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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 27 is the 27th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
338 days remain until the end of the year (339 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
AD 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive
father Nerva as Roman emperor;[1] under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum
extent. ·
1186 – Henry VI,
the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick
I, marries Constance of Sicily. ·
1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence. ·
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to
justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. ·
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators
begins, ending with their execution on January 31. ·
1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman
sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication
in 1703. ·
1759 – Spanish forces
defeats indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in
the battle of Río
Bueno.[2] ·
1776 – American
Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of
artillery" arrives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. ·
1785 – The University of
Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United
States. ·
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian
Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail
Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic
coast. ·
1825 – The 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". ·
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of
Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and
pro-Imperial factions;
it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.[3] ·
1869 – Boshin War:
Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.[4] ·
1880 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for
his incandescent lamp.[5] ·
1916 – World War I: The British government passed
a legislation that
introduced conscription
in the United Kingdom. ·
1918 – Beginning of
the Finnish Civil War. ·
1927 – Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. ·
1939 – First flight of
the Lockheed P-38
Lightning. ·
1943 – World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties
ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to
attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first
American bombing attack on Germany. ·
1944 – World War II:
The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is
lifted. ·
1945 – World War II:
The Soviet
322nd Rifle Division liberates the
remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau. ·
1951 – Nuclear testing at
the Nevada Test Site begins
with Operation Ranger. ·
1961 – The Soviet submarine
S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions,
flooding the boat. ·
1965 – South
Vietnamese Prime Minister Tran Van Huong was removed by the military
junta of Nguyen Khanh.[6] ·
1967 – Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire
during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft
at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. ·
1967 – Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the
United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment
of nuclear weapons in
space, and limiting use of the Moon and
other celestial bodies to
peaceful purposes. ·
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially
end the Vietnam War.
Colonel William Nolde is
killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat
casualty. ·
1980 – Through cooperation
between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly
escape hostilities in Iran in
the culmination of the Canadian Caper. ·
1983 – The pilot shaft
of the Seikan Tunnel,
the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese
islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.[7] ·
1996 – In a military coup,
Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maďnassara deposes
the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.[8] ·
1996 – Germany first observes the International
Holocaust Remembrance Day. ·
2002 – An explosion at
a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people
and displaces over 20,000 others. ·
2003 – The first
selections for the National
Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress. ·
2010 – The 2009
Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes
the new President of
Honduras. ·
2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins
as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.[9] ·
2013 – Two hundred and
forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in
the Brazilian city of Santa
Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Births
·
1365 – Edward of Angoulęme,
English noble (d. 1370) ·
1443 – Albert III,
Duke of Saxony (d. 1500) ·
1546 – Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (d.
1608) ·
1571 – Abbas I of Persia (d.
1629) ·
1585 – Hendrick Avercamp,
Dutch painter (d. 1634) ·
1603 – Sir
Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet, English lawyer and
politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.
1685) ·
1603 – Humphrey
Mackworth, English politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1654) ·
1621 – Thomas Willis, English physician and
anatomist (d. 1675) ·
1662 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and
theologian (d. 1742) ·
1663 – George
Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1733) ·
1687 – Johann Balthasar
Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica
of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (d. 1753) ·
1701 – Johann
Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (d. 1790) ·
1708 – Grand
Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728) ·
1741 – Hester Thrale, Welsh author (d. 1821) ·
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1791) ·
1775 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German-Swiss philosopher and academic
(d. 1854) ·
1790 – Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president
(1855) (d. 1867)[10] ·
1795 – Eli Whitney Blake,
American engineer, invented the Mortise lock (d. 1886) ·
1803 – Eunice Hale Waite
Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (d. 1880)[11] ·
1805 – Maria
Anna of Bavaria (d. 1877) ·
1805 – Samuel Palmer, English painter and etcher
(d. 1881) ·
1806 – Juan Crisóstomo
Arriaga, Spanish composer and educator (d. 1826) ·
1808 – David Strauss, German theologian and author
(d. 1874) ·
1814 – Eugčne
Viollet-le-Duc, French architect, designed the Lausanne Cathedral (d.
