On This Day — January 27
4075 noted people were born and 2136 died on January 27 in our archive, including Barbara York Main, Dmitri Mendeleev and Edward Bagnall Poulton.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 27
Barbara York Main
1929 – 2019
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907
Edward Bagnall Poulton
1856 – 1943
John Carew Eccles
1903 – 1997
Luigi Ambrosio
b. 1963
Radhabinod Pal
1886 – 1967
Thomas Willis
1621 – 1675
Ali Ahmadov
b. 1953
Aloysius Ambrozic
1930 – 2011
Arrigo Solmi
1873 – 1944
Asma Jahangir
1952 – 2018
Balthasar van der Pol
1889 – 1959
Clara Gaymard
b. 1960
Constantin Prezan
1861 – 1943
Danielle George
b. 1976
David M. Sabatini
b. 1968
Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
1949 – 2022
Enrico Braggiotti
1923 – 2019
Erik N. Rasmussen
b. 1957
Eugene Jarvis
b. 1955
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
1934 – 2024
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
1775 – 1854
Ian Morris
b. 1960
Irek Yalalov
b. 1961
Jerry Buss
1933 – 2013
Joe Duffy
b. 1956
John Mica
b. 1943
John Walter Gregory
1864 – 1932
Kadri Mälk
1958 – 2023
Keith E. Gubbins
b. 1937
Ken Hackett
b. 1947
Leana Wen
b. 1983
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
1836 – 1895
Luis Carlos Sarmiento
b. 1933
Lynn Arnold
b. 1949
Marco Malvaldi
b. 1974
Nikolai Pokrovsky
1865 – 1930
Paul Quilès
1942 – 2021
Philip Caldwell
1920 – 2013
Raymond Boudon
1934 – 2013
Richard Bentley
1662 – 1742
Robert Haldane
1772 – 1854
Samuel C. C. Ting
b. 1936
Sergei Gavrilov
b. 1966
Sufi Abu Taleb
1925 – 2008
Søren Gade
b. 1963
Torsak Sukvimol
b. 1964
Tōgō Heihachirō
1848 – 1934
Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt
1807 – 1865
Viktor Stepanov
b. 1947
Václav Hlavatý
1894 – 1969
Wolfgang Böhmer
1936 – 2025
Zafra M. Lerman
b. 1937
Agustín Muñoz Grandes
1896 – 1970
Ahmed Shaheed
b. 1964
Alan Cumming
b. 1965
Alfred Dudley Ward
1905 – 1991
Ali Biju
b. 1968
Andrea Ballabio
b. 1957
Andrei Krasov
b. 1967
Arne Næss
1912 – 2009
Barry C. Barish
b. 1936
Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
b. 1975
Bisher Al-Khasawneh
b. 1969
Björn Westerlund
1912 – 2009
Brigitte Senut
b. 1954
Bronisław Kuśnierz
1883 – 1966
Carl Andersen
b. 1995
Cees van der Knaap
b. 1951
Charles Caesar
1590 – 1642
Concepció Ferrer
b. 1938
Daniel Kane
b. 1986
Dean Fuleihan
b. 1951
Eduard von Hofmann
1837 – 1897
Edvard Kardelj
1910 – 1979
Emmanuel Pahud
b. 1970
Erik Benzelius the Younger
1675 – 1743
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1814 – 1879
Francisco Rodríguez Marín
1855 – 1943
Frank Augustyn
b. 1953
François Blais
b. 1961
Friedrich Schur
1856 – 1932
Friedrich von Georgi
1852 – 1926
Félix Candela
1910 – 1997
George Monbiot
b. 1963
Gerardo Galeote Quecedo
b. 1957
Gian Luigi Beccaria
b. 1936
Gino Cassinis
1885 – 1964
Gottfried Feder
1883 – 1941
Hans Modrow
1928 – 2023
