Births on 27 January
2000s
Park Seong-hoon (footballer)
2003
South Korean footballer (born 2003)
Morgan Gibbs-White
2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Aurélien Tchouaméni
2000
French footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Devin Druid
1998
American actor (born 1998)
Braeden Lemasters
1996
American actor and musician (born 1996)
Harrison Reed (footballer)
1995
English footballer (born 1995)
Desiree Becker
1994
German politician (born 1994)
Jack Stephens (footballer)
1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Stefano Pettinari
1992
Italian footballer (born 1992)
Christian Bickel
1991
German footballer
Julio Teherán
1991
Colombian baseball player (born 1991)
Tim Beckham
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Alberto Botía
1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Kerlon
1988
Brazilian footballer (born 1988)
Katy Rose
1987
American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1987)
Anton Shunin
1987
Russian footballer (born 1987)
Johan Petro
1986
French basketball player (born 1986)
Ruben Amorim
1985
Portuguese football manager (born 1985)
Carlo Colaiacovo
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Paulo Colaiacovo
1983
Canadian ice hockey player
Gavin Floyd
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Lee Grant (footballer, born 1983)
1983
English footballer (born 1983)
Eva Asderaki
1982
Greek tennis umpire
Alicia Molik
1981
Australian tennis player (born 1981)
Tony Woodcock (rugby union)
1981
NZ international rugby union player
Chanda Gunn
1980
American ice hockey player (born 1980)
Marat Safin
1980
Russian tennis player (born 1980)
Jiří Welsch
1980
Czech basketball player
Lonny Baxter
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Daniel Vettori
1979
New Zealand cricketer (born 1979)
Tomi Kallio
1977
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1977)
Clint Ford
1976
American actor
Danielle George
1976
British Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering
Ahn Jung-hwan
1976
South Korean footballer (born 1976)
Fred Taylor (running back)
1976
American football player (born 1976)
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
1974
Norwegian biathlete (born 1974)
Andrei Pavel
1974
Romanian tennis player
Chaminda Vaas
1974
Sri Lankan cricketer
Valyantsin Byalkevich
1973
Belarusian footballer (1973–2014)
Bibi Gaytán
1972
Mexican singer and actress (born 1972)
Josh Randall
1972
American actor (born 1972)
Bryant Young
1972
American football player and coach (born 1972)
Patrice Brisebois
1971
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1971)
Bradley Clyde
1970
Australia international rugby league footballer
Dean Headley
1970
English cricketer (born 1970)
Michael Kulas
1969
Canadian singer-songwriter
Patton Oswalt
1969
American comedian and actor (born 1969)
Shane Thomson
1969
New Zealand cricketer (born 1969)
Tracy Lawrence
1968
American musician
Mike Patton
1968
American singer (born 1968)
Matt Stover
1968
American football player (born 1968)
Tricky (rapper)
1968
British musician and record producer (born 1968)
Dave Manson
1967
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Tamlyn Tomita
1966
American actress (born 1966)
Alan Cumming
1965
Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter (born 1965)
Mike Newell (footballer)
1965
English footballer and manager
Ignacio Noé
1965
Argentinian artist (born 1965)
Attila Sekerlioglu
1965
Austrian footballer (born 1965)
Bridget Fonda
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Jack Haley (basketball)
1964
American professional basketball player (born 1964)
Patrick van Deurzen
1964
Dutch composer
George Monbiot
1963
English writer and political activist (born 1963)
Roberto Paci Dalò
1962
Italian musician
Gillian Gilbert
1961
English musician (born 1961)
Narciso Rodriguez
1961
American fashion designer (born 1961)
Margo Timmins
1961
Canadian singer
Fiona O'Donnell
1960
Scottish Politician
Cris Collinsworth
1959
American sports broadcaster (born 1959)
Göran Hägglund
1959
Swedish politician (born 1959)
Keith Olbermann
1959
American sports and political commentator (born 1959)
James Grippando
1958
American novelist, lawyer (active 1976– )
Alan Milburn
1958
British politician (born 1958)
