Anniversaries 27 January

Birth

Qin Shi Huang2

founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty -258–-210 BC

Richard Bentley4

English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Ca… 1662–1742

Samuel Foote4

British dramatist 1720–1777

Hester Thrale4

Welsh author and salon-holder 1741–1821

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart26

Austrian Romantic composer 1756–1791

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling12

German philosopher (idealism) 1775–1854

Samuel Palmer8

British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker 1805–1881

David Strauss1

German theologian 1808–1874

John Chivington2

former Methodist pastor and colonel in the United States Vo… 1821–1894

Jozef Israëls33

Dutch painter 1824–1911

Lewis Carroll241

English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

Dmitri Mendeleev7

Russian chemist and inventor 1834–1907

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch10

Austrian author 1836–1895

Henry Scott Holland4

British theologian 1847–1918

Samuel Gompers14

American Labor Leader[AFL] 1850–1924

Wilhelm II, German Emperor64

German Emperor and King of Prussia 1859–1941

Learned Hand56

American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872–1961

Gottfried Feder28

German economist and politician 1883–1941

Soong Ching-ling2

Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Repu… 1893–1981

Buddy de Sylva4

American musician 1895–1950

Adolf A. Berle14

American diplomat 1895–1971

Hyman George Rickover52

United States admiral 1900–1986

Howard P. Robertson28

American mathematician and physicist 1903–1961

John C. Eccles12

Australian neurophysioloigst 1903–1997

Mordecai Richler6

Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist 1931–2001

Mohamed Al-Fayed3

Egyptian businessman 1933

Samuel C. C. Ting1

physicist 1936

Julius Lester3

American author 1939–2018

James Cromwell4

American actor and producer 1940

Peter Akinola25

Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria 1944

Mikhail Baryshnikov9

Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Le… 1948

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez2

Cuban writer 1950

Joe Bob Briggs9

American film critic, writer, and actor; alter ego of John … 1953

Eugene Jarvis4

American game designer and game programmer 1955

John Roberts6

Chief Justice of the United States 1955

Joseph Kallarangatt1

Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Bishop 1956

Frank Miller30

American writer, artist, film director 1957

Keith Olbermann47

American sports and political commentator 1959

Kim Hyon-hui3

former North Korean agent 1962

George Monbiot18

English writer and political activist 1963

Rupert Boneham14

American mentor, television personality, and politician 1964

Alan Cumming8

Scottish actor 1965

Mike Patton11

American singer 1968

Bisher Al-Khasawneh1

Prime Minister of Jordan 1969

Patton Oswalt8

stand-up comedian 1969

Natsumi Ando3

Manga artist 1970

Hannah Teter2

snowboarder 1987

Katy Rose4

American singer 1987

Liu Wen (model)12

Chinese model 1988

Death

Humayun2

second Mughal Emperor 1508–1556

Francis Drake5

English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and poli… 1540–1596

Gregory St. Vincent1

Jesuit, mathematician 1584–1667

Johann Gottlieb Fichte102

German philosopher 1762–1814

George Stanley Faber3

British theologian 1773–1854

Arthur Kenney11

Irish dean 1776–1855

Charles Nodier2

French author 1780–1844

John James Audubon6

American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter 1785–1851

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk8

Polish rabbi 1787–1859

Edward Hall Alderson7

Lawyer and jurist 1787–1857

Giuseppe Verdi8

Italian composer 1813–1901

James G. Blaine1

American Republican politician 1830–1893

Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh3

Politician for India's independence 1841–1917

Kyuzo Mifune4

One of the greatest exponents of the art of judo. 1883–1965

Erich Heckel8

German artist 1883–1970

Richard Courant4

German American mathematician (1888-1972) 1888–1972

Isaac Babel2

Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translato… 1894–1940

Georges Bidault1

French politician 1899–1983

Ralph Yarborough1

Texas politician 1903–1996

Alain Daniélou7

French historian, musicologist, Indologist and expert on Sh… 1907–1994

R. Venkataraman24

seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of In… 1910–2009

Gordon B. Hinckley43

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910–2008

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán2

president of Guatemala in 1951-54 1913–1971

Arthur Llewellyn Basham2

British historian and Indologist 1914–1986

Charles Hard Townes2

American Physicist 1915–2015

Jack Paar2

American author, radio and television comedian and talk sho… 1918–2004

Jerome David Salinger83

American writer 1919–2010

Pete Seeger38

American folk singer 1919–2014

Howard Zinn69

author and historian 1922–2010

Gus Grissom2

American astronaut 1926–1967

Ingvar Kamprad5

Entrepreneur 1926–2018

John Updike240

American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009

Diana Norman3

British author and journalist 1933–2011