1879) ·
1821 – John Chivington, American colonel and pastor
(d. 1892) ·
1823 – Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer
(d. 1892) ·
1824 – Urbain Johnson, Canadian farmer and
political figure (d. 1917) ·
1826 – Mikhail
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist and author (d. 1889) ·
1826 – Richard Taylor,
American general, historian, and politician (d. 1879) ·
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and
mathematician (d. 1898) ·
1832 – Carl
Friedrich Schmidt, Estonian-Russian geologist and botanist (d.
1908) ·
1836 – Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1895) ·
1842 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter
(d. 1910) ·
1848 – Tōgō
Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (d. 1934) ·
1850 – John
Collier, English painter and author (d. 1934) ·
1850 – Samuel Gompers, English-American labor
leader (d. 1924) ·
1850 – Edward Smith,
English captain (d. 1912) ·
1858 – Neel Doff, Dutch-Belgian author (d. 1942) ·
1859 – Wilhelm II,
German Emperor (d. 1941) ·
1869 – Will Marion Cook, American violinist and
composer (d. 1944) ·
1878 – Dorothy Scarborough,
American author (d. 1935) ·
1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer and
songwriter (d. 1945) ·
1885 – Seison Maeda, Japanese painter (d. 1977) ·
1886 – Radhabinod Pal, Indian academic and jurist
(d. 1967) ·
1889 – Balthasar van der
Pol, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959) ·
1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and
author (d. 1967) ·
1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (d.
1981) ·
1895 – Joseph Rosenstock,
Polish-American conductor and manager (d. 1985) ·
1895 – Harry Ruby, American composer and
screenwriter (d. 1974) ·
1900 – Hyman G. Rickover,
American admiral (d. 1986) ·
1901 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973) ·
1901 – Art Rooney, American football player and
coach, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (d.
1988) ·
1903 – John
Eccles, Australian-Swiss neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1997) ·
1903 – Otto P. Weyland, American general (d. 1979) ·
1904 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and
academic (d. 1979) ·
1905 – Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969) ·
1908 – William
Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (d. 1993) ·
1910 – Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist,
and politician, 2nd Foreign
Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1979) ·
1912 – Arne Nćss, Norwegian philosopher and
environmentalist (d. 2009) ·
1912 – Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented
the Rogallo wing (d.
2009) ·
1915 – Jules Archer, American historian and author
(d. 2008) ·
1915 – Jacques Hnizdovsky,
Ukrainian-American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1985) ·
1918 – Skitch Henderson, American pianist,
composer, and conductor (d. 2005) ·
1918 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1963) ·
1918 – William Seawell, American general (d. 2005) ·
1919 – Tom Addington, English captain (d. 2011) ·
1919 – Ross Bagdasarian,
Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor,
created Alvin and the
Chipmunks (d. 1972) ·
1920 – Hiroyoshi Nishizawa,
Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944) ·
1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and
composer (d. 2002) ·
1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986) ·
1924 – Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot lawyer and
politician, 1st President of
Northern Cyprus (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Brian Rix, English actor, producer, and
politician (d. 2016) ·
1924 – Harvey Shapiro,
American poet (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian flute player and
journalist (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004) ·
1928 – Michael Craig,
Indian-English actor and screenwriter ·
1928 – Hans Modrow, Polish-German lawyer and
politician, 5th Prime
Minister of East Germany ·
1929 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian-Swiss businessman ·
1929 – Gastón Suárez,
Bolivian author and playwright (d. 1984) ·
1930 – Bobby "Blue" Bland, American blues
singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and
screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1931 – Nigel Vinson,
Baron Vinson, English lieutenant and businessman ·
1932 – Boris Shakhlin, Russian-Ukrainian gymnast
(d. 2008) ·
1933 – Jerry Buss, American chemist and businessman
(d. 2013) ·
1934 – Édith Cresson, French politician and
diplomat, 160th Prime
Minister of France ·
1934 – George Follmer, American race car driver ·
1935 – Steve Demeter, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001) ·
1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1937 – Fred Ĺkerström,
Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985) ·
1940 – Ahmet Kurtcebe
Alptemoçin, Turkish engineer and politician, 35th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1940 – James Cromwell, American actor ·
1940 – Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1940 – Petru Lucinschi, Romanian activist and
politician, 2nd President of Moldova ·
1940 – Reynaldo Rey, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1941 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and
cosmologist (d. 1981) ·
1942 – Maki Asakawa, Japanese singer-songwriter and
producer (d. 2010) ·
1942 – Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, Nobel
Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine ·
1942 – John Witherspoon,
American actor and comedian (d. 2019) ·
1942 – Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1986) ·
1943 – Julia
Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, English businesswoman and
politician ·
1944 – Peter Akinola, Nigerian archbishop ·
1944 – Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish
activist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and
producer ·
1945 – Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and
politician (d. 2005) ·
1946 – Christopher Hum, English academic and
diplomat, British Ambassador to China ·
1946 – Nedra Talley, American singer ·
1947 – Björn Afzelius,
Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999) ·
1947 – Vyron Polydoras, Greek lawyer and
politician, Greek Minister for Public Order ·
1947 – Cal Schenkel, American painter and
illustrator ·
1947 – Philip Sugden,
English historian and author (d. 2014) ·
1947 – Perfecto Yasay Jr.,
Filipino lawyer and Secretary
of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines ·
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor ·
1948 – Jean-Philippe
Collard, French pianist ·
1951 – Seth Justman, American keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1951 – Cees van der Knaap,
Dutch soldier and politician ·
1952 – Brian Gottfried, American tennis player ·
1952 – Billy
Johnson, American football player and coach ·
1952 – Tam O'Shaughnessy,
American tennis player, psychologist, and academic ·
1952 – G. E. Smith, American guitarist and
songwriter ·
1954 – Peter Laird, American author and illustrator ·
1954 – Ed Schultz, American talk show host and
sportscaster (d. 2018) ·
1955 – Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
and sportscaster ·
1955 – John Roberts, American lawyer and judge,
17th Chief
Justice of the United States ·
1956 – Mimi Rogers, American actress ·
1957 – Janick Gers, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1957 – Frank Miller,
American illustrator, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1958 – James Grippando, American lawyer and author ·
1958 – Alan Milburn, English businessman and politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster ·
1959 – Cris Collinsworth,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1959 – Göran Hägglund,
Swedish lawyer and politician, 28th Swedish Minister for Social Affairs ·
1959 – Keith Olbermann, American journalist and
author ·
1960 – Fiona O'Donnell, Canadian-Scottish
politician ·
1961 – Narciso Rodriguez,
American fashion designer ·
1961 – Margo Timmins, Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1962 – Roberto Paci Dalň,
Italian director and composer ·
1963 – George Monbiot, English-Welsh author and
activist ·
1964 – Patrick van Deurzen,
Dutch composer and academic ·
1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress ·
1964 – Shahin Shahablou, Iranian photographer (d.
