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Born on January 27

January 27 birthdays & history

If you were born on January 27, you share a birthday with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll and Wilhelm II. January 27 babies are Aquarius, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on January 27

  • 1756Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer
  • 1832Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and mathematician
  • 1859Wilhelm II, German Emperor during World War I
  • 1775Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German-Swiss philosopher and academic
  • 1944Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1826Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist and author
  • 1936Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1948Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor
  • 1836Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author
  • 1814Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect, designed the Lausanne Cathedral

What happened on January 27

  • 98Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; the Roman Empire reached its maximum extent under his rule.
  • 1343Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
  • 1726J. S. Bach led the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.
  • 1785The University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered public university in the United States, was founded.
  • 1825On the advice of John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe asked Congress to organize Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, laying the groundwork for Indian removal in the United States.
  • 1825The 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".
  • 1874Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.
  • 1880Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
  • 1927Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • 1983The 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.
  • 2003The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.
  • 2011Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).

Questions, answered

What star sign is January 27?

People born on January 27 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.

Which famous people were born on January 27?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756), Lewis Carroll (1832), Wilhelm II (1859), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Mairead Maguire (1944), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826) were all born on January 27.

What happened on January 27 in history?

Among other things: in 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; in 2003, The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress; in 2011, Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).

Can I get a newspaper front page from January 27?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 27 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 27”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.