Harvey Shapiro
1924 – 2013
Heather Nauert
b. 1970
Helen Chenoweth-Hage
1938 – 2006
Herman Edward Hollis
1903 – 1934
Howard P. Robertson
1903 – 1961
Huang Binhong
1865 – 1955
Hugo Kronecker
1839 – 1914
Ilie Murgulescu
1902 – 1991
J. Howard Pew
1882 – 1971
J. Rendel Harris
1852 – 1941
James Ward
1843 – 1925
Jean-Pierre Eckmann
b. 1944
Jennifer Rupp
b. 1980
Jenny Sacerdote
1868 – 1962
Jerome Kern
1885 – 1945
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
1927 – 2014
Jindřich Kopeček
b. 1940
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
1701 – 1790
John C. Black
1839 – 1915
John Roberts
b. 1955
Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege
b. 1943
Julius Lester
1939 – 2018
Kalle Jutila
1891 – 1966
Karel De Gucht
b. 1954
Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko
1842 – 1903
Karl Rubin
b. 1956
Keith Dobson
b. 1954
Keith Dudley Ulysses Rogers
1900 – 1974
Keith Olbermann
b. 1959
Kirill
b. 1946
Konstantin Mikhailovich Derjugin
1878 – 1938
Learned Hand
1872 – 1961
Lilly Becher
1901 – 1978
Lisa Goodman
b. 1966
Luis Marco Aguiriano Nalda
b. 1963
Marek Halter
b. 1936
Margaret Meagher
1911 – 1999
Marie-Adolphe Carnot
1839 – 1920
Marie-Louise Nosch
b. 1970
Mark Josephson
1943 – 2017
Masaaki Morishita
1913 – 1997
Matthew d'Ancona
b. 1968
Max Wirth
1822 – 1900
Maxime Ferrari
1930 – 2021
Michael Lawrence Goldberg
b. 1981
Mikhail Baryshnikov
b. 1948
Nand Kishore Singh
b. 1941
Narcisse Girard
1797 – 1860
Nicolas Fouquet
1615 – 1680
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
b. 1949
Nobuyuki Baba
b. 1965
Patricia Ariza
b. 1946
Perfecto R. Yasay, Jr.
1947 – 2020
Peter Akinola
b. 1944
Peter W. Klein
b. 1970
Petru Lucinschi
b. 1940
Philip Rosenthal
b. 1960
Pierre Henri Battifol
1861 – 1929
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
1773 – 1843
Rafael Obligado
1851 – 1920
Raimond Kaljulaid
b. 1982
Rauf Denktaş
1924 – 2012
Renaud Capuçon
b. 1976
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
1795 – 1869
Richard Ottinger
1929 – 2026
Richard Stokes
1897 – 1957
Richard W. Lariviere
b. 1950
Robert Abdesselam
1920 – 2006
Ronald Fogleman
b. 1942
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
1919 – 1972
Roy Bourgeois
b. 1938
Sabu Cyril
b. 1962
Safar Abiyev
b. 1950
Samia Suluhu Hassan
b. 1960
Sara Ashurbeyli
1906 – 2001
Sean O'Keefe
b. 1956
Shizuo Akira
b. 1953
Shujaat Hussain
b. 1940
Soong Ching-ling
1893 – 1981
Stefano Ceccanti
b. 1961
Surjya Kumar Bhuyan
1894 – 1964
Susumu Yamaguchi
1895 – 1976
Suzie Navot
b. 1958
Tadao Yanaihara
1893 – 1961
Tasuku Honjo
b. 1942
Tigran Mansurian
b. 1939
Timothy Edward Howard
1837 – 1916
Viktor Goldschmidt
1888 – 1947
Viktor Zolotov
b. 1954
Vyacheslav Lebedev
1930 – 2010
Walter L. Gordon
1906 – 1987
Werner Leinfellner
1921 – 2010
Wilhelm II
1859 – 1941
William English
1929 – 2020
William Ivison Macadam
1856 – 1902
William Randolph Hearst Jr.
