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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of January 0098 | EVENT | Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. |
| 27th of January 0661 | EVENT | The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali. |
| 27th of January 1142 | EVENT | Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. |
| 27th of January 1186 | EVENT | Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily. |
| 27th of January 1343 | EVENT | Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus. |
| 27th of January 1593 | EVENT | The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. |
| 27th of January 1606 | EVENT | Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31. |
| 27th of January 1695 | EVENT | Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703. |
| 27th of January 1785 | EVENT | The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States. |
| 27th of January 1825 | EVENT | 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". |
| 27th of January 1868 | EVENT | Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration. |
| 27th of January 1870 | EVENT | The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University. |
| 27th of January 1888 | EVENT | The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.. |
| 27th of January 1909 | EVENT | The Young Left is founded in Norway. |
| 27th of January 1927 | EVENT | Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. |
| 27th of January 1939 | EVENT | First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. |
| 27th of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany. |
| 27th of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted. |
| 27th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. |
| 27th of January 1951 | EVENT | Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. |
| 27th of January 1961 | EVENT | Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost. |
| 27th of January 1967 | EVENT | Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. |
| 27th of January 1967 | EVENT | The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union 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. |
| 27th of January 1973 | EVENT | 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. |
| 27th of January 1974 | EVENT | The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th Century |
| 27th of January 1980 | EVENT | Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper. |
| 27th of January 1983 | EVENT | The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, breaks through. |
| 27th of January 1984 | EVENT | Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. |
| 27th of January 1996 | EVENT | In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. |
| 27th of January 1996 | EVENT | Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. |
| 27th of January 2002 | EVENT | An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others. |
| 27th of January 2003 | EVENT | The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress. |
| 27th of January 2006 | EVENT | Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. |
| 27th of January 2010 | EVENT | The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras. |
| 27th of January 1443 | BIRTHDAY | Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500) |
| 27th of January 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608) |
| 27th of January 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634) |
| 27th of January 1603 | BIRTHDAY | Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685) |
| 27th of January 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675) |
| 27th of January 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742) |
| 27th of January 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753) |
| 27th of January 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790) |
| 27th of January 1708 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728) |
| 27th of January 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d. 1777) |
| 27th of January 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821) |
| 27th of January 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791) |
| 27th of January 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854) |
| 27th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872) |
| 27th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877) |
| 27th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881) |
| 27th of January 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826) |
| 27th of January 1807 | BIRTHDAY | David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874) |
| 27th of January 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879) |
| 27th of January 1821 | BIRTHDAY | John Chivington, American officer (d. 1892) |
| 27th of January 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892) |
| 27th of January 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Taylor, American confederate general (d. 1879) |
| 27th of January 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889) |
| 27th of January 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Nakahama Manjiro, Japanese translator (d. 1898) |
| 27th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898) |
| 27th of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895) |
| 27th of January 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910) |
| 27th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934) |
| 27th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | John Collier, British writer and painter (d. 1934) |
| 27th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924) |
| 27th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Edward J. Smith, English captain of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912) |
| 27th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941) |
| 27th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Israel, Purported world's oldest person (d. 2003) |
| 27th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945) |
| 27th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977) |
| 27th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Kunneke, German composer (d. 1953) |
| 27th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Radhabinod Pal, Indian jurist (d. 1967) |
| 27th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967) |
| 27th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981) |
| 27th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Rosenstock, Polish conductor (d. 1985) |
| 27th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974) |
| 27th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986) |
| 27th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973) |
| 27th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Art Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers founder and owner (d. 1988) |
| 27th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979) |
| 27th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 27th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Gibson, American ecological psychologist (d. 1973) |
| 27th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 27th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993) |
| 27th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Oran Page, American musician (jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader) (d. 1954) |
| 27th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav Communist politician (d. 1979) |
| 27th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009) |
| 27th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009) |
| 27th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Archer, American historian (d. 2008) |
| 27th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born artist (d. 1985) |
| 27th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963) |
| 27th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005) |
| 27th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Skitch Henderson, American bandleader (d. 2005) |
| 27th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972) |
| 27th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005) |
