On this day: 27 January
Events, births and deaths on 27 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Carlos Loyzaga
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Deaths · Nellie Bly
- 1936 · Births · Samuel C. C. Ting
- 1934 · Births · Édith Cresson
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1062 · Deaths · Adelaide of Hungary
Events · 15
- 1799Macau Incident — 1799 Encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1868Boshin War — civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869
- 1869Republic of Ezo — short-lived state established in 1869 by former Tokugawa retainers in what is now known as Hokkaido, notable for being the first government to attempt to institute democracy in Japan
- 1918Finnish Civil War — 1918 civil war in Finland
- 1945Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp — World War II action
- 1967Apollo 1 — failed crewed test flight of the United States Apollo program
- 1967Outer Space Treaty — treaty that forms the basis of international space law
- 1973Paris Peace Accords — 1973 peace treaty during the Vietnam War
- 19961996 Nigerien coup d'état — military coup in Niger
- 2002Lagos armoury explosion — Ikeja bomb blast
- 20112011 Yemeni revolution — Yemeni upheaval occurring simultaneously with the Arab Spring (2011)
- 2013Kiss nightclub fire — 2013 fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- 2023Attack on the embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran — 2023 shooting in Iran
- 20232023 Jerusalem synagogue shooting — 27 January 2023 mass murder of Israelis by a Palestinian
- 2023Tyre Nichols protests — protests in January 2023 in reaction to the death of American Tyre Nichols
Births · 60
- 1571(Julian date)Abbas the Great — Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)
- 1585Hendrick Avercamp — Dutch painter (1585–1634)
- 1621Thomas Willis — English physician (1621-1675)
- 1687Johann Balthasar Neumann — German engineer and architect (1687–1753)
- 1708(Julian date)Anna Petrovna of Russia — elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia
- 1756Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
- 1775Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling — German philosopher (1775–1854)
- 1808David Strauss — German theologian (1808–1874)
- 1814Eugène Viollet-le-Duc — French architect (1814-1879)
- 1823Edouard Lalo — French composer
- 1826Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin — Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
- 1832Lewis Carroll — British author and scholar (1832–1898)
- 1836Leopold von Sacher-Masoch — Austrian author (1836–1895)
- 1841Arkhip Kuindzhi — Russian landscape painter (1842-1910)
- 1848Tōgō Heihachirō — Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)
- 1850Edward Smith — captain of the RMS Titanic (1850–1912)
- 1850John Collier — British Pre-Raphaelite painter and author (1850-1934)
- 1859Wilhelm II — as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
- 1885Jerome Kern — American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)
- 1893Soong Ching-ling — former Vice President of the People's Republic of China and third wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)
- 1903John Carew Eccles — Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)
- 1910Edvard Kardelj — Yugoslav politician (1910–1979)
- 1912Arne Næss — Norwegian philosopher and mountain climber (1912-2009)
- 1921Donna Reed — American film and television actress
- 1924Rauf Denktaş — Leader of Turkish Cypriots and founding President of TRNC (1924-2012)
Deaths · 60
- 98(Julian date)Nerva — 12th Roman Emperor (96–98)
- 847(Julian date)Sergius II — pope
- 1062(Julian date)Adelaide of Hungary — Duchess consort of Bohemia (c.1040–1062)
- 1142(Julian date)Yue Fei — Song dynasty general, killed by royal decree from the Emperor Gaozong of Song (1103–1142)
- 1311(Julian date)Külüg Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1377Frederick III the Simple — King of Sicily
- 1490(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshimasa — The eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1436–1490)
- 1540Angela Merici — Foundress of the Ursulines
- 1556(Julian date)Humayun — second Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556
- 1592Gian Paolo Lomazzo — Italian painter (1538-1592)
- 1596Francis Drake — English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
- 1651Abraham Bloemaert — Dutch painter (1566–1651)
- 1731Bartolomeo Cristofori — Italian maker of musical instruments (1655–1731)
- 1740Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon — French politician and prince (1692-1740)
- 1814Johann Gottlieb Fichte — German philosopher (1762–1814)
- 1816Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood — British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars (1724-1816)
- 1851John James Audubon — French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
- 1860János Bolyai — Hungarian mathematician (1802–1860)
- 1873Adam Sedgwick — English geologist (1785–1873)
- 1893James G. Blaine — American politician (1830–1893)
- 1901Giuseppe Verdi — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
- 1919Endre Ady — Hungarian poet (1877–1919)
- 1922Nellie Bly — American journalist
- 1927Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius — Catholic bishop (1871–1927)
- 1940Isaak Babel — Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
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