2020) ·
1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish-American actor ·
1965 – Mike Newell,
English footballer and manager ·
1965 – Ignacio Noé, Argentinian author and
illustrator ·
1965 – Attila Sekerlioglu,
Austrian footballer and manager ·
1966 – Tamlyn Tomita, Japanese-American actress and
singer ·
1967 – Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1968 – Tracy Lawrence, American country singer ·
1968 – Mike Patton, American singer, composer, and
voice artist ·
1968 – Matt Stover, American football player ·
1969 – Michael Kulas, Canadian singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1969 – Patton Oswalt, American comedian and actor ·
1969 – Shane Thomson, New Zealand cricketer ·
1970 – Bradley Clyde, Australian rugby league
player ·
1970 – Dean Headley, English cricketer and coach ·
1971 – Patrice Brisebois,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1972 – Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress[12] ·
1973 – Valyantsin
Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2014) ·
1974 – Ole Einar Bjřrndalen,
Norwegian skier and biathlete ·
1974 – Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and
coach ·
1974 – Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and
coach ·
1976 – Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer ·
1976 – Clint Ford, American actor, voice actor and
novelist ·
1976 – Danielle George MBE FIET, Professor of Radio
frequency engineering at the University of
Manchester ·
1976 – Fred
Taylor, American football player ·
1976 – Michael K. Winder,
American businessman and politician ·
1978 – Pete Laforest, Canadian-American baseball
player and manager ·
1979 – Rosamund Pike, English actress ·
1979 – Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer and
coach ·
1980 – Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and
coach ·
1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and
politician ·
1981 – Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player and
sportscaster ·
1981 – Tony
Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player ·
1982 – Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis umpire[13] ·
1983 – Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 – Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 – Gavin Floyd, American baseball player ·
1984 – Vince Mellars, New Zealand rugby league
player[14] ·
1987 – Katy Rose, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1987 – Anton Shunin, Russian footballer ·
1987 – Ashley Grace,
American singer-songwriter ·
1988 – Kerlon, Brazilian footballer ·
1989 – Alberto Botía, Spanish footballer ·
1991 – Christian Bickel, German footballer ·
1991 – Sebastine Ikahihifo,
New Zealand rugby league player ·
1992 – Stefano Pettinari,
Italian footballer[15] ·
1995 – Harrison Reed,
English footballer midfielder[16] ·
2000 – Cory Paix, Australian rugby league player[17] Deaths
·
AD 98 – Nerva, Roman emperor (b. 35) ·
457 – Marcian, Byzantine emperor (b. 392) ·
555 – Yuan Di,
emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 508) ·
672 – Pope Vitalian ·
847 – Pope Sergius II (b. 790) ·
906 – Liu Can, chancellor
of the Tang Dynasty ·
931 – Ruotger, archbishop of Trier ·
947 – Zhang Yanze, Chinese general and governor ·
1062 – Adelaide of Hungary,
(b. c. 1040) ·
1311 – Külüg
Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan ·
1377 – Frederick the Simple,
King of Sicily ·
1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa,
Japanese shōgun (b. 1435) ·
1504 – Ludovico
II, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1438) ·
1540 – Angela Merici, Italian educator and saint,
founded the Company of St.
Ursula (b. 1474) ·
1592 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo,
Italian painter (b. 1538) ·
1596 – Francis Drake, English captain and explorer
(b. 1540) ·
1629 – Hieronymus
Praetorius, German organist and composer (b. 1560) ·
1638 – Gonzalo de
Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish author and poet (b. 1585) ·
1651 – Abraham Bloemaert,
Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1566) ·
1689 – Robert Aske,
English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1619) ·
1731 – Bartolomeo
Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655) ·
1733 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian and
author (b. 1669) ·
1740 – Louis Henri,
Duke of Bourbon (b. 1692) ·
1770 – Philippe Macquer, French historian (b. 1720) ·
1794 – Antoine
Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (b. 1765) ·
1812 – John
Perkins, Anglo-Jamaican captain ·
1814 – Johann Gottlieb
Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1762) ·
1816 – Samuel Hood,
1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (b. 1724) ·
1851 – John James Audubon,
French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789) ·
1860 – János Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian
mathematician and academic (b. 1802) ·
1880 – Edward Middleton
Barry, English architect and academic, co-designed the Halifax Town Hall and
the Royal Opera
House (b. 1830) ·
1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813) ·
1910 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber and businessman
(b. 1836) ·
1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet and journalist (b.
1877) ·
1921 – Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (b.