| 27th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002) |
| 27th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986) |
| 27th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963) |
| 27th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003) |
| 27th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004) |
| 27th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Craig, British actor |
| 27th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Modrow, German politician, premier of East Germany |
| 27th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Suarez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984) |
| 27th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Blue Bland, American singer |
| 27th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001) |
| 27th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2008) |
| 27th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman |
| 27th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | George Follmer, American racecar driver |
| 27th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 27th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 27th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Akerstrom, Swedish singer |
| 27th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989) |
| 27th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James Cromwell, American actor |
| 27th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Petru Lucinschi, second President of Moldova |
| 27th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981) |
| 27th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Raffill, American film director |
| 27th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Witherspoon, American actor |
| 27th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 27th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mairead Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel laureate |
| 27th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader |
| 27th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd) |
| 27th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005) |
| 27th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes) |
| 27th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cal Schenkel, American artist |
| 27th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician |
| 27th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Valeri Brainin, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet |
| 27th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist |
| 27th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian ballet dancer |
| 27th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Mordden, American author |
| 27th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician |
| 27th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Acorah, English spirit medium |
| 27th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Downey, Irish musician (drummer) (Thin Lizzy) |
| 27th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player |
| 27th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Schultz, American radio talk show host |
| 27th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Laird, American comic book artist |
| 27th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist |
| 27th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John G. Roberts, American jurist and the 17th Chief Justice of the United States |
| 27th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Stuart, British author |
| 27th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver |
| 27th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mimi Rogers, American actress |
| 27th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden) |
| 27th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Miller, American comic book author and film director |
| 27th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Skinner, English writer and comedian |
| 27th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | James Grippando, American novelist |
| 27th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kadri Malk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer |
| 27th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Susanna Thompson, American actress |
| 27th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Goran Hagglund, Swedish politician |
| 27th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Olbermann, American news anchor & commentator |
| 27th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Cris Collinsworth, American football player |
| 27th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Stieler, German footballer |
| 27th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order) |
| 27th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress |
| 27th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies) |
| 27th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Velez, American model |
| 27th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer |
| 27th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Paci Dalo, Italian director and composer |
| 27th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Moraghan, British actor and singer |
| 27th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Haley, American basketball player |
| 27th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bridget Fonda, American actress |
| 27th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Newell, English football manager |
| 27th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Cumming, Scottish actor |
| 27th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Deol, Indian actor |
| 27th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor |
| 27th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Stover, American football player |
| 27th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Blondeau, French footballer |
| 27th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More) |
| 27th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tricky, English rapper |
| 27th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Deb Talan, American folk singer and songwriter (The Weepies) |
| 27th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Forster, German-Swiss filmmaker |
| 27th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James) |
| 27th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer |
| 27th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar) |
| 27th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Pahud, Swiss-born flautist |
| 27th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lil Jon, American rapper |
| 27th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Fann Wong, Singaporean actress |
| 27th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer |
| 27th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor |
| 27th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Wood, Irish rugby player |
| 27th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Owen, English pop singer |
| 27th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Randall, American actor |
| 27th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Einar Bj?rndalen, Nordic biathlete |
| 27th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 27th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Ford, American voice actor |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Zoriah Miller, American photojournalist |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Taylor, American football player |
| 27th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Todd MacCulloch, American basketball player |
| 27th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Pavelka, American reality TV star (The Bachelor) |
| 27th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player |
| 27th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Fatafehi, American football player |
| 27th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rosamund Pike, British actress |
| 27th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player |
| 27th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer |
| 27th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marat Safin, Russian tennis player |
