Anniversaries 27 January
Birth
![Qin Shi Huang photo]()
founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty
-258–-210 BC
![Richard Bentley photo]()
English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Ca…
1662–1742
![Samuel Foote photo]()
British dramatist
1720–1777
![Hester Thrale photo]()
Welsh author and salon-holder
1741–1821
![Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart photo]()
Austrian Romantic composer
1756–1791
![Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling photo]()
German philosopher (idealism)
1775–1854
![Samuel Palmer photo]()
British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
1805–1881
![David Strauss photo]()
German theologian
1808–1874
![John Chivington photo]()
former Methodist pastor and colonel in the United States Vo…
1821–1894
![Lewis Carroll photo]()
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
1832–1898
![Dmitri Mendeleev photo]()
Russian chemist and inventor
1834–1907
![Leopold von Sacher-Masoch photo]()
Austrian author
1836–1895
![Henry Scott Holland photo]()
British theologian
1847–1918
![Samuel Gompers photo]()
American Labor Leader[AFL]
1850–1924
![Wilhelm II, German Emperor photo]()
German Emperor and King of Prussia
1859–1941
![Learned Hand photo]()
American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
1872–1961
![Gottfried Feder photo]()
German economist and politician
1883–1941
![Soong Ching-ling photo]()
Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Repu…
1893–1981
![Buddy de Sylva photo]()
American musician
1895–1950
![Adolf A. Berle photo]()
American diplomat
1895–1971
![Hyman George Rickover photo]()
United States admiral
1900–1986
![Howard P. Robertson photo]()
American mathematician and physicist
1903–1961
![John C. Eccles photo]()
Australian neurophysioloigst
1903–1997
![Mordecai Richler photo]()
Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist
1931–2001
![Mohamed Al-Fayed photo]()
Egyptian businessman
1933
![Julius Lester photo]()
American author
1939–2018
![James Cromwell photo]()
American actor and producer
1940
![Peter Akinola photo]()
Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria
1944
![Mikhail Baryshnikov photo]()
Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Le…
1948
![Joe Bob Briggs photo]()
American film critic, writer, and actor; alter ego of John …
1953
![Eugene Jarvis photo]()
American game designer and game programmer
1955
![John Roberts photo]()
Chief Justice of the United States
1955
![Joseph Kallarangatt photo]()
Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Bishop
1956
![Frank Miller photo]()
American writer, artist, film director
1957
![Keith Olbermann photo]()
American sports and political commentator
1959
![Kim Hyon-hui photo]()
former North Korean agent
1962
![George Monbiot photo]()
English writer and political activist
1963
![Rupert Boneham photo]()
American mentor, television personality, and politician
1964
![Bisher Al-Khasawneh photo]()
Prime Minister of Jordan
1969
Death
![Humayun photo]()
second Mughal Emperor
1508–1556
![Francis Drake photo]()
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and poli…
1540–1596
![Gregory St. Vincent photo]()
Jesuit, mathematician
1584–1667
![Johann Gottlieb Fichte photo]()
German philosopher
1762–1814
![George Stanley Faber photo]()
British theologian
1773–1854
![John James Audubon photo]()
American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
1785–1851
![Edward Hall Alderson photo]()
Lawyer and jurist
1787–1857
![Giuseppe Verdi photo]()
Italian composer
1813–1901
![James G. Blaine photo]()
American Republican politician
1830–1893
![Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh photo]()
Politician for India's independence
1841–1917
![Kyuzo Mifune photo]()
One of the greatest exponents of the art of judo.
1883–1965
![Richard Courant photo]()
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
1888–1972
![Isaac Babel photo]()
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translato…
1894–1940
![Georges Bidault photo]()
French politician
1899–1983
![Ralph Yarborough photo]()
Texas politician
1903–1996
![Alain Daniélou photo]()
French historian, musicologist, Indologist and expert on Sh…
1907–1994
![R. Venkataraman photo]()
seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of In…
1910–2009
![Gordon B. Hinckley photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1910–2008
![Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán photo]()
president of Guatemala in 1951-54
1913–1971
![Arthur Llewellyn Basham photo]()
British historian and Indologist
1914–1986
![Charles Hard Townes photo]()
American Physicist
1915–2015
![Jack Paar photo]()
American author, radio and television comedian and talk sho…
1918–2004
![Jerome David Salinger photo]()
American writer
1919–2010
![Pete Seeger photo]()
American folk singer
1919–2014
![Howard Zinn photo]()
author and historian
1922–2010
![Gus Grissom photo]()
American astronaut
1926–1967
![John Updike photo]()
American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an…
1932–2009
![Diana Norman photo]()
British author and journalist
1933–2011
