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian-born dancer and choreographer
- 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian-German musicologist, poet, educator, composer
- 1955 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
- 1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
- 1957 – Frank Skinner, British writer and comedian
- 1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
- 1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor and director
- 1965 – Mike Newell, English football manager
- 1968 – Tricky, English rapper
- 1968 – Mike Patton, American singer
- 1969 – Patton Oswalt, American actor
- 1972 – Mark Owen, English singer (Take That)
- 1972 – Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
- 1972 – Josh Randall, American actor
- 1976 – Ahn Jung-Hwan, South Korean footballer
- 1979 – Rosamund Pike, English actress
- 1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
- 1980 – Eva Padberg, German model
- 1981 – Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player
- 1986 – Giorgi Loria, Georgian footballer
- 1987 – Lily Donaldson, British model
[change] Deaths
- 98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
- 1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
- 1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
- 1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
- 1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
- 1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
- 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish playwright (b. 1684)
- 1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1761)
- 1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
- 1851 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1785)
- 1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
- 1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
- 1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
- 1910 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber (b. 1836)
- 1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
- 1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
- 1956 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
- 1967 – Crew of Apollo 1:
- Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
- Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926)
- Edward White (b. 1930)
- 1970 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
- 1971 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
- 1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
- 1975 – Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
- 1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
- 1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
- 1989 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
- 1992 – Allan Jones, actor and singer (b. 1908)
- 1993 – André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Claude Akins, actor (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
- 2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931).
- 2008 – Suharto, Second President of Indonesia (b. 1921).
- 2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (b. 1910).
- 2009 - R. Venkataraman, President of India (b. 1910).
- 2009 - Mino Reitano, Italian singer (b. 1944).
- 2009 – John Updike, American writer (b. 1932).
- 2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1932).
- 2010 – J. D. Salinger, American writer (b. 1919).
- 2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922).
[change] Events
- 98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
- 672 – St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 847 – Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
- 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
- 1593 – Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
- 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
- 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
- 1785 – The University of Georgia is founded.
- 1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
- 1870 – The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
- 1880 – Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
- 1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
- 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 1915 – United States Marines occupy Haiti.
- 1926 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
- 1939 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of United States war planes to France.
- 1941 – World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
- 1943 – World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
- 1944 – World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people had been murdered.
- 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
- 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
- 1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
- 1983 – World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
- 1984 – Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
- 1984 – Michael Jackson suffers severe burns to his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial after a spark ignites his hair on fire due to a pyrotechnical fault and is rushed to hospital.
- 1991 – Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
- 1991 – Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
- 1992 – Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
- 1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
- 1996 – Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 1997 – It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
- 1998 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
- 2001 – Professors Suzanne and Half Zantop are killed in the Dartmouth Murders.
- 2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
- 2002 – Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
- 2010 – The 2009 Honduran political crisis ends, as Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes President.
[change] Observances
- Holocaust Memorial Day