1891) ·
1922 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author
(b. 1864) ·
1927 – Jurgis
Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871) ·
1931 – Nishinoumi
Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (b. 1880) ·
1940 – Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer,
journalist, and playwright (b. 1894) ·
1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and
politician, Prime Minister
of Estonia (b. 1888) ·
1951 – Carl Gustaf
Emil Mannerheim, Finnish field marshal and politician, 6th President of Finland (b.
1867) ·
1956 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and
director (b. 1890) ·
1961 – Bernard Friedberg,
Austrian scholar and author (b. 1876) ·
1963 – John Farrow, Australian-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904) ·
1965 – Abraham Walkowitz,
American painter (b. 1878) o Roger B. Chaffee, American pilot, engineer,
and astronaut (b. 1935) o Gus Grissom, American pilot and astronaut
(b. 1926) o Ed White,
American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930) ·
1967 – Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b.
1888) ·
1970 – Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and
playwright (b. 1904) ·
1971 – Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and
politician, President of
Guatemala (b. 1913) ·
1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911) ·
1973 – William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929) ·
1974 – Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898) ·
1975 – Bill Walsh,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913) ·
1983 – Louis de Funčs,
French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914) ·
1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b.
1914) ·
1987 – Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator
and director (b. 1914) ·
1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté,
Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938) ·
1989 – Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player
and pilot (b. 1888) ·
1993 – André the Giant,
French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946) ·
1994 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918) ·
1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel, lawyer,
and politician (b. 1903) ·
2000 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and
composer (b. 1930) ·
2003 – Henryk
Jabłoński, Polish historian and politician, President of Poland (b.
1909) ·
2004 – Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and
politician, 10th Vice
President of the Philippines (b. 1928) ·
2004 – Jack Paar, American talk show host and
author (b. 1918) ·
2006 – Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1948) ·
2006 – Johannes Rau, German journalist and
politician, 8th President of Germany (b.
1931) ·
2007 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete, long
jumper, and hurdler (b. 1933) ·
2008 – Suharto, Indonesian general and politician,
2nd President of
Indonesia (b. 1921) ·
2008 – Gordon B. Hinckley,
American religious leader and author, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1910) ·
2008 – Louie Welch, American businessman and
politician, 54th Mayor of
Houston (b. 1918) ·
2009 – John Updike, American novelist, short story
writer, and critic (b. 1932) ·
2009 – R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and
politician, 8th President of India (b.
1910) ·
2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933) ·
2010 – J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author
(b. 1919) ·
2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and
activist (b. 1922) ·
2011 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and
musician (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Greg Cook, American football player and
sportscaster (b. 1946) ·
2012 – Ted Dicks, English composer and screenwriter
(b. 1928) ·
2012 – Jeannette Hamby, American nurse and
politician (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Kevin White,
American politician, 51st Mayor of Boston (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician
(b. 1918) ·
2013 – Stanley Karnow, American journalist and
historian (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist and activist (b. 1919) ·
2014 – Epimaco Velasco, Filipino lawyer and
politician, Governor of Cavite (b.
1935) ·
2014 – Paul Zorner, German soldier and pilot (b.
1920) ·
2015 – Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1927) ·
2015 – David Landau,
English-Israeli journalist (b. 1947) ·
2015 – Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1935) ·
2015 – Charles Hard Townes,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915) ·
2015 – Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer
(b. 1956) ·
2016 – Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player
and coach (b. 1930) ·
2017 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927) ·
2017 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld,
American physicist (b. 1926) ·
2018 – Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA (b.
1926)[18] ·
2018 – Mort Walker, American cartoonist (b. 1923)[19] ·
2019 – Countess
Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, German socialite (b. 1958)[20] Holidays and observances
·
Christian feast day: o John Chrysostom (translation of relics)
(Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox) o January
27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the
lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia) ·
Liberation
of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: o International
Holocaust Remembrance Day o Other Holocaust
Memorial Days observances |
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