Susanna Thompson
1958
American actress
Janick Gers
1957
English guitarist (born 1957)
Frank Miller
1957
American writer, artist, and film director (born 1957)
Mimi Rogers
1956
American actress (born 1956)
Brian Engblom
1955
Canadian ice hockey broadcaster
John Roberts
1955
Chief Justice of the United States since 2005
Peter Laird
1954
American comic book artist (born 1954)
Ed Schultz
1954
American political commentator
Brian Gottfried
1952
American tennis player (born 1952)
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson
1952
American football player (born 1952)
Tam O'Shaughnessy
1952
American educator, writer and former tennis player
G. E. Smith
1952
American songwriter
Seth Justman
1951
American musician (born 1951)
Cees van der Knaap
1951
Dutch politician
Jiří Bubla
1950
Czech ice hockey player
Mikhail Baryshnikov
1948
Latvian and American dancer (born 1948)
Jean-Philippe Collard
1948
French pianist
Björn Afzelius
1947
Swedish musician (1947–1999)
Vyron Polydoras
1947
Greek politician
Cal Schenkel
1947
American artist
Philip Sugden
1947
English historian
Perfecto Yasay Jr.
1947
Filipino politician (1947–2020)
Christopher Hum
1946
British diplomat (born 1946)
Nedra Talley
1946
American singer (born 1946)
Harold Cardinal
1945
Canadian politician
Peter Akinola
1944
Primate of the Church of Nigeria from 2000 to 2010
Mairead Maguire
1944
Northern Irish peace activist (born 1944)
Nick Mason
1944
English drummer (born 1944)
Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege
1943
British politician and peer (born 1943)
Maki Asakawa
1942
Musical artist
Tasuku Honjo
1942
Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)
John Witherspoon (actor)
1942
American actor (1942–2019)
Kate Wolf
1942
American singer-songwriter (1942–1986)
Beatrice Tinsley
1941
New Zealand astronomer (1941–1981)
Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin
1940
Turkish politician (born 1940)
James Cromwell
1940
American actor (born 1940)
Terry Harper
1940
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1940)
Petru Lucinschi
1940
President of Moldova from 1997 to 2001
Reynaldo Rey
1940
American actor and comedian (1940–2015)
Fred Åkerström
1937
Swedish musician and singer
Troy Donahue
1936
American actor (1936–2001)
Samuel C. C. Ting
1936
Nobel prize winning physicist
Steve Demeter
1935
American baseball player (1935–2013)
Édith Cresson
1934
Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
George Follmer
1934
American racing driver (born 1934)
Jerry Buss
1933
American businessman and investor (1933–2013)
Boris Shakhlin
1932
Soviet gymnast
Mordecai Richler
1931
Canadian writer (1931–2001)
Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson
1931
British entrepreneur and politician (born 1931)
Bobby Bland
1930
American blues and soul singer and musician (1930–2013)
Mohamed Al-Fayed
1929
Egyptian businessman (1929–2023)
Michael Craig (actor)
1929
British retired actor and screenwriter (born 1928 or 1929)
Gastón Suárez
1929
Bolivian novelist and dramatist
Hans Modrow
1928
German politician (1928–2023)
Fritz Spiegl
1926
Austrian writer (1926–2003)
Ingrid Thulin
1926
Swedish actress (1926–2004)
Rauf Denktaş
1924
Founder and first president of Northern Cyprus (served 1983–2005)
Brian Rix
1924
English actor-manager (1924–2016)
Harvey Shapiro (poet)
1924
American poet and newspaper editor (1924–2013)
Donna Reed
1921
American actress (1921–1986)
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
1920
WWII Japanese naval pilot
Helmut Zacharias
1920
German violinist (1920–2002)
Ross Bagdasarian
1919
American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor (1919–1972)
Skitch Henderson
1918
American pianist, conductor, and composer (1918–2005)
Elmore James
1918
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader (1918–1963)
William Seawell
1918
United States Air Force general
Jules Archer
1915
American historian (1915–2008)
Jacques Hnizdovsky
1915
Ukrainian-American painter
Michael Ripper
1913
British actor (1913– 2000)
Arne Næss
1912
Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer (1912–2009)
Francis Rogallo
1912
American aeronautical engineer
Edvard Kardelj
1910
Yugoslav politician and economist
William Randolph Hearst Jr.