1908 – 1993
Xianzhou Liu
1890 – 1975
Yuriy Prodan
b. 1959
Zbigniew Rybczyński
b. 1949
Àlex Monner
b. 1995
Édith Cresson
b. 1934
Éliette Abécassis
b. 1969
Éric Eydoux
1940 – 2025
Ściapan Sucharenka
b. 1957
Abel Mix Phelps
1851 – 1902
Adam Krzemiński
b. 1945
Adam Olsufyev
1721 – 1784
Adenan Satem
1944 – 2017
Adrian Raine
b. 1954
Alan Milburn
b. 1958
… and 3,875 more
Died on January 27
Adam Sedgwick
1785 – 1873
Alec Garden Fraser
1873 – 1962
Andrew N. Schofield
1930 – 2025
Arthur H. Rosenfeld
1926 – 2017
Arthur Llewellyn Basham
1914 – 1986
Charles Hard Townes
1915 – 2015
Charles Hutton
1737 – 1823
Charles John Wingfield
1820 – 1892
Frédéric Kuhlmann
1803 – 1881
Georg Christoph Biller
1955 – 2022
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
1910 – 1999
Heinrich Rose
1795 – 1864
Henryk Jabłoński
1909 – 2003
Louis Mangin
1852 – 1937
Norman McLaren
1914 – 1987
Pierre Amédée Jaubert
1779 – 1847
Richard Courant
1888 – 1972
Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
1926 – 2018
Stanley Karnow
1925 – 2013
Valery Shumakov
1931 – 2008
Aleksandr Filippov
1853 – 1927
Aleksandr Voyeykov
1842 – 1916
Aleksandr Zarkhi
1908 – 1997
Alexander Hill
1785 – 1867
Alfred Belpaire
1820 – 1893
Allison Danzig
1898 – 1987
Alphonse Juin
1888 – 1967
Anna von Mildenburg
1872 – 1947
Antal Szerb
1901 – 1945
Antonio Castellanos Mata
1947 – 2016
Boris Asafyev
1884 – 1949
Boris Reznik
1940 – 2018
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
1867 – 1951
Charles Pierre Chapsal
1787 – 1858
Chau Tsun-nin
1893 – 1971
Coleridge Farr
1866 – 1943
Corky Lee
1947 – 2021
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
1900 – 1967
Deric Daniel Waters
1920 – 2016
Dmitry Blokhintsev
1907 – 1979
Duke Eugen of Württemberg
1846 – 1877
Ed White
1930 – 1967
Edmund Broughton Barnard
1856 – 1930
Edward Robinson
1794 – 1863
Elisabeth Blochmann
1892 – 1972
Emil Preetorius
1883 – 1973
Ernst Sars
1835 – 1917
Esther Lipman
1900 – 1991
Franz Meyers
1908 – 2002
Fred van der Blij
1923 – 2018
Frédéric Thomas
1814 – 1884
George D. Louderback
1874 – 1957
Georges Bidault
1899 – 1983
Giovanni Verga
1840 – 1922
Guido Colonna di Paliano
1908 – 1982
Gus Grissom
1926 – 1967
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
1891 – 1992
Hasegawa Yoshimichi
1850 – 1924
Hassan Ali Mansur
1923 – 1965
Helga Pedersen
1911 – 1980
Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé
1762 – 1829
Hilma Borelius
1869 – 1932
Howard Zinn
1922 – 2010
Hugo Hamilton
1849 – 1928
Héctor Fix-Zamudio
1924 – 2021
Ivan Bodiul
1917 – 2013
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor
1750 – 1828
Jacobo Árbenz
1913 – 1971
James Cockle
1819 – 1895
Jan Baszkiewicz
1930 – 2011
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762 – 1814
Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl
1712 – 1770
John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
1756 – 1818
John Hiddlestone
1925 – 2008
John Spencer Bassett
1867 – 1928
John Watson
1847 – 1939
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius
1871 – 1927
János Bolyai
1802 – 1860
Kaarel Eenpalu
1888 – 1942
Kazimierz Smoleń
1920 – 2012
Kim Hyun-chul
1901 – 1989
Koji Kakizawa
1933 – 2009
Leo Collard
1902 – 1981
Louis Georges Gouy
1854 – 1926
Ludwig Gies
1887 – 1966
Luigi Fortis
1748 – 1829
Marguerite Canal
1890 – 1978
Marie José of Belgium
1906 – 2001
Marietta Blau
1894 – 1970
Martin Purtscher
1928 – 2023
Merrill Skolnik
1927 – 2022
Motonori Matuyama
1884 – 1958
Nikolay Ivanov