| 27th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby union player |
| 27th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Floyd, American baseball player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kasten, German rugby player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Zagurski, American baseball player |
| 27th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Deon Anderson, American football player |
| 27th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Davetta Sherwood, American actress |
| 27th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgi Loria, Georgian footballer |
| 27th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Donaldson, British model |
| 27th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Katy Rose, American pop singer |
| 27th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Wen, Chinese model |
| 27th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kerlon, Brazilian footballer |
| 27th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Magnay, British footballer |
| 27th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Daisy Lowe, British model |
| 27th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Maria-Elena Papasotiriou, Greek-American figure skater |
| 27th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Pettinari, Italian professional footballer |
| 27th of January 0098 | DEATH | Nerva, Roman Emperor (Born 35) |
| 27th of January 0661 | DEATH | Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam |
| 27th of January 1490 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (Born 1435) |
| 27th of January 1540 | DEATH | Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (Born 1474) |
| 27th of January 1595 | DEATH | Sir Francis Drake, English explorer (Born c.1540) |
| 27th of January 1629 | DEATH | Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (Born 1560) |
| 27th of January 1638 | DEATH | Gonzalo de Cespedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (Born 1585?) |
| 27th of January 1689 | DEATH | Robert Aske, merchant whose charitable foundation operates Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls (Born 1619) |
| 27th of January 1731 | DEATH | Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (Born 1655) |
| 27th of January 1740 | DEATH | Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (Born 1692) |
| 27th of January 1794 | DEATH | Antoine Philippe de La Tremoille, French royalist commander and counterrevolutionary (Born 1765) |
| 27th of January 1812 | DEATH | Captain John Perkins, first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy |
| 27th of January 1814 | DEATH | Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (Born 1762) |
| 27th of January 1816 | DEATH | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (Born 1724) |
| 27th of January 1851 | DEATH | John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (Born 1789) |
| 27th of January 1857 | DEATH | Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (Born 1785) |
| 27th of January 1860 | DEATH | Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1802) |
| 27th of January 1880 | DEATH | Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (Born 1830) |
| 27th of January 1901 | DEATH | Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Born 1813) |
| 27th of January 1910 | DEATH | Thomas Crapper, English inventor (Born 1836) |
| 27th of January 1919 | DEATH | Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (Born 1877) |
| 27th of January 1921 | DEATH | Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (Born 1891) |
| 27th of January 1922 | DEATH | Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (Born 1864) |
| 27th of January 1927 | DEATH | Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop (Born 1871) |
| 27th of January 1931 | DEATH | Nishinoumi Kajiro II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (Born 1880) |
| 27th of January 1940 | DEATH | Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (Born 1894) |
| 27th of January 1942 | DEATH | Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (Born 1888) |
| 27th of January 1956 | DEATH | Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (Born 1890) |
| 27th of January 1967 | DEATH | Roger Chaffee : Crew of Apollo 1 (Born 1935) |
| 27th of January 1967 | DEATH | Virgil "Gus" Grissom : Crew of Apollo 1 (Born 1926) |
| 27th of January 1967 | DEATH | Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (Born 1888) |
| 27th of January 1967 | DEATH | Edward White : Crew of Apollo 1 (Born 1930) |
| 27th of January 1970 | DEATH | Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (Born 1908) |
| 27th of January 1971 | DEATH | Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (Born 1913) |
| 27th of January 1972 | DEATH | Mahalia Jackson, American singer (Born 1911) |
| 27th of January 1972 | DEATH | Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (Born 1888) |
| 27th of January 1973 | DEATH | William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (Born 1929) |
| 27th of January 1974 | DEATH | Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army (Born 1898) |
| 27th of January 1975 | DEATH | Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (Born 1913) |
| 27th of January 1979 | DEATH | Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (Born 1898) |
| 27th of January 1983 | DEATH | Louis de Funes, French actor (Born 1914) |
| 27th of January 1986 | DEATH | Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (Born 1914) |
| 27th of January 1988 | DEATH | Massa Makan Diabate, Malian author (Born 1938) |
| 27th of January 1989 | DEATH | Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (Born 1918) |
| 27th of January 1989 | DEATH | Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (Born 1888) |
| 27th of January 1992 | DEATH | Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (Born 1909) |
| 27th of January 1993 | DEATH | Andre the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (Born 1946) |
| 27th of January 1994 | DEATH | Claude Akins, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 27th of January 1996 | DEATH | Ralph Yarborough, American politician (Born 1903) |
| 27th of January 1997 | DEATH | Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (Born 1900) |
| 27th of January 2000 | DEATH | Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (Born 1930) |
| 27th of January 2001 | DEATH | Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (Born 1941) |
| 27th of January 2003 | DEATH | Henryk Jab?onski, President of Poland (Born 1909) |
| 27th of January 2003 | DEATH | Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (Born 1915) |
| 27th of January 2004 | DEATH | Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (Born 1928) |
| 27th of January 2004 | DEATH | Jack Paar, American television show host (Born 1918) |
| 27th of January 2005 | DEATH | Shah A M S Kibria, Finance Minister of Bangladesh (Born 1931) |
| 27th of January 2006 | DEATH | Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (Born 1965) |
| 27th of January 2006 | DEATH | Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (Born 1948) |
| 27th of January 2006 | DEATH | Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (Born 1931) |
| 27th of January 2007 | DEATH | Tige Andrews, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 27th of January 2007 | DEATH | Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (Born 1933) |
| 27th of January 2007 | DEATH | Alberta Davis, American supercentenerian ( b. 1881) |
| 27th of January 2008 | DEATH | Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (Born 1910) |
| 27th of January 2008 | DEATH | Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (Born 1918) |
| 27th of January 2008 | DEATH | Suharto, President of Indonesia (Born 1921) |
| 27th of January 2009 | DEATH | John Updike, American novelist (Born 1932) |
| 27th of January 2009 | DEATH | R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (Born 1910) |
| 27th of January 2010 | DEATH | Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (Born 1933) |
| 27th of January 2010 | DEATH | J. D. Salinger, American novelist (Born 1919) |
| 27th of January 2010 | DEATH | Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (Born 1922) |