1908
American newspaper publisher (1908–1993)
Howard McNear
1905
American actor (1905–1969)
James J. Gibson
1904
American psychologist (1904–1979)
John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
1903
Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)
Willy Fritsch
1901
Silesian German actor (1901-1973)
Art Rooney
1901
American football player, executive, and owner (1901–1988)
Hyman G. Rickover
1900
US Navy admiral
1800s
Joseph Rosenstock
1895
Musical artist
Harry Ruby
1895
American pianist, composer, songwriter & screenwriter (1895-1974)
Soong Ching-ling
1893
Wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)
Balthasar van der Pol
1889
Dutch physicist (1889–1959)
Radhabinod Pal
1886
Indian judge
Jerome Kern
1885
American composer (1885–1945)
Seison Maeda
1885
Dorothy Scarborough
1878
American novelist (1878–1935)
Will Marion Cook
1869
American composer and violinist (1869–1944)
Wilhelm II
1859
German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
Neel Doff
1858
John Collier (painter)
1850
English painter and writer (1850–1934)
Samuel Gompers
1850
British-American labor union leader (1850–1924)
Edward Smith (sea captain)
1850
British merchant navy officer (1850–1912)
Tōgō Heihachirō
1848
Japanese Marshal Admiral
Arkhip Kuindzhi
1842
Russian painter (1842–1910)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
1836
Austrian author (1836–1895)
Lewis Carroll
1832
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Carl Friedrich Schmidt (geologist)
1832
Baltic German geologist and botanist
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
1826
Russian author and satirist (1826–1889)
Richard Taylor (Confederate general)
1826
American politician and Confederate general of the Civil War (1826-1879)
Urbain Johnson
1824
Canadian politician
Édouard Lalo
1823
French composer (1823–1892)
John Chivington
1821
American pastor and soldier (1821–1894)
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1814
French architect and author (1814–1879)
David Strauss
1808
German theologian and writer (1808–1874)
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
1806
Spanish composer (1806–1826)
Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony
1805
Queen of Saxony from 1836 to 1854
Samuel Palmer
1805
English painter
Eunice Hale Cobb
1803
19th-century American writer and public speaker
Before 1800
Eli Whitney Blake
1795
American inventor
Juan Álvarez
1790
President of Mexico in 1855
Titumir
1782
Bengali mujahid (1782-1831)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
1775
German philosopher (1775–1854)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756
Composer (1756–1791)
Hester Thrale
1741
Welsh writer and socialite (1740/1741–1821)
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia
1708
Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp from 1725 to 1728
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
1701
German historian and theologian (1701–1790)
Balthasar Neumann
1687
German architect (1687-1753)
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington
1663
Royal Navy officer and politician (1663–1733)
Richard Bentley
1662
English classical scholar, critic, and theologian (1662–1742)
Thomas Willis
1621
English doctor (1621 – 1675)
Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet
1603
English lawyer and politician (1603–1685)
Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)
1603
English lawyer and politician, died 1654
Hendrick Avercamp
1585
Dutch painter (c. 1585–1634)
Abbas the Great
1571
Shah of Safavid Iran from 1587 to 1629
Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg
1546
Elector of Brandenburg from 1598 to 1608
Albert III, Duke of Saxony
1443
Duke of Saxony and
Edward of Angoulême
1365
Son of Edward the Black Prince