1851 – 1919
Noël Ballay
1847 – 1902
Osvaldo Aranha
1894 – 1960
Pavlo Kuznietsov
1950 – 2022
Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni
1873 – 1929
R. Venkataraman
1910 – 2009
Rado Lenček
1921 – 2005
Ragnar Edenman
1914 – 1998
Reino Kuuskoski
1907 – 1965
René de Obaldia
1918 – 2022
Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley
1895 – 1978
Robert Collett
1842 – 1913
Roger Bruce Chaffee
1935 – 1967
Rubén Marín
1934 – 2024
Ruy Pérez Tamayo
1924 – 2022
Salvador Laurel
1928 – 2004
Susan D. Shaw
1943 – 2022
Sylvia Walton
1941 – 2024
Thomas Brisbane
1773 – 1860
Toussaint-Dieudonné Sauveur
1766 – 1838
Victoria Ocampo
1890 – 1979
Vladimir Beneshevich
1874 – 1938
Vladislav Chernushenko
1936 – 2026
Vsevolod Sanayev
1912 – 1996
Weng Wenhao
1889 – 1971
William J. Riley
1947 – 2023
William Sanderson Fitzgerald
1838 – 1920
Yevdokiya Pasko
1919 – 2017
Yvonne Young Clark
1929 – 2019
Zheng Dongguo
1903 – 1991
Abel Lafleur
1875 – 1953
Abner W. Sibal
1921 – 2000
Alain Daniélou
1907 – 1994
Alan Greg Rogers
1967 – 2008
Aleksander Krawczuk
1922 – 2023
Alexander Abusch
1902 – 1982
Alexander Pushnitsa
1949 – 2023
Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
1905 – 1964
Allan V. Cox
1926 – 1987
Alois Friedrich von Brühl
1739 – 1793
Alonzo Davis
1942 – 2025
Andrew Bell
1753 – 1832
Andrew Phillip Martin
1886 – 1969
Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria
1827 – 1913
Archie Forbes
1913 – 1999
Arthur Herbert Procter
1890 – 1973
Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr.
1901 – 2001
Artur Fischer
1919 – 2016
August Rothpletz
1853 – 1918
Augusto d'Halmar
1880 – 1950
B. N. Wilson
1874 – 1948
Bernard Dhéran
1926 – 2013
Bernard de Give
1913 – 2020
Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
1927 – 2008
C. Douglass Buck
1890 – 1965
Carlos Loyzaga
1930 – 2016
Caspar Neumann
1648 – 1715
Caterina Albert
1869 – 1966
Cecil Davidge
1901 – 1981
Cemal Esener
1876 – 1958
Charles A. Dana
1881 – 1975
Charles Anthony Vince
1855 – 1929
Charles Nodier
1780 – 1844
Charles Paget
1778 – 1839
Claudio Guillén
1924 – 2007
Cloris Leachman
1926 – 2021
Comyns Berkeley
1865 – 1946
Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek
1837 – 1922
Daniel Augustus Joseph Sullivan
1884 – 1941
David F. Sellers
1874 – 1949
David Landau
1947 – 2015
David Rimmer
1942 – 2023
Deena M. Mistri
1924 – 2011
Dewa Shigetō
1856 – 1930
Donly C. Hawley
1855 – 1926
Edmundo Pedro
1918 – 2018
Edward Aloysius Kenney
1884 – 1938
Edward Hall Alderson
1787 – 1857
Edward Legge
1767 – 1827
Edward O'Rourke
1876 – 1943
Edward Spears
1886 – 1974
Eero Nelimarkka
1891 – 1977
Elizabeth Wyn Wood
1903 – 1966
Ella Knowles Haskell
1860 – 1911
Emmanuel Hocquard
1940 – 2019
Endre Ady
1877 – 1919
Eric Louis Boetzel
1884 – 1958
Eric Wyndham White
1913 – 1980
Erich Heckel
1883 – 1970
Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
1875 – 1971
Eugenio Nasarre
1946 – 2024
Eugène-Baptiste Emile Dauphin
1857 – 1930
Eve Oja
1948 – 2019
Fausto Veranzio
1551 – 1617
Ferdinand d'Huart
1857 – 1919
Fernando Arias de Ugarte
1561 – 1638
Francis Cole
1872 – 1959
Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell
1841 – 1925
Francis William Farrell
1900 – 1981
Franz Peter Knoodt
1811 – 1889
French Ensor Chadwick
1844 – 1919
Friedrich Gulda
1930 – 2000
Félix Barthe
1795 – 1863
George P. Barker
1807 – 1848
Georgiana Simpson
1868 – 1944
Gerald Livock
1897 – 1989
Giuseppe Verdi
1813 – 1901
Gordon B. Hinckley
1910 – 2008
… and 1,936 more